Living
To M[ary] L[ocke]
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, IV: Poems and Plays, ed. E. V. Lucas
Living
Must I write with pen unwilling
And describe those graces killing
Rightly, which I never saw?
Yes--it is the Album's law.
Let me then Invention strain
On your excelling charms to feign--
Cold is Fiction? I believe it
Kindly, as I did receive it,
Even as J.F.'s tongue did weave it.
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MLA
Lamb, Charles. “To M[ary] L[ocke].” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/122/.
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Lamb, Charles. “To M[ary] L[ocke].” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lamb/122/.
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