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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse

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
Poetry
Incantation
Holy
Rehearse
Morning
Mornings
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Sober
Thou
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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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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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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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Tears are the noble language of the eye.
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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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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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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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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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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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That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.
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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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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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If little labour, little are our gains: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.
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Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
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Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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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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