Robert Herrick Quotes

Fair pledges of a fruitful tree, / Why do ye fall so fast?

- Robert Herrick

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Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be;
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.

A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I'll give to thee.

Bid that heart stay, and it will stay
To honour thy decree;
Or bid it languish quite away,
And't shall do so for thee.

Bid me to weep, and I will weep,
While I have eyes to see;
And having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.

Bid me despair, and I'll despair,
Under that cypress tree;
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E'en death, to die for thee.

--Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
The very eyes of me;
And hast command of every part,
To live and die for thee. - Robert Herrick

The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam. - Robert Herrick

Each must in virtue strive for to excel; That man lives twice that lives the first life well. - Robert Herrick