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The poems of the renaissance are all timeless works of art. Each with its own personality. Two authors, Robert Herrick and John Donne, have many similarities and differences within their work. Many comparisons and contrasts can be made between Herrick’s “To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time” and Donne’s “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning.” Each work concerns time. Robert Herrick believed that when you get older, you may regret not experiencing certain things earlier. He encouraged virgins to go out and live life to the fullest, because your only young once. If that means enjoying the beauty of the opposite sex, “Then be not coy, but use your time.” Why waste the best period of your life, when you look better than your ever going to look again? Herrick also points out that when youth is gone, it’s gone forever, and you have the rest of your life to look back on the thi