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Poem for April 17, 2025

The poem for April 17, 2025 is "HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL" by Robert Herrick.

HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL

by Robert Herrick

You may vow I'll not forget

To pay the debt

Which to thy memory stands as due

As faith can seal it you.

--Take then tribute of my tears;

So long as I have fears

To prompt me, I shall ever

Languish and look, but thy return see never.

Oh then to lessen my despair,

Print thy lips into(the air,

So by this

Means, I may kiss thy kiss,

Whenas some kind

Wind

Shall hither waft it:--And, in lieu,

My lips shall send a thousand back to you.

About this daily poem

Daily date
April 17, 2025
Poem
HIS MISTRESS TO HIM AT HIS FAREWELL
Poet
Robert Herrick
Themes
nature, love, grief, faith

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