I hate the day, because it lendeth light_x000D_ _x000D_ To see all things, but not my love to see.
Interpretation
The speaker expresses frustration that daylight reveals everything except the love they yearn for.
In this quote, Edmund Spenser laments that the brightness of day exposes all aspects of life, yet it does not allow him to be with or see the person he loves. This contrast highlights a sense of longing and sorrow, as the joys of daylight are overshadowed by the absence of his beloved, suggesting that love is his true desire and source of happiness.
In practice
This quote could be used in a Valentine's Day card to express deep feelings of longing.
But O the exceeding grace_x000D_ Of highest God, that loves his creatures so,_x000D_ And all his works with mercy doth embrace,_x000D_ That blessed angels, he sends to and fro,_x000D_ To serve to wicked man, to serve his wicked foe.
The noblest mind the best contentment has
What though the sea with waves continuall Doe eate the earth, it is no more at all ; Ne is the earth the lesse, or loseth ought : For whatsoever from one place doth fall Is with the tyde unto another brought : For there is nothing lost, that may be found if sought.
No daintie flowre or herbe that growes on grownd, No arborett with painted blossoms drest And smelling sweete, but there it might be fownd To bud out faire, and throwe her sweete smels al arownd.
For of the soule the bodie forme doth take; _x000D_ For the soule is forme, and doth the bodie make.
I was promised on a time - to have reason for my rhyme; From that time unto this season, I received nor rhyme nor reason.
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.
My brothers and sisters, may the spirit of love which comes at Christmastime fill our homes and our lives and linger there long after the tree is down and the lights are put away for another year.
If you were a boy and a girl and you were in love with each other, really, properly in love, and if you could show it, then the people who run Hailsham, they sorted it out for you. They sorted it out so you could have a few years together before you began your donations.
What about you? Are you happiest and saddest right now that you've ever been?" "Of course I am." "Why?" "Because nothing makes me happier and nothing makes me sadder than you.
No man knows till he experiences it, what it is like to feel his own life-blood drawn away into the woman he loves.
Subscribe for the occasional hand-picked quote. No noise.