Edmund Waller, FRS (3 March 1606 – 21 October 1687) was an English poet and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1624 and 1679.
Read more about Edmund Waller: Early Life, Early Parliamentary Career, Marriage, Speeches, "Waller's Plot", Banishment, Return To England, Later Life, Verse
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“Poets that lasting Marble seek
Must carve in Latine or in Greek,
We write in Sand, our Language grows,
And like the Tide our work o’erflows.”
—Edmund Waller (1606–1687)