Edmund Waller was a renowned 17th-century English poet, known for his lyrical and satirical poems. His works hold significant地位 in literary history and have had a profound impact on subsequent poets.
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“Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller ...
“My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!”
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq: In Verse and Prose
“Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]
“The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.”
Source: Poetical works
“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”
Source: Sammlung
“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan
Source: Poetical works
“When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine.”
“All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more.”
Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller ...
“Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate.”
Source: Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell
“But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and sir John Denham, with mem. and critical dissertation by G. Gilfillan
“Virtue's a stronger guard than brass.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.”
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires.”
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
“If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose
Source: Poetical works, ed. by R. Bell
“Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. From Mr. Fenton's Quarto Edition, 1729. With the Life of the Author ... Embellished with Superb Engravings [including a Portrait.]
“All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.”
Source: The works of Edmund Waller, Esqr., in verse and prose
“Give us enough but with a sparing hand.”
Source: Poetical works
“His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.”
Source: The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham
“So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.”
Source: Poems ... Fifth edition, with several additions never before printed
Source: The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson
“Poets that lasting marble seek, Must come in Latin or in Greek.”
Source: Poetical works
“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions
Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller
“The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!”
Source: Sammlung
Source: The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.
“Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”