Living
Up tailes all.
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.
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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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