Robert Herrick
1591 - 1674
Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican 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".Poems
- Upon Julia's Clothes
- Corinna's Going A-Maying
- To Daffodils
- To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time
- The Vine
- A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall
- The Argument Of His Book
- The Shower Of Blossoms
- The Kiss: A Dialogue
- Upon Love:by Way Of Question and Answer
- The Beggar to Mab, The Queen Fairy
- Upon A Child