Robert Herrick Quotes & Robert Herrick Sayings

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. Robert Herrick Sayings A sweet disorder in the dress, kindles in clothes a wantonness Robert Herrick Quotations A winning wave (deserving note) / In the tempestuous petticoat: / A careless shoe-string, in whose tie / I see a wild civility: / Do more bewitch me than when art / Is too precise in every part. Robert Herrick And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir friend, You've fared well : pray make an end ; Two days you've larded here ; a third, ye know, Makes guests and fish smell strong ; pray go Robert Herrick Popular Quotes Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out. Robert Herrick Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Robert Herrick But ne'er the rose without the thorn. Robert Herrick Sayings 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. Robert Herrick Sayings Fair daffodils, we weep to see / You haste away so soon: / As yet the early-rising sun / Has not attained his noon. Robert Herrick Fair Daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising Sun Has not attain'd his noon. We have short time to stay, as you, We have as short a Spring; As quick a growth to meet decay As you, or any thing. Robert Herrick Gather ye rose-buds while ye may; Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick Sayings 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. 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. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer ; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while ye may go marry : For having lost but once your prime You may for ever tarry. Robert Herrick Quotes Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, old Time is still a-flying. And this same flower that smiles today, tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick Popular Quotes Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. Robert Herrick 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. Robert Herrick He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke Robert Herrick Quotes 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. Robert Herrick 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 Quotes 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. Robert Herrick Adages In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep Robert Herrick Remarks In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is Robert Herrick Remarks 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 Adages Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand That soils my land; And giv'st me, for my bushel sown, Twice ten for one; Thou mak'st my teeming hen to lay Her egg each day; Besides my healthful ewes to bear Me twins each year; The while the conduits of my kine Run cream, for wine. All these, and better, Thou dost send Me, to this end, That I should render, for my part, A thankful heart... Robert Herrick Popular Quotes Only to kiss that air, / That lately kissèd thee. Robert Herrick Sayings The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam Robert Herrick Quotations The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. Robert Herrick Then this immensive cup Of aromatic wine, Catullus, I quaff up To that terse muse of thine. Robert Herrick Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old. Robert Herrick Popular Quotes Welcome maids of honour, / You do bring / In the Spring; / And wait upon her. Robert Herrick