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Poem by Robert Herrick


Upon a Virgin Kissing a Rose


'TWAS but a single Rose,
    Till you on it did breathe ;
But since, methinks, it shows
    Not so much Rose as wreath.



Robert Herrick


Robert Herrick's other poems:
  1. Four Things Make Us Happy Here
  2. Love, What It Is
  3. Felicity Quick of Flight
  4. Upon Wrinkles
  5. Casualties


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