Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they
Can live by love, or else grow fat by play;
But when they call or cry on Grubs for meat,
Instead of bread Grubs gives them stones to eat.
He raves, he rends, and while he thus doth tear,
His wife and children fast to death for fear.
Upon Grubs
Robert Herrick
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Poem topics: death, fear, fast, play, tear, bread, live, children, love, wife, I love you, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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