Richard Blackmore
Richard Blackmore
Sir Richard Blackmore, English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 January 1654
betting breeding countries crop enormous extent large manure
Betting is the manure to which the enormous crop of horse-races and racehorse breeding in this and other countries is to a large extent due.
breeze dreamed english-poet flitting fluent home smoothly soft speed swift
The mare set off for home with the speed of a swallow, and going as smoothly and silently. I never had dreamed of such a motion, fluent and graceful, and ambient, soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers, but swift as the summer lightening.
declare strength tall
Earth's tall sons, the cedar, ash, and pine, their parent's undecaying strength declare