About Edmund Waller:
Edmund Waller is of a polished simplicity; *Dryden repeatedly praised his 'sweetness', describing him as 'the father of our English numbers', and linking his name with Denham's as poets who brought in the *Augustan age. His early poems include 'On a Girdle' and 'Go, lovely rose'; his later Instructions to a Painter (1666, on the battle of Sole Bay) and 'Of the Last Verses in the Book', containing the famous lines, 'The Soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, I Lets in new light through chinks that time hath made.' His Poems first appeared in 1645, Divine Poems in 1685, and Poems,.
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Edmund WallerPoets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
Edmund WallerLeaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Edmund WallerSo must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould.
Edmund WallerThe lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
Edmund WallerThe seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!
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