The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/How Pansies or Heart's-ease Came First

by Robert Herrick

391. HOW PANSIES OR HEART'S-EASE CAME FIRST.

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