Love

Epigram 3. To Chloris

by Sir Aston Cokain 1608–1684

From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)

Love

What a beginning is, you fain would know,
And it therefore unto you thus I show:
You are exceeding naught; be good, and so
Of a beginning you example show.

MLA

Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 3. To Chloris.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/46/.

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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 3. To Chloris.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/46/.

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