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Poem by Robert Herrick


Safety on the Shore


What though the sea be calm?  Trust to the shore;
Ships have been drown’d, where late they danced before.



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. To Anthea (Anthea, I am going hence)
  2. The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarry of Pearls
  3. His Last Request to Julia
  4. To Sapho
  5. Upon Julia's Ribbon


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