ON GILLY-FLOWERS BEGOTTEN.
by Robert Herrick


WHAT was't that fell but now
    From that warm kiss of ours ?
Look, look ! by love I vow
    They were two gilly-flowers.

Let's kiss and kiss again,
    For if so be our closes
Make gilly-flowers, then
    I'm sure they'll fashion roses.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 90.
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