| | | | To Electra I dare not ask to kiss, I dare not beg a smile, Lest having that, or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss the air That lately kissèd thee. Today's poem is in the public domain. |
| About This Poem "To Electra" is one of many poems Herrick wrote to a woman he calls Electra, whose appearance he compares, in another poem, to "broad day throughout the east."
Although it is not known when Robert Herrick was born, he was baptized on August 24, 1591. |
| Anthology Featuring Herrick 
(Dover Publications, 1996)
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| | |  Robert Herrick was born in London in 1591. Overshadowed during his lifetime by metaphysical poets like John Donne and Andrew Marvell, Herrick became more popular as his work was rediscovered in the 19th century. He died in 1674. |
| Related Poems by Emily Kendal Frey by Edna St. Vincent Millay by William Alexander Percy |
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