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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.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Go, Lovely Rose...
• O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Othello -- Act iv, Sc. 2...
• Under the tropic is our language spoke, And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Upon the Death of the Lord Protecto...
• A narrow compass! and yet there Dwelt all that 's good, and all that 's fai
  Give me but what this riband bound, Take all the rest the sun goes round....
• And keeps the palace of the soul. -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- Of Tea
• The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem For that sweet odour which doth in it live.
  -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Sonnets & other Poetry -- Sonnet liv...
• That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing...
• It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important. -- Saint-Exupery
• Go, lovely Rose that lives its little hour! Go, little booke!
  and let who will be clever! Roll on! From yonder ivy-mantled tower The moon and i could keep this up forever....