"Herrick" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Mistress Who-were-you?' 'Tis Mary that speaks and our errand discloses. 'Pray, are you within there? Bestir you, bestir you! 'Tis summer again; there's two come for roses. 'A word with you, that of the singer recalling— Old Herrick: a saying that every maid knows is A flower unplucked is but left to the falling, And nothing is gained by not gathering roses.' We do not loosen our hands' intertwining (Not caring so very much what she supposes), There when she ...
— A Boy's Will • Robert Frost
... And Byron, Herrick, Burns, forby, Got gay with Erato, much the same As I now do to show to you The way into the ...
— The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum • Wallace Irwin
... the bluet-bloom were unknown to Herrick and to Wordsworth, but such art as Mr. Cawein's makes them at home in English poetry. There is passion, too, and thought in his equipment...."—WILLIAM ARCHER ...
— Myth and Romance - Being a Book of Verses • Madison Cawein
... "Mr. Herrick's book is a book among many, and he comes nearer to reflecting a certain kind of recognizable, contemporaneous American spirit than anybody has ...
— While Caroline Was Growing • Josephine Daskam Bacon
... the past have done anything for our prose dramatic literature? Sheridan and Oliver Goldsmith, and, earlier still, Congreve, Wycherley, Farquhar, and Vanbrugh. Nay, which are the mighty names in our literature? Chaucer, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Herrick, Dryden, Alexander Pope, Butler, Sterne, Byron, Wordsworth, Coleridge, ...
— Without Prejudice • Israel Zangwill
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