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

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• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

  And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

  Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

• Edmund Waller:

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

• Edmund Waller:

  Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the s