Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain’d his noon.
Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having pray’d together, we
Will go with you along.
This stanza has been taken from the poem “To the daffodils” written by Robert Herrick. Through
this stanza the poets tries to explain how life transient in a cycle like the life of daffodils.
The poet addresses the daffodils as beautiful flowers, fresh and tender very early in the morning,
the way our life is in our early age. The way daffodils cannot hold back it from being dried out,
we the human being cannot resist ourselves being cycled of age. Daffodils dries out before the
sun reaches to its prime and the same way we the human being reach to our another stage of our
life –noon. The poet feels sad for the daffodils seeing its short life, basically, the poet cries inside
for the life short span in the world. The poet, the way, requests the flowers to stay up to the even
song, means us the last stage of our life.
We have short time to stay, as you,
We have as short a spring;
As quick a growth to meet decay,
As you, or anything.
We die
As your hours do, and dry
Away
Like to the summer’s rain;
Or as the pearls of morning’s dew,
Ne’er to be found again.
Through this stanza, the poet tries to reflect short life span of human beings comparing with
nature which live for some flicks of moments.
The poet tries to reflect that our life is nothing but comprises of some short moments which don’t
exist for long like the duration of our youth which is called the golden moment of our life. The
poets says that the way the age youth appears and dries, our span of life decays in the same pace-
very fast. We lost in the stream of time and we cannot realize that. We live as short as the drops
of Summer rains and morning dews which disappear as soon as the scorching heat hits upon.
