Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Richard Lovelace. 16181658347. The Grasshopper
O THOU that swing’st upon the waving hair | |
Of some well-fillèd oaten beard, | |
Drunk every night with a delicious tear | |
Dropt thee from heaven, where thou wert rear’d! | |
The joys of earth and air are thine entire, | 5 |
That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly; | |
And when thy poppy works, thou dost retire | |
To thy carved acorn-bed to lie. | |
Up with the day, the Sun thou welcom’st then, | |
Sport’st in the gilt plaits of his beams, | 10 |
And all these merry days mak’st merry men, | |
Thyself, and melancholy streams. |