Living
To Sapho.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
SApho, I will chuse to go
Where the Northern winds do blow
Endlesse Ice, and endlesse Snow:
Rather then I once wo'd see,
But a Winters face in thee,
To benumme my hopes and me.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “To Sapho.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/812/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “To Sapho.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/812/.
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