Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS MISTREESES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Helpe me! Helpe me! Now I call Last Line: Were it but to pleasure you. | ||||||||
Helpe me! helpe me! now I call To my pretty Witchcrafts all: Old I am, and cannot do That, I was accustom'd to. Bring your Magicks, Spels, and Charmes, To enflesh my thighs, and armes: Is there no way to beget In my limbs their former heat? AEson had (as Poets faine) Baths that made him young againe: Find that Medicine (if you can) For your drie-decrepid man: Who would faine his strength renew, Were it but to pleasure you. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS by ROBERT HERRICK A TERNARIE OF LITTLES, UPON A PIPKIN OF JELLIE by ROBERT HERRICK A THANKSGIVING TO GOD [FOR HIS HOUSE] by ROBERT HERRICK ANOTHER GRACE FOR A CHILD by ROBERT HERRICK ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CANDLEMASSE EVE by ROBERT HERRICK CEREMONIES FOR CHRISTMAS (1) by ROBERT HERRICK CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US by ROBERT HERRICK COMFORT [TO A YOUTH THAT HAD LOST HIS LOVE] by ROBERT HERRICK |
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