Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Danielwas an English poet and historian...
mother sacred form
Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
sweet morning cheer
Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.
art law customs
Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
men knows jeopardize
We come to know best what men are, in their worse jeopardizes.
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
men driven creatures
Man is a creature of a willful head, And hardly driven is, but eas'ly led.
love cutting woe
Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using.
wise book
The wise are above books.
suicide world vain
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.
nurse vices flattery
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
liars sides smooth
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.
strong men affection
Pow'r above pow'rs! O heavenly eloquence! That with the strong rein of commanding words, Dost manage, guide, and master th' eminence Of men's affections, more than all their swords!
brother time sleep
Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night, Brother to Death, in silent darkness born, Relieve my languish and restore the light; With dark forgetting of my care return. And let the day be time enough to mourn The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth: Let waking eyes suffice to wail their scorn Without the torment of the night's untruth.
needs cherries seeming
When better cherries are not to be had, We needs must take the seeming best of bad.