To
Daffodils
by Robert Herrick |
Fair daffodils, we weep to see |
You haste away so soon ; |
As yet the early-rising sun |
Has not attain’d his noon. |
Stay, stay, |
Until the hasting day |
Has run |
But to the evensong ; |
And having pray’d together, we |
Will go with you along.
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We have short time to stay, as you, |
We have as short a spring ; |
As quick a growth to meet decay, |
As you, or anything. |
We die, |
As your hours do, and dry |
Away, |
Like to the summer’s rain ; |
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew, |
Ne’er to be found again.
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Robert Herrick |
Classic Poems |
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[ To The Virgins ] [ To Daffodils ] [ A Meditation for his Mistress ] [ Upon his Departure Hence ] [ A Ring Presented to Julia ] [ Upon Julia's Clothes ] [ Upon Julia's Voice ] |
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