Edmund Spenser Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• Gather the rose of love whilst yet is time.

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Flower, Romantic Love

  'The Faerie Queen' (1596) bk. 2, canto 12, st. 75

• There is continual spring, and harvest there Continual, both meeting at one time: For both the boughs do laughing blossoms bear, And with fresh colours deck the wanton prime, And eke attonce the heavy trees they climb, Which seem to labour under their fruits load: The whiles the joyous birds make their pastime Amongst the shady leaves, their sweet above, And their true loves without suspicion tell abroad.

  Edmund Spenser

  Sweet, Time, Spring

  1590 Of the Garden of Adonis. The Faerie Queen, bk.3, canto 6, stanza 42.

• Ah when will this long weary day have end, And lend me leave to come unto my love? How slowly do the hours their numbers spend! How slowly does sad Time his feathers move!

  Edmund Spenser

  Time, Moving, Numbers

  1595 Epithalamion, section 16.

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