Robert Herrick Quotes

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Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Robert Herrick
I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die

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Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free;
Oh how that glittering taketh me!

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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.

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For my Embalming (Sweetest) there will be
No Spices wanting, when I'm laid by thee.

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Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.

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Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.

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So smooth, so sweet, so silvery is thy voice,
As, could they hear, the damned would make no noise,
But listen to thee (walking in thy chamber)
Melting melodious words, to lutes of amber.

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Before man's fall the rose was born,
St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;
But for man's fault then was the thorn
Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

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Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.

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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.

Robert Herrick
In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

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Some asked me where the rubies grew,
And nothing I did say;
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.

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When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

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Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
But for to make it spring againe.

Robert Herrick
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.

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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.

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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.

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But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

Robert Herrick
In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse

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Science in God, is known to be A Substance, not a Qualitie.

Robert Herrick
Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.

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The starres of the night Will lend thee their light Like Tapers cleare without number.

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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day:
But by their flight I never can devine
When I shall couple with my valentine.

Robert Herrick
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.

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Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

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When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

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Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.

Robert Herrick