Charles Cotton
Charles Cotton
Charles Cottonwas an English poet and writer, best known for translating the work of Michel de Montaigne from the French, for his contributions to The Compleat Angler, and for the influential The Compleat Gamester attributed to him...
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 April 1630
monstrous seem shadows tall
The shadows now so long do grow,That brambles like tall cedars show,Molehills seem mountains, and the antAppears a monstrous elephant.
spring ambition blessing
All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.