Living

Upon himselfe.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

IAm Sive-like, and can hold
Nothing hot, or nothing cold.
Put in Love, and put in too
Jealousie, and both will through:
Put in Feare, and hope, and doubt;
What comes in, runnes quickly out:
Put in secrecies withall,
What ere enters, out it shall:
But if you can stop the Sive,
For mine own part I'de as lieve,
Maides sho'd say, or Virgins sing,
Herrick keeps, as holds nothing.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon himselfe.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/287/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon himselfe.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/287/.

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