Robert Herrick (1591-1674). To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon

By Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


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 closèd are,—	5
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,	10
And let the whole world then dispose
Itself to live or die.