StoryTitle("caps", "Corinna's Going a-Maying") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Get up, get up for shame! The blooming morn ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Upon her wings presents the god unshorn. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "See how Aurora throws her fair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fresh-quilted colours through the air: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Get up, sweet slug-a-bed, and see", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The dew bespangling herb and tree! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Each flower has wept and bow'd toward the east ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Above an hour since, yet you not drest; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nay! not so much as out of bed? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When all the birds have matins said ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sung their thankful hymns, 'tis sin, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Nay, profanation, to keep in, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Whereas a thousand virgins on this day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Spring sooner than the lark, to fetch in May. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Rise and put on your foliage, and be seen ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "To come forth, like the spring-time, fresh and green, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And sweet as Flora. Take no care ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "For jewels for your gown or hair: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Fear not; the leaves will strew ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Gems in abundance upon you: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Besides, the childhood of the day has kept, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Against you come, some orient pearls unwept. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come, and receive them while the light ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Hangs on the dew-locks of the night: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And Titan on the eastern hill ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Retires himself, or else stands still ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Till you come forth! Wash, dress, be brief in praying: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Few beads are best when once we go a-Maying. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, my Corinna, come; and coming, mark ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "How each field turns a street, each street a park, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Made green and trimm'd with trees! see how ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Devotion gives each house a bough ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or branch! each porch, each door, ere this, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "An ark, a tabernacle is, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Made up of white-thorn neatly interwove, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As if here were those cooler shades of love. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Can such delights be in the street ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And open fields, and we not see't? ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come, we'll abroad: and let's obey ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The proclamation made for May, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And sin no more, as we have done, by staying; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, my Corinna, come, let's go a-Maying. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "There's not a budding boy or girl this day ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But is got up and gone to bring in May. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A deal of youth ere this is come ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Back, and with white-thorn laden home. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Some have despatch'd their cakes and cream, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before that we have left to dream: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And some have wept and woo'd, and plighted troth, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Many a green-gown has been given, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Many a kiss, both odd and even: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Many a glance, too, has been sent ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "From out the eye, love's firmament: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Many a jest told of the keys betraying ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "This night, and locks pick'd: yet we're not a-Maying! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, let us go, while we are in our prime, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And take the harmless folly of the time! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "We shall grow old apace, and die ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Before we know our liberty. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Our life is short, and our days run ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "As fast away as does the sun. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, as a vapour or a drop of rain, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Once lost, can ne'er be found again, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "So when or you or I are made ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A fable, song, or fleeting shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "All love, all liking, all delight ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Lies drown'd with us in endless night. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then, while time serves, and we are but decaying, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Come, my Corinna, come, let 's go a-Maying.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>