William Browne

Quotes

• “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 hearseLies 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.”
• “Whose life is a bubble, and in length a span.”
• “And all the former causes of her moan Did therewith bury in oblivion.”
• “A heavenly bevy of sweet English dames.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA