Robert Herrick Quotes


And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.


Citations

Herrick, Robert. "A Ring Presented to Julia." Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648.

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Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick
  • Born: August 24, 1591
  • Died: October 15, 1674
  • Nationality: English
  • Profession: Poet Cleric

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".