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TO A GENTLEWOMAN OBJECTING TO HIM HIS GRAY HAIRES by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: AM I DESPIS'D, BECAUSE YOU SAY
Last Line: BY THOSE TRUE TEARES Y'ARE WEEPING.
Subject(s): AGING;
Am I despis'd, because you say,
And I dare sweare, that I am gray?
Know, Lady, you have but your day:
And time will come when you shall weare
Such frost and snow upon your haire:
And when (though long it comes to passe)
You question with your Looking-glasse;
And in that sincere Christall seek,
But find no Rose-bud in your cheek:
Nor any bed to give the shew
Where such a rare Carnation grew.
Ah! then too late, close in your chamber keeping,
It will be told
That you are old;
By those true teares y'are weeping.



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