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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
Politician
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Coleshill
Buckinghamshire
Gentleman that loves the peace
True son of the Church of England and a lover of his countries liberty
Edmund Waller
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Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
Edmund Waller
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
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In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse.
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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
Edmund Waller
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
Edmund Waller
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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With wisdom fraught not such as books, but such as practice taught.
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Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
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While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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To man, that was in th' evening made, Stars gave the first delight Admiring, in the gloomy shade, Those little drops of light.
Edmund Waller
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.
Edmund Waller
He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'dHe that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
Edmund Waller
