Edmund Spenser Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.	Discipline
2	The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.	Imagination
3	Most glorious Lord of life! that on this day Didst make thy triumph over death and sin, And having harrowed hell, didst bring away Captivity thence captive, us to win: This joyous day, dear Lord, with joy begin; And grant that we, for whom Thou diddest die, Being, with thy dear blood, clean washed from sin, May live for ever in felicity; And that thy love we weighing worthily, May likewise love Thee for the same again; And for thy sake, that all like dear didst buy, With love may one another entertain. So let us love, dear Love, like as we ought: Love is the lesson which the Lord us taught. 10375	Jesus
4	Thrice happy she that is so well assured Unto herself and settled so in heart That neither will for better be allured Ne fears to worse with any chance to start, But like a steddy ship doth strongly part The raging waves and keeps	Happiness
5	So forth issewed the Seasons of the yeare: First, lusty Spring, all dight in leaves of flowres That freshly budded and new bloomes did beare, In which a thousand birds had built their bowres That sweetly sung to call forth paramours; And in his hand a javelin he did beare, And on his head (as fit for warlike stoures) A guilt, engraven morion he did weare: That, as some did him love, so others did him feare.	Spring
6	Then came the jolly Sommer, being dight In a thin silken cassock, coloured greene, That was unlynèd all, to be more light, And on his head a garlande well beseene.	Summer
7	Then came the Autumne, all in yellow clad, As though he joyèd in his plenteous store, Laden with fruits that made him laugh, full glad That he had banished hunger, which to-fore Had by the belly oft him pinchèd sore; Upon his head a wreath, that was enrold With ears of corne of every sort, he bore, And in his hand a sickle he did holde, To reape the ripened fruit the which the earth had yold.	Autumn
8	Lastly came Winter, clothed all in frize, Chattering his teeth for cold that did him chill; Whilst on his hoary beard his breath did freeze, And the dull drops that from his purple bill As from a limbeck did adown distill; In his right hand a tipped staff he held With which his feeble steps he stayed still, For he was faint with cold and weak with eld, That scarce his loosed limbs he able was to weld.	Winter
9	Ay me, how many perils doe enfold The righteous man, to make him daily fall.	Sin
10	I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.	Reasons

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