Lyric Poem · Nature
To Music, to Becalm His Fever
1Charm me asleep, and melt me so
2With thy delicious numbers;
3That being ravish'd, hence I go
4Away in easy slumbers.
5Ease my sick head,
6And make my bed,
7Thou Power that canst sever
8From me this ill; —
9And quickly still,
10Though thou not kill
11My fever.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- To Music, to Becalm His Fever
- Poet
- Robert Herrick
- Length
- 33 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem
- Themes
- Nature, Death & Loss, Sad
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- Shape
- 33 lines · 3 stanzas of 11 lines
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- Author record
- Robert Herrick1591–1674
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo Music, to Becalm His Fever by robert-herrick, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 194c13ddea8486ae…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.