Beginning Difficult.

Hard are the two first stairs unto a crown:
Which got, the third bids him a king come down.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

Upon M. William Lawes, The Rare Musician.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Suspicion Upon His Over-Much Familiarity With A Gentlewoman.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

God To Be First Served.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Eye.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Upon Kings.

Kings must be dauntless; subjects will contemn
Those who want hearts and wear a diadem.

Robert Herrick

To Crown It.

My wearied bark, O let it now be crown'd!
The haven reach'd to which I first was bound.

Robert Herrick

Perseverance.

Hast thou begun an act? ne'er then give o'er:
No man despairs to do what's done before.

Robert Herrick

Comforts In Crosses.

Be not dismayed though crosses cast thee down;
Thy fall is but the rising to a crown.

Robert Herrick

To His Household Gods.

Rise, household gods, and let us go;
But whither I myself not know.
First, let us dwell on rudest seas;
Next, with severest savages;
Last, let us make our best abode
Where human foot as yet ne'er trod:
Search worlds of ice, and rather there
Dwell than in loathed Devonshire.

Robert Herrick

The End.

Conquer we shall, but we must first contend;
'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end.

Robert Herrick