Robert Herrick citations (34 citations)

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Robert Herrick: Citations en anglais

“Fall on me like a silent dew,
Or like those maiden showers
Which, by the peep of day, do strew
A baptism o’er the flowers.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"To Music, to becalm his Fever".
Hesperides (1648)

“Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free;
Oh how that glittering taketh me!”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Upon Julia's Clothes".
Hesperides (1648)

“Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time". Compare: "Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. ; "Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered", Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
Hesperides (1648)
Contexte: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.

“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”

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"Neglect".
Hesperides (1648)

“God doth not promise here to man that He
Will free him quickly from his misery;
But in His own time, and when He thinks fit,
Then He will give a happy end to it.”

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"God's Time Must End Our Trouble".
Hesperides (1648)

“A winning wave, deserving note,
In the tempestuous petticoat,
A careless shoestring, in whose tie
I see a wild civility,
Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.”

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"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)

“Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty, add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!"
Hesperides (1648)

“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”

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"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
Hesperides (1648)

“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”

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"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage. <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)

“You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.”

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"Love Me Little, Love Me Long". Compare: "Love me little, love me long", Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv; "Me love you long time", 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny" (sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket).
Hesperides (1648)

“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.”

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"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
Hesperides (1648)

“What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.”

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"A Kiss".
Hesperides (1648)

“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.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Cherry Ripe".
Hesperides (1648)

“Sweet, be not proud of those two eyes
Which starlike sparkle in their skies;
Nor be you proud that you can see
All hearts your captives, yours yet free”

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Poem "To Dianeme" http://www.bartleby.com/106/88.html <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)

“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.”

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Noble Numbers (1648), "A Child's Grace".

“Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"No Difference i' th' Dark".
Hesperides (1648)

“We such clusters had
As made us nobly wild, not mad;
And yet each verse of thine
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.”

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"Ode for Ben Jonson".
Hesperides (1648)

“Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.”

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"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)

“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”

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"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
Hesperides (1648)

“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”

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"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)

“Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
The shooting stars attend thee;
And the elves also,
Whose little eyes glow
Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"The Night Piece to Julia".
Hesperides (1648)

“I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds, and bowers:
Of April, May, of June, and July flowers.
I sing of Maypoles, Hock-carts, wassails, wakes,
Of bridegrooms, brides, and of their bridal cakes.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Argument of His Book".
Hesperides (1648)

“Fair pledges of a fruitful tree,
Why do ye fall so fast?
Your date is not so past
But you may stay yet here awhile
To blush and gently smile,
And go at last.”

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" To Blossoms http://www.bartleby.com/106/109.html".

“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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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls".
Hesperides (1648)

“Fair daffadills, we weep to see
You haste away so soon:
As yet the early rising sun
Has not attained his noon.”

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"To Daffadills".
Hesperides (1648)

“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”

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"The End".
Hesperides (1648)

“Before man's fall the rose was born,
St. Ambrose says, without the thorn;
But for man's fault then was the thorn
Without the fragrant rose-bud born; But ne'er the rose without the thorn.”

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"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)

“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”

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"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
Hesperides (1648)

“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.”

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"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)

“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”

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Robert Herrick livre Hesperides

"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)