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Poem by Robert Herrick


A Hymn to Venus and Cupid


Sea-born goddess, let me be
By thy son thus graced, and thee,
That whene'er I woo, I find
Virgins coy, but not unkind.
Let me, when I kiss a maid,
Taste her lips, so overlaid
With love's sirop, that I may
In your temple, when I pray,
Kiss the altar, and confess
There's in love no bitterness. 



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. Upon Shark
  2. To Sir Clipsby Crew
  3. A Country Life: to His Brother, Mr Thomas Herrick
  4. His Last Request to Julia
  5. Things Mortal Still Mutable (Epigram)


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