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HOW PRIMROSES CAME GREEN by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: VIRGINS, TIME-PAST, KNOWN WERE THESE
Last Line: SICKLY GIRLES, THEY BEARE OF YOU.
Subject(s): PRIMROSES;
Virgins, time-past, known were these,
Troubled with Green-sicknesses,
Turn'd to flowers: Stil the hieu
Sickly Girles, they beare of you.



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