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To Daffodils of English Spring

Robert Herrick - Tue, Mar 20th 2012


TO DAFFODILS

 

Fair daffodils, we weep to see

you haste away so soon :

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attained his noon.

Stay, stay,

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the Evensong;

And, having prayed together, we

Will go with you along.

 

We have short time to stay with you,

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay,

As you, or anything.

We die,

As your hours do, and dry

Away

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew

Ne'er to be found again.

 

Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

 

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