Selected Poems of Robert Herrick

A great survivor among the Cavalier poets, most of his poems were composed in a remote Devonshire parish. Even so, the body of his poetry is large and his religious vocationhardly shows in the almost innocent exhuberanceof his fine verse.

Introduction

9

(14)

The Argument of his Book

23

(1)

On Himself

23

(1)

Upon his Verses

23

(1)

An Ode for Him (Ben Jonson)

24

(1)

Discontents in Devon

24

(1)

His Grange, or Private Wealth

25

(1)

To his Maid Prew

26

(1)

His Farewell to Sack

26

(2)

The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home

28

(1)

His Age

29

(5)

The Welcome to Sack

34

(3)

The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad

37

(1)

The Christian Militant

37

(1)

The Departure of the Good Demon

38

(1)

Upon Sibb. Epigram

38

(1)

Upon Slouch

38

(1)

The Coming of Good Luck

39

(1)

Farewell Frost, or Welcome the Spring

39

(1)

To Dean-Bourn, a Rude River in Devon

40

(1)

His Return to London

40

(1)

Upon Man

41

(1)

Soft Music

41

(1)

To Music

41

(1)

The Cheat of Cupid

42

(1)

The Bag of the Bee

43

(1)

The Amber Bead

43

(1)

The Definition of Beauty

44

(1)

Love, What it is

44

(1)

Lovers, How they Come and Part

44

(1)

No Bashfulness in Begging

44

(1)

Love me Little, Love me Long

44

(1)

What Kind of Mistress he would have

45

(1)

The Suspicion

45

(1)

To his Mistress, Objecting to him neither Toying nor Talking

46

(1)

His Parting from Mistress Dorothy Kennedy

47

(1)

The Parting Verse

47

(3)

The Tear Sent to her from Staines

50

(1)

Upon a Painted Gentlewoman

51

(1)

Mistress Elizabeth Wheeler

51

(1)

The Lily in a Crystal

52

(2)

Delight in Disorder

54

(1)

Upon his Julia

54

(1)

Upon Julia's Voice

55

(1)

Cherry Ripe

55

(1)

Art Above Nature, to Julia

55

(1)

Upon Julia's Clothes

56

(1)

Julia's Petticoat

56

(1)

A Ring Presented to Julia

57

(1)

Tears are Tongues

58

(1)

His Sailing from Julia

58

(1)

The Night-Piece, to Julia

59

(1)

Upon Julia's Recovery

59

(1)

His Request to Julia

60

(1)

Glory

60

(1)

To Enjoy the Time

60

(1)

Poets

61

(1)

His Protestation to Perilla

61

(1)

The Vision of Electra

61

(1)

To Anthea

61

(1)

To Anthea Lying in Bed

62

(1)

To Anthea, who may Command him Any Thing

62

(1)

To Phyllis, to Love and Live with him

63

(2)

To Dianeme

65

(1)

To Sylvia to Wed

65

(1)

A Nuptial Song, or Epithalamy

65

(5)

Corinna's Going a-Maying

70

(2)

To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

72

(1)

A Meditation for his Mistress

73

(1)

To Daffodils

74

(1)

To Blossoms

74

(1)

The Sadness of Things for Sappho's Sickness

75

(1)

The Changes to Corinna

75

(1)

To a Gentlewoman, Objecting to him his Gray Hairs

76

(1)

To Perilla

77

(1)

To Anthea

77

(1)

Upon the Loss of his Mistresses

78

(1)

The Apparition of his Mistress Calling him to Elysium

78

(2)

The Parting Verse, the Feast there Ended

80

(1)

Upon a Child. An Epitaph

81

(1)

Upon a Child that Died

81

(1)

To his Dying Brother, Master William Herrick

81

(1)

To the Reverend Shade of his Religious Father

82

(1)

To Find God

83

(1)

What God Is

83

(1)

Good Friday: Rex Tragicus, or Christ Going to His Cross

83

(2)

His Anthem to Christ on the Cross

85

(1)

God's Mercy

85

(1)

To his Sweet Saviour

85

(1)

Poetry Perpetuates the Poet

86

(1)

Upon Himself

86

(1)

His Winding-Sheet

87

(1)

His Poetry his Pillar

88

(1)

To Laurels

89

(1)

Upon Himself

90

(1)

To his book's end

90

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