Robert Herrick. Lips Tongueless.

LIPS TONGUELESS.
by Robert Herrick

FOR my part, I never care
For those lips that tongue-tied are :
Tell-tales I would have them be
Of my mistress and of me.
Let them prattle how that I
Sometimes freeze and sometimes fry :
Let them tell how she doth move
Fore or backward in her love :
Let them speak by gentle tones,
One and th' other's passions ;
How we watch, and seldom sleep ;
How by willows we do weep ;
How by stealth we meet, and then
Kiss and sigh, so part again.
This the lips we will permit
For to tell, not publish it.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 100.

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