TO PHILLIS, TO LOVE AND LIVE WITH HIM (Robert Herrick Poem)
Live, live with me, and thou shalt see The pleasures I'll prepare for thee: What sweets the country can afford ...
Live, live with me, and thou shalt see The pleasures I'll prepare for thee: What sweets the country can afford ...
First offer incense; then, thy field and meads Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads. The spangling dew ...
THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM DESUNT NONNULLA-- Come then, and like two doves with silvery wings, ...
Holy-Rood, come forth and shield Us i' th' city and the field; Safely guard us, now and aye, From the ...
MONTANO, SILVIO, AND MIRTILLO, SHEPHERDS MON. Bad are the times. SIL. And worse than they are we. MON. Troth, bad ...
O earth! earth! earth! hear thou my voice, and be Loving and gentle for to cover me! Banish'd from thee ...
Can I not sin, but thou wilt be My private protonotary? Can I not woo thee, to pass by A ...
Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence Into this house pour down thy influence, That through each room a ...
I ask'd thee oft what poets thou hast read, And lik'st the best? Still thou repli'st, The dead. --I shall, ...
Good things, that come of course, far less do please Than those which come by sweet contingencies. (Robert Herrick)
--AND, cruel maid, because I see You scornful of my love, and me, I'll trouble you no more, but go ...
Night hath no wings to him that cannot sleep; And Time seems then not for to fly, but creep; Slowly ...
Is this a life, to break thy sleep, To rise as soon as day doth peep? To tire thy patient ...
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flow'ry earth The golden pomp ...
My dearest Love, since thou wilt go, And leave me here behind thee; For love or pity, let me know ...
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
Fly to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee, And say thou bring'st this honey-bag from me; When on her lip thou ...
While fates permit us, let's be merry; Pass all we must the fatal ferry; And this our life, too, whirls ...
Charm me asleep, and melt me so With thy delicious numbers; That being ravish'd, hence I go Away in easy ...
For all our works a recompence is sure; 'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t'endure (Robert Herrick)
Come, Anthea, let us two Go to feast, as others do: Tarts and custards, creams and cakes, Are the junkets ...
Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness She with a dainty blush rebuked her ...
Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries He'll slit her nose; but blubbering she replies, "Good sir, make no ...
Time was upon The wing, to fly away; And I call'd on Him but awhile to stay; But he'd be ...
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love's fire shines Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines; And learn'd ...
Why I tie about thy wrist, Julia, this my silken twist? For what other reason is't, But to shew thee ...
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write. (Robert Herrick)
Virgins promised when I died, That they would each primrose-tide Duly, morn and evening, come, And with flowers dress my ...
That flow of gallants which approach To kiss thy hand from out the coach; That fleet of lackeys which do ...
What will ye, my poor orphans, do, When I must leave the world and you; Who'll give ye then a ...
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