6 Edmund Waller Quotes on Beauty

Edmund Waller quotes on beauty

5. That which her slender waist confined Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown His arms might do what this has done.

7. 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.

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

14. There is a garden in her face Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place, Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow: There cherries grow which none may buy Till 'Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

15. The yielding marble of her snowy breast.

17. 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.