tame quotes

Drink not the third glass, which thou canst not tame, When once it is within thee.

- George Herbert
'The Church-porch', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously,1633).

   L'amour est un oiseau rebelle Que nul ne peut apprivoiser. Love's a bird that will live in freedom That no man ever learned to tame.

- Henri Meilhac
   The Haban‹  era. Carmen, act1.

   And graven with diamonds in letters plain There is written, her fair neck round about: Noli me tangere, for Caesar's I am, And wild for to hold, though I seem tame. See Bible118:23.

- SirThomas (the Elder) Wyatt
  'Whoso List to Hunt'.The subject of the poem is thought to beAnne Boleyn.

   They flee from me, that sometime did me seek, With naked foot, stalking in my chamber. I have seen them gentle, tame, and meek, That now are wild, and do not remember That sometime they put themselves in danger To take bread at my hand; and now they range, Busily seeking with a continual change.

- SirThomas (the Elder) Wyatt
  'They Flee from Me'.