Poem by Robert Herrick

His Request to Julia

Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my poetry,
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my book were dead,
Than to live not perfected.

1. Felicity Quick of Flight
2. Upon a Painted Gentlewoman
3. Upon Tears
4. Purposes
5. On Himself (Live by thy Muse thou shalt, when others die)

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