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Title: Of love
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On how love makes its male victims servile and fearful in the presence of
their beloveds, whereas women really need to be dominated by men
Title: Loves farewel
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: On how his determination to love no longer was overturned by the effect of a
particular beautiful young woman
The idea of Christian love
Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)
1688
The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...
The idea of Christian love
Young, Edward (1705); Waller, Edmund (1606-1687); Wharton, Anne (1632?-1685); Atwood, William (1705)
1688
The paraphrase of Waller's "Of divine love" is printed in alternate stanzas with the original. Mrs. Wharton's verses were intended to come at end: cf. printer's note p. xxxii. The translation and ...
Title: An apology for having loved before
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Explaining that it is natural to love the first congenial person encountered,
but asserting that subsequent, experienced love is more important
Title: To a friend of the different success of their loves
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Contrasting a friend's success in love with his own failure, commenting on
love's unpredictiblity and the unhappiness it brings
Title: To Philis
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment in the face of the transience of human
youth, beauty and love
Title: Wooing
Author: Waller, Edmund
Attribution: Waller to Phyllis, Poems, p.75
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Love poem, urging present enjoyment in the face of the
transience of human youth, beauty and love
Title: At Penshurst
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Complaint to Lady Dorothy Sidney (later Lady Spencer and Countess of
Sunderland) of her rejection of his love, contrasting it with the aptitude for
love shown by her great-uncle Sir Philip Sidney and her mother
Title: On a girdle
Author: Waller, Edmund
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 36
Contents: Joyful love poem, reflecting on his beloved's girdle and what it encompasses
Title: On a girdle
Author: Waller, Edmund
Attribution: Waller ap. Poems, p.92
Date(s): 1645 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 61
Contents: Joyful love poem, reflecting on his beloved's girdle and what it
encompasses
Title: A copy of verses written by Mr Waller above forty years since and never printed in any edition of his poems
Author: Waller, Edmund
Attribution: Mr Waller
Date(s): 1652 (published)
Manuscript: Lt 94
Contents: On his love for the beautiful Chloris, despite being engaged to another woman