That which her slender waist confin'd,
Shall now my joyful temples bind;
No monarch but would give his crown,
His arms might do what this has done.
        (On a Girdle, 1-4)

1. Of the Last Verses in the Book
2. On a Girdle
3. The Self Banished
4. Song: Go Lovely Rose
5. The Story of Phœbus and Daphne, Applied
6. To the King on his Navy
7. Upon His Majesty’s Repairing of Paul’s

Biographical information

Given name: Edmund
Family name: Waller
Birth date: 3 March 1606
Death date: 21 October 1687
Nationality: English
Family relations
          father: Robert Waller
          mother: Anne Waller
          wife: Anne Waller (from 5 July 1631)
          wife: Mary Waller
          sister: Mary Scrope
          son: Robert Waller
Language: English
Education
          Mr. Dobson at Wickham
          Eton
          King's College, Cambridge: 22 March 1620
          Lincoln's Inn: 3 July 1622
Literary period: Seventeenth century
Occupation: Member of Parliament
Residences
          Beaconsfield
          Holborn
          Manor-house, Coleshill, Hertfordshire: 3 March 1606
Buried at: Beaconsfield parish churchyard
First RPO edition: 1996-2000