A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that ‘s good, and all that ‘s fair; Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round. Edmund Waller Read Quote
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. Edmund Waller Read Quote
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Edmund Waller Read Quote
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer’d and as God He taught. Edmund Waller Read Quote
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller Read Quote
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. Edmund Waller Read Quote
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. Edmund Waller Read Quote
