To Daffodils
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To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
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This poem, first portrayed as a piece pondering the wonders of the daffodil, is really a dramatized account of Herrick’s perception of the conflict between life and death. Examining the short-lived nature of life, Herrick compares the life of a flower (the “you” of the poem) to the life of a human (...
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Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer's rain;
Or as the pearls of morning's dew,
Ne'er to be found again.
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When did Robert-herrick release To Daffodils?
Robert-herrick released To Daffodils on Tue Jan 01 1647.