Love
Love perfumes all parts.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
IF I kisse Anthea's brest,
There I smell the Phenix nest:
If her lip, the most sincere
Altar of Incense, I smell there.
Hands, and thighs, and legs, are all
Richly Aromaticall.
Goddesse Isis cann't transfer
Musks and Ambers more from her:
Nor can Juno sweeter be,
When she lyes with Jove, then she.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Love perfumes all parts.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/156/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Love perfumes all parts.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/156/.
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