Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort’s a cripple and comes ever slow.
Michael Drayton Quotes
1563–1631 England
Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631) was an English poet who came to prominence in the Elizabethan era.
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Also known as: Drayton, Michael
24 quotes
The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man,
A King’s a King, do Fortune what she can.
The Barons' Wars (1603)
That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.
For that fine madness still he did retain
Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.
The Shepherd’s Garland (1593)
You brave heroic minds
Worthy your country’s name,
That honour still pursue;
Go and subdue!
To the Virginian Voyage (1619)
When Time shall turn those amber locks to grey,
My verse again shall gild and make them gay.
England's Heroical Epistles (1597)
Thus when we fondly flatter our desires,
Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.
The Barons' Wars (1603)
Saith she, “Yet liever I were dead,
Than I should lose my maidenhead,
And all for love of men.”
Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again,
Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain.
England's Heroical Epistles (1597)
Yet have we well begun,
Battles so bravely won
Have ever to the sun
By fame been raisëd.
To the Cambro-Britons and their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt (1619)
Victor I will remain
Or on this earth lie slain,
Never shall she sustain
Loss to redeem me.
To the Cambro-Britons and their Harp, His Ballad of Agincourt (1619)
Next these, learn’d Jonson, in this list I bring,
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.
When Time shall turne those Amber Lockes to Gray.
Idea's Mirror (1594)
These poor half-kisses kill me quite.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Michael Drayton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.