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So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.

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.

All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

Edmund Waller

Value

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.

Edmund Waller

Love

Angels

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

Time

Now

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

Edmund Waller

Time

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Edmund Waller

Old

Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.

Edmund Waller

Poor

Rain

Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

Edmund Waller

Poets

Praise

Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.

Edmund Waller

Poets

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

Edmund Waller

Quiet

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

Sun

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!