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
firsts necks yoke
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
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.
men glory
Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
sweet clothes cuffs
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction;
kings differences tyrants
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
may rosebuds
Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may...
sweet spring night
Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, And sweet as Flora. Take no care For jewels for your gown or hair Fear not; the leaves will strew Gems in abundance upon you Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. Come, and receive them while the light Hangs on the dew-locks of the night And Titan on the eastern hill Retires himself, or else stands still Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.
years land answers
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, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
kissing air desire
I dare not ask a kiss; I dare not beg a smile; Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
sweet kissing glue
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
kissing giving add
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
lips rubies jewelry
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
love sometimes knows
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
sexy feet legs
Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs Show me those fleshy principalities; Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit, Having a living fountain under it; Show me thy waist, then let me there withal, By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.