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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Love
Life
Jove
Wise
Time

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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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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.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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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.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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