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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“It was my heaven’s extremest sphere,
The pale which held that lovely deer;
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!”
—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)
“The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
Savours too much of private interest.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)