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Quotes from Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond — Samuel Daniel

1562–1619 England

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Care-charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
Brother to Death, in silent darkness born.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Sweet, silent rhetoric of persuading eyes,
Dumb eloquence, whose power doth move the blood
More than the words or wisdom of the wise.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

For women grieve to think they must be old.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Sacred on earth; designed a saint above!

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Men do not weigh the stalk for what it was,
When once they find her flow’r, her glory, pass.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Thou may’st repent that thou hast scorn’d my tears,
When Winter snows upon thy sable hairs.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

And sport, sweet maid, in season of these years,
And learn to gather flowers before they wither

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

The fairest flower that ever saw the light.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Shame leaves us by degrees.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,
My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.
The world shall find this miracle in me,
That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

Delia and The Complaint of Rosamond (1592)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Samuel Daniel (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.