Robert Herrick (1591-1674). The New Year's Gift. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

The New Year’s Gift

By Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


LET others look for pearl and gold,
Tissues and tabbies 1 manifold:
One only lock of that sweet hay
Whereon the blessèd baby lay,
Or one poor swaddling-clout, shall be	5
The richest New Year’s gift to me.

Note 1. Tabbies: a kind of thick-threaded watered silk. [back]