English Poetry. Robert Herrick. The Fairies. Роберт Геррик (Херрик).

Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик))

The Fairies

If ye will with Mab find grace,
Set each platter in his place;
Rake the fire up, and get
Water in, ere sun be set.
Wash your pails and cleanse your dairies,
Sluts are loathsome to the fairies;
Sweep your house; Who doth not so,
Mab will pinch her by the toe.

Robert Herrick’s other poems:

1. The Present Time Best Pleaseth
2. The Hock-Cart, or Harvest Home: to the Right Honourable Mildmay, Earl of Westmorland
3. A Paranaeticall, or Advisive Verse to His Friend, Mr John Wicks
4. The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls
5. Upon Julia’s Recovery

Poems of other poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

William Allingham (Вильям Аллингам) The Fairies (“Up the airy mountain”)

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