UPON IRENE.
by Robert Herrick


ANGRY if Irene be
But a minute's life with me :
Such a fire I espy
Walking in and out her eye,
As at once I freeze and fry.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 256.



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