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

  Robert Herrick

  Fall, Men, Rose

  'The Rose'

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Disease, Abstinence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Care, Woe

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.16

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

  Robert Herrick

  Doers, Readiness

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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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• 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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• It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.

  Robert Herrick

  Baby, Eye, Flames

  Robert Herrick, “The Kiss: A Dialogue”

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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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• 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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• 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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• What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

  Robert Herrick

  Sea, Ships, Navigation

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

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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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• Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

  Robert Herrick

  Innocent, Repentance, Repent

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.98

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

  Robert Herrick

  Shoes, Ties, Cuffs

  'The End'

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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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• 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'.

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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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• When the tempter me pursueth
  With the sins of all my youth,
  And half damns me with untruth,
  Sweet Spirit, comfort me!

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Prayer, Temptation

  Robert Herrick (1887). “Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick”

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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. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Song, Time, Lying

  'Corinna's Going a-Maying'

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