Satisfaction For Suffering

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

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 A Friend.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Bell-Man

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Passion.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

To His Kinswoman, Mrs. Penelope Wheeler.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Sufferance.

In the hope of ease to come,
Let's endure one martyrdom.

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Pain Ends In Pleasure.

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

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Sufferings.

We merit all we suffer, and by far
More stripes than God lays on the sufferer.

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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

Persecutions Profitable.

Afflictions they most profitable are
To the beholder and the sufferer:
Bettering them both, but by a double strain,
The first by patience, and the last by pain.

Robert Herrick

Patience: Or, Comforts In Crosses.

Abundant plagues I late have had,
Yet none of these have made me sad:
For why? My Saviour with the sense
Of suff'ring gives me patience.

Robert Herrick