Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE HOURE-GLASSE, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: That houre-glasse, which there ye see
Last Line: Do restless run when they are dead.
Subject(s): Hourglasses


That Houre-glasse, which there ye see
With Water fill'd, (Sirs, credit me)
The humour was, (as I have read)
But Lovers tears inchristalled,
Which, as they drop by drop doe passe
From th' upper to the under-glasse,
Do in a trickling manner tell,
(By many a watrie syllable)
That Lovers tears in life-time shed,
Do restless run when they are dead.





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