Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE CRUEL MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And cruell maid, because I see Last Line: Love kill'd this man. No more but so. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
And Cruell Maid, because I see You scornfull of my love, and me: Ile trouble you no more; but goe My way, where you shall never know What is become of me: there I Will find me out a path to die; Or learne some way how to forget You, and your name, for ever: yet Ere I go hence; know this from me, What will, in time, your Fortune be: This to your coynesse I will tell; And having spoke it once, Farewell. The Lillie will not long endure; Nor the Snow continue pure: The Rose, the Violet, one day See, both these Lady-flowers decay: And you must fade, as well as they. And it may chance that Love may turn, And (like to mine) make your heart burn And weep to see't; yet this thing doe, That my last Vow commends to you: When you shall see that I am dead, For pitty let a teare be shed; And (with your Mantle o're me cast) Give my cold lips a kisse at last: If twice you kisse, you need not feare, That I shall stir, or live more here. Next, hollow out a Tombe to cover Me; me, the most despised Lover: And write thereon, This, Reader, know, Love kill'd this man. No more but so. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI 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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