<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507489" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To His Muse</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam?<br>Far safer 'twere to stay at home;<br>Where thou mayst sit, and piping, please<br>The poor and private cottages.<br>Since cotes and hamlets best agree<br>With this thy meaner minstrelsy.<br>There with the reed thou mayst express<br>The shepherd's fleecy happiness;<br>And with thy Eclogues intermix:<br>Some smooth and harmless Bucolics.<br>There, on a hillock, thou mayst sing<br>Unto a handsome shepherdling;<br>Or to a girl, that keeps the neat,<br>With breath more sweet than violet.<br>There, there, perhaps such lines as these<br>May take the simple villages;<br>But for the court, the country wit<br>Is despicable unto it.<br>Stay then at home, and do not go<br>Or fly abroad to seek for woe;<br>Contempts in courts and cities dwell<br>No critic haunts the poor man's cell,<br>Where thou mayst hear thine own lines read<br>By no one tongue there censured.<br>That man's unwise will search for ill,<br>And may prevent it, sitting still.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Herrick">Robert Herrick</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507489" data-title="To His Muse de Robert Herrick" data-description="Whither, mad maiden, wilt thou roam? Far safer 'twere to stay at home; Where thou mayst sit, and piping, please The poor and private cottages. Since cotes and hamlets best agree With this thy meaner minstrelsy. There with the reed thou mayst expre..."></div> </div> </div>

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