Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO ANTHEA (3), by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Ah my anthea! Must my heart still break?
Last Line: The rest ile speak, when we meet both in bed.
Subject(s): Love - Erotic


Ah my Anthea! Must my heart still break?
(Love makes me write, what shame forbids to speak.)
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde an hundred more:
A thousand to that hundred: so kisse on,
To make that thousand up a million.
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
But yet, though Love likes well such Scenes as these,
There is an Act that will more fully please:
Kissing and glancing, soothing, all make way
But to the acting of this private Play:
Name it I would; but being blushing red,
The rest Ile speak, when we meet both in bed.





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