Thomas Yalden

Thomas Yalden (2 January 1670 – 16 July 1736) was an English poet and translator.

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!
  • "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.

• For malice will with joy the lie receive,
  Report, and what it wishes true, believe.
  • The Second Book of Ovid's Art of Love, lines 706–707.