Robert Herrick Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

• 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.

  Robert Herrick

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  'The Night-Piece, to Julia'

• Let my muse
  Fail of thy former helps, and only use
  Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
  Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Smell, Poetry

  1648 'His Fare-well to Sack'.

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

  Robert Herrick

  Morning, Poetry, Sober

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.39

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