Robert Herrick Quotes


Who covets more is evermore a slave.


Citations

Herrick, Robert. "The Covetous still Captives." 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".