Edmund Waller Beauty Poems

  • 1.
    Why came I so untimely forth
    Into a world which, wanting thee,
    Could entertain us with no worth
    Or shadow of felicity?
    ...
  • 2.
    Phyllis! why should we delay
    Pleasures shorter than the day?
    Can we (which we never can)
    Stretch our lives beyond their span,
    ...
  • 3.
    Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made
    Choice of their deities, this sacred shade
    Had held an alter to her power, that gave
    The peace and glory which these alleys have;
    ...
  • 4.
    Go, lovely rose!
    Tell her that wastes her time and me
    That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    ...
  • 5.
    Poets may boast, as safely vain,
    Their works shall with the world remain;
    Both, bound together, live or die,
    The verses and the prophecy.
    ...
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  • 7.
    Go, lovely rose!
    Tell her that wastes her time and me
    That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    ...
  • 8.
    Go, lovely Rose-
    Tell her that wastes her time and me,
    That now she knows,
    When I resemble her to thee,
    ...
Total 8 Beauty Poems by Edmund Waller

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