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
spring eating pleasure
Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
eye sight credit
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
baby eye flames
It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.
ambition greatness thinking
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
wealth
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
may rosebuds
Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...
time doe succeed
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
white agreement rose
Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.
love-is temptation devil
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
sweet giving alms
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
kind creatures
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
buying spirit god-love
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
wine smell poetry
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
beauty eye brave
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!