01c. 1632 ADCherry 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1632 ADSome asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
03c. 1632 ADSome 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.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
05c. 1632 ADA 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 / quote ↗
06c. 1632 ADYou say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
07c. 1632 ADGather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
08c. 1632 ADFall 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.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
09c. 1632 ADFair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
11c. 1632 ADHer pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
12c. 1632 ADHer 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 / quote ↗
14c. 1632 ADThus times do shift,—each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
16c. 1632 ADAttempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
18c. 1632 ADWhen as in silk my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!Robert Herrick / quote ↗
19c. 1632 ADHere a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as Paddocks though they be, frogs Here I lift them up to Thee, For a benison to fall blessing On our meat, and on us all. Amen.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
20c. 1632 ADIn the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When I lie within my bed, Sick in heart and sick in head, And with doubts discomforted, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the house doth sigh and weep, And the world is drowned in sleep, Yet mine eyes the watch do keep, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the priest his last hath prayed, And I nod to what is said, ’Cause my speech is now decayed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When the judgment is revealed, And that open which was sealed, When to thee I have appealed, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!Robert Herrick / quote ↗
21c. 1632 ADHumble we must be, if to Heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low: Whene’er thou speak’st look with a lowly eye— Grace is increased by humility.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
22c. 1632 ADTo the Virgins, To Make much of TimeGather ye rose-buds 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 is 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 you may, go marry;For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
23c. 1632 ADIf little labour, little are our gains:Man's fortunes are according to his pains.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
24c. 1632 ADTumble me down, and I will sitUpon my ruines (smiling yet:)Teare me to tatters; yet I'le bePatient in my necessitie.Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shunMe, as a fear'd infection:Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,Neglecting thy derision.Robert Herrick / quote ↗
