Happiness.

That happiness does still the longest thrive,
Where joys and griefs have turns alternative.

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

Expenses Exhaust.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Littleness No Cause Of Leanness.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Succession Of The Four Sweet Months

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Impossibilities: To His Friend

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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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

Pain Ends In Pleasure.

Afflictions bring us joy in times to come,
When sins, by stripes, to us grow wearisome.

Robert Herrick

On Love.

That love 'twixt men does ever longest last
Where war and peace the dice by turns do cast.

Robert Herrick

Grief.

Consider sorrows, how they are aright:
Grief, if't be great, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light.

Robert Herrick

Griefs.

Jove may afford us thousands of reliefs,
Since man expos'd is to a world of griefs.

Robert Herrick

Grief.

Sorrows divided amongst many, less
Discruciate a man in deep distress.

Robert Herrick