Poets that lasting marble seek Must carve in Latin or in Greek.
More Quotes from Edmund Waller:
Though with judgment we on things reflect, Our will determines, not our intellect.Edmund Waller
Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.
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And keeps the palace of the soul.
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Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
Edmund Waller
The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund Waller
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
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