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.


On a Girdle (1664), st. 1. - Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham (1857)

Edmund Waller Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.