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
giving action vain
In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
kings giving advice
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
eye tears noble
Tears are the noble language of the eye.
punishment littles endure
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
sincere candor evermore
Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
kind creatures
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
wealth
Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
men thinking giving
God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
sex disease abstinence
Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
fall men rose
Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
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.
sweet giving alms
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
art care faces
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.