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
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.
baby lying earth
Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
sexy soul thee
My soul I'll pour into thee.
kissing giving add
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
sweet kissing glue
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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.
spring blood age
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
spring flower july
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.
punishment littles endure
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
kings giving advice
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
love sometimes knows
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
wine vines shrines
A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
wine meat
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
wine too-late may
Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may; The morrow's life too late is; live to-day.