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
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.
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!
beauty eye brave
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
morning poetry sober
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
wine smell poetry
Let my muse Fail of thy former helps, and only use Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
buying spirit god-love
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
pity snares
None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
adversity love-is wealth
Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.
love-is temptation devil
Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
sea ships navigation
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
pits comfort hell
Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
ambition greatness thinking
In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
home house soul
The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
baby eye flames
It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.