Living
How he would drinke his Wine.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
FIll me my Wine in Christall; thus, and thus
I see't in's puris naturalibus:
Unmixt. I love to have it smirke and shine,
'Tis sin I know, 'tis sin to throtle Wine.
What Mad-man's he, that when it sparkles so,
Will coole his flames, or quench his fires with snow?
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “How he would drinke his Wine.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/503/.
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Herrick, Robert. “How he would drinke his Wine.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/503/.
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