Edmund Waller: Quotes about parting

Edmund Waller was English poet and politician. Explore interesting quotes on parting.

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“Consent in virtue knit your hearts so fast,
That still the knot, in spite of death, does last;
For as your tears, and sorrow-wounded soul,
Prove well that on your part this bond is whole,
So all we know of what they do above,
Is that they happy are, and that they love.
Let dark oblivion, and the hollow grave,
Content themselves our frailer thoughts to have;
Well-chosen love is never taught to die,
But with our nobler part invades the sky.
Then grieve no more that one so heavenly shaped
The crooked hand of trembling age escaped;
Rather, since we beheld her not decay,
But that she vanish'd so entire away,
Her wondrous beauty, and her goodness, merit
We should suppose that some propitious spirit
In that celestial form frequented here,
And is not dead, but ceases to appear.”

Upon the Death of My Lady Rich (1664).
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

“Under the tropic is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”

Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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

Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 2.
Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)