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• Poets may boast (as safely-vain) Their work shall with the world remain: Both bound together, live, or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines shou'd long Last, in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails, And as that dies, our language fails.

  Edmund Waller

  Envy, Long, Together

  1645 'Of English Verse'.

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• Could we forbear dispute, and practice love, We should agree as angels do above. Where love presides, not vice alone does find, No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind: Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train, Of mortal virtues, at the door remain. Love only enters as a native there, For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.

  Edmund Waller

  Angel, Doors, Practice

  "Of Divine Love". Poem in six cantos by Edmund Waller (circa 1686); later published in "A Complete Edition of the Poets of Great Britain", Volume IV, 1792.

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• Give us enough but with a sparing hand.

  Edmund Waller

  Hands, Giving, Enough

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.253

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• My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
  Did all within this circle move!

  Edmund Waller

  Grief, Moving, Circles

  Edmund Waller, Elijah Fenton (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller, Esq. in verse and prose. Published by Mr. Fenton. (Observations on some of Mr. Waller's poems.) L.P.”, p.54

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

  Edmund Waller

  Love, Sweet, Time

  Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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• 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

  Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.200

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• With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught.

  Edmund Waller

  Wisdom, Book, Practice

  Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works of Edmund Waller. Edited by Robert Bell”, p.168

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• 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

  Edmund Waller (1744). “Sammlung”, p.70

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