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

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Joy, Age

  'The Present Time Best Pleaseth'

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• 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

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

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• Necessity makes dastards valiant men.

  Robert Herrick

  Men, Valiant

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.195

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• Who after his transgression doth repent, Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.

  Robert Herrick

  Innocent, Repentance, Repent

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.98

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• 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

  'The Rose'

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• Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.

  Robert Herrick

  Sex, Disease, Abstinence

  Hesperides 'Abstinence'

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

  Robert Herrick

  Past, Care, Woe

  Robert Herrick (1869). “Hesperides: The Poems and Other Remains of Robert Herrick Now First Collected”, p.16

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• Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.

  Robert Herrick

  Happiness, Blessing

  "The Hesperides & Noble Numbers".

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• The readiness of doing doth expresse No other but the doer's willingnesse.

  Robert Herrick

  Doers, Readiness

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• A careless shoe string, in whose tie I see a wilde civility.

  Robert Herrick

  Shoes, Ties, Cuffs

  'The End'

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• Things are evermore sincere; / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.

  Robert Herrick

  Sincere, Candor, Evermore

  Robert Herrick (1856). “Hesperides Or The Works Both Humane and Divine of Robert Herrick”, p.258

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

  Robert Herrick

  Green, Springtime, Celebration

  Robert Herrick (1900). “Poems of Robert Herrick: a selection from Hesperides and Noble numbers”

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

  Robert Herrick

  Haste, Noon, Rising

  "To Daffodils" l. 1 (1648)

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• 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”

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• In sober mornings do not thou rehearse
  The holy incantation of a verse

  Robert Herrick

  Morning, Poetry, Sober

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”, p.39

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• Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.

  Robert Herrick

  May, Rosebuds

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

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• 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)

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• No, not Jove
  Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

  Robert Herrick

  Life, Wise, And Love

  Robert Herrick, Lord Thomas Maitland Dundrennan (1823). “Hesperides (continued) His noble numbers: or, his pious pieces”, p.137

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

  Robert Herrick

  Laughter, Joy, Tears

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• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

  Robert Herrick

  Home, House, Soul

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

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• T is the will that makes the action good or ill.

  Robert Herrick

  Action, Sin, Ill

  Robert Herrick (1825). “The poetical works of Robert Herrick”, p.246

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