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
art careless precise tie wave whose wild winning
A winning wave (deserving note) / In the tempestuous petticoat: / A careless shoe-string, in whose tie / I see a wild civility: / Do more bewitch me than when art / Is too precise in every part.
american-president attempt hard
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
excel life lives man strive twice virtue
Each must in virtue strive for to excel ; That man lives twice that lives the first life well
bid eyes
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.
bed last man master
A master of a house, as I have read, must be the first man up and the last in bed
clothes disorder sweet
A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness
bridal sing
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: / Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers. / I sing of maypoles, hock-carts, wassails, wakes, / Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.
love pray
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
mean writing giving
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
men firsts virtue
Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
bring maids wait welcome
Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her.
bid
Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.
kiss lately
Only to kiss that air, / That lately kiss?d thee.
beam center cherry drowned half marked red rose shows within
Upon the Nipples of Julia's Breast: Have ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white? Or else a cherry (double graced) Within a lily? Center placed? Or ever marked the pretty beam A strawberry shows half drowned in cream?