Like an ambassador that beds a queen With the nice caution of a sword between.
John Cleveland Quotes
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.
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| Birth: | 16th June, 1613 |
| Death: | 29th April, 1658 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
John Cleveland was born in Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. He was an English poet who supported the Royalist cause in the English Civil War. He earned a BA degree from Christ's College, Cambridge in 1632. He became a fellow of St John's College in 1634, where he became a college tutor and lecturer on rhetoric. He wrote several poems include: Poems, 1653, The Poems of John Cleveland, and The Character of a London Diurnal.
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