Revenge.

Man's disposition is for to requite
An injury, before a benefit:
Thanksgiving is a burden and a pain;
Revenge is pleasing to us, as our gain.

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

To His Muse.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Anacreontic

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Upon Lungs. Epig.

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Thanksgiving To God, For His House

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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The Recompense.

All I have lost that could be rapt from me;
And fare it well: yet, Herrick, if so be
Thy dearest Saviour renders thee but one
Smile, that one smile's full restitution.

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Griefs.

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

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Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving for a former, doth invite
God to bestow a second benefit.

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Satisfaction For Suffering

For all our works a recompence is sure;
'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t'endure.

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Evil.

Evil no nature hath; the loss of good
Is that which gives to sin a livelihood.

Robert Herrick

Recompense.

Who plants an olive, but to eat the oil?
Reward, we know, is the chief end of toil.

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