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• O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Angel, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.45

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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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• 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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• 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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• A winning wave, (deserving note.)
  In the tempestuous petticote,
  A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
  I see a wilde civility,--
  Doe more bewitch me than when art
  Is too precise in every part.

  Robert Herrick

  Art, Winning, Shoes

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
  Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving, House, Rooms

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

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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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• Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

  Robert Herrick

  Kind, Creatures

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.256

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• Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
  And not by any sordid shift;
  'T is haste
  Makes waste;
  Extremes have still their fault.
  Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
  Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.

  Robert Herrick

  Hands, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Meat

  Robert Herrick (1839). “Selections from the Hesperides and Works of Robert Herrick”, p.194

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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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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green

  Robert Herrick

  Green, Springtime, Celebration

  Robert Herrick (1900). “Poems of Robert Herrick: a selection from Hesperides and Noble numbers”

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• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

  Robert Herrick

  Home, House, Soul

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

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• Fair daffodils, we weep to see
  You haste away so soon:
  As yet the early-rising sun
  Has not attained his noon.

  Robert Herrick

  Haste, Noon, Rising

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• Our present tears here, not our present laughter
  Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

  Robert Herrick

  Laughter, Joy, Tears

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• 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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• 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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• 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)

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• No, not Jove
  Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

  Robert Herrick

  Life, Wise, And Love

  Robert Herrick, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan (1823). “Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces”, p.137

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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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• T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

  Robert Herrick

  Action, Sin, Ill

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.246

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