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
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.
eye sight credit
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
sunset two wish
But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
fall contentment
Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
art winning shoes
A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
hands haste-makes-waste dry
Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift; 'T is haste Makes waste; Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
use delight eating
Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
giving house rooms
Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.