Living

A Hymne to Sir Clipseby Crew.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

'TWas not Lov's Dart;
Or any blow
Of want, or foe,
Did wound my heart
With an eternall smart:

But only you,
My sometimes known
Companion,
(My dearest Crew,)
That me unkindly flew.

May your fault dye,
And have no name
In Bookes of fame;
Or let it lye
Forgotten now, as I.

We parted are,
And now no more,
As heretofore,
By jocund Larr,
Shall be familiar.

But though we Sever
My Crew shall see,
That I will be
Here faithlesse never;
But love my Clipseby ever.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “A Hymne to Sir Clipseby Crew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/428/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “A Hymne to Sir Clipseby Crew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/428/.

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