Love
Portii Licinii
Translated by Richard Lovelace (1659) · From Lucasta: Posthume Poems (1659)
Love
If you are Phoebus sister, Delia, pray,
This my request unto the Sun convay:
O Delphick god, I built thy marble fane,
And sung thy praises with a gentle cane,
Now, if thou art divine Apollo, tell,
Where he, whose purse is empty, may go fill.
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Lovelace, Richard. “Portii Licinii.” Translated by Richard Lovelace. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/123/.
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Lovelace, Richard. “Portii Licinii.” Translated by Richard Lovelace. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/lovelace/123/.
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