Ease.

God gives to none so absolute an ease
As not to know or feel some grievances.

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

Salutation.

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God.

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Upon Pimp.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Upon Julia's Sweat.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Miseries

Though hourly comforts from the gods we see,
No life is yet life-proof from misery.

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Comfort In Calamity.

'Tis no discomfort in the world to fall,
When the great crack not crushes one, but all.

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Pain And Pleasure.

God suffers not His saints and servants dear
To have continual pain or pleasure here;
But look how night succeeds the day, so He
Gives them by turns their grief and jollity.

Robert Herrick

By Use Comes Easiness.

Oft bend the bow, and thou with ease shalt do
What others can't with all their strength put to.

Robert Herrick

Affliction.

God ne'er afflicts us more than our desert,
Though He may seem to overact His part:
Sometimes He strikes us more than flesh can bear;
But yet still less than grace can suffer here.

Robert Herrick

His Comfort.

The only comfort of my life
Is, that I never yet had wife;
Nor will hereafter; since I know
Who weds, o'er-buys his weal with woe

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