Michael Drayton
Michael Drayton
Michael Draytonwas an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era...
cancel either former hands love meet seen shake time
Shake hands for ever, 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.
brave poet poets
Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.
fair longer nor prove sails stood wind
Fair stood the wind for France, / When we our sails advance, / Nor now to prove our chance, / Longer will tarry.
deep drunk list next
Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.
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It is too early to put a final loss figure on the event, but the combined insured losses from winds and flooding could reach 500 million pounds.
best desire flatter fondly greatest prove thus
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
call gave heart home love pray saint save thee vain
I pray thee leave, love me no more, / Call home the heart you gave me, / I but in vain the saint adore, / That can, but will not, save me.
fine madness possess retain rightly
For that fine madness still he did retain / Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
kings men mind
The mind is free, whate'er afflict the man, A King's a King, do Fortune what she can.
together dove falcon
The falcon and the dove sit there together, and the one of them doth prune the other's feather.
valentines-day winter bird
Must, bid the Morn awake! Sad Winter now declines, Each bird doth choose a mate; This day's Saint Valentine's. For that good bishop's sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That Fortune us assigns.
kissing helping former-love
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part.
eye closing-up might
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover
devil stills
Better sit still, than rise to meet the devil.