Living
The Rock of Rubies: and The quarrie of Pearls.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
SOme ask'd me where the Rubies grew?
And nothing I did say:
But with my finger pointed to
The lips of Julia.
Some ask'd how Pearls did grow, and where?
Then spoke I to my Girle,
To part her lips, and shew'd them there
The Quarelets of Pearl.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “The Rock of Rubies: and The quarrie of Pearls.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/73/.
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Herrick, Robert. “The Rock of Rubies: and The quarrie of Pearls.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/73/.
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