![]() 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. Our chief source for the text of Herricks poems is the Hesperides or, to give them their full title, Hesperides: or, the works both humane & divine of Robert. I write of Groves, of Twilights, and I sing How Roses first came Red, and Lillies White. I sing of Time’s trans-shfiting and I write Of Balme, of Oyle, of Spice, and Amber-Greece. ![]() Robert Hericke: his farwell unto Poetrie (not printed in Hesperides, but extant in more than one manuscript version) shows that the poet was not unaware of the responsibilities of his profession. I sing of Dewes of Raines, and piece by piece The annual value of the living was only 50 (250 present value), no great prize, but the poem entitled Mr. I write of Youth, of Love, and have Accesseīy these, to sing of cleanly-Wantonnesse. Of Bride-grooms, Brides, and of their Bridall-cakes. Some features have failed to load due to an. I sing of May-poles, Hock-carts, Wassails, Wakes, Product details page for The Hesperides & Noble Numbers by Robert Herrick is loaded. Indeed, the presentation of women in Hesperides reflects a larger cultural. ![]() I His poetry was, in the past, condemned for its sexual subject matter. I sing of Brooks, of Blossomes, Birds, and Bowers: Robert Herricks Hesperides is a volume of poetry preoccupied with the feminine. Robert Herrick was a 17th-century poet whose work was finally recognized in the 20th century. Herrick gives this list the title “The Argument of His Book”: by HERRICK, Robert and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles. 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. Hesperides or, The Works Both Humane & Divine of Robert Herrick Esq. ![]()
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