Nature
How Violets came blew.
From Hesperides (1648)
Nature
LOve on a day (wise Poets tell)
Some time in wrangling spent,
Whether the Violets sho'd excell,
Or she, in sweetest scent.
But Venus having lost the day,
Poore Girles, she fell on you;
And beat ye so, (as some dare say)
Her blowes did make ye blew.
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Herrick, Robert. “How Violets came blew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/262/.
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Herrick, Robert. “How Violets came blew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/262/.
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