Living
To his Muse.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
GO wooe young Charles no more to looke,
Then but to read this in my Booke:
How Herrick beggs, if that he can-
Not like the Muse; to love the man,
Who by the Shepheards, sung (long since)
The Starre-led-birth of Charles the Prince.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “To his Muse.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/612/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “To his Muse.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/612/.
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