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  • His Confession
    Look how our foul days do exceed our fair;
    And as our bad, more than our good works are,
    E'en so those lines, pen'd by my wanton wit,
    Treble the number of these good I've writ. ...
  • What God Is
    God is above the sphere of our esteem,
    And is the best known, not defining Him.

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  • Love Me Little, Love Me Long
    You say, to me-wards your affection's strong;
    Pray love me little, so you love me long.
    Slowly goes far: the mean is best: desire,
    Grown violent, does either die or tire....
  • Health
    Health is no other, as the learned hold,
    But a just measure both of heat and cold.

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  • Upon Brock. Epig
    To cleanse his eyes, Tom Brock makes much ado,
    But not his mouth, the fouler of the two.
    A clammy rheum makes loathsome both his eyes:
    His mouth, worse furr'd with oaths and blasphemies....
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Sweet 156 Love 121 I Love You 121 Good 113 Live 91 Long 88 Bring 84 Great 70 Kiss 63 Crown 62


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Lpitoday: robert herrick of the university of alaska fairbanks and scott hensley of nasa’s jet propulsion laboratory detected volcanic activity with 30-year-old data from nasa’s magellan mission. read more:
Mmmworldwide: a lenten poem - a reflection on fasting by robert herrick (1591 - 1674)
The_apollogist: “let me be warm; let me be fully fed: luxurious love by wealth is nourished. let me be lean, and cold, and once grown poor, i shall dislike, what once i loved before.” - robert herrick
Souloman1: if well thou hast begun,-> >go on,-> it is the end that crowns us >not the fight. -robert herrick inyjc!!!
Radicalhoneybee: simnel cake for mothering sunday. time out of time: the fourth sunday of lent "i'll to thee a simnel bring, 'gainst though go a-mothering, so that when she blesses thee half the blessing thou'll give me.” ~ robert herrick read more at
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The Killing Place
 by Edgar Albert Guest

We're hiking along at a two-forty pace
We 're making life seem like a man-killing race,
With our nerves all on edge and our jaws firmly set
We go rushing along; with our brows lined with sweat
And our cheeks pale and drawn every minute we dash,
And the goal that we 're after is merely more cash.

We 're out for the money, the greenbacks and gold,
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