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Poem by Robert Herrick


Barley-Break; or, Last in Hell


We two are last in hell; what may we fear
To be tormented or kept pris'ners here I
Alas!  if kissing be of plagues the worst,
We'll wish in hell we had been last and first.



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. I Call and I Call
  2. Loss from the Least
  3. Upon the Detracter
  4. The Succession of the Four Sweet Months
  5. Love, What It Is


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