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The Parting Verse, The Feast There Ended.

By Robert Herrick

Topics: classic

Loth to depart, but yet at last each one     Back must now go to's habitation;     Not knowing thus much when we once do sever,     Whether or no that we shall meet here ever.     As for myself, since time a thousand cares     And griefs hath filed upon my silver hairs,     'Tis to be doubted whether I next year     Or no shall give ye a re-meeting here.     If die I must, then my last vow shall be,     You'll with a tear or two remember me.     Your sometime poet; but if fates do give     Me longer date and more fresh springs to live,     Oft as your field shall her old age renew,     Herrick shall make the meadow-verse for you.

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Robert Herrick

About Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick (1591–1674) was an English Cavalier poet whose "Hesperides" (1648) contains over 1,200 poems. His carpe diem verse "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" ("Gather ye rosebuds while ye may") and lyric poems celebrate love, beauty, and the passing of time.

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