Living
Discontents in Devon.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
MOre discontents I never had
Since I was born, then here;
Where I have been, and still am sad,
In this dull Devon-shire:
Yet justly too I must confesse;
I ne'r invented such
Ennobled numbers for the Presse,
Then where I loath'd so much.
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Herrick, Robert. “Discontents in Devon.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/49/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Discontents in Devon.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/49/.
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