A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick

pubOne.info present you this new edition. Those who most admire the Poet from whose many pieces a selection only is here offered, will, it is probable, feel most strongly (with the Editor) that excuse is needed for an attempt of an obviously presumptuous nature. The choice made by any selector invites challenge: the admission, perhaps, of some poems, the absence of more, will be censured:— Whilst others may wholly condemn the process, in virtue of an argument not unfrequently advanced of late, that a