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
sweet prayer temptation
When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
love art eye
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.
angel wine drink
O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
green springtime celebration
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
pity snares
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
couple valentine bird
Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
heaven rose-buds sun
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
adversity love-is wealth
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.
use delight eating
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
hands haste-makes-waste dry
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
sunset two wish
But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
god ends hard
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
love writing want
When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
use may rose-buds
Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.