Living

To Musick, to becalme a sweet-sick-youth.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

CHarms, that call down the moon from out her sphere,
On this sick youth work your enchantments here:
Bind up his senses with your numbers, so,
As to entrance his paine, or cure his woe.
Fall gently, gently, and a while him keep
Lost in the civill Wildernesse of sleep:
That done, then let him, dispossest of painc,
Like to a slumbring Bride, awake againe.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “To Musick, to becalme a sweet-sick-youth.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/246/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “To Musick, to becalme a sweet-sick-youth.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/246/.

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