The Primrose

Robert Herrick

1591 to 1674

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This sweet Infanta of the year?
I will answer,—these discover
So yellow-green, and sickly too?
Ask me why this flower does show
The sweets of love are mixt with tears.
Ask me why I send you here
Ask me why I send to you
I will whisper to your ears,—
And bending, yet it doth not break?
Ask me why the stalk is weak
This Primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew?
What fainting hopes are in a lover.

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