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or the warm soft side
Of the resigning yet resisting bride.
The kiss of virgins first-fruits of the bed;
Soft speech, smooth touch, the lips, the maidenhead;
These and a thousand s...
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Farewell to Sack (l. 5-10). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abram...
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'''Tis not Apollo can, or those thrice three
Castalian sisters sing, if wanting thee.
Horace, Anacreon both had lost their fame.
Had'st thou not filled them with thy fire and flame.''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Farewell to Sack (l. 29-32). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abra...
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''Let my muse
Fail of thy former helps, and only use
Her inadulterate strength. What's done by me
Hereafter shall smell of the lamp, not thee.''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Farewell to Sack (l. 51-54). . .
Norton Anthology of English Literature, The, Vols. I-II. M. H. Abra...
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A Cat
I keep, that playes about my House,
Grown fat,
With eating many a miching Mouse.
To these
A Trasy I do keep, whereby
I please
The more my rurall privacie:
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Grange, or Private Wealth (l. 21-32). . .
Seventeenth-Century Verse and Prose, Vols. I-II. Vol. I: 1...
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''When the tempter me pursueth
With the sins of all my youth,
And half damns me with untruth,
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!'''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Litany to the Holy Spirit (l. 37-40). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Q...
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When the artless doctor sees
No one hope, but of his fees,
And his skill runs on the lees;
Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
When his potion and his pill,
Has, or none, or little skil...
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Poems of Robert Herrick, ed. L.C. Martin (1956). His Litany to the Holy Spirit, st. ...
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''In the hour of my distress,
When temptations me oppress,
And when I my sins confess,
Sweet Spirit comfort me!''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Litany to the Holy Spirit (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Qui...
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''Onely a little more
I have to write,
Then I'll give o'er,
And bid the world Good-night.''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Poetry His Pillar (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and...
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''O time that cut'st down all!
And scarce leav'st here
Memoriall
Of any men that were.''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Poetry His Pillar (l. 9-12). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson an...
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''When I a verse shall make,
Know I have prayed thee,
For old religion's sake,
Saint Ben, to aid me.''
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674), British poet. His Prayer to Ben Jonson (l. 1-4). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford U...
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LOVE, WHAT IT IS
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Love is a circle, that doth restless move
In the same sweet eternity of Love.
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