Michael Drayton
(1563 - 1631) U.K.
Poet
Born in Warwickshire, he went to London in 1590, where he published a volume of poems, The Harmony of the Church (1591), which was destroyed by order of the Archbishop of Canterbury. His greatest political work was the topographical survey of England, Polyolbion (1613-22), in 30 books. He was buried in Westmister Abbey.
Michael Drayton's Endimion and Phoebe (1595):
Endimion, the lovely Shepheards boy,
Endimion, great Phoebes onely joy,
Endimion, in whose pure-shining eyes
The naked Faries daunst the heydegies.
The shag-haird Satyrs Mountain-climing race,
Have been made tame by gazing in his face.
For this boyes love, the water-Nymphs have wept,
Stealing oft times to kisse him whilst he slept:
And tasting once the Nectar of his breath,
Surfet with sweet, and languish unto death;
And Jove oft-times bent to lascivious sport,
And coming where Endimion did resort,
Hath courted him, inflamed with desire,
Thinking some Nymph was cloth'd in boyes attire.
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