Robert Herrick Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• 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

  'To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time'

• I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
  Of April, May, or June, and July flowers.
  I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
  Of bridegrooms, brides, and of the bridal cakes.

  Robert Herrick

  Spring, Flower, June

  Robert Herrick, John Donne (1948). “The Love Poems of Robert Herrick and John Donne”

• But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

  Robert Herrick

  Giving Up, Flower, Rose

  'The Rose'

• The May-pole is up,
  Now give me the cup;
  I'll drink to the garlands around it;
  But first unto those
  Whose hands did compose
  The glory of flowers that crown'd it.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, Hands, Giving

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

• Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, Old Time is still a flying: And this same flower that smiles to day, Tomorrow will be dying.

  Robert Herrick

  Death, Time, Flower

  "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" l. 1 (1648)

• When a daffadill I see, Hanging down his head towards me, Guess I may, what I must be: First, I shall decline my head; Secondly, I shall be dead: Lastly, safely buryed.

  Robert Herrick

  Flower, May, Firsts

  Robert Herrick (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers”

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