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
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
life heart giving
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be: Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee, A heart as soft, a heart as kind, A heart as sound and free As in the whole world thou canst find, That heart I'll give to thee.
life strong long
You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.
life wise and-love
No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
life firsts wells
The person lives twice who lives the first life well
bid eyes
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.
fair fall fruitful
Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, / Why do ye fall so fast?
attained fair haste sun weep
Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon.
fain kiss white
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, / Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
bring maids wait welcome
Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her.
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.
ask beg dare desire grow kiss kissed kisses-and-kissing lately lest might proud shall share utmost
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.
ask beg dare grow lest might proud smiles
I dare not ask a kiss; / I dare not beg a smile; / Lest having that, or this, / I might grow proud the while.