His Litany, To The Holy Spirit (Robert Herrick Poems)
In the hour of my distress,When temptations me oppress,And when I my sins confess,Sweet Spirit, comfort me!When I lie within ...
In the hour of my distress,When temptations me oppress,And when I my sins confess,Sweet Spirit, comfort me!When I lie within ...
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL DEDICATED TO MR JOHN MERRIFIELD, COUNSELLOR AT LAW RARE TEMPLES THOU HAST SEEN, I ...
I have been wanton, and too bold, I fear, To chafe o'er-much the virgin's cheek or ear;-- Beg for my ...
When I love, as some have told Love I shall, when I am old, O ye Graces! make me fit ...
I would to God, that mine old age might have Before my last, but here a living grave; Some one ...
For those my unbaptized rhymes, Writ in my wild unhallowed times, For every sentence, clause, and word, That's not inlaid ...
Though hourly comforts from the gods we see, No life is yet life-proof from misery. (Robert Herrick)
Thou bidst me come away, And I'll no longer stay, Than for to shed some tears For faults of former ...
Sea-born goddess, let me be By thy son thus graced, and thee, That whene'er I woo, I find Virgins coy, ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
IN the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me! ...
About the sweet bag of a bee Two cupids fell at odds, And whose the pretty prize should be They ...
Play, Phoebus, on thy lute, And we will sit all mute; By listening to thy lyre, That sets all ears ...
Ah, my Perilla, dost thou grieve to see Me day by day to steal away from thee? Age calls me ...
Get up, get up for shame! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws ...
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