Living
Upon Lucia dabled in the deaw.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
MY Lucia in the deaw did go,
And prettily bedabled so,
Her cloaths held up, she shew'd withall
Her decent legs, cleane, long and small.
I follow'd after to descrie
Part of the nak't sincerity;
But still the envious Scene between
Deni'd the Mask I wo'd have seen.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Lucia dabled in the deaw.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/738/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Lucia dabled in the deaw.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/738/.
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