Phineas Fletcher

Phineas Fletcher (8 April 1582 – 13 December 1650) was an English poet from Kent. He was the elder son of Dr Giles Fletcher the Elder, and brother of Giles the Younger.

Quotes

• Drop, drop, slow tears,
  And bathe those beauteous feet,
  Which brought from Heaven
  The news and Prince of Peace.
  • Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn"

• In your deep floods
  Drown all my faults and fears;
  Not let His eye
  See sin, but through my tears.
  • Poetical Miscellanies (1633), "An Hymn"

• Love’s tongue is in the eyes.
  • Piscatory Eclogues (1633), no. 5, st. 13

• Poorly (poor man) he lived; poorly (poor man) he died.
  • The Purple Island (1633), canto 1, st. 19

• His little son into his bosom creeps,
  The lively picture of his father’s face.
  • The Purple Island (1633), canto 12, st. 6

• Love is like linen; often changed, the sweeter.
  • Sicelides (1614), act 3, sc. 5

• The coward’s weapon, poison.
  • Sicelides (1614), act 5, sc. 3

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Phineas Fletcher on Wikipedia