Where we such clusters had, As made us nobly wild, not mad; And yet each verse of thine Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.
Robert Herrick Quotes
Go happy rose, and interwove With other flowers, bind my love. Tell her too, she must not be, Longer flowing, longer free, That so oft has fetter’d me.
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| Birth: | 24th August, 1591 |
| Death: | 15th October, 1674 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Born in Cheapside, London, he was the seventh child and fourth son of Julia Stone and Nicholas Herrick, a prosperous goldsmith. His father died in a fall from a fourth-floor window in November 1592, when Robert was a year old The tradition that Herrick received his education at Westminster is groundless.
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