TO MISTRESS KATHARINE BRADSHAW, THE LOVELY, THAT CROWNED HIM WITH LAUREL (Robert Herrick Poem)
My Muse in meads has spent her many hours Sitting, and sorting several sorts of flowers, To make for others ...
My Muse in meads has spent her many hours Sitting, and sorting several sorts of flowers, To make for others ...
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 ...
While fates permit us, let's be merry; Pass all we must the fatal ferry; And this our life, too, whirls ...
Thou shalt not all die; for while Love's fire shines Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines; And learn'd ...
O thou, the wonder of all days! O paragon, and pearl of praise! O Virgin-martyr, ever blest Above the rest ...
Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou, In thy both last and better vow; Could'st leave the city, ...
Life is the body's light; which, once declining, Those crimson clouds i' th' cheeks and lips leave shining:- Those counter-changed ...
When that day comes, whose evening says I'm gone Unto that watery desolation; Devoutly to thy Closet-gods then pray, That ...
Life of my life, take not so soon thy flight, But stay the time till we have bade good-night. Thou ...
Three lovely sisters working were, As they were closely set, Of soft and dainty maiden-hair, A curious Armilet. I, smiling, ...
BE those few hours, which I have yet to spend, Blest with the meditation of my end; Though they be ...
Not all thy flushing suns are set, Herrick, as yet ; Nor doth this far-drawn hemisphere Frown and look sullen ...
Though hourly comforts from the gods we see, No life is yet life-proof from misery. (Robert Herrick)
Great men by small means oft are overthrown; He's lord of thy life, who contemns his own. (Robert Herrick)
Be not proud, but now incline Your soft ear to discipline; You have changes in your life, Sometimes peace, and ...
TO THE HONOURED MR ENDYMION PORTER, GROOM OF THE BED-CHAMBER TO HIS MAJESTY Sweet country life, to such unknown, Whose ...
Bid me to live, and I will live Thy Protestant to be; Or bid me love, and I will give ...
Get up, get up for shame! the blooming morn Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. See how Aurora throws ...
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