Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Danielwas an English poet and historian...
above himself poor unless
Unless above himself he can / Erect himself, how poor a thing is man.
barren best cutting enjoy full hey love plant remedies sickness
Love is a sickness full of woes, / All remedies refusing; / A plant that with most cutting grows, / Most barren with best using. / Why so? / More we enjoy it, more it dies; / If not enjoyed, it sighing cries, / Hey ho.
dost restless thou thy wear weary
How dost thou wear and weary out thy days, / Restless Ambition, never at an end!
possess seas shores winds worthy
Come, worthy Greek! Ulysses, come; / Possess these shores with me! / The winds and seas are troublesome / And here we may be free.
ears world
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
love-is woe sickness
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
monsters multitudes
This many-headed monster, Multitude.
liars sides smooth
So false is faction, and so smooth a liar, As that it never had a side entire.
nurse vices flattery
Flattery, the dangerous nurse of vice.
suicide world vain
This is that rest this vain world lends, To end in death that all things ends.
adversity distress english-poet examples fair greatest misery works wrought
By adversity are wrought the greatest works of admiration, and all the fair examples of renown, out of distress and misery are grown.