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
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.
money fighting silver
Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
tables eating merriment
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
spring blood age
That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
spring flower july
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, or June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.
men valiant
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
hurt temptation satan
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
wine drink dine
Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.