The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.
- Edmund Spenser
Death, Genius, Will, Monuments
Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
- Edmund Spenser
Eye, Face, Her, Shady
And he that strives to touch the stars, Oft stumbles at a straw.
- Edmund Spenser
Stars, Touch, Straw, Oft
He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
- Edmund Spenser
Touch, Straw, Starts, Oft
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
- Edmund Spenser
Liberty, Fall, More, Delight
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
- Edmund Spenser
Reason, Nor, Unto, Season
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
- Edmund Spenser
Death, Ease, Stormy, Greatly
It is the mind that maketh good of ill, that maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
- Edmund Spenser
Happy, Mind, Poor, Wretch
Each goodly thing is hardest to begin.
- Edmund Spenser
Begin, Hardest, Thing, Goodly
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
- Edmund Spenser
Gold, Golden, Seem, Doth
And all for love, and nothing for reward.
- Edmund Spenser
Love, Nothing, Reward
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