Top 100 Robert Herrick Quotes
#2. Tears are the noble language of eyes, and when true love of words is destitute. The eye by tears speak, while the tongue is mute.
Robert Herrick
#3. Some would know
Why I so
Long still doe tarry,
And ask why
Here that I
Live, and not marry?
Thus I those
Doe oppose;
What man would be here,
Slave to Thrall,
If at all
He could live free here?
Robert Herrick
#4. Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
Robert Herrick
#5. The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
Robert Herrick
#6. Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known
Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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#7. Before man's fall the rose was born,St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;But for man's fault then was the thornWithout the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.
Robert Herrick
#8. Her eyes the glowworm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
Robert Herrick
#9. Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
Robert Herrick
#10. Here a pretty Baby lies Sung asleep with Lullabies: Pray be silent, and not stirre The easie earth that covers her.
Robert Herrick
#11. That age is best which is the first
When youth and blood are warmer.
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#12. Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee,
A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.
Robert Herrick
#13. Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Robert Herrick
#15. Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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#16. I dare not ask a kiss;
I dare not beg a smile;
Lest having that or this,
I might grow proud the while.
No, no, the utmost share
Of my desire shall be
Only to kiss that air,
That lately kissed thee.
Robert Herrick
#17. Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me:
And hast command of every part
To live and die for thee.
Robert Herrick
#18. Buying, possessing, accumulating
this is not worldliness. But doing this in the love of it, with no love of God paramount
doing it so that thoughts of eternity and God are an intrusion
doing it so that one's spirit is secularized in the process; this is worldliness.
Robert Herrick
#19. Go to your banquet then, but use delight
So as to rise still with an appetite.
Robert Herrick
#20. What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
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#21. Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
Robert Herrick
#22. In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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#24. Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
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#25. Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
Robert Herrick
#26. It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.
Robert Herrick
#27. Tumble me down, and I will sit
Upon my ruines (smiling yet
Teare me to tatters; yet I'le be
Patient in my necessitie.
Laugh at my scraps of cloathes, and shun
Me, as a fear'd infection:
Yet scarre-crow-like I'le walk as one,
Neglecting thy derision.
Robert Herrick
#29. Our life is short, and our days run, As fast away as does the sun
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#30. The person lives twice who lives the first life well.
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#32. You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.
Robert Herrick
#33. Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known; Kings seek their subjects' good: tyrants their own.
Robert Herrick
#34. Feed him ye must, whose food fills you.
And that this pleasure is like raine,
Not sent ye for to drowne your paine,
But for to make it spring againe.
Robert Herrick
#35. He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.
Robert Herrick
#36. 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
#37. For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
Robert Herrick
#38. Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.
Robert Herrick
#39. And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
Robert Herrick
#40. Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
Robert Herrick
#41. In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
Robert Herrick
#42. Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.
Robert Herrick
#44. Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
Robert Herrick
#45. Our present tears here, not our present laughter
Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
Robert Herrick
#46. Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
Robert Herrick
#47. If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
Robert Herrick
#48. Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
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#49. Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free,
O how that glittering taketh me!
Robert Herrick
#50. Let wealth come in by comely thrift,
And not by any sordid shift;
'T is haste
Makes waste;
Extremes have still their fault.
Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand,
Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
Robert Herrick
#51. When words we want, love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Robert Herrick
#52. I'll write, because I'll give - You critics means to live; For should I not supply - The cause, the effect would die
Robert Herrick
#54. When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.
Robert Herrick
#55. Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,
Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
Robert Herrick
#56. In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse
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#57. The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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#58. Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attained his noon.
Robert Herrick
#59. When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Well I sup and well I dine,
When I drink my frolic wine.
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#62. Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
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#63. Love is a circle that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of love.
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#64. Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say,
Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day:
But by their flight I never can devine
When I shall couple with my valentine.
Robert Herrick
#67. Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Robert Herrick
#68. Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse; Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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#69. Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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#70. Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent,
Adversity then breeds the discontent.
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#72. Gather ye rose-buds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying;
And this same flower that smiles today,
Tomorrow will be dying.
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#73. When the tempter me pursueth
With the sins of all my youth,
And half damns me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Robert Herrick
#74. Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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#75. Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
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#76. 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!
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#77. So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
Robert Herrick
#79. Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
#80. Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
That soils my land,
And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
Twice ten for one.
All this, and better, Thou dost send
Me, to this end,
That I should render, for my part,
A thankful heart.
Robert Herrick
#82. Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
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#84. Whatever comes, let's be content withal; Among God's blessings there is not one small.
Robert Herrick
#85. But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
Robert Herrick
#86. Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
Robert Herrick
#87. Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
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#88. In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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#89. Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
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#90. When the artless doctor sees
No one hope, but of his fees,
And his skill runs on the lees;
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When his potion and his pill,
Has, or none, or little skill,
Meet for nothing, but to kill;
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
Robert Herrick
#91. What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Robert Herrick
#92. Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.
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#93. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.
Robert Herrick
#94. He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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#95. The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
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#96. In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
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#97. Here we are all, by day; by night, we're hurled
By dreams, each one, into a several world.
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#98. Bid me despair, and I'll despair,Under that cypress tree;Or bid me die, and I will dareE'en Death, to die for thee.
Robert Herrick
#100. No, not Jove
Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
Robert Herrick
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