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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO ANTHEA (5), by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Sick is anthea, sickly in the spring
Last Line: Each bending then, will rise a proper flower.
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness
First Line: Sick is anthea, sickly in the spring
Last Line: Each bending then, will rise a proper flower.
Subject(s): Sickness; Illness
Sick is Anthea, sickly is the spring,
The Primrose sick, and sickly every thing:
The while my deer Anthea do's but droop,
The Tulips, Lillies, Daffadills do stoop;
But when again sh'as got her healthfull houre,
Each bending then, will rise a proper flower.
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