Samuel Daniel
Samuel Daniel
Samuel Danielwas an English poet and historian...
case hate love princes though
Princes in this case / Do hate the traitor, though they love the treason.
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.
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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.
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Love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing; A plant that with most cutting grows, Most barren with best using
grief light silence
Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
ears world
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
communication gains world
And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?
love-is woe sickness
Love is a sickness full of woes, all remedies refusing.
running circles glory
Thus doth the ever-changing course of things Run a perpetual circle, ever turning; And that same day, that highest glory brings, Brings us unto the point of back-returning.
stars glory
The stars that have most glory have no rest.
danger absent stills
The absent danger greater still appears less fears he who is near the thing he fears.
success mean cutting
Th aspirer, once attaind unto the top, Cuts off those means by which himself got up.
monsters multitudes
This many-headed monster, Multitude.