Selected Poems: Robert Herrick

Making available the full range of Herrick's poetry, this selection includes musings of joyful eroticism, warm observations of rural life, and shrewd epigrams. These poems also demonstrate how Herrick's work is shadowed by an elegiac awareness of mortality and the fragility of beauty.

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century poet and priest. He is the author of Hesperides, a collection of lyric poetry, and Noble Numbers. David Jesson-Dibley is the principal reader for The Professional Author's and Publishers' Association.

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)
His Protestation to Perilla	61	(1)
The Vision of Electra	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 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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