Love
To Anthea lying in bed.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
SO looks Anthea, when in bed she lyes,
Orecome, or halfe betray'd by Tiffanies:
Like to a Twi-light, or that simpring Dawn,
That Roses shew, when misted o're with Lawn.
Twilight is yet, till that her Lawnes give way;
Which done, that Dawne, turnes then to perfect day.
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Herrick, Robert. “To Anthea lying in bed.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/102/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To Anthea lying in bed.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/102/.
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