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
clothes disorder sweet
A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness
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
bed last man master
A master of a house, as I have read, must be the first man up and the last in bed
fair fall fruitful
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, / Why do ye fall so fast?
giving-up heart never-give-up-on-love
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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.
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.
doubt research ends
Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
kings sheep skins
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
fighting crowns ends
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
fire sparks neglected
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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.