Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO MEADOWS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye have been fresh and green Last Line: Your poor estates alone. Variant Title(s): Honeysuckle: Sweetness Of Disposition;to Meddowes Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Pastures; Meadows; Leas | ||||||||
YE have been fresh and green, Ye have been filled with flowers: And ye the walks have been Where maids have spent their hours. You have beheld, how they With wicker arks did come To kiss, and bear away The richer cowslips home. Ye have heard them sweetly sing, And seen them in a round: Each virgin, like a Spring, With honeysuckles crowned. But now, we see none here Whose silvery feet did tread, And with dishevelled hair Adorned this smoother mead. Like unthrifts, having spent Your stock, and needy grown, Ye are left here to lament Your poor estates alone. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HUNTING PHEASANTS IN A CORNFIELD by ROBERT BLY THREE KINDS OF PLEASURES by ROBERT BLY QUESTION IN A FIELD by LOUISE BOGAN THE LAST MOWING by ROBERT FROST FIELD AND FOREST by RANDALL JARRELL AN EXPLANATION by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON IN FIELDS OF SUMMER by GALWAY KINNELL A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK |
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