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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
Writer
London
England
Morrow
Wine
Late
Drink
May
Live
Life

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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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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, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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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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For pitty, Sir, find out that Bee Which bore my Love away I'le seek him in your Bonnet brave, I'le seek him in your eyes.
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A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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