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Edmund Waller Quotes
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Type: Poet Quotes Category: English Poet Quotes Date of Birth: March 3, 1606 Date of Death: October 21, 1687 Nationality: English Find on Amazon: Edmund Waller Related Authors: Alexander Pope W. H. Auden Samuel Taylor Coleridge John Dryden Edward Young Percy Bysshe Shelley Alfred Lord Tennyson Herbert Read |
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 All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. Edmund Waller 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 Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. Edmund Waller Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. Edmund Waller Give us enough but with a sparing hand. Edmund Waller 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 His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. Edmund Waller How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! Edmund Waller Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. Edmund Waller Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Edmund Waller Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Edmund Waller Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. Edmund Waller So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. Edmund Waller Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. Edmund Waller Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. 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 The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. Edmund Waller The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. Edmund Waller 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 The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. Edmund Waller The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! Edmund Waller 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 To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! Edmund Waller Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. Edmund Waller |
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