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
men thinking giving
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
baby lying earth
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
sex disease abstinence
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
fall men rose
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
tree despair cypresses
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
heart thee protestants
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
sweet giving alms
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
art care faces
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
wedding forever gold
And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
spring waiting honor
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
contentment slave evermore
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
past woe succeed
When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
song time lying
So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
time doe succeed
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.