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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
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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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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
Others may use the ocean as their road Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do.
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.
Edmund Waller
That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
Edmund Waller
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
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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.
Edmund Waller
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
Edmund Waller
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Edmund Waller
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.
Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
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
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
Edmund Waller
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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