Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904. | | | | V. Trees: Flowers: Plants | | To Daffodils | | Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | | FAIRE daffadills, we weep to see | |
| You haste away so soone; | |
| As yet the early-rising sun | |
| Has not attained his noone. | |
| Stay, stay, | 5 |
| Until the hastening day | |
| Has run | |
| But to the even-song; | |
| And having prayed together, we | |
| Will goe with you along. | 10 |
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| We have short time to stay as you, | |
| We have as short a spring; | |
| As quick a growth, to meet decay, | |
| As you or anything. | |
| We die, | 15 |
| As your hours doe, and drie | |
| Away, | |
| Like to the summer’s raine, | |
| Or as the pearles of morning’s dew, | |
| Ne’er to be found againe. | 20 | | | |
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