To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night Has not as yet begun To make a seizure on the light, Or to seal up the sun.

No marigolds yet closed are; No shadows great appear; Nor doth the early shepherds' star Shine like a spangle here.

Stay but till my Julia close Her life-begetting eye, And let the whole world then dispose Itself to live or die.

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  1. özlem Turkey

    ıt ıs one of the wonderfull poems of herrick...

  2. ozlem aydın Turkey

    like to daffodils, this poem is one robert use the nature , but generally herrick explore the same themes ın the many poems, that is, to read such poems can be boring...but, ıt ıs nice.

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