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Poem by Thomas Urquhart


Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men


THey're richer, who diminish their desires:
Though their possessions be not amplified,
Then Monarchs: who in owning large Empires,
Have minds, that never will be satisfied;
For he is poore, that wants what he would have:
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.



Thomas Urquhart


Thomas Urquhart's other poems:
  1. 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
  2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 29. A truely liberall man never bestoweth his gifts, in hope of recompence
  3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 13. What the subject of your conference ought to be with men of judgment, and account
  4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 33. The onely true progresse to a blessed life
  5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe


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