This poem by Robert Herrick uses personification and imagery to compare the short lifespan of daffodils to humans. The speaker asks the daffodils to stay until evening so they can pray together before the flowers disappear, just as humans have but a short time on Earth. Through metaphors, similes and other literary devices, the poem reflects on the fleeting nature of both daffodils and human lives.

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2. Refat Ara Jyoti
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Khadija Islam
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Fair daffodils, we weep to see
You haste away so soon;
As yet the early-rising sun
Has not attain'd his noon.
Robert Herrick
To Daffodils
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4. Stay, stay
Until the hasting day
Has run
But to the evensong;
And, having pray'd together, we
Will go with you along.
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5. 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.
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6. 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.
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