Robert Herrick

Poet, 1591-1674

Cited as Herrick. — 13 quotations

Kissing and bussing differ both in this, We buss our wantons, but our wives we kiss.

A little transverse bone Which boys and bruckeled children call (Playing for points and pins) cockal.

Seemed to comply, Cloudlike, the daintie deitie.

Do ye prove What crucifixions are in love?

While my sick heart With dismal smart Is disacquainted never.

Discruciate a man in deep distress.

These laces, ribbons, and these faules.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsels of our joys hereafter.

Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand.

God is all sufferance; here he doth show No arrow notched, only a stringless bow.

Counsels, when they fly At random, sometimes hit most happily.

To instruct them to avoid all snares of tarditation, in the Lord's affairs.

Gifts blind the wise, and bribes do please And wind all other witnesses.