Love
His misery in a Mistresse.
From Hesperides (1648)
WAter, Water I espie:
Come, and coole ye; all who frie
In your loves; but none as I.
Though a thousand showres be
Still a falling, yet I see
Not one drop to light on me.
Happy you, who can have seas
For to quench ye, or some ease
From your kinder Mistresses.
I have one, and she alone,
Of a thousand thousand known,
Dead to all compassion.
Such an one, as will repeat
Both the cause, and make the heat
More by Provocation great.
Gentle friends, though I despaire
Of my cure, doe you beware
Of those Girles, which cruell are.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “His misery in a Mistresse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/163/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “His misery in a Mistresse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/163/.
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