Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.
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Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.
Author
Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.
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London :: Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield ...,
1648.
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"Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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Upon the Bishop of Lincolne's Imprisonment.
NEver was Day so over-sick with showres,But that it had some intermitting houres.Never was Night so tedious, but it knewThe Last Watch out, and saw the Dawning too.Never was Dungeon so obscurely deep,Wherein or Light, or Day, did never peep.
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Never did Moone so ebbe, or seas so wane,But they left Hope-seed to fill up againe.So you, my Lord, though you have now your stay,Your Night, your Prison, and your Ebbe; you maySpring up afresh; when all these mists are spent,And Star-like, once more, guild our Firmament.Let but That Mighty Cesar speak, and then,All bolts, all barres, all gates shall cleave; as whenThat Earth-quake shook the house, and gave the stoutApostles, way (unshackled) to goe out.This, as I wish for, so I hope to see;Though you (my Lord) have been unkind to me:To wound my heart, and never to apply(When you had power) the meanest remedy:Well; though my griefe by you was gall'd, the more;Yet I bring Balme and Oile to heal your sore.
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