National Poetry Month occurs in April and was first introduced in 1996 to bring awareness and appreciation of poetry in the United States. In recognition of this, a poem will be posted each week to celebrate National Poetry Month. Enjoy!
The poem of this week is To Daffodils by Robert Herrick:
Fair Daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay,
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the even-song;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away,
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.