Quotes from Robert Herrick

Love is maintain'd by wealth: when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent.

Love is a circle that doth restless move in the same sweet eternity of love.

In things a moderation keep; Kings ought to shear, not skin, their sheep.

He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke.

Thou art my life, my love, my heart, The very eyes of me: And hast command of every part To live and die for thee.

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

I do love I know not what; Sometimes this, and sometimes that.

When words we want, love teacheth to indite; And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.

Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

Whenas in silks my Julia goes, Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

But ne'er the rose without the thorn.

Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.

Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.

In prayer the lips ne'er act the winning part, without the sweet concurrence of the heart.

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.

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

Let's live with that small pittance that we have; Who covets more is evermore a slave.

Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

I sing of brooks, of blossoms, birds and bowers, Of April, May, of June, and July-flowers...

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer.