Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO A BED OF TULIPS, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Bright tulips, we do know
Last Line: As time had never known ye.
Subject(s): Tulips


1. Bright Tulips, we do know,
You had your comming hither;
And Fading-time do's show,
That Ye must quickly wither.

2. Your Sister-hoods may stay,
And smile here for your houre;
But dye ye must away:
Even as the meanest Flower.

3. Come Virgins then, and see
Your frailties; and bemone ye;
For lost like these, 'twill be,
As Time had never known ye.





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