Living
Vertue is sensible of suffering.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
THough a wise man all pressures can sustaine;
His vertue still is sensible of paine:
Large shoulders though he has, and well can beare,
He feeles when Packs do pinch him; and the where.
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Herrick, Robert. “Vertue is sensible of suffering.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/159/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Vertue is sensible of suffering.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/159/.
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