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

  Robert Herrick

  Time, Succeed, Doe

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.91

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• Then be not coy, but use your time;
  And while ye may, go marry:
  For having lost but once your prime,
  You may for ever tarry.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, May, Rose Buds

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Sight, Credit

  Robert Herrick, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan (1823). “Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces”, p.127

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• When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, May, Firsts

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• My soul I'll pour into thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Sexy, Soul, Thee

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.59, Taylor & Francis

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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

  Couple, Valentine, Bird

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.243

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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.

  Robert Herrick

  Baby, Lying, Earth

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.240

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

  Robert Herrick

  Hurt, Temptation, Satan

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.231

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• Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Giving, Alms

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• Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

  Robert Herrick

  Money, Fighting, Silver

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.136

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• God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Thinking, Giving

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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

  Spring, Eating, Pleasure

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.39

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• A SWEET disorder in the dress
  Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
  A lawn about the shoulders thrown
  Into a fine distraction :
  An erring lace which here and there
  Enthrals the crimson stomacher :
  A cuff neglectful, and thereby
  Ribbons to flow confusedly :
  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.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Art, Winning

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Waiting, Honor

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• Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.

  Robert Herrick

  Tree, Despair, Cypresses

  'To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything'

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• But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Flower, Rose

  'The Rose'

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• Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Glory

  Robert Herrick (1844). “Hesperides Or Works Both Human and Divine”, p.114

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• Go to your banquet then, but use delight
  So as to rise still with an appetite.

  Robert Herrick

  Use, Delight, Eating

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.236

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

  Robert Herrick

  Love Is, Temptation, Devil

  Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne”

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

  Robert Herrick

  Love, Life, Strong

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.97

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• Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

  Robert Herrick

  Wise, Wisdom, Shine On

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• And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.

  Robert Herrick

  Wedding, Forever, Gold

  Robert Herrick (1904). “Poems”

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

  Robert Herrick

  Writing, Mean, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.36

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• Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Firsts, Virtue

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

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• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Giving, Advice

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

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