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Quotes from Hesperides — Robert Herrick

1591–1674 England

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I dreamt this mortal part of mine
Was metamorphos'd to a vine.

Hesperides (1648)

Wealth cannot make a life, but love.

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If little labour, little are our gains:
Man's fortunes are according to his pains.

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Hast thou attempted greatness? then go on:
Back-turning slackens resolution.

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'Tis not Apollo can, or those thrice three
Castalian sisters, sing, if wanting thee.
Horace, Anacreon, both had lost their fame,
Had'st thou not fill'd them with thy fire and flame.

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Small griefs find tongues: full casks are ever found
To give (if any, yet) but little sound.
Deep waters noiseless are; and this we know,
That chiding streams betray small depth below.

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O time that cut'st down all
And scarce leav'st here
Memorial
Of any men that were.

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Then be not coy, but use your time,
And while ye may go marry:
For having lost but once your prime
You may for ever tarry.

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To read my book the virgin shy
May blush while Brutus standeth by,
But when he's gone, read through what's writ,
And never stain a cheek for it.

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Men are suspicious, prone to discontent:
Subjects still loathe the present government.

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'Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend
Him, as He is, is labour without end.

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For pity, sir, find out that bee
Which bore my love away.
I'll seek him in your bonnet brave,
I'll seek him in your eyes.

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Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o’er the flowers.

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Then come on, come on and yield
A savour like unto a blessed field
When the bedabbled morn
Washes the golden ears of corn.

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The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

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Many a green-gown has been given;
Many a kiss, both odd and even:
Many a glance too has been sent
From out the eye, love's firmament.

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Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes
Which, starlike, sparkle in their skies;
Nor be you proud that you can see
All hearts your captives, yours yet free.

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Of both our fortunes good and bad we find
Prosperity more searching of the mind:
Felicity flies o'er the wall and fence,
While misery keeps in with patience.

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Here she lies, a pretty bud,
Lately made of flesh and blood:
Who as soon fell fast asleep
As her little eyes did peep.
Give her strewings, but not stir
The earth that lightly covers her.

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A virgin's face she had; her dress
Was like a sprightly Spartaness.

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Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Robert Herrick (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.