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
firsts necks yoke
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
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.
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.
according fortunes labor
If a little labor, little are our gains. Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
lime love sweet
What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love