birth_date: 1591-08-24 00:00:00
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name: Robert Herrick
about: Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Librarian Note: There is more than one Robert Herrick in the GoodReads database. See this thread for more information. Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may". Librarian Note: There is more than one Robert Herrick in the GoodReads database. See this thread for more information. ...more
death_date: 1674-10-15 00:00:00