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".
- Occupation
- poet, writer, Catholic priest
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Born
- August 24, 1591, 1591
- Died
- October 1674, October 12, 1674, 1674
