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Robert Herrick (poet)

Robert Herrick (poet)
Robert Herrick, English poet and cleric (d. 1674)

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and Anglican 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".

24 August 1591

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