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NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: TIS NOT EV'RY DAY, THAT I
Last Line: THAT BRAVE SPIRIT COMES AGEN.
Subject(s): CREATIVE ABILITY; INSPIRATION; CREATIVITY;
'Tis not ev'ry day, that I
Fitted am to prophesie:
No, but when the Spirit fils
The fantastick Pannicles:
Full of fier; then I write
As the Godhead doth indite.
Thus inrag'd, my lines are hurl'd,
Like the Sybells, through the world.
Look how next the holy fier
Either slakes, or doth retire;
So the Fancie cooles, till when
That brave Spirit comes agen.



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