TO ANTHEA.
by Robert Herrick


IF, dear Anthea, my hard fate it be
To live some few sad hours after thee,
Thy sacred corse with odours I will burn
And with my laurel crown thy golden urn.
Then holding up there such religious things
As were time past, thy holy filletings,
Near to thy reverend pitcher I will fall
Down dead for grief, and end my woes withal :
So three in one small plot of ground shall lie—
Anthea, Herrick, and his poetry.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 11.


  Salvator Rosa. Democritus in Meditation. c.1650.
Salvator Rosa. Democritus in Meditation. c.1650.

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