StoryTitle("caps", "To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid me to live, and I will live ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thy Protestant to be; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or bid me love, and I will give ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A loving heart to thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "A heart as soft, a heart as kind, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A heart as sound and free ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "As in the whole world thou canst find, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That heart I'll give to thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid that heart stay, and it will stay ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To honour thy decree:", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or bid it languish quite away, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And't shall do so for thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid me to weep, and I will weep ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "While I have eyes to see: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And, having none, yet will I keep", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "A heart to weep for thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Bid me despair, and I'll despair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Under that cypress-tree: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Or bid me die, and I will dare ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "E'en death to die for thee.", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou art my life, my love, my heart, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The very eyes of me: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And hast command of every part ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To live and die for thee.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>