UPON HIS KINSWOMAN, MISTRESS BRIDGET HERRICK by Robert Herrick WHEN I consider, dearest, thou dost stay But here a-while, to languish and decay, Like to these garden-glories, which here be The flowery-sweet resemblances of thee ; With grief of heart, methinks, I thus do cry : Would thou hadst ne'er been born, or might'st not die.
Source: Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I. Alfred Pollard, ed. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 255.
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