Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO DAFFODILS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet's Biography First Line: Fair daffodils, we weep to see / you haste away so soon Last Line: Ne'er to be found againe. Variant Title(s): To Daffadills Subject(s): Daffodils; Flowers; Life Change Events; Transience; Impermanence | ||||||||
FAIRE daffadills, we weep to see You haste away so soone; As yet the early-rising sun Has not attained his noone. Stay, stay, Until the hastening day Has run But to the even-song; And having prayed together, we Will goe with you along. We have short time to stay as you, We have as short a spring; As quick a growth, to meet decay, As you or anything. We die, As your hours doe, and drie Away, Like to the summer's raine, Or as the pearles of morning's dew, Ne'er to be found againe. | Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK |
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