Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton
Michael Draytonwas an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era...
time heart kissing
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part; Nay, I have done, you get no more of me, And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart That thus so cleanly I myself can free; Shake hands forever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain.
liars desire conceit
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
grief sorrow care
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, on grief brings forth twain.
fashion long muse
So in all humours sportively I range; My muse is rightly of the English strain, That cannot long one fashion entertain.
hands sea fishing
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His tail takes in his teeth, and bending like a bow, That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw: Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand, That, bended end to end, and flerted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast. so does the salmon vaut. And if at first he fail, his second sommersault He instantly assays and from his nimble ring, Still yarking never leaves, Until himself he fling Above the streamful top of the surrounded heap.
art blessed giving
O blessed bounty, giving ail content! The only fautress of all noble arts That lend'st success to every good intent. A grace that rests in the most godlike hearts, By heav'n to none but happy souls infus'd Pity it is, that e'er thou wast abus'd.
men trying being-me
It is your virtue, being men, to try; And it is ours, by virtue to deny.
poor satiety plenty
With much we surfeit; plenty makes us poor.
time amber gray
When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.
time gay amber
WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.
mean titles birth
All transitory titles I detest; a virtuous life I mean to boast alone. Our birth's our sires'; our virtues be our own.
alms glad hereafter praise queens shall thy
And Queens hereafter shall be glad to live / Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise.