Living
Chorus Virginum.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
GOddesse of Pleasure, Youth and Peace,
Give them the blessing of encrease:
And thou Lucina, that do'it heare
The vowes of those, that children beare:
When as her Aprill …
drawes neare,
Be thou then propitious there.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Chorus Virginum.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/641/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Chorus Virginum.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/641/.
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