Edmund Waller Quotes on Beauty
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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.
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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.
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How small a part of time they share That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
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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.
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The yielding marble of her snowy breast.
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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.