Edmund Waller Quotes on Love
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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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My joy, my grief, my hope, my love, Did all within this circle move!
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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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Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast, That still the knot, in spite of death, does last; For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul, Prove well that on your part this bond is whole, So all we know of what they do above, Is that they happy are, and that they love. Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave, Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have; Well-chosen love is never taught to die, But with our nobler part invades the sky. Then grieve no more that one so heavenly shaped The crooked hand of trembling age escaped; Rather, since we beheld her not decay, But that she vanish'd so entire away, Her wondrous beauty, and her goodness, merit We should suppose that some propitious spirit In that celestial form frequented here, And is not dead, but ceases to appear.
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For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love.
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Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.