Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS MAID PREW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These summer-birds did with thy master stay Last Line: Not two, but all the seasons of the yeare. Subject(s): Old Age | ||||||||
These Summer-Birds did with thy Master stay The times of warmth; but then they flew away Leaving their Poet (being now grown old) Expos'd to all the comming Winters cold. But thou kind Prew did'st with my Fates abide, As well the Winters, as the Summers Tide: For which thy Love, live with thy Master here, Not two, but all the seasons of the yeare. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A CHRISTMAS CAROL, SUNG TO THE KING IN THE PRESENCE AT WHITEHALL by ROBERT HERRICK A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK |
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