Living
Good precepts, or counsell.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
IN all thy need, be thou possest
Still with a well-prepared brest:
Nor let the shackles make thee sad;
Thou canst but have, what others had.
And this for comfort thou must know,
Times that are ill wo'nt still be so.
Clouds will not ever powre down raine;
A sullen day will cleere againe.
First, peales of Thunder we must heare,
Then Lutes and Harpes shall stroke the eare.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Good precepts, or counsell.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/734/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Good precepts, or counsell.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/734/.
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