"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
— Waller, Edmund (1606-1687)
Author
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
Printed for Henry Herringman
Date
1685
Metaphor
"The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er, / So calm are we, when passions are no more"
Metaphor in Context
The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er,
So calm are we, when passions are no more:
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness, which age descries.
So calm are we, when passions are no more:
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness, which age descries.
Categories
Provenance
Browsing the WWWeb. http://www.alleylaw.net/edmund.html#Verses
Citation
Divine Poems. By Edmond Waller Esq; Licensed, Octob. 3. 1685. Rob. Midgley. (London: In the Savoy: Printed for Henry Herringman; and are to be sold by Jos. Knight and Fran. Saunders, at the sign of the Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange in the Strand, 1685). <Link to ESTC>
Date of Entry
09/12/2006
