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Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
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Edmund Waller
Age: 81 †
Born: 1606
Born: March 3
Died: 1687
Died: October 21
Poet
Politician
Writer
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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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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The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
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Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so 'tis but what we in our autumn do.
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His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light His service freedom, and His judgments right.
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Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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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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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.
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Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
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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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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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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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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
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All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
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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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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.
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Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.
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Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.
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