Living

Up tailes all.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

BEgin with a kisse,
Go on too with this:
And thus, thus, thus let us smother
Our lips for a while,
But let's not beguile
Our hope of one for the other.

This play, be assur'd,
Long enough has endur'd,
Since more and more is exacted;
For love he doth call
For his Uptailes all;
And that's the part to be acted.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Up tailes all.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/736/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Up tailes all.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/736/.

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