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
art careless precise tie wave whose wild winning
A winning wave (deserving note) / In the tempestuous petticoat: / A careless shoe-string, in whose tie / I see a wild civility: / Do more bewitch me than when art / Is too precise in every part.
according fortunes labor pains
If little labor, little are our gains; man's fortunes are according to his pains
answer ask cherry cry fair full lips
Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry / Full and fair ones; come and buy; / If so be, you ask me where / They do grow? I answer there, / Where my Julia's lips do smile; / There's the land, or cherry-isle.
flower gather smiles time tomorrow
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying.
clothes disorder sweet
A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness
exalted head laid star
And once more yet (ere I am laid out dead)Knock at a star with my exalted head
innocent repentance repent
Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
giving action vain
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
kings giving advice
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
eye tears noble
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
punishment littles endure
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
sincere candor evermore
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
kind creatures
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
wealth
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.