Edmund Waller

Arrive

Happy! to whom this glorious death arrives.

Artist

How to build ships, and dreadful ordnance cast, Instruct the articles and reward their.

as

He lies, as he his bliss did know.

Aspire

My own breath still foments the fire, Which flames as high as fancy can aspire.

Bank

Placed on their banks, the lusty Trojan sweep Neptune's smooth face, and cleave the yielding deep.

Blood

A friend of our own blood.

Carack

The bigger whale like some huge carrack lay.

Coast

We the Arabian coast do know At distance, when the species blow.

Compare

Their small galleys may not hold compare With our tall ships.

Conduct

Conduct of armies is a prince's art.

Conquer

The champions resolved to conquer or to die.

Daw

The loud daw, his throat displaying, draws The whole assembly of his fellow daws.

Declination

Summer . . . is not looked on as a time Of declination or decay.

Decline

That empire must decline Whose chief support and sinews are of coin.

Dispark

Till his free muse threw down the pale, And did at once dispark them all.

Dispose

A rural judge disposed of beauty's prize.

Elaborate

Drawn to the life in each elaborate page.

ensign

The ensigns of our power about we bear.

Equalize

It could not equalize the hundredth part Of what her eyes have kindled in my heart.

Fascination

The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest horses, and other goodly creatures, to secure them against fascination.

Fervor

The fevor of ensuing day.

Fix

Your kindness banishes your fear, Resolved to fix forever here.

For

How to choose dogs for scent or speed.

Frolic

The gay, the frolic, and the loud.

Gallant

The gay, the wise, the gallant, and the grave.

Happily

Preferred by conquest, happily o'erthrown.

Haven

The haven, or the rock of love.

Heedless

The heedless lover does not know Whose eyes they are that wound him so.

Impose

Thou on the deep imposest nobler laws.

Indulgent

The indulgent censure of posterity.

Inhabit

They say wild beasts inhabit here.

Jealous

'This doing wrong creates such doubts as these, Renders us jealous and disturbs our peace.

Kind

O cruel Death, to those you take more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.

Lady

The soldier here his wasted store supplies, And takes new valor from his lady's eyes.

Lay

After a tempest when the winds are laid.

Loathe

The secret which I loathe.

make

The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity.

Man

They man their boats, and all their young men arm.

Mild

The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon.

Miss

Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

Moderately

Each nymph but moderately fair.

Now

They that but now, for honor and for plate, Made the sea blush with blood, resign their hate.

Obnoxious

All are obnoxious, and this faulty land, Like fainting Hester, does before you stand Watching your scepter.

Occasion

I'll take the occasion which he gives to bring Him to his death.

Origin

Famous Greece, That source of art and cultivated thought Which they to Rome, and Romans hither, brought.

Outfly

Winged with fear outflies the wind.

Overblow

When this cloud of sorrow's overblown.

Park

While in the park I sing, the listening deer Attend my passion, and forget to fear.

Part

Make whole kingdoms take her brother's part.

Celia, for thy sake, I part With all that grew so near my heart.

Ply

Their bloody task, unwearied, still they ply.

Practice

Practice first over yourself to reign.

President

Just Apollo, president of verse.

Prime

Hope waits upon the flowery prime.

Protector

For the world's protector shall be known.

Prune

Horace will our superfluous branches prune.

Quash

The whales Against sharp rocks, like reeling vessels, quashed, Though huge as mountains, are in pieces dashed.

Ravel

What glory's due to him that could divide Such raveled interests? has the knot untied?

Requital

No merit their aversion can remove, Nor ill requital can efface their love.

Rest

Her weary head upon your bosom rest.

Reveal

Light was the wound, the prince's care unknown, She might not, would not, yet reveal her own.

Royalist

Where Ca'ndish fought, the Royalists prevailed.

Scale

The scales are turned; her kindness weighs no more Now than my vows.

Seed

Praise of great acts he scatters as a seed, Which may the like in coming ages breed.

Of mortal seed they were not held.

Severe

Your looks alter, as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe.

Shoal

Beneath, a shoal of silver fishes glides.

Slide

They bathe in summer, and in winter slide.

Spare

Man alone can whom he conquers spare.

Speed

Ships heretofore in seas like fishes sped; The mightiest still upon the smallest fed.

Spotless

A spotless virgin, and a faultless wife.

Squib

Lampoons, like squibs, may make a present blaze.

Stay

Embrace the hero and his stay implore.

Strange

Strange! what extremes should thus preserve the snow High on the Alps, or in deep caves below.

Success

Or teach with more success her son The vices of the time to shun.

Supply

Burning ships the banished sun supply.

Sweat

He 'd have the poets sweat.

Tardy

The tardy plants in our cold orchards placed.

Top

Like moving mountains topped with snow.

Troubler

The rich troublers of the world's repose.

Untie

Sacharissa's captive fain Would untie his iron chain.

Vary

Gods, that never change their state, Vary oft their love and hate.

Vein

Invoke the Muses, and improve my vein.

Victor

In love, the victors from the vanquished fly; They fly that wound, and they pursue that die.

View

[Graces] which, by the splendor of her view Dazzled, before we never knew.

Vigorous

Famed for his valor, young, At sea successful, vigorous and strong.

Visage

Love and beauty still that visage grace.

Wilderness

The wat'ry wilderness yields no supply.

World

Happy is she that from the world retires.

Worth

As none but she, who in that court did dwell, Could know such worth, or worth describe so well.

Wretched

O cruel Death! to those you are more kind Than to the wretched mortals left behind.