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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may."
Robert Herrick / To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time
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"Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones,--come and buy! If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer, there, Where my Julia's lips do smile,-- There 's the land, or cherry-isle."
Robert Herrick / Cherry Ripe.
Cherry Ripe.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia."
Robert Herrick / The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.
The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl."
Robert Herrick / The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.
The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness."
Robert Herrick / Delight in Disorder.
Delight in Disorder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous petticoat; A careless shoe-string, in whose tie I see a wild civility,-- Do more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part."
Robert Herrick / Delight in Disorder.
Delight in Disorder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"You say to me-wards your affection 's strong; Pray love me little, so you love me long."
Robert Herrick / Love me Little, Love me Long.
Love me Little, Love me Long.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying, And this same flower that smiles to-day To-morrow will be dying."
Robert Herrick / To the Virgins to make much of Time.
To the Virgins to make much of Time.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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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."
Robert Herrick / To Music, to becalm his Fever.
To Music, to becalm his Fever.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Fair daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soon: As yet the early rising sun Has not attained his noon."
Robert Herrick / To Daffadills.
To Daffadills.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave."
Robert Herrick / Sorrows Succeed.
Sorrows Succeed.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again."
Robert Herrick / To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
To Mistress Susanna Southwell.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee, The shooting-stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee."
Robert Herrick / The Night Piece to Julia.
The Night Piece to Julia.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried."
Robert Herrick / The Amber Bead.
The Amber Bead.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Thus times do shift,--each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old."
Robert Herrick / Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve.
Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Out-did the meat, out-did the frolick wine."
Robert Herrick / Ode for Ben Jonson.
Ode for Ben Jonson.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; Nothing 's so hard but search will find it out."
Robert Herrick / Seek and Find.
Seek and Find.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"But ne'er the rose without the thorn."
Robert Herrick / The Rose.
The Rose.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain