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appear arms bear beast beauty behold better blood brought cause cruel dame dead deadly dear death deep delight doth dreadful Duessa earth eyes face Faëry Queen fair fall false fear fell field fierce fight fire force foul gentle give goodly grace ground hand haste hath head heard heart heaven heavenly hope knight lady land late leave light living look lord mighty mind never nigh noble nought once pain pass poem poet poetry pride prince proud quoth rage rest seems sense shield side sight soon sore sorrow sound Spenser strong sweet tell thee things thou thought tree true turn unto weary wide wight wise wondrous wont wound wrath
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Page 7 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried, What hell it is, in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent : To waste long nights in pensive discontent ; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow...
Page 76 - The lion would not leave her desolate, But with her went along, as a strong guard Of her chaste person, and a faithful mate Of her sad troubles and misfortunes hard ; Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward; And, when she waked, he waited diligent, With humble service to her will prepared : From her fair eyes he took commandement, And ever by her looks conceived her intent.
Page 41 - What thou art, we know not ; What is most like thee ? From rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see, As from thy presence showers a rain of melody.
Page 74 - And laid her stole aside : her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven, shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place; Did never mortal eye behold such heavenly grace.
Page 44 - Crosse he bore, The deare remembrance of his dying Lord, For whose sweete sake that glorious badge he wore, And dead, as living, ever him ador'd : Upon his shield the like was also scor'd, For soveraine hope which in his helpe he had.
Page 31 - AND is there care in heaven ? and is there love In heavenly spirits to these creatures base, That may compassion of their evils move ? There is...
Page 9 - Fulke Greville, servant to Queen Elizabeth, counsellor to King James, and friend to Sir Philip Sidney.
Page 41 - HAIL to thee, blithe spirit ! Bird thou never wert, That from heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest, And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Page 53 - A little lowly hermitage it was, Down in a dale, hard by a forest's side, Far from resort of people, that did pass In travel to and fro : a little wide There was...
Page 19 - Fair is my love, when her fair golden hairs With the loose wind ye waving chance to mark ; Fair, when the rose in her red cheeks appears; Or in her eyes the fire of love does spark.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Spenser and the Faery Queen Volume 13 of Wiley & Putnam's libr. of Amer. books. Works illustr. of Engl. lit Wiley and Putnam's Library of American books |
| Authors | Edmund Spenser, Caroline Matilda Kirkland |
| Publisher | Wiley, 1847 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 14 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 246 pages |
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