Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A HYMNE TO THE GRACES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I love, (as some have told) Last Line: You can make a mercury. | ||||||||
When I love, (as some have told, Love I shall when I am old) O ye Graces! Make me fit For the welcoming of it. Clean my Roomes, as Temples be, T' entertain that Deity. Give me words wherewith to wooe, Suppling and successefull too: Winning postures; and withall, Manners each way musicall: Sweetnesse to allay my sowre And unsmooth behaviour. For I know you have the skill Vines to prune, though not to kill, And of any wood ye see, You can make a Mercury. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD by ROBERT HERRICK ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS (1) by ROBERT HERRICK CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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