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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
Poet
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London
England
Wise
Wisdom
Happy
Bride
Brides
Shines
Shining
Sun

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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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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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Art quickens nature care will make a face Neglected beauty perisheth apace.
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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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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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