To Music to Becalm his Fever by Robert Herrick
b"Herrick read by Classic Poetry Aloud:\\nhttp://www.classicpoetryaloud.com/\\nGiving voice to the poetry of the past.\\n\\n---------------------------------------------\\n\\n To Music to Becalm his Fever\\nby Robert Herrick (1591 \\u2013 1674)\\n\\nCharm me asleep, and melt me so\\n With thy delicious numbers,\\nThat, being ravish'd, hence I go\\n Away in easy slumbers.\\n Ease my sick head,\\n And make my bed,\\n Thou power that canst sever\\n From me this ill,\\n And quickly still,\\n Though thou not kill\\n My fever.\\nThou sweetly canst convert the same\\n From a consuming fire\\nInto a gentle licking flame,\\n And make it thus expire.\\n Then make me weep\\n My pains asleep;\\nAnd give me such reposes\\n That I, poor I,\\n May think thereby\\n I live and die\\n 'Mongst roses.\\n\\nFall on me like the silent dew,\\n Or like those maiden showers\\nWhich, by the peep of day, do strew\\n A baptim o'er the flowers.\\n Melt, melt my pains\\n With thy soft strains;\\nThat, having ease me given,\\n With full delight\\n I leave this light,\\n And take my flight\\n For Heaven."