Living
Ultimus Heroum: OR, To the most learned, and to the right Honourable, Henry, Marquesse of Dorchester.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
ANd as time past when Cato the Severe
Entred the circumspacious Theater;
In reverence of his person, every one
Stood as he had been turn'd from flesh to stone:
E'ne so my numbers will astonisht be
If but lookt on; struck dead, if scan'd by Thee.
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Herrick, Robert. “Ultimus Heroum: OR, To the most learned, and to the right Honourable, Henry, Marquesse of Dorchester.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/971/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Ultimus Heroum: OR, To the most learned, and to the right Honourable, Henry, Marquesse of Dorchester.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/971/.
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