Robert Herrick's Poetry, by title

• A Bucolic Betwixt Two: Lacon & Thyrsis

  LACON. For a kiss or two, confess,
  What doth cause this pensiveness,

  43 lines, 2 comments
• A Child's Grace

  HERE a little child I stand
  Heaving up my either hand;

  6 lines, 2 comments
• A Christmas Carol, Sung to the King in the Presence at White-Hall

  What sweeter music can we bring,
  Than a Carol, for to sing

  44 lines, 2 comments
• A Conjuration To Electra

  By those soft tods of wool
  With which the air is full;

  20 lines, 1 comment
• A Country Life: to His Brother Mr Thomas Herrick

  Thrice, and above, blest, my soul's half, art thou,
  In thy both last and better vow;

  144 lines
• A Dialogue betwixt himself and Mistress Eliza Wheeler, under the name of Amarillis

  My dearest Love, since thou wilt go,
  And leave me here behind thee;

  24 lines
• A Hymn to the Graces

  When I love, as some have told
  Love I shall, when I am old,

  16 lines, 1 comment
• A Lyric to Mirth

  While the milder fates consent,
  Let's enjoy our merriment :

  14 lines
• A Meditation for His Mistress

  You are a tulip seen today,
  But (Dearest) of so short a stay;

  21 lines, 1 comment
• A New Years' Gift sent to Sir Simeon Steward

  No news of navies burnt at seas;
  No noise of late spawn'd tittyries;

  50 lines
• A paraneaticall or advice verse to his friend, Mr John Wicks

  Is this a life, to break thy sleep,
  To rise as soon as day doth peep?

  39 lines
• A Pastoral upon the birth of Prince Charles: presented to the King

  Three days before the shutting-in of May,
  (With whitest wool be ever crown'd that day!)

  52 lines
• A Ring Presented to Julia

  Julia, I bring
  To thee this Ring.

  30 lines
• A Thanksgiving to God for His House

  Lord, Thou hast given me a cell
  Wherein to dwell;

  58 lines
• All Things Decay And Die

  All things decay with time: The forest sees
  The growth and down-fall of her aged trees;

  6 lines
• Ambition

  In man, ambition is the common'st thing;
  Each one by nature loves to be a king.

  2 lines
• An Epitaph Upon A Child

  Virgins promised when I died,
  That they would each primrose-tide

  6 lines
• An Epitaph Upon A Virgin

  Here a solemn fast we keep,
  While all beauty lies asleep;

  6 lines
• An Ode For Ben Jonson

  Ah Ben!
  Say how, or when

  20 lines, 2 comments
• An Ode Of The Birth Of Our Saviour

  In numbers, and but these few,
  I sing thy birth, oh JESU!

  32 lines
• An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, Upon His Brother's Death

  Not all thy flushing suns are set,
  Herrick, as yet ;

  28 lines, 1 comment
• An Ode To Sir Clipsby Crew

  Here we securely live, and eat
  The cream of meat;

  36 lines
• Anacreontic

  Born I was to be old,
  And for to die here;

  8 lines
• Another

  Wassail the trees, that they may bear
  You many a plum, and many a pear:

  3 lines, 1 comment
• Another to the Maids

  Wash your hands, or else the fire
  Will not tind to your desire;

  3 lines
• Anthea's Retractation

  Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess
  Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness

  4 lines
• Art Above Nature: To Julia

  When I behold a forest spread
  With silken trees upon thy head;

  18 lines
• Barley-break; Or, Last In Hell

  We two are last in hell; what may we fear
  To be tormented or kept pris'ners here I

  4 lines
• Be My Mistress Short or Tall

  Be my mistress short or tall
  And distorted therewithall

  10 lines
• Burial

  Man may want land to live in; but for all
  Nature finds out some place for burial.

  2 lines

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