Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HIS TEARS [TEARES] TO THAMESIS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I send, I send here my supremest kiss Last Line: Receive this vow, so fare-ye-well for ever. | ||||||||
I send, I send here my supremest kiss To thee my silver-footed Thamasis. No more shall I reiterate thy Strand, Whereon so many Stately Structures stand: Nor in the summers sweeter evenings go, To bath in thee (as thousand others doe.) No more shall I a long thy christall glide, In Barge (with boughes and rushes beautifi'd) With soft-smooth Virgins (for our chast disport) To Richmond, Kingstone, and to Hampton-Court: Never againe shall I with Finnie-Ore Put from, or draw unto the faithfull shore: And Landing here, or safely Landing there, Make way to my Beloved Westminster: Or to the Golden-cheap-side, where the earth Of Julia Herrick gave to me my Birth. May all clean Nimphs and curious water Dames, With Swan-like-state, flote up & down thy streams: No drought upon thy wanton waters fall To make them Leane, and languishing at all. No ruffling winds come hither to discease Thy pure, and Silver-wristed Naides. Keep up your state ye streams; and as ye spring, Never make sick your Banks by surfeiting. Grow young with Tydes, and though I see ye never, Receive this vow, so fare-ye-well for ever. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD by ROBERT HERRICK ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS (1) by ROBERT HERRICK CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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