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Robert Herrick Poems
- His Confession
Look how our foul days do exceed our fair;
And as our bad, more than our good works are,
E'en so those lines, pen'd by my wanton wit,
Treble the number of these good I've writ. ... - What God Is
God is above the sphere of our esteem,
And is the best known, not defining Him.
... - Love Me Little, Love Me Long
You say, to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Slowly goes far: the mean is best: desire,
Grown violent, does either die or tire.... - Health
Health is no other, as the learned hold,
But a just measure both of heat and cold.
... - Upon Brock. Epig
To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado,
But not his mouth, the fouler of the two.
A clammy rheum makes loathsome both his eyes:
His mouth, worse furr'd with oaths and blasphemies....
Top 10 most used topics by Robert Herrick
Sweet 156 Love 121 I Love You 121 Good 113 Live 91 Long 88 Bring 84 Great 70 Kiss 63 Crown 62Robert Herrick Quotes
- Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Times is still a-flying And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying.
- What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Lpitoday: robert herrick of the university of alaska fairbanks and scott hensley of nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory detected volcanic activity with 30-year-old data from nasa’s magellan mission. read more:Mmmworldwide: a lenten poem - a reflection on fasting by robert herrick (1591 - 1674)
The_apollogist: “let me be warm; let me be fully fed: luxurious love by wealth is nourished. let me be lean, and cold, and once grown poor, i shall dislike, what once i loved before.” - robert herrick
Souloman1: if well thou hast begun,-> >go on,-> it is the end that crowns us >not the fight. -robert herrick inyjc!!!
Radicalhoneybee: simnel cake for mothering sunday. time out of time: the fourth sunday of lent "i'll to thee a simnel bring, 'gainst though go a-mothering, so that when she blesses thee half the blessing thou'll give me.” ~ robert herrick read more at
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