Edmund Waller
Who is Edmund Waller
Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who was Member of Parliament for various constituencies between 1624 and 1687, and one of the longest serving members of the English House of Commons.
Son of a wealthy lawyer with extensive estates in Buckinghamshire, Waller first entered Parliament in 1624, although he played little part in the political struggles of the period prior to the First English Civil War in 1642. Unlike his relatives William and Hardress Waller, he was Royalist in sympathy and was accused in 1643 of organising a plot to seize London for Charles I. He allegedly escaped the death penalty by paying a large bribe, while several conspirators were executed, including his brother-in-law Nathaniel Tomkins.
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Edmund Waller Poems
- To One Married To An Old Man
Since thou wouldst needs,
Bewitched with some ill charms,
Be buried in those monumental arms,
All we can wish is, may that earth lie light
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- On The Friendship Betwixt Two Ladies
Tell me, lovely, loving pair!
Why so kind, and so severe?
Why so careless of our care,
Only to yourselves so dear?
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- To A Very Young Lady
Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth
Or shadow of felicity?
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- The Story Of PhÅ?bus And Daphne, Applied
Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train,
Fair Sacharissa lov'd, but lov'd in vain;
Like PhÅ?bus sung the no less amorous boy;
Like Daphne she, as lovely, and as coy;
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- To Phyllis
Phyllis! why should we delay
Pleasures shorter than the day?
Can we (which we never can)
Stretch our lives beyond their span,
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- Plastic_bio: that eagle's fate and mine are one,which on the shaft that made him dieespied a feather of his own,wherewith he wont to soar so high.
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- _jeeethruuu: "it is not that i love you less. than when before your feet i lay,. but to prevent the sad increase. of hopeless love, i keep away."
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- Newyorksun: for edmund waller’s cavalier-era speaker, the girdle — a sash around his lover’s waist — signifies a delicate orbit simply circumscribing her body, all the reality that matters to him.
- Artsalamode: born 3/9: artists david smith, tom roberts, writers vita sackville-west, edmund waller, taras shevchenko, david garnett, mickey spillane, keri hulme, jazz musicians ornette coleman, roy brooks, musician mickey gilley.
- Artsalamode: "vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
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