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.
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.
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.
best desire flatter fondly greatest prove thus
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
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deep drunk list next
Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring, / Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.
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.
brave poet poets
Had in him those brave translunary things/ That the first poets had.
fine madness possess retain rightly
For that fine madness still he did retain / Which rightly should possess a poet's brain.
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.
alms glad hereafter praise queens shall thy
And Queens hereafter shall be glad to live / Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise.
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.