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.
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.
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.