Love
Age unfit for Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
MAidens tell me I am old;
Let me in my Glasse behold
Whether smooth or not I be,
Or if haire remaines to me.
Well, or be't or be't not so,
This for certainty I know;
Ill it fits old men to play,
When that Death bids come away.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Age unfit for Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/861/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Age unfit for Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/861/.
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