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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
Rain
Poor
Vexed
Sailors
Shepherds
Prayed
Sailor
Cursed
Vain
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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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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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Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.
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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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But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.
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Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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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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Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
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Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
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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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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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Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.
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