Robert Herrick (Роберт Геррик (Херрик))

To Anthea, Who May Command Him Any Thing

     Bid me to live, and I will live
     Thy Protestant to be;
     Or bid me love, and I will give
     A loving heart to thee.

     A heart as soft, a heart as kind,
     A heart as sound and free
     As in the whole world thou canst find,
     That heart I'll give to thee.

     Bid that heart stay, and it will stay
     To honour thy decree;
     Or bid it languish quite away,
     And't shall do so for thee.

     Bid me to weep, and I will weep,
     While I have eyes to see;
     And having none, yet I will keep
     A heart to weep for thee.

     Bid me despair, and I'll despair,
     Under that cypress tree;
     Or bid me die, and I will dare
     E'en death, to die for thee.

     —Thou art my life, my love, my heart,
     The very eyes of me;
     And hast command of every part,
     To live and die for thee.

1. Моему злому читателю • To My Ill Reader
2. Противление поцелуям • Kisses Loathsome
3. К Юлии в храме • To Julia in the Temple
4. The Fairies
5. The Bracelet to Julia

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