Nature

How Springs came first.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Nature

THese Springs were Maidens once that lov'd
But lost to that they most approv'd:
My Story tells, by Love they were
Turn'd to these Springs, which wee see here:
The pretty whimpering that they make,
When of the Banks their leave they take;
Tels ye but this, they are the same,
In nothing chang'd but in their name.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “How Springs came first.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/479/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “How Springs came first.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/479/.

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