“How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight are the most exquisite and bright.”

About Edmund Waller

Poet • English

Edmund Waller was an influential English poet and politician known for his elegant verse and wit. He is credited with perfecting the heroic couplet, a rhyming pair of iambic pentameter lines that became a dominant form...