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To man, that was in th' evening made,
Stars gave the first delight;
Admiring, in the gloomy shade,
Those little drops of light. -- Edmund Waller
Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. -- Edmund Waller
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. -- Edmund Waller
The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. -- Edmund Waller
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. -- Edmund Waller
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move! -- Edmund Waller
With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. -- Edmund Waller
To love is to believe, to hope, to know;
'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! -- Edmund Waller
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! -- Edmund Waller
If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other. -- Edmund Waller
Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. -- Edmund Waller
Soft words, with nothing in them, make a song. -- Edmund Waller
Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do. -- Edmund Waller
Ingenious to their ruin, every age improves the art and instruments of rage. -- Edmund Waller
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest. -- Edmund Waller
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
What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest? -- Edmund Waller
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
Gods, that never change their state, vary oft their love and hate. -- Edmund Waller
Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night. -- Edmund Waller
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. -- Edmund Waller
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. -- Edmund Waller
Thrice happy is that humble pair, Beneath the level of all care! Over whose heads those arrows fly, Of sad distrust and jealousy. -- Edmund Waller
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. -- Edmund Waller
Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke. -- Edmund Waller
Small is the worth Of beauty from the light retired: Bid her come forth, Suffer herself to be desired, And not blush so to be admired. -- Edmund Waller
In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse. -- Edmund Waller
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. -- Edmund Waller
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair! -- Edmund Waller
Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze; but time and thunder pay respect to bays. -- Edmund Waller
All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. -- Edmund Waller
When religion doth with virtue join, it makes a hero like an angel shine. -- Edmund Waller
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. -- Edmund Waller
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. -- Edmund Waller
While we converse with her, we mark
No want of day, nor think it dark. -- Edmund Waller
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. -- Edmund Waller
For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice. -- Edmund Waller
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene. -- Edmund Waller
Happy is she that from the world retires, and carries with her what the world admires. -- Edmund Waller
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek. -- Edmund Waller
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain. -- Edmund Waller
His kingdom come! For this we pray in vain,
Unless He does in our affections reign.
How fond it were to wish for such a King,
And no obedience to his sceptre bring,
Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light;
His service freedom, and His judgments right. -- Edmund Waller
Give us enough but with a sparing hand. -- Edmund Waller
But virtue too, as well as vice, is clad in flesh and blood. -- Edmund Waller
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. -- Edmund Waller
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. -- Edmund Waller
The rising sun complies with our weak sight, First gilds the clouds, then shows his globe of light At such a distance from our eyes, as though He knew what harm his hasty beams would do. -- Edmund Waller
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. -- Edmund Waller
Virtue's a stronger guard than brass. -- Edmund Waller
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. -- Edmund Waller
The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. -- Edmund Waller
And keeps the palace of the soul. -- Edmund Waller
The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. -- Edmund Waller
Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. -- Edmund Waller