A Pastoral upon the birth of Prince Charles: presented to the King (Robert Herrick Poems)
AMIN. Good day, Mirtillo. MIRT. And to you no less;And all fair signs lead on our shepherdess.AMAR. With all white ...
AMIN. Good day, Mirtillo. MIRT. And to you no less;And all fair signs lead on our shepherdess.AMAR. With all white ...
In the hour of my distress,When temptations me oppress,And when I my sins confess,Sweet Spirit, comfort me!When I lie within ...
Come thou, who art the wine and witOf all I've writ;The grace, the glory, and the bestPiece of the rest;Thou ...
As Julia once a-slumb'ring lay,It chanced a bee did fly that way,After a dew, or dew-like shower,To tipple freely in ...
Please your Grace, from out your storeGive an alms to one that's poor,That your mickle may have more.Black I'm grown ...
By those soft tods of wool,With which the air is full;By all those tinctures thereThat paint the hemisphere;By dews and ...
Thou art to all lost love the best,The only true plant found,Wherewith young men and maids distrestAnd left of love, ...
Come, bring with a noise,My merry, merry boys,The Christmas Log to the firing;While my good Dame, sheBids ye all be ...
My faithful friend, if you can seeThe fruit to grow up, or the tree;If you can see the colour comeInto ...
In the hours of my distress,When temptations me oppress,And when I my sins confessSweet Spirit, comfort me!When I lie within ...
Honour to you who sitNear to the well of wit,And drink your fill of it!Glory and worship beTo you, sweet ...
Reach with your whiter hands to meSome crystal of the spring;And I about the cup shall seeFresh lilies flourishing.Or else, ...
No wrath of men, or rage of seas,Can shake a just man's purposes;No threats of tyrants, or the grimVisage of ...
Julia and I did lately sit,playing for sport at cherry-pit;She threw; I cast; and, having thrownI got the pit, she ...
Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon,This, that, and every base impression, (Robert Herrick)
No man such rare parts hath, that he can swim,If favour or occasion help not him. (Robert Herrick)
Dread not the shackles; on with thine intent,Good wits get more fame by their punishment. (Robert Herrick)
Those ends in war the best contentment bring, Whose peace is made up with a pardoning. (Robert Herrick)
Make haste away, and let one be A friendly patron unto thee; Lest, rapt from hence, I see thee lie ...
Ye silent shades, whose each tree here Some relique of a saint doth wear; Who for some sweet-heart's sake, did ...
Men say you're fair; and fair ye are, 'tis true; But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you. (Robert ...
Praise, they that will, times past: I joy to see Myself now live; this age best pleaseth me! (Robert Herrick)
True mirth resides not in the smiling skin; The sweetest solace is to act no sin. (Robert Herrick)
My Muse in meads has spent her many hours Sitting, and sorting several sorts of flowers, To make for others ...
When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay But here awhile, to languish and decay; Like to these garden glories, which ...
Give way, give way, ye gates, and win An easy blessing to your bin And basket, by our entering in. ...
Since to the country first I came, I have lost my former flame; And, methinks, I not inherit, As I ...
When I thy parts run o'er, I can't espy In any one, the least indecency; But every line and limb ...
Wrinkles no more are, or no less, Than beauty turn'd to sourness. (Robert Herrick)
Sweet Amarillis, by a spring's Soft and soul-melting murmurings, Slept; and thus sleeping, thither flew A Robin-red-breast; who at view, ...
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