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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
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London
England
Shining
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Wisdom
Happy
Bride
Brides
Shines

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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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When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift 'T is haste Makes waste Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
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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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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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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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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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The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.
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