All, that in this world is great or gay

Quote byEdmund Spenser · 1552–1599

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Complaints (1591), The Ruins of Time, line 55.

English (original)

All, that in this world is great or gay, Doth as a vapour vanish, and decay.

— 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.

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So love is Lord of all the world by right.

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I trow that countenance cannot lie, Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

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Death slue not him, but he made death his ladder to the skies.

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I hate the day, because it lendeth light To see all things, but not my love to see.

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Uncouthe, unkiste, sayde the olde famous poete Chaucer.

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