Robert Herrick - Love Quotes

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Show me thy feet, show me thy legs, thy thighs
Show me those fleshy principalities;
Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit,
Having a living fountain under it;
Show me thy waist, then let me there withal,
By the ascension of thy lawn, see all.

Robert Herrick
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.

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So when or you or I are made
A fable, song, or fleeting shade,
All love, all liking, all delight
Lies drowned with us in endless night.

Robert Herrick
Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.

Robert Herrick
You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.

Robert Herrick
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

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Bid me despair, and I'll despair,
Under that cypress tree:
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E'en Death, to die for thee.
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.

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

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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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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.

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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.

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Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.

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