John Cleveland Professions : Poet Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by John Cleveland I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. John Cleveland i-am eyes rain water Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed. John Cleveland will rocks bed love Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home. John Cleveland forced wander god home My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery. John Cleveland waves know me tears Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poet All Authors