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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
Writer
London
England
Sober
Thou
Poet
Poetry
Incantation
Holy
Rehearse
Morning
Mornings
Verse
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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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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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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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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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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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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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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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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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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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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