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 soul thee
My soul I'll pour into thee.
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.
greed slave evermore
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
giving-up rose hang-in-there
But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
sweet moving love-is
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
wisdom shine-on shining
Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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.
flower hands giving
The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup; I'll drink to the garlands around it; But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.
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.
heaven rose-buds sun
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
action sin ill
T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
love writing want
When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
god ends hard
Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.