Love
Epigram 29. To Corinna
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Love
Why (excellent Corinna) do you throw
Your gold away for durt to lay on snow?
For so, compar'd unto your whiter skin,
The Linen is you veil your body in:
For like a Diamond taken from a rock
You would appear unclouded of your smock.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 29. To Corinna.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/72/.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 29. To Corinna.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/72/.
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