Robert Herrick famous quotes

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
-- Robert Herrick

#Giving Up #Heart #Never Give Up On Love

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.
-- Robert Herrick

#Kissing #Giving #Twenties

Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
-- Robert Herrick

#Fighting #Victory #Crowns

The person lives twice who lives the first life well
-- Robert Herrick

#Life #Firsts #Wells

A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
-- Robert Herrick

#Fire #Sparks #Neglected

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
-- Robert Herrick

#Sweet #Prayer #Heart

Attempt the end and never stand to doubt; Nothing's so hard, but search will find it out.
-- Robert Herrick

#Doubt #Research #Ends

It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
-- Robert Herrick

#Fighting #Crowns #Ends

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.
-- Robert Herrick

#Kings #Sheep #Skins

Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
-- Robert Herrick

#Humble #Heaven #Lows

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

#Eye #Tears #Tongue

When one is past, another care we have; Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
-- Robert Herrick

#Past #Woe #Succeed

Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
-- Robert Herrick

#Heart #Thee

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

#Tree #Despair #Cypresses

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

#Fall #Men #Rose

God doth not promise here to man that HeWill free him quickly from his misery;But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,Then He will give a happy end to it.
-- Robert Herrick

#Men #Thinking #Giving

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.
-- Robert Herrick

#Wealth

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

#Wedding #Forever #Gold

Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
-- Robert Herrick

#Art #Care #Faces

The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.
-- Robert Herrick

#Doers #Readiness

Welcome, maids of honor, You doe bring In the spring, And wait upon her.
-- Robert Herrick

#Spring #Waiting #Honor

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

#Mean #Writing #Giving

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.
-- Robert Herrick

#Time #Doe #Succeed

To the Virgins, To Make much of Time Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun, The higher he’s a-getting, The sooner will his race be run, And nearer he is to setting. That age is best which is the first, When youth and blood are warmer; But being spent, the worse, and worst Times still succeed the former. Then be not coy, but use your time, And while you may, go marry; For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
-- Robert Herrick

#Running #Flower #Race

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
-- Robert Herrick

#Money #Fighting #Silver

Hell is no other but a soundlesse pit, Where no one beame of comfort peeps in it.
-- Robert Herrick

#Pits #Comfort #Hell

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
-- Robert Herrick

#Sea #Ships #Navigation

Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
-- Robert Herrick

#Men #Valiant

Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
-- Robert Herrick

#Past #Joy #Age

Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
-- Robert Herrick

#Innocent #Repentance #Repent

Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on; Back-turning slackens resolution.
-- Robert Herrick

#Goes On #Resolution

He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
-- Robert Herrick

#Sea #Gale #Sail

A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.
-- Robert Herrick

#Shoes #Ties #Civility

In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
-- Robert Herrick

#Sweet #Temptation #Comfort

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
-- Robert Herrick

#Sweet #Giving #Alms

In vain our labours are, whatsoe'er they be, unless God gives the Benediction.
-- Robert Herrick

#Giving #Action #Vain

Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
-- Robert Herrick

#Kind #Creatures

None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
-- Robert Herrick

#Pity #Snares

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

#Buying #Spirit #God Love

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.
-- Robert Herrick

#Wine #Smell #Poetry

In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
-- Robert Herrick

#Morning #Poetry #Sober

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
-- Robert Herrick

#Beauty #Eye #Brave

When the tempter me pursueth With the sins of all my youth, And half damns me with untruth, Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
-- Robert Herrick

#Sweet #Prayer #Temptation

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

#Love #Art #Eye

O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
-- Robert Herrick

#Angel #Wine #Drink

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

#Spring #Eating #Pleasure

Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.
-- Robert Herrick

#Rising #Sun #Haste

Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen To come forth, like the springtime, fresh and green
-- Robert Herrick

#Green #Springtime #Celebration

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

#Running #Sweet #Doctors

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

#Couple #Valentine #Bird

The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
-- Robert Herrick

#Play #Theatre #Lasts

Our present tears here, not our present laughter Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.
-- Robert Herrick

#Laughter #Joy #Tears

We credit most our sight; one eye doth please Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
-- Robert Herrick

#Eye #Sight #Credit

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.
-- Robert Herrick

#Adversity #Love Is #Wealth

Give house-room to the best; 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
-- Robert Herrick

#Giving #House #Rooms

Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
-- Robert Herrick

#Use #Delight #Eating

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

#Hands #Dry #Littles

A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
-- Robert Herrick

#Art #Winning #Shoes

Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
-- Robert Herrick

#Fall #Contentment

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

#Sunset #Two #Wish

Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
-- Robert Herrick

#God #Ends #Labour

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
-- Robert Herrick

#Love #Writing #Want

T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
-- Robert Herrick

#Action #Sin #Ill

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.
-- Robert Herrick

#Heaven #Sun #Lamps

Then be not coy, but use your time; And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
-- Robert Herrick

#Use #May #Prime

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

#Eye #Brave #Bees