Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE RAINBOW: OR CURIOUS COVENANT, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizling raine
Last Line: No more wo'd drown mine eyes, or me.
Subject(s): Bible; Rainbows; Religion; Theology


Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizling raine,
And as they thus did entertaine
The gentle Beams from Julia's sight
To mine eyes level'd opposite:
O Thing admir'd! there did appeare
A curious Rainbow smiling there;
Which was the Covenant, that she
No more wo'd drown mine eyes, or me.





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