Living
To Myrrha hard-hearted.
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.
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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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