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A VOW TO VENUS

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Happily I had a sight
Of my dearest dear last night;
Make her this day smile on me,
And I'll roses give to thee!




Quotes of the Day

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
• Bertrand Russell


Poems of the Day
  • Sara Teasdale
    Silence
    by Sara Teasdale
    (To Eleonora Duse) We are anhungered after solitude, Deep stillness pure of any speech or sound, Soft quiet hovering over pools profound, The silences that on the desert brood,