Robert Herrick Quotes

Inspirational quotes by Robert Herrick

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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The Comedian As The Letter C: 06 - And Daughters With Curls
by Wallace Stevens

Portentous enunciation, syllable
To blessed syllable affined, and sound
Bubbling felicity in cantilene,
Prolific and tormenting tenderness
Of music, as it comes to unison,
Forgather and bell boldly Crispin's last
Deduction. Thrum, with a proud douceur
His grand pronunciamento and devise.
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