Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Robert Herrick (15911674)To Meadows
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Ye have been fill’d with flowers;
And ye the walks have been
Where maids have spent their hours.
With wicker arks did come,
To kiss and bear away
The richer cowslips home.
And seen them in a round;
Each virgin, like a spring,
With honeysuckles crown’d.
Whose silvery feet did tread,
And with dishevell’d hair
Adorn’d this smoother mead.
Your stock, and needy grown,
You’re left here to lament
Your poor estates alone.