Spenser

Famous quotes containing the word spenser:

    Contented I: then will I singe his laye
    Of fayre Elisa, queene of shepheardes all;
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    eke you Virgins that on Parnasse dwell,
    Whence floweth Helicon, the learned well,
    Helpe me to blaze
    Her worthy praise
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)

    Shepheards delights he dooth them all forsweare,
    Hys pleasaunt pipe, whych made us meriment,
    He wylfully hath broke, and doth forbeare,
    His wonted songs, wherein he all outwent.
    —Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)