StoryTitle("caps", "To the Willow-Tree ") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Thou art to all lost love the best, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "The only true plant found, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Wherewith young men and maids distrest, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "And left of love, are crown'd. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When once the lover's rose is dead,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Or laid aside forlorn: ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Then willow-garlands 'bout the head ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Bedew'd with tears are worn. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "When with neglect, the lovers' bane, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Poor maids rewarded be", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "For their love lost, their only gain ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Is but a wreath from thee. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And underneath thy cooling shade, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "When weary of the light, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The love-spent youth and love-sick maid", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Come to weep out the night.", "") ?>
Poet("Robert Herrick", "1591-1674") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>