Thomas Yalden Quotes

Thomas Yalden was an English poet and translator. Educated at Magdalen College, Yalden entered the Church of England, in which he obtained various preferments. His poems include A Hymn to Darkness, Pindaric Odes, and translations from the classics. Wikipedia

✵ 1670 – 16. July 1736

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Thomas Yalden Quotes

“Why like a tender girl dost thou complain!
That strives to reach the mother's breast in vain;
Mourns by her side, her knees embraces fast,
Hangs on her robes, and interrupts her haste;
Yet, when with fondness to her arms she's rais'd,
Still mourns and weeps, and will not be appeas'd!”

Thomas Yalden

"Patroclus's Request to Achilles for his Arms; Imitated from the Beginning of the Sixteenth Iliad of Homer", in Tonson's The Annual Miscellany for the Year 1694.

Girl

“For malice will with joy the lie receive,
Report, and what it wishes true, believe.”

Thomas Yalden

The Second Book of Ovid's Art of Love, lines 706–707.

Lie , Joy