Love
Anthea's Retractation.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
ANthea laught, and fearing lest excesse
Might stretch the cords of civill comelinesse:
She with a dainty blush rebuk't her face;
And cal'd each line back to his rule and space.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Anthea's Retractation.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1015/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Anthea's Retractation.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1015/.
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