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
- A Pastoral upon the birth of Prince Charles: presented to the King
- Hymn To The Grace
- His Prayer For Absolution
- The Coming Of Good Luck
- A Ring Presented to Julia
- A Country Life: to His Brother Mr Thomas Herrick
- The Definition Of Beauty
- Dreams
- A Bucolic Betwixt Two: Lacon & Thyrsis
- Anacreontic
- Comfort To A Youth That Had Lost His Love
- Art Above Nature: To Julia