A SHORT HYMN TO VENUS.
by Robert Herrick


GODDESS, I do love a girl,
Ruby-lipp'd and tooth'd with pearl ;
If so be I may but prove
Lucky in this maid I love,
I will promise there shall be
Myrtles offer'd up to thee.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 171.
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