A Selection from the Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick

193. HOW PANSIES OR HEARTS-EASE CAME FIRST

     Frolic virgins once these were,
     Overloving, living here;
     Being here their ends denied
     Ran for sweet-hearts mad, and died.
     Love, in pity of their tears,
     And their loss in blooming years,
     For their restless here-spent hours,
     Gave them hearts-ease turn'd to flowers.