Nature
How Primroses came green.
From Hesperides (1648)
Nature
VIrgins, time-past, known were these,
Troubled with Green-sicknesses,
Turn'd to flowers: Stil the hieu,
Sickly Girles, they beare of you.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “How Primroses came green.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/168/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “How Primroses came green.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/168/.
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