Living
No Shipwrack of Vertue. To a friend.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
THou sail'st with others, in this Argus here;
Nor wrack, or Bulging thou hast cause to feare:
But trust to this, my noble passenger;
Who swims with Vertue, he shall still be sure
(Vlysses-like) all tempests to endure;
And 'midst a thousand gulfs to be secure.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “No Shipwrack of Vertue. To a friend.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/69/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “No Shipwrack of Vertue. To a friend.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/69/.
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