Robert Herrick Frasi e Citazioni
Robert Herrick: Frasi in inglese
"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time". Compare: "Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. ; "Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered", Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
Hesperides (1648)
Contesto: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
“Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.”
"Neglect".
Hesperides (1648)
“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
Hesperides (1648)
“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”
"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
Hesperides (1648)
“You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.”
"Love Me Little, Love Me Long". Compare: "Love me little, love me long", Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv; "Me love you long time", 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny" (sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket).
Hesperides (1648)
“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.”
"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
Hesperides (1648)
“What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.”
"A Kiss".
Hesperides (1648)
Poem "To Dianeme" http://www.bartleby.com/106/88.html
Hesperides (1648)
“Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.”
"No Difference i' th' Dark".
Hesperides (1648)
“Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.”
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)
“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
Hesperides (1648)
“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)
" To Blossoms http://www.bartleby.com/106/109.html".
“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
"The End".
Hesperides (1648)
"The Rose" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Flower of all hue, and without thorn the rose", John Milton, Paradise Lost, book iv. line 256.; "Every rose has it's thorn", Poison, "Every Rose Has Its Thorn".
Hesperides (1648)
“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
"Seek and Find". Compare: "Nil tam difficilest quin quærendo investigari possiet" (transalted as "Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking"), Terence, Heautontimoroumenos, iv. 2, 8.
Hesperides (1648)
“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
"Delight in Disorder".
Hesperides (1648)
