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"Wealth cannot make a life, but love."
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Robert Herrick (poet)To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; — Robert Herrick (poet)
"To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside; Who fears to ask doth teach to be denyd."
To get thine ends, lay bashfulness aside;<br />Who fears to ask doth teach to be denyd.
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Robert Herrick (poet)
Robert Herrick (poet)
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
About Robert Herrick (poet)
Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may".
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