Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A SONNET OF PERILLA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then did I live when I did see Last Line: Ile live as one regenerate. | ||||||||
Then did I live when I did see Perilla smile on none but me. But (ah!) by starres malignant crost, The life I got I quickly lost: But yet a way there doth remaine, For me embalm'd to live againe; And that's to love me; in which state Ile live as one Regenerate. | 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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