The Shepherd's Calendar Quotes

“And he that strives to touch the stars
Oft stumbles at a straw.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable To The Twelve Months

“Ah for pittie, wil ranke Winters rage,
These bitter blasts neuer ginne tasswage?
The keene cold blowes throug my beaten hyde,
All as I were through the body gryde.
My ragged rontes all shiver and shake,
As doen high Towers in an earthquake:
They wont in the wind wagge their wrigle tailes,
Perke as Peacock: but nowe it auales.”
― Edmund Spenser, The Shepherd's Calendar and Other Poems