Robert Herrick Quotes
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.
Citations
Herrick, Robert. "To Anthea, who may command him anything." Hesperides: Or, The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq., John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1648.
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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".