9 Robert Herrick Quotes on Love

Robert Herrick quotes on love

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

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.

9. Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say; But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia.

10. Some asked how pearls did grow, and where? Then spoke I to my girl To part her lips, and showed them there The quarelets of pearl.

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

16. 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.

30. 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.