Lyric Poem · Sad
Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love
What needs complaints,
When she a place
Has with the race
Of saints?
In endless mirth,
She thinks not on
What's said or done
In earth:
She sees no tears,
Or any tone
Of thy deep groan
She hears;
Nor does she mind,
Or think on't now,
That ever thou
Wast kind: —
But changed above,
She likes not there,
As she did here,
Thy love.
— Forbear, therefore,
And lull asleep
Thy woes, and weep
No more.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Comfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love
- Poet
- Robert Herrick
- Length
- 24 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Sad, Love, Childhood
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- Shape
- 24 lines · one 24-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 4-syllable lines (dimeter length).
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- Author record
- Robert Herrick1591–1674
- Source record
- PoetryDBComfort to a Youth That Had Lost His Love by robert-herrick, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
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- SHA-256 719011f372144cb9…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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