“Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.” WorldMayLongTogetherLastsDiesLanguageLinesFailingPoetBoundsTongueEnvyVainVersesProphecyBoast Author:Edmund Waller
“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.” KnowsLifeWellsHeartDoeStillsSoulWholeLastsDiesDarkLove IsVirtueSkyTearsTaughtSorrowProveGravesChosenSpiteWoundedConsentOblivionHollowKnots Book:Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell
“That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which, on the shaft that made him die, Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.” MadeDiesFateMinesSoarFeathersEagles Book:Poetical Works of Edmund Waller Source: Poetical Works of Edmund Waller
