Ink and Wash "Give me that man, that dares bestride" from Selections from The Hesperides & Noble Numbers of Robert Herrick (p. 59).
Price: $10,000.00
About the item
Signed middle left, "E.A. Abbey 1880". 1 vols. 15-3/4 x 9-3/4 " (sight). Framed in the original gilt frame by Pfeiffer & Bros No. 79 Nassau Street. Provenance: Estate of Helen Leale Harper.
Item #238138
Written by Robert Herrick, The Cavalier Poet.
His Cavalier
Give me that man, that dares bestride
The active sea-horse & with pride,
Through that huge field of waters ride:
Who, with his looks too, can appease
The ruffling winds and raging seas,
In the midst of all their outrages.
This a virtuous man can do,
Sail against rocks, and split them too:
Ay! and a world of pikes pass through.
--Sir Robert Herrick--.
