Pity And Punishment.

God doth embrace the good with love; and gains
The good by mercy, as the bad by pains.

Robert Herrick

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

English

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Pain And Pleasure.

God suffers not His saints and servants dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.

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Penitency.

A man's transgressions God does then remit,
When man He makes a penitent for it.

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Sin Severely Punished.

God in His own day will be then severe
To punish great sins, who small faults whipt here.

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Pity To The Prostrate.

'Tis worse than barbarous cruelty to show
No part of pity on a conquered foe.

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Sufferance.

In the hope of ease to come,
Let's endure one martyrdom.

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Wit Punished Prospers Most

Dread not the shackles; on with thine intent,
Good wits get more fame by their punishment.

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