Quote#Love
With that I saw two swans of goodly hue
Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Prothalamion (1596), Line 37.
English (original)
With that I saw two swans of goodly hue Come softly swimming down along the Lee: Two fairer birds I yet did never see; The snow which doth the top of Pindus strow Did never whiter show, Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be For love of Leda, whiter did appear.
— Edmund Spenser
More from Edmund Spenser
I was promised on a time To have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
So love is Lord of all the world by right.
Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.
I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.
I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.
Uncouthe, unkiste, sayde the olde famous poete Chaucer.