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“The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Lying #Humble #Larks
“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Soul #Tea #Doe
“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Muse #Rapture #Conqueror
“Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Rain #Shepherds #Sailor
“Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Yoke #Language #Spokes
“And keeps the palace of the soul.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Soul #Palaces
“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

#Humble #Arrows #Levels
“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

#Giving #Sun #Compass
“The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!”
-- Edmund Waller

#Passion #Wind #Sea
“Others may use the ocean as their road; Only the English make it their abode.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Ocean #Use #May
“Stronger by weakness, wiser men become.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Men #Stronger #Weakness
“Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Half #Improvement #Praise
“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

#Soul #Doe #Guests
“Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Circles
“If its length be not considered a merit, it hath no other.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Art #Entertainment #Merit
“The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Fear #Joy #Vex
“Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Flower #Autumn
“Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Faults #Innocence #Innocent
“What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest?”
-- Edmund Waller

#Men #Promise #Use
“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

#Fate #Eagles #Made
“The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Soul #Too Much #Zealous
“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Life #Heart #Dark
“To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!”
-- Edmund Waller

#Life #Believe #Love Is
“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Time #Dark #Light
“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

#Sweet #Time #Rose
“Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Life #Angel #Disputes
“The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Home #Dark #Men
“How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”
-- Edmund Waller

#Love #Sweet #Share
“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

#Blessed #Voice #Listening
“Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find.”
-- Edmund Waller

#Arrows #Mind #Doe

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