Robert Herrick (poet) quotes

What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love. (Robert Herrick (poet))
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. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles today Tomorrow will be dying. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
You say to me-wards your affection's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
God doth not promise here to man that He Will 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. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
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. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers: Of April, May, of June, and July flowers. I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes, Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be, Or bid me love, and I will give A loving heart to thee. (Robert Herrick (poet))
Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Before man's fall the rose was born, St. Ambrose says, without the thorn; But for man's fault then was the thorn Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Bid me despair, and I'll despair, Under that cypress tree; Or bid me die, and I will dare E'en Death, to die for thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat, A careless shoestring, in whose tie I see a wild civility, Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying. Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
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. (Robert Herrick (poet))
If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right It is the end that crowns us, not the fight. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
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. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)
Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they playèd at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again. View quote
Robert Herrick (poet)