8 quotes
To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
Of Divine Love (1686)
He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
Of Divine Love (1686)
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Of Divine Love (1686)
Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Of Divine Love (1686)
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.
Thrice happy is that humble pair,
Beneath the level of all care!
Over whose heads those arrows fly
Of sad distrust and jealousy.