Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

To Daisies, Not To Shut So Soon

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night

Has not as yet begun

To make a seizure on the light,

Or to seal up the sun.


No marigolds yet closéd are,

No shadows great appear;

Nor doth the early shepherd's star

Shine like a spangle here.


Stay but till my Julia close

Her life-begetting eye,

And let the whole world then dispose

Itself to live or die.

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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