Living
The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
FLy to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee,
And say, thou bring'st this Hony-bag from me:
When on her lip, thou hast thy sweet dew plac't,
Mark, if her tongue, but slily, steale a taste.
If so, we live; if not, with mournfull humme,
Tole forth my death; next, to my buryall come.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/250/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/250/.
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