Sorrows Succeed.

When one is past, another care we have:
Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.

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

Upon A Child. An Epitaph.

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Panegyric To Sir Lewis Pemberton

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The Hag.

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Co-Heirs.

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I cannot suffer; and in this my part
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