Living
The Carkanet.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
INstead of Orient Pearls of Jet,
I sent my Love a Karkanet:
About her spotlesse neck she knit
The lace, to honour me, or it:
Then think how wrapt was I to see
My Jet t'enthrall such Ivorie.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “The Carkanet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/32/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “The Carkanet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/32/.
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