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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

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
Bids
Blush
Words
Speak
Write
Writing

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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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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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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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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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The first act's doubtful, but we say, it is the last commends the play.
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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, Without the sweet concurrence of the heart.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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