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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The First Booke. № 7. Riches without further, can make no man happy


AS he, whose body is not well in health,
To search for ease, from bed to bed will rise:
So to a mind, that is diseased, wealth
Is not the end: but change of miseries;
And that, which made his poverty to vexe him,
Will make his riches likewise to perplexe him.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 23. A counsell not to vse severity, where gentle dealing may prevaile
  2. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 32. That if we strove not more for superfluities, then for what is needfull, we would not be so much troubled, is wee are
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 27. Of Lust, and Anger
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth


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