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
sea ships navigation
What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
sea gale sail
He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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
according fortunes labor pains
If little labor, little are our gains; man's fortunes are according to his pains
bid eyes
Bid me to weep, and I will weep, / While I have eyes to see.
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.
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.
love pray
You say to me - wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long
bid
Only a little more / I have to write, / Then I'll give o'er, / And bid the world good-night.
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.
kiss lately
Only to kiss that air, / That lately kiss?d thee.
clothes disorder sweet
A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness
bed last man master
A master of a house, as I have read, must be the first man up and the last in bed