A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick

Titel: A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick

von William Shakespeare, H. G. Wells, Henry Van Dyke, Thomas Carlyle, Oscar Wilde, Joseph Conrad, Henry James, Anthony Hope, Henry Fielding, Giraldus Cambrensis, Daniel Defoe, Grammaticus Saxo, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hugh Lofting, Agatha Christie, Sinclair Lewis, Eugène Brieux, Upton Sinclair, Booth Tarkington, Sax Rohmer, Jack London, Anna Katharine Green, Sara Jeannette Duncan, Xenophon, Alexandre Dumas père, John William Draper, Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell, Bram Stoker, Honoré de Balzac, William Congreve, Louis de Rougemont, Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Rolf Boldrewood, François Rabelais, Lysander Spooner, B. M. Bower, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hickling Prescott, Lafcadio Hearn, Robert Herrick

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FROM THE LYRICAL POEMS OF ROBERT HERRICK

By Robert Herrick

Arranged with introduction by Francis Turner Palgrave

Contents

PREFACE C H R Y S O M E L A PREFATORY 1. THE ARGUMENT OF HIS BOOK 2. TO HIS MUSE 3. WHEN HE WOULD HAVE HIS VERSES READ 4. TO HIS BOOK 5. TO HIS BOOK 6. TO HIS BOOK 7. TO MISTRESS KATHARINE BRADSHAW, THE LOVELY 8. TO HIS VERSES 9. NOT EVERY DAY FIT FOR VERSE 10. HIS PRAYER TO BEN JONSON 11. HIS REQUEST TO JULIA 12. TO HIS BOOK 13. HIS POETRY HIS PILLAR 14. TO HIS BOOK 15. UPON HIMSELF IDYLLICA 16. THE COUNTRY LIFE: 17. TO PHILLIS, TO LOVE AND LIVE WITH HIM 18. THE WASSAIL 19. THE FAIRIES 20. CEREMONY UPON CANDLEMAS EVE 21. CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS EVE 22. THE CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMAS DAY 23. FAREWELL FROST, OR WELCOME SPRING 24. TO THE MAIDS, TO WALK ABROAD 25. CORINA'S GOING A MAYING 26. THE MAYPOLE 27. THE WAKE 28. THE HOCK-CART, OR HARVEST HOME: 29. THE BRIDE-CAKE 30. THE OLD WIVES' PRAYER 31. THE BELL-MAN 33. TO THE GENIUS OF HIS HOUSE 33. HIS GRANGE, OR PRIVATE WEALTH 34. A PASTORAL UPON THE BIRTH OF PRINCE CHARLES: 35. A DIALOGUE BETWIXT HIMSELF AND MISTRESS ELIZA WHEELER 36. A BUCOLIC BETWIXT TWO; LACON AND THYRSIS 37. A PASTORAL SUNG TO THE KING 38. TO THE WILLOW-TREE 39. THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL 40. OBERON'S FEAST 41. THE BEGGAR TO MAB, THE FAIRY QUEEN 42. THE HAG 43. THE MAD MAID'S SONG 44. THE CHEAT OF CUPID; OR, THE UNGENTLE GUEST 45. UPON CUPID 46. TO BE MERRY 47. UPON HIS GRAY HAIRS 48. AN HYMN TO THE MUSES 49. THE COMING OF GOOD LUCK 50. HIS CONTENT IN THE COUNTRY 51. HIS RETURN TO LONDON 52. HIS DESIRE 53. AN ODE FOR BEN JONSON 54. TO LIVE MERRILY, AND TO TRUST TO GOOD VERSES 55. THE APPARITION OF HIS, MISTRESS, CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM 56. THE INVITATION 57. TO SIR CLIPSBY CREW 58. A COUNTRY LIFE: TO HIS BROTHER, MR THOMAS HERRICK 59. TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS 60. A PARANAETICALL, OR ADVISIVE VERSE TO HIS FRIEND, MR JOHN WICKS 61. TO HIS HONOURED AND MOST INGENIOUS FRIEND MR CHARLES COTTON 62. A