Edmund Waller

Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.

Read more about Edmund Waller:  Early Life, Early Parliamentary Career, Marriage, Speeches, "Waller's Plot", Banishment, Return To England, Later Life, Verse

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    Take heed, fair Eve! you do not make
    Another tempter of this snake;
    A marble one so warmed would speak.
    Edmund Waller (1606–1687)

    Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
    —Sir Edmund Leach (20th century)

    A narrow compass! and yet there
    Dwelt all that’s good, and all that’s fair!
    —Edmund Waller (1606–1687)