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Quotes from Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham — Edmund Waller

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)

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

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

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.

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

The Muses' friend, Tea, does our fancy aid,
Repress the vapours which the head invade,
And keeps the palace of the soul serene.

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)

My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!

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

Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.

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

That which her slender waist confined
Shall now my joyful temples bind;
No monarch but would give his crown
His arms might do what this has done.

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

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

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

To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light.

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

There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies blow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow:
There cherries grow which none may buy
Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

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

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made;
Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view,
That stand upon the threshold of the new.

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

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edmund Waller (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.