NEW YEAR'S GIFT, SENT TO SIR SIMEON STEWARD 63. AN ODE TO SIR CLIPSBY CREW 64. A PANEGYRIC TO SIR LEWIS PEMBERTON 65. ALL THINGS DECAY AND DIE 66. TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK 67. HIS AGE: 68. THE BAD SEASON MAKES THE POET SAD 69. ON HIMSELF 70. HIS WINDING-SHEET 71. ANACREONTIC 72. TO LAURELS 73. ON HIMSELF 74. ON HIMSELF 75. TO ROBIN RED-BREAST 76. THE OLIVE BRANCH 77. THE PLAUDITE, OR END OF LIFE 78. TO GROVES AMORES 79. MRS ELIZ: WHEELER, UNDER THE NAME OF THE LOST SHEPHERDESS 80. A VOW TO VENUS 81. UPON LOVE 82. UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES 83. THE BRACELET TO JULIA 84. UPON JULIA'S RIBBON 85. TO JULIA 86. ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA 87. HER BED 88. THE ROCK OF RUBIES, AND THE QUARRY OF PEARLS 89. THE PARLIAMENT OF ROSES TO JULIA 90. UPON JULIA'S RECOVERY 91. UPON JULIA'S HAIR FILLED WITH DEW 92. CHERRY RIPE 93. THE CAPTIVE BEE; OR, THE LITTLE FILCHER 94. UPON ROSES 95. HOW HIS SOUL CAME ENSNARED 96. UPON JULIA'S VOICE 97. THE NIGHT PIECE: TO JULIA 98. HIS COVENANT OR PROTESTATION TO JULIA 99. HIS SAILING FROM JULIA 100. HIS LAST REQUEST TO JULIA 101. THE TRANSFIGURATION 102. LOVE DISLIKES NOTHING 103. UPON LOVE 104. TO DIANEME 105. TO PERENNA 106. TO OENONE. 107. TO ELECTRA 108. TO ANTHEA, WHO MAY COMMAND HIM ANY THING 109. ANTHEA'S RETRACTATION 110. LOVE LIGHTLY PLEASED 111. TO DIANEME 112. UPON HER EYES 113. UPON HER FEET 114. UPON A DELAYING LADY 115. THE CRUEL MAID 116. TO HIS MISTRESS, OBJECTING TO HIM NEITHER TOYING OR TALKING 117. IMPOSSIBILITIES: TO HIS FRIEND 118. THE BUBBLE: A SONG 119. DELIGHT IN DISORDER 120. TO SILVIA 121. TO SILVIA TO WED 122. BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL 123. ON A PERFUMED LADY 124. THE PARCAE; OR, THREE DAINTY DESTINIES: THE ARMILET 125. A CONJURATION: TO ELECTRA 126. TO SAPHO 127. OF LOVE: A SONNET 128. TO DIANEME 129. TO DIANEME 130. KISSING USURY 131. UPON THE LOSS OF HIS MISTRESSES 132. THE WOUNDED HEART 133. HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL 134. CRUTCHES 135. TO ANTHEA 136. TO ANTHEA 137. TO HIS LOVELY MISTRESSES 138. TO PERlLLA 139. A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS 140. TO THE VIRGINS, TO MAKE MUCH OF TIME EPIGRAMS 141. POSTING TO PRINTING 142. HIS LOSS 143. THINGS MORTAL STILL MUTABLE 144. NO MAN WITHOUT MONEY 145. THE PRESENT TIME BEST PLEASETH 146. WANT 147. SATISFACTION FOR SUFFERINGS 148. WRITING 149. THE DEFINITION OF BEAUTY 150. A MEAN IN OUR MEANS 151. MONEY MAKES THE MIRTH 152. TEARS AND LAUGHTER 153. UPON TEARS 154. ON LOVE 155. PEACE NOT PERMANENT 156. PARDONS 157. TRUTH AND ERROR 158. WlT PUNISHED PROSPERS MOST 159. BURIAL 160. NO PAINS, NO GAINS 161. TO YOUTH 162. TO ENJOY THE TIME 163. FELICITY QUICK OF FLIGHT 164. MIRTH 165. THE HEART 166. LOVE, WHAT IT IS 167. DREAMS 168. AMBITION 169. SAFETY ON THE SHORE 170. UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN 171. UPON WRINKLES 172. CASUALTIES 173. TO LIVE FREELY 174. NOTHING FREE-COST 175. MAN'S DYING-PLACE UNCERTAIN 176. LOSS FROM THE LEAST 177. POVERTY AND RICHES 178. UPON MAN 179. PURPOSES