<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374520" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Of English Verse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets may boast, as safely vain,<br>Their works shall with the world remain;<br>Both, bound together, live or die,<br>The verses and the prophecy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But who can hope his lines should long<br>Last in a daily changing tongue?<br>While they are new, envy prevails;<br>And as that dies, our language fails.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When architects have done their part,<br>The matter may betray their art;<br>Time, if we use ill-chosen stone,<br>Soon brings a well-built palace down.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Poets that lasting marble seek<br>Must carve in Latin or in Greek;<br>We write in sand, our language grows,<br>And, like the tide, our work o'erflows.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Chaucer his sense can only boast,<br>The glory of his numbers lost!<br>Years have defaced his matchless strain,<br>And yet he did not sing in vain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The beauties which adorned that age,<br>The shining subjects of his rage,<br>Hoping they should immortal prove,<br>Rewarded with success his love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This was the generous poet's scope,<br>And all an English pen can hope,<br>To make the fair approve his flame,<br>That can so far extend their fame.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verse, thus designed, has no ill fate<br>If it arrive but at the date<br>Of fading beauty; if it prove<br>But as long-lived as present love.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edmund+Waller">Edmund Waller</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=374520" data-title="Of English Verse de Edmund Waller" data-description="Poets may boast, as safely vain, Their works shall with the world remain; Both, bound together, live or die, The verses and the prophecy. But who can hope his lines should long Last in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails; A..."></div> </div> </div>

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