Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Herrick. 15911674252. To Daffodils
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 | 5 |
Until the hasting day | |
Has run | |
But to the evensong; | |
And, having pray’d together, we | |
Will go with you along. | 10 |
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 | 15 |
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. | 20 |