StoryTitle("caps", "On a Girdle") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That which her slender waist confined", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Shall now my joyful temples bind;", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "No monarch but would give his crown", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "His arms might do what this has done.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "It was my Heaven's extremest sphere, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The pale which held that lovely deer:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Did all within this circle move.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A narrow compass! and yet there", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Give me but what this ribband bound,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Take all the rest the sun goes round!", "") ?>
Poet("Edmund Waller", "1606-1687") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>