Living

His Grange, or private wealth.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

THough Clock,
To tell how night drawes hence, I're none,
A Cock,
I have, to sing how day drawes on.
I have
A maid (my Prew) by good luck sent,
To save
That little, Fates me gave or lent.
A Hen
I keep, which creeking day by day,
Tells when
She goes her long white egg to lay.
A goose
I have, which, with a jealous eare,
Lets loose
Her tongue, to tell what danger's neare.
A Lamb
I keep (tame) with my morsells fed,
Whose Dam
An Orphan left him (lately dead.)
A Cat
I keep, that playes about my House,
Grown fat,
With eating many a miching Mouse.
To these
A Trasy I do keep, whereby
I please
The more my rurall privacie:
Which are
But toyes, to give my heart some ease:
Where care
None is, slight things do lightly please.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “His Grange, or private wealth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/733/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “His Grange, or private wealth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/733/.

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