Representative Poetry Online
On this day: March 12th
Random Poem of the Day
2 Since I was born, than here;
3Where I have been, and still am, sad,
4 In this dull Devonshire.
5Yet justly too I must confess,
6 I ne'er invented such
7Ennobled numbers for the press,
8 Than where I loath'd so much.
Notes
1] For some years, until he was ejected by the Puritans in 1647, Herrick was vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire. Back to Line