![]() ![]() We will let readers explore this list’s many beauties on their own and only note that we selected it for its consonance with this late August time of “Time’s trans-shifting. Of Heaven, and hope to have it after all. ![]() I write of Groves, of Twilights, and I sing How Roses first came Red, and Lillies White. I wonder today what the inspiration in Rabbi Ben Hei Hei’s life was that lead to his quote. Over the following centuries this quote evolved into the famous expression, No Pain, No Gain. I sing of Time’s trans-shfiting and I write In the second century a Rabbi named Ben Hei Hei said, According to the pain is the gain. Of Balme, of Oyle, of Spice, and Amber-Greece. ![]() I sing of Dewes of Raines, and piece by piece I write of Youth, of Love, and have Accesseīy these, to sing of cleanly-Wantonnesse. The book contains more than a thousand poems by one of the great lyric poets of the Caroline era, many of whose poems were set to music by William Lawes and other luminaries of the London musical scene. Of Bride-grooms, Brides, and of their Bridall-cakes. Better World Books When you buy books using these links the Internet Archive may earn a small commission. A reproduction of Herricks only publication during his lifetime, seen through the press by the author himself in 1648. I sing of May-poles, Hock-carts, Wassails, Wakes, I sing of Brooks, of Blossomes, Birds, and Bowers: Herrick gives this list the title “The Argument of His Book”: English poet Robert Herrick (1591-1674) is best known for his single, yet voluminous book of poems, Hesperides (1648), which includes such perennial favorites as “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” beginning with “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may” and “Delight in Disorder.” The collection is less well known for being, according to the Poetry Foundation, “the only major collection of poetry in English to open with a versified table of contents”: that is, with a list. ![]()
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