John Oldham (poet)

John Oldham

John Oldham (August 9, 1653 – December 9, 1683) was an English satirical poet and translator.

Quotes

• Altho' your frailer part must yield to Fate,
  By every breach in that fair lodging made,
  Its blest inhabitant is more displayed.
  • To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 106; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• And should you visit now the seats of bliss,
  You need not wear another form but this.
  • To Madam L. E. on her Recovery, 116; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• Curse on the man who business first designed,
  And by't enthralled a freeborn lover's mind!
  • Complaining of Absence, 11; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• While some no other cause for life can give
  But a dull habitude to live.
  • To the Memory of Norwent, Paragraph 5; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• Ah, dearer than my soul…
  Dearer than light, or life, or fame.
  • Lament for Saul and Jonathan; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• I wear my Pen as others do their Sword.
  To each affronting sot I meet, the word
  Is Satisfaction: straight to thrusts I go,
  And pointed satire runs him through and through.
  • Satire upon a Printer, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

• Lord of myself, accountable to none,
  But to my conscience, and my God alone.
  • Satire addressed to a Friend, line 36; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922).

External links

• Encyclopedic article on John Oldham (poet) on Wikipedia
• Media related to John Oldham on Wikimedia Commons
• Works related to Author:John Oldham on Wikisource