Selections from Spenser's The Faerie QueeneLongmans, Green, and Company, 1905 - 179 ページ |
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Acrasia adventure Æneid Archimago armes battaile beast beauty behold blood brest brond CANTO chaunce chaunst corage courser cruell cursed Cymochles dead deadly deare death devize doest doth Dragon dread dreadfull Dryope Duessa EDMUND SPENSER Eftsoones Elfin knight Enchaunter eternall Faerie Queene faire faire Lady false fast fayre feare feeble feend fierce flowre fowle fownd Gabriel Harvey gentle golden goodly grace griefe grone ground Guyon Gyaunt hand hart hath heaven hight huge Lady litle living wight Lord Mammon mightie mote never nigh nought Palmer powre pray Prince Pyrochles quoth rage Red Cross knight Redcrosse Satyres sayd seemd selfe sence shee shield sight Sir Huon snaggy soone sore sorrow sownd Spenser steed straunge stroke sweet thee thereof Therewith thou tree trembling trew unto vaine vertues villein wearie weene whenas wize wondrous wont wound wrath wyde yron
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169 ページ - I chose the historye of King Arthure, as most fitte for the excellency of his person, being made famous by many mens former workes, and also furthest from the daunger of envy, and suspition of present time.
23 ページ - Soone as the royall virgin he did spy, With gaping mouth at her ran greedily, To have attonce devourd her tender corse ; But to the pray when as he drew more ny, His bloody rage aswaged with remorse, And, with the sight amazd, forgat his furious forse. In stead thereof he kist her wearie feet, And lickt her lilly hands with fawning tong, As he her wronged innocence did weet.
11 ページ - He, making speedy way through spersed ayre, And through the world of waters wide and deepe, To Morpheus house doth hastily repaire. Amid the bowels of the earth full steepe, And low, where dawning day doth never peepe, His dwelling is ; there Tethys his wet bed Doth ever wash, and Cynthia still doth steepe In silver deaw his ever-drouping hed, Whiles sad Night over him her mantle black doth spred.
1 ページ - 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.
24 ページ - Still, when she slept, he kept both watch and ward ; And, when she wakt, he wayted diligent, With humble service to her will prepard : From her fayre eyes he tooke commandement, And ever by her lookes conceived her intent.
44 ページ - His haughtie helmet, horrid all with gold. Both glorious brightnesse and great terrour bredd: For all the crest a dragon did enfold With greedie pawes, and over all did spredd His golden winges ; his dreadfull hideous hedd Close couched on the bever, seemd to throw •** From flaming mouth bright sparckles fiery redd.
123 ページ - O! th' exceeding grace Of highest God, that loves his creatures so, And all His works with mercy doth embrace, That blessed angels He sends to and fro To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe!
171 ページ - For the Methode of a Poet historical is not such, as of an Historiographer. For an Historiographer discourseth of affayres orderly as they were donne, accounting as well the times as the actions, but a Poet thrusteth into the middest, even where it most concerneth him, and there recoursing to the thinges forepaste, and divining of thinges to come, maketh a pleasing Analysis of all.
90 ページ - Now, strike your sailes, yee jolly Mariners, For we be come unto a quiet rode, Where we must land some of our passengers, And light this weary vessell of her lode : Here she a while may make her safe abode, Till she repaired have her tackles spent...
3 ページ - The laurell, meed of mightie conquerours And poets sage ; the firre that weepeth still ; The willow, worne of forlorne paramours; The eugh, obedient to the benders will; The birch for shaftes; the sallow for the mill...