Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

To Violets

Welcome, maids of honour!

You do bring

In the spring,

And wait upon her.


She has virgins many,

Fresh and fair;

Yet you are

More sweet than any.


You're the maiden posies,

And so graced

To be placed

'Fore damask roses.


Yet, though thus respected,

By-and-by

Ye do lie,

Poor girls, neglected.

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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