“That which her slender waist confined, Shall now my joyful temples bind; No monarch but would give his crown, His arms might do what this has done.”

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...