Sir John Davies, a renowned English poet, was born on April 16, 1569, and died on December 8, 1626. His poetry held a significant place in 17th-century English literature, known for its elegant style and profound thought.
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“I know myself a Man-- Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.”
Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces
“What more than madness reigns, when one short sitting many hundreds drains.”
Source: The Original, Nature and Immortality of the Soul, a Poem. With an Introduction Concerning Human Knowledge ... The Fourth Edition, Corrected. With an Account of the Author's Life and Writings
“Hence it is that old men do plant young trees, the fruit whereof another age shall take.”
Source: The Complete Poems: (including Psalms I. to L. in Verse, and Other Hitherto Unpublished Mss.)
“Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.”
Source: The Original, Nature, and Immortality of the Soul: A Poem
Source: Historical Tracts
“Dancing is a frenzyand a rage.”
Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces
Source: The Works of the British Poets. With Prefaces
“For what made that in glory shine so long But poets' Pens, pluckt from Archangels' wings?”
Source: A Poem on the Immortality of the Soul: By Sir John Davis. To which is Prefixed an Essay Upon the Same Subject
“Thou art true and honest as a dog.”
Source: Complete Poems