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
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.
sweet kissing glue
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
kissing giving add
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
children fall hands
Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
lips rubies jewelry
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.
love sometimes knows
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
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.
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.