Robert Herrick


ANOTHER UPON HER.

[MRS. PENELOPE WHEELER].

FIRST, for your shape, the curious cannot show
Any one part that's dissonant in you :
And 'gainst your chaste behaviour there's no plea,
Since you are known to be Penelope.
Thus fair and clean you are, although there be
A mighty strife 'twixt form and chastity.


Form, beauty.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 237.


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