Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, ECLOGUE, OR PASTORALL .. ENDIMION PORTER & LYCIDAS HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Ah! Lycidas, come tell me why
Last Line: Mean time, let lycidas have leave to pipe to thee.
Subject(s): Porter, Endymion (1587-1649)


1. Endym. Ah! Lycidas, come tell me why
Thy whilome merry Oate
By thee doth so neglected lye;
And never purls a Note?

2. I prithee speake: Lyc. I will. End. Say on:
Lyc. 'Tis thou, and only thou,
That art the cause Endimion;
End. For Loves-sake, tell me how.

3. Lyc. In this regard, that thou do'st play
Upon an other Plain:
And for a Rurall Roundelay,
Strik'st now a Courtly strain.

4. Thou leav'st our Hills, our Dales, our Bowers,
Our finer fleeced sheep:
(Unkind to us) to spend thine houres,
Where Shepheards sho'd not keep.

5. I meane the Court: Let Latmos be
My lov'd Endymions Court;
End. But I the Courtly State wo'd see:
Lyc. Then see it in report.

6. What ha's the Court to do with Swaines,
Where Phillis is not known?
Nor do's it mind the Rustick straines
Of us, or Coridon.

7. Breake, if thou lov'st us, this delay;
End. Dear Lycidas, e're long,
I vow by Pan, to come away
And Pipe unto thy Song.

8. Then Jessimine, with Florabell;
And dainty Amarillis,
With handsome-handed Drosomell
Shall pranke thy Hooke with Lillies.

9. Lyc. Then Tityrus, and Coridon,
And Thyrsis, they shall follow
With all the rest; while thou alone
Shalt lead, like young Apollo.

10. And till thou com'st, thy Lycidas,
In every Geniall Cup,
Shall write in Spice, Endimion 'twas
That kept his Piping up.

And my most luckie Swain, when I shall live to see
Endimions Moon to fill up full, remember me:
Mean time, let Lycidas have leave to Pipe to thee.





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