Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Herrick. 15911674254. The Primrose
ASK me why I send you here | |
This sweet Infanta of the year? | |
Ask me why I send to you | |
This primrose, thus bepearl’d with dew? | |
I will whisper to your ears:— | 5 |
The sweets of love are mix’d with tears. | |
Ask me why this flower does show | |
So yellow-green, and sickly too? | |
Ask me why the stalk is weak | |
And bending (yet it doth not break)? | 10 |
I will answer:—These discover | |
What fainting hopes are in a lover. |