Living

His Protestation to Perilla.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

NOone-day and Midnight shall at once be seene:
Trees, at one time, shall be both sere and greene:
Fire and water shall together lye
In one-self-sweet-conspiring sympathie:
Summer and Winter shall at one time show
Ripe eares of corne, and up to th'eares in snow:
Seas shall be sandlesse; Fields devoid of grasse;
Shapelesse the world, (as when all Chaos was)
Before, my deare Perilla, I will be
False to my vow, or fall away from thee.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “His Protestation to Perilla.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/155/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “His Protestation to Perilla.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/155/.

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