Living
A Song.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
BUrne, or drowne me, choose ye whether,
So I may but die together:
Thus to slay me by degrees,
Is the height of Cruelties.
What needs twenty stabs, when one
Strikes me dead as any stone?
O shew mercy then, and be
Kind at once to murder mee.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “A Song.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/766/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “A Song.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/766/.
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