Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.
The PrimroseRobert Herrick (15911674)
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This sweet Infanta of the yeere?
Ask me why I send to you
This Primrose, thus bepearl’d with dew?
I will whisper to your eares,
The sweets of love are mixt with tears.
So yellow-green and sickly too?
Ask me why the stalk is weak
And bending, yet it doth not break?
I will answer, these discover
What fainting hopes are in a lover.