A Few Poems
Being some English poetry during the seventeenth century
From Historical Collections
"Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score;
Then to that twenty add a hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kiss afresh, as when we first begun."


Robert Herrick 1591-1674

"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
Old Time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles today
Tommorrow will be dying...
Then be not coy, but use your time
And while ye may, go marry
For having lost but once your prime,
You may for ever tarry."


Robert Herrick 1591-1674

"Why so pale and wan, fond lover
Prithee, why so pale
Will, when looking well can't move her
Looking ill prevail.
Prithee, why so pale."


John Suckling 1609-1642


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