Living

The Eye.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

MAke me a heaven; and make me there
Many a lesse and greater spheare.
Make me the straight, and oblique lines;
The Motions, Lations, and the Signes.
Make me a Chariot, and a Sun;
And let them through a Zodiac run:
Next, place me Zones, and Tropicks there;
With all the Seasons of the Yeare.
Make me a Sun-set; and a Night:
And then present the Mornings-light
Cloath'd in her Chamlets of Delight.
To these, make Clouds to poure downe raine;
With weather foule, then faire againe.
And when, wise Artist, that thou hast,
With all that can be, this heaven grac't;
Ah! what is then this curious skie,
But onely my Corinna's eye?

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “The Eye.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/134/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “The Eye.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/134/.

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