English Poetry I: From Chaucer to Gray.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.
Robert Herrick
213. To Anthea who may Command Him Any Thing
Thy Protestant to be:
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.
A heart as sound and free
As in the whole world thou canst find,
That heart I’ll give to thee.
To honour thy decree:
Or bid it languish quite away,
And ’t shall do so for thee.
While I have eyes to see:
And having none, yet I will keep
A heart to weep for thee.
Under that cypress tree:
Or bid me die, and I will dare
E’en Death, to die for thee.
The very eyes of me,
And hast command of every part,
To live and die for thee.