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by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Good things, that come of course, far less do please
Than those which come by sweet contingencies.




Quotes of the Day

The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the Universe to do.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • Donald Justice
    Hell
    by Donald Justice
    R. B. VAUGHN speaks: "After so many years of pursuing the ideal I came home. But I had caught sight of it. You see it sometimes in the blue-silver wake Of island schooners, bound for Anegada, say.