Quotes from Hesperides — Robert Herrick
1591–1674 England
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No marigolds yet closèd are,
No shadows great appear.
'Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.
If little labour, little are our gaines:
Man's fortunes are according to his paines.
O thou, the drink of gods and angels! wine.
Night makes no difference 'twixt the priest and clerk;
Joan as my lady is as good i' th' dark.
Then while time serves, and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying.
When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
Here we are all by day; by night we're hurl'd
By dreams, each one into a sev'ral world.
I do love I know not what,
Sometimes this and sometimes that.
But, ah! if empty dreams so please,
Love give me more such nights as these.
Of all our parts, the eyes express
The sweetest kind of bashfulness.
In that whiter island, where
Things are evermore sincere;
Candour here, and lustre there
Delighting.
Praise they that will times past; I joy to see
Myself now live: this age best pleaseth me.
For my embalming, sweetest, there will be
No spices wanting when I'm laid by thee.
Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg,
Which is as white and hairless as an egg.
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