Author:Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

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Robert Herrick

Works

• An Ode on the Birth of Our Saviour

Hesperides

• The Argument of His Book (1)
• To His Muse (Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam?) (2)
• To His Book (While thou didst keep thy candor undefil'd,) (3)
• Another (To read my book the virgin shy) (4)
• (To His Book.) Another (5)
• To the Sour Reader (6)
• To His Book (Come thou not near those men who are like bread) (7)
• When He Would Have His Verses Read (8)
• Upon Julia's Recovery (9)
• To Silvia to Wed (10)
• The Parliament of Roses to Julia (11)
• No Bashfulness in Begging (12)
• The Frozen Heart (13)
• To Perilla (14)
• A Song to the Maskers (15)
• To Perenna (When I thy parts run o'er, I can't espy) (16)
• Treason (17)
• Two Things Odious (18)
• To His Mistresses (Help me! help me! now I call) (19)
• The Wounded Heart (20)
• No Loathsomeness in Love (21)
• To Anthea (If, dear Anthea, my hard fate it be) (22)
• The Weeping Cherry (23)
• Soft Music (24)
• The Difference Betwixt Kings and Subjects (25)
• His Answer to a Question (26)
• Upon Julia's Fall (27)
• Expenses Exhaust (28)
• Love, What It Is (29)
• Presence and Absence (30)
• No Spouse but a Sister (31)
• The Pomander Bracelet (32)
• The Shoe Tying (33)
• The Carcanet (34)
• His Sailing From Julia (35)
• How the Wall-flower Came First, and Why So Called (36)
• Why Flowers Change Colour (37)
• To His Mistress Objecting to Him Neither Toying or Talking (38)
• Upon the Loss of His Mistresses (39)
• The Dream (Methought last night love in an anger came) (40)
• The Vine (41)
• To Love (42)
• On Himself (Young I was, but now am old) (43)
• Love's Play at Push-Pin (44)
• The Rosary (45)
• Upon Cupid (Old wives have often told how they) (46)
• The Parcae; or, Three Dainty Destinies: The Armillet (47)
• Sorrows Succeed (48)
• Cherry-pit (49)
• To Robin Redbreast (50)
• Discontents in Devon (51)
• To His Paternal Country (52)
• Cherry-ripe (53)
• To His Mistresses (Put on your silks, and piece by piece) (54)
• To Anthea (Now is the time, when all the lights wax dim;) (55)
• The Vision to Electra (56)
• Dreams (57)
• Ambition (In man ambition is the common'st thing;) (58)
• His Request to Julia (59)
• Money Gets the Mastery (60)
• The Scare-fire (61)
• Upon Silvia, a Mistress (62)
• Cheerfulness in Charity; or, the Sweet Sacrifice (63)
• Once Poor, Still Penurious (64)
• Sweetness in Sacrifice (65)
• Steam in Sacrifice (66)
• Upon Julia's Voice (67)
• Again (When I thy singing next shall hear,) (68)
• All Things Decay and Die (69)
• The Sadness of Things for Sappho's Sickness (118)
• A Meditation for His Mistress (216)
• Upon a Child (642)
• To the King (Give way, give way, now, now my Charles shines here) (687)
• Tears (902)
• His Desire (1038)

Noble Numbers

• Mirth. 13

Works about Herrick

• “Herrick, Robert” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Herrick, Robert,” in Dictionary of National Biography, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1885-1900) in 63 vols.

Links

• «Hesperides and His Noble Numbers» (complete)

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.