Daffodils

"Daffodils that come before the swallow dares

And takes the winds of March with beauty."

-William Shakespeare

One of the first flowers of springtime

Daffodils often bloom in the snow.

Fair Daffodils, we weep to see

You haste away so soon;

As yet the early-rising sun

Has not attained his noon.

Stay, stay

Until the hasting day

Has run

But to the evensong;

And, having prayed together, we

Will go with you along

We have short time to stay, as you

We have as short a spring;

As quick a growth to meet decay

As you, or anything

We die

As your hours do, and dry

Away

Like to the summer's rain;

Or as the pearls of morning's dew,

Ne'er to be found again.

Beautiful Daffodils border a path in Parson's Reserve

Dartmouth, Massachusetts 

"To Daffodils"

Robert Herrick