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DRAMATISTS > poet > Edmund Waller
Why came I...
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Why came I so untimely forth
Into a world which, wanting thee,
Could entertain us with no worth
Or shadow of felicity?
Source: To a very young Lady
-- Edmund Waller, (Mar 3 1606-1687), English poet; His adoption of smooth, regular versification prepared the way for the heroic couplet's emergence as the dominant form of poetic expression.