Living
Barly-Break: or, Last in Hell.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
WE two are last in Hell: what may we feare
To be tormented, or kept Pris'ners here?
Alas! If kissing be of plagues the worst,
We'll wish, in Hell we had been Last and First.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Barly-Break: or, Last in Hell.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/99/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Barly-Break: or, Last in Hell.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/99/.
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