Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick
Robert Herrickwas a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 August 1591
eye tears tongue
Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
humble heaven lows
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
fighting crowns ends
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
kings sheep skins
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
doubt research ends
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
sweet prayer heart
In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
life firsts wells
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
love heart kissing
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
fighting victory crowns
Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
eye brave bees
For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
giving-up heart never-give-up-on-love
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
american-president attempt hard
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
excel life lives man strive twice virtue
Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well
men firsts virtue
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.