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• Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.

  Robert Herrick

  Kings, Giving, Advice

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

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• Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand; Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.

  Robert Herrick

  Children, Fall, Hands

  'Another Grace for a Child'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Comfort, Pits, Hell

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weller Singer (1856). “Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.251

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• 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

  Robert Herrick, Samuel Weber Singer (1856). “Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick ...”, p.254

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• Tears are the noble language of the eye.

  Robert Herrick

  Eye, Tears, Noble

  Robert Herrick (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.58, Taylor & Francis

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• Roses at first were white, Till thy co'd not agree, Whether my Sapho's breast, Or they more white sho'd be.

  Robert Herrick

  White, Agreement, Rose

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.111

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• In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is

  Robert Herrick

  Ambition, Greatness, Thinking

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

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• It is an active flame that fliesFirst to the babies in the eyes.

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  Baby, Eye, Flames

  Robert Herrick, “The Kiss: A Dialogue”

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• A little saint best fits a little shrine,
  A little prop best fits a little vine,
  As my small cruse best fits my little wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Saint, Vines

  'A Ternary of Littles, upon a Pipkin of Jelly sent to a Lady'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Giving, House, Rooms

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

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• 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

  1648 'His Fare-well to Sack'.

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• O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Angel, Drink

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.45

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• 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, Haste Makes Waste, Dry

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.206

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• 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

  Robert Herrick, “Delight In Disorder”

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• 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

  "Upon Julia's Clothes" l. 1 (1648)

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• So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade; All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying; Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Song, Time, Lying

  'Corinna's Going a-Maying'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Goes On, Resolution

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.76

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• 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

  Robert Herrick (1887). “Hesperides: Or, Works Both Human an Divine of Robert Herrick”

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• Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry,
  Full and fair ones; come and buy.
  If so be you ask me where
  They do grow, I answer: There,
  Where my Julia's lips do smile;
  There's the land, or cherry-isle,
  Whose plantations fully show
  All the year where cherries grow.

  Robert Herrick

  Years, Land, Answers

  'Cherry-Ripe'

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• Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen
  To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green,
  And sweet as Flora. Take no care
  For jewels for your gown or hair
  Fear not; the leaves will strew
  Gems in abundance upon you
  Besides, the childhood of the day has kept,
  Against you come, some orient pearls unwept.
  Come, and receive them while the light
  Hangs on the dew-locks of the night
  And Titan on the eastern hill
  Retires himself, or else stands still
  Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying
  Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying.

  Robert Herrick

  Sweet, Spring, Night

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

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• Lord, 'tis Thy plenty-dropping hand
  That soils my land,
  And giv'st me for my bushel sowne
  Twice ten for one.
  All this, and better, Thou dost send
  Me, to this end,
  That I should render, for my part,
  A thankful heart.

  Robert Herrick

  Thanksgiving, Heart, Hands

  Robert Herrick, Alfred William Pollard (1898). “The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: edited by Alfred Pollard, with a pref. by A.C. Swinburne”

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• Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

  Robert Herrick

  Kind, Creatures

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.256

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• He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

  Robert Herrick

  Ties, Yoke, Firsts

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• Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.

  Robert Herrick

  Wine, Meat

  Robert Herrick (1839). “Selections from the Hesperides and Works of Robert Herrick”, p.194

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• Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg, Which is as white and hairless as an egg.

  Robert Herrick

  Kissing, Eggs, White

  'On Julia's Legs'

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