Love

A Conjuration, to Electra.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

BY those soft Tods of wooll
With which the aire is full:
By all those Tinctures there,
That paint the Hemisphere:
By Dewes and drisling Raine,
That swell the Golden Graine:
By all those sweets that be
I'th flowrie Nunnerie:
By silent Nights, and the
Three Formes of Heccate:
By all Aspects that blesse
The sober Sorceresse,
While juice she straines, and pith
To make her Philters with:
By Time, that hastens on
Things to perfection:
And by your self, the best
Conjurement of the rest:
O my Electra! be
In love with none, but me.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “A Conjuration, to Electra.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/776/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “A Conjuration, to Electra.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/776/.

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