Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Edmund Waller (16061687)On a Girdle
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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.