“Sure there are poets which did never dream Upon Parnassus, nor did taste the stream Of Helicon; we therefore may suppose Those made not poets, but the poets those.” MayMadeDreamPoetTasteStreams Book:The Poems of Edmund Waller Source: The Poems of Edmund Waller
“Though with those streams he no resemblance hold, Whose foam is amber and their gravel gold; His genuine and less guilty wealth t' explore, Search not his bottom, but survey his shore.” WealthGoldGuiltBottomGenuineGuiltyStreamsShoreSurveysResemblanceAmberFoamGravel Author:John Denham
