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
love pray
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
lime love sweet
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love
life wise and-love
No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
love sometimes knows
I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.
sweet moving love-is
Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.
love writing want
When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
love art eye
Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.
buying spirit god-love
Buying, possessing, accumulating--this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount--doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion--doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
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.
love heart kissing
Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
giving-up heart never-give-up-on-love
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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.
bid eyes
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.