Poets Access
Register now and publish your best poems or read and bookmark your favorite popular famous poems.
Login
Register
Contact Us
100 Best Poems
Poets Directory
Best Love Poems
Free Poetry
Quotes
Publish your Poems
Menu+
Home
100 Best Poems
Poets Directory
Best Love Poems
Free Poetry
Quotes
Publish your Poems
Home
»
English Poets
»
Robert Herrick
WANT
by Robert Herrick
Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon,
This, that, and every base impression,
Share this Poem:
More Poems Published by this Author
Life is the Body's Light
THE FAIRY TEMPLE; OR, OBERON'S CHAPEL
A Country Life: To His Brother, Mr Thomas Herrick
A Hymn to Bacchus
A Canticle to Apollo
TO HIS BOOK
PARDONS
TO MISTRESS KATHARINE BRADSHAW, THE LOVELY, THAT CROWNED HIM WITH LAUREL
Mirth
THE PRESENT TIME BEST PLEASETH
Last updated May 02, 2015
Quotes of the Day
I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.
• Stephen Fry
Poets by Type
18th Century Poets
Poet Laureate
Nobel Poets
Lyric Poets
Anarchist Poets
Sufi Poets
Feminist Poets
Modernist Poets
Romantic Poets
Epic Poets
Beat Poets
Harlem Renaissance Poets
Tags in English Poets
Edith Nesbit
Rudyard Kipling
William Wordsworth
Christina Rossetti
Percy Bysshe Shelley
William Barnes
Laurence Binyon
Isaac Watts
Edgar Albert Guest
William Shakespeare
William Cowper
George Meredith
Popular Topics
Peace
Loss
Nature
Identity
Poetry
Free Verse
Loving
Inspirational
War
Life
Home
Terms & Conditions
Privacy Policy