12 Robert Herrick Quotes on Nature

Robert Herrick quotes on nature

2. 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.

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.

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.

11. 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.

13. 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.

17. 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.

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

19. Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

20. Her pretty feet, like snails, did creep A little out, and then, As if they played at bo-peep, Did soon draw in again.

21. 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.

22. I saw a flie within a beade Of amber cleanly buried.

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