Living
To his Kinswoman, Mrs. Penelope Wheeler.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
NExt is your lot (Faire) to be number'd one,
Here, in my Book's Canonization:
Late you come in; but you a Saint shall be,
In Chiefe, in this Poetick Liturgie.
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Herrick, Robert. “To his Kinswoman, Mrs. Penelope Wheeler.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/511/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To his Kinswoman, Mrs. Penelope Wheeler.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/511/.
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