StoryTitle("caps", "The Grasshopper") ?>
PoemStart() ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "O thou that swing'st upon the waving hair ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Of some well-filléd oaten beard, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Drunk every night with a delicious tear ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Dropt thee from heaven, where thou wert rear'd! ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "The joys of earth and air are thine entire, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "That with thy feet and wings dost hop and fly; ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And when thy poppy works, thou dost retire ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "To thy carved acorn-bed to lie. ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "Up with the day, the Sun thou welcom'st then, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Sport'st in the gilt plaits of his beams,", "") ?>
PoemLine("L0", "", "And all these merry days mak'st merry men, ", "") ?>
PoemLine("L2", "", "Thyself, and melancholy streams. ", "") ?>
Poet("Richard Lovelace", "1618–1658") ?>
PoemEnd() ?>