Living
To the most comely and proper M. Elizabeth Finch.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
HAnsome you are, and Proper you will be
Despight of all your infortunitie:
Live long and lovely, but yet grow no lesse
In that your owne prefixed comelinesse:
Spend on that stock: and when your life must fall,
Leave others Beauty, to set up withall.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the most comely and proper M. Elizabeth Finch.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/967/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the most comely and proper M. Elizabeth Finch.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/967/.
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