Living

The Bubble. A Song.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

TO my revenge, and to her desp'rate feares,
Flie thou made Bubble of my sighs, and tears.
In the wild aire, when thou hast rowl'd about,
And (like a blasting Planet) found her out;
Stoop, mount, passe by to take her eye, then glare
Like to a dreadfull Comet in the Aire:
Next, when thou dost perceive her fixed sight,
For thy revenge to be most opposite;
Then like a Globe, or Ball of Wild-fire, flie,
And break thy self in shivers on her eye.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “The Bubble. A Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/216/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “The Bubble. A Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/216/.

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