Robert Herrick (poet) quotes - page 2

I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried. (Robert Herrick (poet))
Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes Which starlike sparkle in their skies; Nor be you proud that you can see All hearts your captives, yours yet free. View quote
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Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see The dew bespangling herb and tree. View quote
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Tis sin, Nay, profanation to keep in. View quote
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Tears are the noble language of the eye. View quote
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Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, Why do ye fall so fast? Your date is not so past But you may stay yet here awhile To blush and gently smile, And go at last. View quote
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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. View quote
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Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl. View quote
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Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those maiden showers Which, by the peep of day, do strew A baptism o'er the flowers. View quote
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Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk; Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark. View quote
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Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave. (Robert Herrick (poet))
We such clusters had As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine. View quote
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Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows That liquefaction of her clothes. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free; Oh how that glittering taketh me! View quote
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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. View quote
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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun. View quote
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Wealth cannot make a life, but Love. View quote
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end. View quote
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Who covets more is evermore a slave. View quote
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well. View quote
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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. View quote
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. (Robert Herrick (poet))
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke. View quote
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In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep. View quote
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Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word. View quote
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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. The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun, The higher he's a-getting The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he's to setting. View quote
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