Robert Herrick Quotes

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 (1591-1674), British poet. To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything (l. 17-20). . . Oxford Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. Frank Kermode and John Hollander, general eds. (1973) Oxford University Press (Also published as six paperback vols.: Medieval English Literature, J. B. Trapp, ed.; The Literature of Renaissance England, John Hollander and Frank Kermode, eds.; The Restoration and the Eighteenth Century, Martin Price, ed.; Romantic Poetry and Prose, Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, eds.; Victorian Prose and Poetry, Lionel Trilling and Harold Bloom, eds.; Modern British Literature, Frank Kermode and John Hollander, eds.). (1) (1)
And after they have shown their pride Like you a while, they glide Into the grave.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Blossoms (l. 16-18). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (0) (0)
We die, As your hours do, and dry Away, Like to the summer's rain; Or as the pearls of morning's dew
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Daffodils (l. 15-19). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (1) (1)
Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noon.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin (1956). To Daffodils, st. 1, Hesperides (1648). (1) (0)
Fair daffodils, we weep to see You haste away so soon:
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Daffodils (l. 1-2). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (0) (0)
Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night Has not yet begun To make a seizure on the light, Or to seal up the sun.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (0) (0)
When as that Rubie, which you weare, Sunk from the tip of your soft eare, Will last to be a precious Stone, When all your world of Beautie 's gone.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Dianeme (l. 7-10). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (0) (0)
I dare not ask a kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air That lately kissed thee.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Electra (l. 1-8). . . Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press. (3) (1)
Go, pretty child, and bear this flower Unto thy little Saviour; And tell Him, by that bud now blown, He is the Rose of Sharon known.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To His Saviour, a Child; a Present, by a Child (l. 1-4). . . Our Holidays in Poetry. Mildred P. Harrington and Josephine H. Thomas, comps. (1929) The H. W. Wilson Company. (1) (0)
Now is the time for mirth, Nor cheek or tongue be dumb; For with the flowery earth The golden pomp is come.
Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses (l. 1-4). . . Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press. (0) (0)