WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Thu, 14 May 2026 03:20:32 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg port – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Spenser, Edmund -- The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9, st. 40 (1589-96) https://wist.info/spenser-edmund/42359/ https://wist.info/spenser-edmund/42359/#respond Mon, 06 Jul 2020 18:20:07 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=42359 Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave?
Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
Ease after warre, death after life, does greatly please.


Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) English poet
The Faerie Queene, Book 1, Canto 9, st. 40 (1589-96)
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