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Edmund Waller
(1606 - 1687)
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19 poems of Edmund Waller
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''Then die that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;''
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Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Go, Lovely Rose (l. 16-18). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3...
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''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.''
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Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Go, Lovely Rose (l. 1-5). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ...
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''The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.''
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Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Of Divine Love, cto. 2.
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''Poets that lasting Marble seek
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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Edmund Waller (1606-1687), British poet. Of English Verse (l. 13-16). . .
Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode a...
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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.
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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 o...
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''A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair!''
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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....
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''It was my heaven's extremest sphere,
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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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.,...
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''The yielding marble of her snowy breast.''
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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
Another tempter of this snake;
A marble one so warmed would speak.''
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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, gen...
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Yet fairest blossome do not slight
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,
Who...
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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 ...
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