Want

Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon,
This, that, and every base impression,

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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Man

Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon,
This, that, and every base impression,

Robert Herrick

Want.

Need is no vice at all, though here it be
With men a loathed inconveniency.

Robert Herrick

His Desire

Give me a man that is not dull,
When all the world with rifts is full;
But unamazed dares clearly sing,
When as the roof's a-tottering;
And though it falls, continues still
Tickling the Cittern with his quill.

Robert Herrick

Writing

When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;
And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.

Robert Herrick

Another

Another
Wassail the trees, that they may bear
You many a plum, and many a pear:
For more or less fruits they will bring,
As you do give them wassailing.

Robert Herrick

His Wish.

Fat be my hind; unlearned be my wife;
Peaceful my night; my day devoid of strife:
To these a comely offspring I desire,
Singing about my everlasting fire.

Robert Herrick