Occupation: Poet Birth: 1570 Death: September 12, 1640
The stately heavens which glory doth array, are mirrors of God's admirable might; there, whence forth spreads the night, forth springs the day. He fi….
There whil'st the world prov'd prodigal of breath, the headless trunks lay prostrated in heaps; this field of funerals sacred unto death, did paint o….
The weaker sex, to piety more prone..
No town can keep a man, but men keep towns..
Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires..
The deepest rivers make least din, The silent soule doth most abound in care..
Great conquests trouble, where contempt may please -- the one yields glory, and the other ease..
The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood b….
While as he yet doth breath extend, no man is blest; behold the end..
How some dare scorn (as if a fabulous lie) that they should rise whom death to dust doth bind -- and like to beasts, a beastly life they lead, who na….