Phineas Fletcher Professions : PoetBorn : 1582Died : 1650 Browse All Authors Top 7 quotes by Phineas Fletcher Love's tongue is in the eyes. Phineas Fletcher anniversaryeyelove Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best. Phineas Fletcher beautiful Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears. Phineas Fletcher eyefearpeace Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears. Phineas Fletcher swimfearjoy Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter. Phineas Fletcher best-lovechangedlove-is The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse. Phineas Fletcher swansdyingyears Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd. Phineas Fletcher addressespraiselong Similar Authors Abdellatif Laabi poet Ihara Saikaku poet Abram Joseph Ryan poet Ingeborg Bachmann poet Izumi Shikibu poet Bion of Smyrna poetAll Authors
