Please identify this poem and it's author -?

Question

the lines may be a little mixed, but -

rest after toil
peace after war
port after stormy seas
doth greatly please

Ok, so i got it half right! Blimey there's some clever people on here.....

Well done, Lipsiot! I had 'Spenser/Spencer' bugging about in my brain and i didn't know why when i read the other answers!

Thanks to all though!

Answer 1

The quote is,

"Sleep after toil, port after stormy seas, ease after war, death after life does greatly please."

and it comes from "The Faerie Queene" by Sir Edmund Spenser, English poet (1552-1599).

As a matter of interest, it is used frequently at funeral services and was used at Mark Twain's.

Answer 2

Edmund Spenser is the author, its from The Faerie Queen.

Book 1, Canto 9,

xxxix

343He there does now enjoy eternall rest
344And happie ease, which thou doest want and crave,
345And further from it daily wanderest:
346What if some litle paine the passage have,
347That makes fraile flesh to feare the bitter wave?
348Is not short paine well borne, that brings long ease,
349And layes the soule to sleepe in quiet grave?
350Sleepe after toyle, port after stormie seas,
351Ease after warre, death after life does greatly please.

Answer 3

It was in Dr. Van Dyke's address during Mark Twain's (aka Samuel Langhorne Clemens) funeral.

http://www.twainquotes.com/19100424a.html

Answer 4

"Rest after toil, port after stormy seas,
Death after life doth greatly please."

It was part of Dr. Van Dyke's address at Mark Twain's funeral

Answer 5

Mark Twain
Not sure of the poem but it was read at his funeral.

Answer 6

I looked.I didn't find it, sorry