Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly… — Sir Walter Raleigh
Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, Ease after war, death after life does greatly please.
The Faerie Queens · 1590
★ 3.6Provenance
Current citation
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, edited by Thomas P. Roche and C. Patrick O'Donnell. Penguin Classics, 1979, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.
Original citation
Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene. London: William Ponsonbie, 1590, bk. 1, canto 9, st. 40.