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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.

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
Happiness
Comes
Withal
Blessings
Content
Blessing
Among
Small
Whatever

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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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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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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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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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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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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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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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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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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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