Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by John Cleveland

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet John Cleveland.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
John Cleveland

John Cleveland was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He was best known for political satire.

I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out. — © John Cleveland
I am no Poet here; my pen's the spout where the rain water of my eyes run out.
Love melts the rigor which the rocks have bred; a flint will break upon a feather bed.
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.
Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home.
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