To Daisies, Not to Shut So Soon
by Robert Herrick

Noble Numbers (1647), Hesperides (1648). Works , edited by L.C. Martin, 1956 and Complete Poetry edited by J. Max Patrick, 1963.

Shut not so soon; the dull-eyed night
Has not as yet begun
To make a seizure on the light,
Or to seal up the sun.

No marigolds yet closed are;
No shadows great appear;
Nor doth the early shepherds' star
Shine like a spangle here.

Stay but till my Julia close
Her life-begetting eye,
And let the whole world then dispose
Itself to live or die.