Edmund Waller

Poems (4)

• Go, lovely Rose

  Go, lovely rose! / Tell her that wastes her time and me …

• Old Age

  The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; / So calm are we when passions are no more. …

• Old Age and Death

  From “Verses upon His Divine Poesy” / THE SEAS are quiet when the winds give o’er; …

• On a Girdle

  That which her slender waist confined / Shall now my joyful temples bind; …