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 moving love-is
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
being-happy pursuit-of-happiness men
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
time flower rose
Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.
rising sun haste
Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.
action sin ill
T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
laughter joy tears
Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
money fighting silver
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
mean writing giving
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
contentment slave evermore
Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
spring waiting honor
Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
doers readiness
The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
wedding forever gold
And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
tree despair cypresses
Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
heart thee protestants
Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.