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Edmund Waller (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687 / Coleshill / Buckinghamshire / England)
Quotations
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''Then die that she
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Go, Lovely Rose (l. 16-18). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;''
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''Go, lovely Rose—
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Go, Lovely Rose (l. 1-5). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
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.''
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''The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Of Divine Love, cto. 2.
Savours too much of private interest.''
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''Poets that lasting Marble seek
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Of English Verse (l. 13-16). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.).
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work o'erflows.''
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''The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed,
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Of The Last Verses in the Book (l. 7-12). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
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.''
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''A narrow compass! and yet there
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. On a Girdle (l. 9-10). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair!''
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''It was my heaven's extremest sphere,
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. On a Girdle (l. 5-8). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.
The pale which held that lovely deer;
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!''
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''The yielding marble of her snowy breast.''
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. On a Lady Passing through a Crowd of People.
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''Take heed, fair Eve! you do not make
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. To a Fair Lady Playing with a Snake (l. 16-18). . . Poetry in English; an Anthology. M. L. Rosenthal, general ed. (1987) Oxford University Press.
Another tempter of this snake;
A marble one so warmed would speak.''
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''Yet fairest blossome do not slight
Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. To a Very Young Lady (l. 7-12). . . Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.
That age which you may know so soon:
The rosie Morn resignes her light,
And milder glory to the Noon:
And then what wonder shall you do,
Whose dawning beauty warms us so?''
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