Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TO MYRRHA, HARD-HEARTED, by ROBERT HERRICK


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First Line: Fold now thine arms, and hang the head
Last Line: All such as are not soft like them.


Fold now thine armes; and hang the head,
Like to a Lillie withered:
Next, look thou like a sickly Moone;
Or like Jocasta in a swoone.
Then weep, and sigh, and softly goe,
Like to a widdow drown'd in woe:
Or like a Virgin full of ruth,
For the lost sweet-heart of her youth:
And all because, Faire Maid, thou art
Insensible of all my smart;
And of those evill dayes that be
Now posting on to punish thee.
The Gods are easie, and condemne
All such as are not soft like them.





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