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Wither'd with years, and bed-rid Mumma lies;Dry-roasted all, but raw yet in her eyes.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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His Meditation Upon Death
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Why Flowers Change Colour
Upon Her Weeping.
She wept upon her cheeks, and weeping so,She seem'd to quench love's fire that there did glow.
Upon Doll.
No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry,Were they not basted by her either eye.
Upon Shopter.
Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries,Lets drip a certain gravy from her eyes.
Another Upon Her Weeping.
She by the river sat, and sitting there,She wept, and made it deeper by a tear.
Upon His Eyesight Failing Him.
I begin to wane in sight;Shortly I shall bid good-night:Then no gazing more about,When the tapers once are out.
Upon A Child That Died
Here she lies, a pretty bud,Lately made of flesh and blood;Who as soon fell fast asleep,As her little eyes did peep.Give her strewings, but not stirThe earth, that lightly covers her.