Living

A Lyrick to Mirth.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

WHile the milder Fates consent,
Let's enjoy our merryment:
Drink, and dance, and pipe, and play;
Kisse our Dollies night and day:
Crown'd with clusters of the Vine;
Let us sit, and quaffe our wine.
Call on Bacchus; chaunt his praise;
Shake the Thyrse, and bite the Bayes:
Rouze Anacreon from the dead;
And return him drunk to bed:
Sing o're Horace; for ere long
Death will come and mar the song:
Then shall Wilson and Cotitre
Never sing, or play more here.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “A Lyrick to Mirth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/109/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “A Lyrick to Mirth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/109/.

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