Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Robert Herrick. 1591–1674261. To Daisies, not to shut so soon
| SHUT not so soon; the dull-eyed night | |
| Has not as yet begun | |
| To make a seizure on the light, | |
| Or to seal up the sun. | |
| No marigolds yet closèd are, | 5 |
| No shadows great appear; | |
| Nor doth the early shepherd’s star | |
| Shine like a spangle here. | |
| Stay but till my Julia close | |
| Her life-begetting eye, | 10 |
| And let the whole world then dispose | |
| Itself to live or die. |