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William Browne Quotes

1590–1645 England

William Browne (c. 1590 – c. 1645) was an English poet, born at Tavistock, Devon, educated at Oxford, after which he entered the Inner Temple. His chief works were the long poem Britannia's Pastorals (1613), and a contribution to The Shepheard's Pipe (1614).

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Also known as: Browne, William

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Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

For those sacred powers
Tread on oblivion; no desert odours
Can be entombed in their celestial breasts.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

If heaven send no supplies,
The fairest blossom of the garden dies.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

A rose as fair as ever saw the North,
Grew in a little garden all alone:
A sweeter flower did Nature ne’er put forth,
Nor fairer garden yet was never known.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

I saw a mushroom stand in haughty pride,
As if the lilies grew to be his slaves.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

And all the former causes of her moan
Did therewith bury in oblivion.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

A heavenly bevy of sweet English dames.

Britannia's Pastorals (1613)

Steer, hither steer your wingèd pines,
All beaten mariners!
Here lie Love’s undiscover’d mines,
A prey to passengers.

Come on shore,
Where no joy dies till Love hath gotten more.

Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse,
Sidney's sister, Pembroke's mother;
Death! ere thou hast slain another,
Fair and learn'd, and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.

Attribution

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