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

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Temptation, Comfort

  Robert Herrick (1891). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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• Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

  Robert Herrick

  Children, Fall, Hands

  'Another Grace for a Child'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Comfort, Pits, Hell

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

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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.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Brave, Bees

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
  That brave vibration each way free,
  O how that glittering taketh me!

  Robert Herrick

  Beauty, Eye, Brave

  "Upon Julia's Clothes" l. 1 (1648)

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• The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.

  Robert Herrick

  Doers, Readiness

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• The May-pole is up,
  Now give me the cup;
  I'll drink to the garlands around it;
  But first unto those
  Whose hands did compose
  The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, Hands, Giving

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

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• Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.

  Robert Herrick

  May, Rosebuds

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

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

  Robert Herrick

  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.

  Robert Herrick

  White, Agreement, Rose

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.111

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• Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.

  Robert Herrick

  Happiness, Blessing

  "The Hesperides & Noble Numbers".

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

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

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• Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.

  Robert Herrick

  Goes On, Resolution

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.76

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• Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

  Robert Herrick

  Sincere, Candor, Evermore

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.258

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

  Robert Herrick

  Ties, Yoke, Firsts

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• Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
  That soils my land,
  And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
  Twice ten for one.
  All this, and better, Thou dost send
  Me, to this end,
  That I should render, for my part,
  A thankful heart.

  Robert Herrick

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Hands

  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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• Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

  Robert Herrick

  Kissing, Eggs, White

  'On Julia's Legs'

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• Tears are the noble language of the eye.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Tears, Noble

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

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

  Robert Herrick

  Ambition, Greatness, Thinking

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

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• A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

  Robert Herrick

  Shoes, Ties, Cuffs

  'The End'

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• A little saint best fits a little shrine,
  A little prop best fits a little vine,
  As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Saint, Vines

  'A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady'

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• Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Joy, Age

  'The Present Time Best Pleaseth'

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• Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Valiant

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.195

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