Thus times do shift; each thing his turn does hold:
New things succeed, as former things grow old.
Quotes from Hesperides — Robert Herrick
1591–1674 England
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When the rose reigns, and locks with ointments shine,
Let rigid Cato read these lines of mine.
Hesperides (1648)
Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute;
But let that speak, the client gets the suit.
Hesperides (1648)
We credit most our sight; one eye doth please
Our trust farre more than ten eare-witnesses.
Hesperides (1648)
Only a little more
I have to write,
Then I'll give o'er,
And bid the world good-night.
Hesperides (1648)
Let's live with that small pittance that we have;
Who covets more, is evermore a slave.
Hesperides (1648)
He who has suffered shipwreck fears to sail
Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
Hesperides (1648)
The stars of the night
Will lend thee their light
Like tapers clear without number.
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To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;
Who fears to ask doth teach to be deny'd.
Hesperides (1648)
But thou liv'st fearless; and thy face ne'er shows
Fortune when she comes or goes.
Hesperides (1648)
Hell is no other but a soundless pit,
Where no one beam of comfort peeps in it.
Hesperides (1648)
None pities him that's in the snare,
And, warned before, would not beware.
Hesperides (1648)
In sober mornings, do not thou rehearse
The holy incantation of a verse.
Hesperides (1648)
In things a moderation keep:
Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep.
Hesperides (1648)
The readiness of doing doth express
No other but the doer's willingness.
Hesperides (1648)
Who with a little cannot be content,
Endures an everlasting punishment.
Hesperides (1648)
Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.
Hesperides (1648)
It is an active flame that flies,
First, to the babies of the eyes.
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The warm soft side
Of the resigning, yet resisting bride.
Hesperides (1648)
No, not Jove
Himself, at one time, can be wise and love.
Hesperides (1648)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Herrick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.