Living
Anacrontick Verse.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
BRisk methinks I am, and fine,
When I drinke my capring wine:
Then to love I do encline;
When I drinke my wanton wine:
And I wish all maidens mine,
When I drinke my sprightly wine:
Well I sup, and well I dine,
When I drinke my frolick wine:
But I languish, lowre, and Pine,
When I want my fragrant wine.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Anacrontick Verse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1005/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Anacrontick Verse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1005/.
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