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Poem by Robert Herrick


Purposes


No wrath of men, or rage of seas,
Can shake a just man's purposes;
No threats of tyrants, or the grim
Visage of them can alter him;
But what he doth at first intend,
That he holds firmly to the end.



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. Four Things Make Us Happy Here
  2. Upon Man
  3. Love, What It Is
  4. Casualties
  5. Felicity Quick of Flight


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