Edmund Waller Quotes

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Edmund Waller

Time, Small, Sweet

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
Edmund Waller

Rain, Poor, Vain

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
Edmund Waller

Fear, Hell, Interest

A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round.
Edmund Waller

Good, Give, Sun

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
Edmund Waller

Human, Value, Strings

And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
Edmund Waller

Made, Soul, Fair

Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
Edmund Waller

Round, Circle, Exactly

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller

Love, Angels, Above

Give us enough but with a sparing hand.
Edmund Waller

Give, Enough, Hand

Go, lovely rose! Tell her that wastes her time and me That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Edmund Waller

Time, Tell, Her

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund Waller

Love, God, Thought

Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
Edmund Waller

High, Acts, Muse

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Edmund Waller

Leaving, Old, Once

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
Edmund Waller

May, Others, Road

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund Waller

Lose, Known, Half

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
Edmund Waller

Seek, Poets, Greek

So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund Waller

Writer, Whose, Vulgar

Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
Edmund Waller

Men, Become, Stronger

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Edmund Waller

Soul, Head, Tea

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller

Humble, Her, Lies

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
Edmund Waller

Give, Calm, Quiet

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Edmund Waller

Love, Hope, Heaven

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Poet

Born: March 3, 1606

Died: October 21, 1687

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