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Edmund Waller on Poetry

1606–1687 England

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

Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

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

Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

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