Samuel Daniel was born in Somersetshire in 1562 or 1563, and little is known of his early life. Daniel’s seriousness, quietness, restraint, dignity, reflectiveness, sober-mindedness, preference for the abstract and general are qualities in much of his nondramatic poetry.
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Delia 33: When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass
When men shall find thy flower, thy glory, pass,
And thou with careful brow sitting alone
Received hast this message from thy glass,
That tells thee truth and says that all is gone:
Fresh shalt thou see in me the wounds thou madest,
Though spent...