479. To Daffodils by Robert Herrick
R Herrick read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\n\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\n\n---------------------------------------\n\nTo Daffodils\nby Robert Herrick (1591 \u2013 1674)\n\nFair daffodils, we weep to see\nYou haste away so soon;\nAs yet the early-rising sun\n Has not attain'd his noon.\n Stay, stay\n Until the hasting day\n Has run\n But to the evensong;\nAnd, having pray'd together, we\n Will go with you along.\n\nWe have short time to stay, as you,\n We have as short a spring;\nAs quick a growth to meet decay,\n As you, or anything.\n We die\n As your hours do, and dry\n Away\n Like to the summer's rain;\nOr as the pearls of morning's dew,\n Ne'er to be found again.\n\nFirst aired: 31 March 2008\n\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\n\nReading \xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009