Edmund Waller Quotes

Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller
English Poet
Born: Mar 3, 1606
Died: Oct 21, 1687
Fair Give Love Must Soul Take
Related authors: Alexander Pope Alfred Lord Tennyson John Keats John Milton Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Browning William Blake William Wordsworth
Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. Edmund Waller
Love Angels Above Could Practise Should Agree Dispute
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse. Edmund Waller
Every High Infuse Creates Conqueror Acts Illustrious Muse
The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more! Edmund Waller
Calm Winds Give More Passions Quiet Seas
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
Good Me Rest Sun Give Give Me Take Bound Fair Narrow Goes Round Compass
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Edmund Waller
Old Threshold Worlds Once Both Both Worlds New Leaving Stand View
Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round. Edmund Waller
Circle Exactly Abound Praised Round
Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode. Edmund Waller
Ocean Others Abode Only Road Make May Use English
All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. Edmund Waller
Value Slender Strings Dearest Hang Human Things
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become. Edmund Waller
Men Stronger Become Weakness Wiser

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