Living
How Pansies or Hart-case came first.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
FRollick Virgins once these were,
Overloving, (living here:)
Being here their ends deny'd
Ran for Sweet-hearts mad, and di'd.
Love in pitie of their teares,
And their losse in blooming yeares;
For their restlesse here-spent-houres.
Gave them Hearts-ease turn'd to Flow'rs.
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Herrick, Robert. “How Pansies or Hart-case came first.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/393/.
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Herrick, Robert. “How Pansies or Hart-case came first.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/393/.
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