Robert Herrick Frasi e Citazioni
Robert Herrick: Frasi in inglese
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"To Music, to becalm his Fever".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Upon Julia's Clothes".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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.
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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.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Neglect".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"God's Time Must End Our Trouble".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Delight in Disorder".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!"
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“I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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.
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“Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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. <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)
“You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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).
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“Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
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“What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"A Kiss".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
Poem "To Dianeme" http://www.bartleby.com/106/88.html <br class="br">Hesperides (1648)
“Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"No Difference i' th' Dark".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Ode for Ben Jonson".
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“Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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“Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
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“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"The Night Piece to Julia".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Argument of His Book".
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" To Blossoms http://www.bartleby.com/106/109.html".
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"To Daffadills".
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“If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"The End".
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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".
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“Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt;
Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"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.
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Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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“A sweet disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness.”
Robert Herrick libro Hesperides
"Delight in Disorder".
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