Living

To Myrrha hard-hearted.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

FOld now thine armes; and hang the head,
Like to a Lillie withered:
Next, look thou like a sickly Moone;
Or like Jocasta in a swoone.
Then weep, and sigh, and softly goe,
Like to a widdow drown'd in woe:
Or like a Virgin full of ruth,
For the lost sweet-heart of her youth:
And all because, Faire Maid, thou art
Insensible of all my smart;
And of those evill dayes that be
Now posting on to punish thee.
The Gods are easie, and condemne
All such as are not soft like them.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “To Myrrha hard-hearted.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/133/.

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Herrick, Robert. “To Myrrha hard-hearted.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/133/.

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