Herrick

Famous quotes containing the word herrick:

“I dreamed this mortal part of mine
Was metamorphosed to a vine,”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“We die,
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

“O native country, repossessed by thee!
For, rather than I’ll to the West return,
I’ll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.
Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;
Give thou my sacred relics burial.”
—Robert Herrick (1591–1674)