— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"To Music, to becalm his Fever".
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Robert Herrick
Geburtstag: 24. August 1591
Todesdatum: 1674
Robert Herrick war ein englischer Dichter.
Eines seiner berühmtesten Gedichte ist To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time. Dieses Gedicht spielt eine Schlüsselrolle im Film Der Club der toten Dichter, indem es das Filmmotto des „Carpe diem“ einführt. Wikipedia
Photo: Halleck's New English Literature, 1913 / Public domain
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Upon Julia's Clothes".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"To the Virgins to Make Much of Time". Compare: "Gather the rose of love whilest yet is time", Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, book ii. canto xii. stanza 75. ; "Let us crown ourselves with rose-buds, before they be withered", Wisdom of Solomon, ii. 8.
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Kontext: Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
Old Time is still a-flying,
And this same flower that smiles today
Tomorrow will be dying.
The glorious Lamp of Heaven, the Sun,
The higher he's a-getting
The sooner will his race be run,
And nearer he's to setting.
„Art quickens nature; care will make a face; Neglected beauty perisheth apace.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Neglect".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"God's Time Must End Our Trouble".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Delight in Disorder".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"To Anthea: Ah, My Anthea!"
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„I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"The Amber Bead" (published c. 1648). Compare: "Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb", Francis Bacon, Historia Vitæ et Mortis; Sylva Sylvarum, Cent. i. Exper. 100.
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„Then while time serves, and we are but decaying.
Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Corinna's Going a Maying" http://books.google.com/books?id=2epaAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Then+while+time+serves+and+we+are+but+decaying+come+my+Corinna+come+let's+goe+a+maying%22&pg=PA123#v=onepage.
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„You say to me-wards your affection's strong;
Pray love me little, so you love me long.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Love Me Little, Love Me Long". Compare: "Love me little, love me long", Christopher Marlowe, The Jew of Malta, Act iv; "Me love you long time", 2 Live Crew, "Me So Horny" (sampled from the Stanley Kubrick film, Full Metal Jacket).
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„Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold;
New things succeed, as former things grow old.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Ceremonies for Candlemas Eve".
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„What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:
The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"A Kiss".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
Poem "To Dianeme" http://www.bartleby.com/106/88.html
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„Night makes no difference 'twixt the Priest and Clerk;
Joan as my Lady is as good i' the dark.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"No Difference i' th' Dark".
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— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Ode for Ben Jonson".
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„Get up, sweet Slug-a-bed, and see
The dew bespangling herb and tree.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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„Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Sorrows Succeed". Compare: "One woe doth tread upon another’s heel, So fast they follow", William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act iv. Sc. 7.
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„Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.“
— Robert Herrick, buch Hesperides
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
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