Quote

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.

Edmund Waller

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

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
Light
Admired
Come
Retired
Forth
Suffer
Worth
Small
Beauty
Blush
Suffering
Desired

More quotes by Edmund Waller

Image
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.
Edmund Waller
Image
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller
Image
While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.
Edmund Waller
Image
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller
Image
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller
Image
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller
Image
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
Image
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy.
Edmund Waller
Image
And keeps the palace of the soul.
Edmund Waller
Image
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
Image
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller
Image
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?
Edmund Waller
Image
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.
Edmund Waller
Image
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
Image
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.
Edmund Waller
Image
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
Image
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.
Edmund Waller
Image
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Edmund Waller
Image
Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.
Edmund Waller
Image
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