Living

To Sir Clisebie Crew.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

SInce to th' Country first I came,
I have lost my former flame:
And, methinks, I not inherit,
As I did, my ravisht spirit.
If I write a Verse, or two,
'Tis with very much ado;
In regard I want that Wine,
Which sho'd conjure up a line.
Yet, though now of Muse bereft,
I have still the manners left
For to thanke you (Noble Sir)
For those gifts you do conferre
Upon him, who only can
Be in Prose a gratefull man.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “To Sir Clisebie Crew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/490/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “To Sir Clisebie Crew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/490/.

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