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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Upon the Loss of his Mistresses


              1I have lost, and lately, these
              2Many dainty mistresses:
              3Stately Julia, prime of all;
              4Sappho next, a principal;
              5Smooth Anthea, for a skin
              6White, and heaven-like crystalline;
              7Sweet Electra, and the choice
              8Myrrha, for the lute, and voice;
              9Next, Corinna, for her wit,
            10And the graceful use of it;
            11With Perilla; all are gone;
            12Only Herrick's left alone
            13For to number sorrow by
            14Their departures hence, and die.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Robert Herrick, Hesperides (London: for John Williams and F. Eglesfield to be sold by Thomas Hunt, 1648), of which a section called "His Noble Numbers: or, his Pious Pieces" has a separate title-page dated 1647. Facs. edn. Menston: Scolar, 1969. PR 3512 H4 1648A ROBA
First publication date: 1648
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 3RP 1.196.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/6

Form: Couplets


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