“Love is a fiend, a fire, a heaven, a hell Where pleasure, pain, and sad repentance dwell”
Quotes by 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.”
“Apply thy minde to be a vertuous man Auoyd ill company (the spoyle of youth;) To follow Vertues Lore doo what thou can, (Whereby great profit vnto thee ensuth;) Reade Bookes, hate Ignorance; (the Foe to Art, The Damme of Errour, Enuy of the hart).”
Richard Barnfield
Richard Barnfield was an English poet known for his contributions to the literary landscape of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Baptized in 1574, he emerged as a notable figure in the literary ...