The Primrose

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Title:     The Primrose
Author: (Poet) Robert Herrick [More Titles by Herrick]

Ask me why I send you here
This sweet Infanta of the year?
Ask me why I send to you
This Primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew?
I will whisper to your ears,--
The sweets of love are mixt with tears.

Ask me why this flower does show
So yellow-green, and sickly too?
Ask me why the stalk is weak
And bending, yet it doth not break?
I will answer,--these discover
What fainting hopes are in a lover.

[The end]
(Poet) Robert Herrick's poem: Primrose

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