StoryTitle("caps", "A Meditation for His Mistress") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are a tulip seen to-day, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But, dearest, of so short a stay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "That where you grew scarce man can say. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are a lovely July-flower, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet one rude wind or ruffling shower ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Will force you hence, and in an hour. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are a sparkling rose i' th' bud, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet lost ere that chaste flesh and blood ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Can show where you or grew or stood. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are a full-spread, fair-set vine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And can with tendrils love entwine, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet dried ere you distil your wine. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are like balm encloséd well ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "In amber or some crystal shell, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet lost ere you transfuse your smell. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are a dainty violet, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Yet wither'd ere you can be set ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Within the virgin's coronet. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "You are the queen all flowers among; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "But die you must, fair maid, ere long, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As he, the maker of this song.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>