Living
The comming of good luck.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
SO Good-luck came, and on my roofe did light,
Like noyse-lesse Snow; or as the dew of night:
Not all at once, but gently, as the trees
Are, by the Sun-beams, tickel'd by degrees.
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Herrick, Robert. “The comming of good luck.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/249/.
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Herrick, Robert. “The comming of good luck.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/249/.
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