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Poem by Robert Herrick


Grace for a Child


Here, a little child, I stand,
Heaving up my either hand:
Cold as paddocks though they be,
Here I lift them up to thee,
For a benison to fall
On our meat, and on us all.
Amen. 



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. Love, What It Is
  2. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
  3. Wlt Punished Prospers Most
  4. No Pains, No Gains
  5. Upon a Painted Gentlewoman


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