English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Edmund Waller
240. On a Girdle
Shall now my joyful temples bind;
No monarch but would give his crown
His arms might do what this has done.
The pale which held that lovely deer:
My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move.
Dwelt all that’s good, and all that’s fair:
Give me but what this ribband bound,
Take all the rest the Sun goes round.