Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Richard Barnfield

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English poet Richard Barnfield.

Last updated on September 19, 2024.

Richard Barnfield was an English poet. His obscure though close relationship with William Shakespeare has long made him interesting to scholars. It has been suggested that he was the "rival poet" mentioned in Shakespeare's sonnets.

English - Poet | 1574 - 1627

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All is amiss. Love is dying, faith's defying, heart's denying.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made.

Richard Barnfield

Money is the sovereign queen of all delights - for her, the lawyer pleads, the soldier fights.

Richard Barnfield

As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made.

Richard Barnfield

Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell

Richard Barnfield

If it be sin to love a lovely lad Oh there sin I.

Richard Barnfield

Gold is a deep-persuading orator.

Richard Barnfield

Every one that flatters thee Is no friend in misery. Words are easy, like the wind, Faithful friends are hard to find.

Richard Barnfield

He that is thy friend indeed, - He will help thee in thy need: - If thou sorrow, he will weep; - If you wake, he cannot sleep; - Thus of every grief in heart - He with thee doth bear a part.

Richard Barnfield

Nothing is more certain than uncertainties: / Fortune is full of fresh variety; / Constant in nothing but inconstancy.

Richard Barnfield