Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
- Edmund Waller
Could, Half, Known, Blot
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
Rest, Give, Goes, Narrow
To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
- Edmund Waller
Love, Taste, Below, Love Is
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
- Edmund Waller
Humble, Silent, Her, Nest
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
- Edmund Waller
High, Illustrious, Creates, Conqueror
Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.
- Edmund Waller
Rain, Which, Shepherds, Sailors
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
- Edmund Waller
Calm, Give, Seas, Passions
The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
- Edmund Waller
Interest, Private, Too, Aiming
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
Made, Still, Invade, Pale
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.
- Edmund Waller
Ocean, Road, May, Abode
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
- Edmund Waller
Greek, Marble, Must, Latin
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
Lovely, Thee, Wastes, Resemble
Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
- Edmund Waller
Fancy, Palace, Which, Keeps
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
- Edmund Waller
Love, Could, Dispute, Practise
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
- Edmund Waller
View, New, Worlds, Leaving
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
- Edmund Waller
Circle, Round, Praised, Abound
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.
- Edmund Waller
Strings, Hang, Dearest, Slender
So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
- Edmund Waller
Vulgar, Should, Take, Productions
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
- Edmund Waller
Small, How, Part, Wondrous
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.
- Edmund Waller
Men, Stronger, Wiser, Weakness
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
- Edmund Waller
Love, Thought, His, Dread
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