Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Herrick. 15911674261. To Daisies, not to shut so soon
SHUT not so soon; the dull-eyed night | |
Has not as yet begun | |
To make a seizure on the light, | |
Or to seal up the sun. | |
No marigolds yet closèd are, | 5 |
No shadows great appear; | |
Nor doth the early shepherd’s star | |
Shine like a spangle here. | |
Stay but till my Julia close | |
Her life-begetting eye, | 10 |
And let the whole world then dispose | |
Itself to live or die. |