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Michael Drayton
27 quotes
“Crave the tuneful nightingale to help you with her lay, The ousel and the throstlecock, chief music of our May.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) first seen 1593 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Shepherd’s Garland (1593), eclogue 3, l. 17
“That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) first seen 1612 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poly-Olbion (1612-22), song 13, l. 2 (Warwickshire)
“To my mild tutor merrily I came (For I was then a proper goodly page Much like a pigmy, scarce ten years of age) Clasping my slender arms about his thigh. O my dear master! cannot you (quoth I) Make me a poet? Do it, if you can, And you shall see, I’ll quickly be a man.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) first seen 1627 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy, l. 24 (1627)
“Marlowe, bathed in Thespian springs Had in him those brave translunary things, That the first poets had.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For that fine madness still he did retain Which rightly should possess a poet’s brain.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Next these, learn’d Jonson, in this list I bring, Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He made him turn and stop, and bound, To gallop, and to trot the round, He scarce could stand on any ground, He was so full of mettle.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) first seen 1627 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Nimphidia, The Court of Faery, st. 45 (1627)
“The coast was clear.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I pray thee leave, love me no more, Call home the heart you gave me, I but in vain the saint adore, That can, but will not, save me.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“These poor half-kisses kill me quite.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Care draws on care, woe comforts woe again, Sorrow breeds sorrow, one grief brings forth twain.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Time shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go, Comfort’s a cripple and comes ever slow.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He was a man (then boldly dare to say) In whose rich soul the virtues well did suit, In whom so mix’d the elements all lay, That none to one could sovereignty impute, As all did govern yet all did obey; He of a temper was so absolute, As that it seemed when Nature him began, She meant to show all, that might be in man.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The mind is free, whate’er afflict the man, A King’s a King, do Fortune what she can.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Thus when we fondly flatter our desires, Our best conceits do prove the greatest liars.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How many paltry, foolish, painted things, That now in coaches trouble every street, Shall be forgotten, whom no Poet sings, Ere they be well wrapt in their winding-sheet! Where I to thee eternity shall give, When nothing else remaineth of these days, And queens hereafter shall be glad to live Upon the alms of thy superfluous praise.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dear, why should you command me to my rest, When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best; Night was ordain'd together friends to keep.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fair stood the wind for France, When we our sails advance, Nor now to prove our chance, Longer will tarry; But putting to the main At Kaux, the mouth of Seine, With all his martial train, Landed King Harry.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Yet have we well begun, Battles so bravely won Have ever to the sun By fame been raisëd.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Victor I will remain Or on this earth lie slain, Never shall she sustain Loss to redeem me.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“They now to fight are gone, Armour on armour shone, Drum now to drum did groan, To hear, was wonder; That with the cries they make, The very earth did shake, Trumpet to trumpet spake, Thunder to thunder.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Suffolk his axe did ply; Beaumont and Willoughby Bare them right doughtily; Ferrers and Fanhope.Upon Saint Crispin’s Day Fought was this noble fray, Which fame did not delay To England to carry. O when shall English men With such acts fill a pen? Or England breed again Such a King Harry?”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“You brave heroic minds Worthy your country’s name, That honour still pursue; Go and subdue!”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And in regions far, Such heroes bring ye forth As those from whom we came; And plant our name Under that star Not known unto our North.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part, Nay, I have done, you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart, That thus so cleanly I myself can free. Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows, And when we meet at any time again, Be it not seen in either of our brows That we one jot of former love retain. Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath, When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies, When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And Innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might’st him yet recover.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou wouldst, when all have given him over, From death to life thou might'st him yet recover.”
Michael Drayton (1563–1631) said by 1631 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source