Living
Poetry perpetuates the Poet.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
HEre I my selfe might likewise die,
And utterly forgotten lye,
But that eternall Poetrie
Repullulation gives me here
Unto the thirtieth thousand yeere,
When all now dead shall re-appeare.
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Herrick, Robert. “Poetry perpetuates the Poet.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/803/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Poetry perpetuates the Poet.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/803/.
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