Relationships
To Celia: An Epigram
From Miscellaneous Works (Waller, 1907)
Relationships
You need not thus so often pray,
Or in devotion spend the day,
Since without half such toil and pain,
You surely Paradise will gain.
Your Husband's impotent and jealous,
And Celia that's enough to tell us
You must inhabit Heaven hereafter.
Because you are a Virgin-Martyr.
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Prior, Matthew. “To Celia: An Epigram.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/196/.
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Prior, Matthew. “To Celia: An Epigram.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/196/.
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