“Go, lovely Rose— Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be.”

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...