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Edmund Waller Quotes about Time

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The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.

Time, Home, Dark

'On the Foregoing Divine Poems' l. 18

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made.

Time, Dark, Light

Edmund Waller, Sir John Denham (1857). “The poetical works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham”, p.200

How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!

Love, Sweet, Time

Edmund Waller, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Edmund Waller: Collated with the Best Editions”

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.

Sweet, Time, Rose

"Go, Lovely Rose!" l. 1 (1645)

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