Robert Herrick

Name: The Complete Poetry of Robert Herrick
ISBN: 9780199212842

Poet

1591-08-24

Books by Robert Herrick

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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score; Then to that twenty, add a hundred more: A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on, To make that thousand up a million. Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.
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He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
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To get thine ends, lays bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask, doth teach to be deny'd.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness.
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'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t'endure.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
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It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
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It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
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'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t' endure.
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Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have access; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingness.
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