Edmund Waller
Title: Edmund Waller, FRS
Birthdate: March 3, 1606
Birthplace: Coleshill, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: October 21, 1687
Occupation: Poet and Politician
Profile: Best known for
Go, Lovely Rose. Became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1663.
Website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Waller
Number of Quotes: 4
And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In
that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear.
Could we forbear dispute and practise love, We should agree as angels do above.
How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
Sir, we poets never succeed so well in writing truth as in fiction.
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