T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
To His Mistresses
By Robert Herrick (15911674)(Songs from Hesperides, 1648) HELP me! help me! now I call | |
To my pretty witchcrafts all; | |
Old I am, and cannot do | |
That I was accustomed to. | |
Bring your magics, spells, and charms, | 5 |
To enflesh my thighs and arms; | |
Is there no way to beget | |
In my limbs their former heat? | |
Æson had, as poets feign, | |
Baths that made him young again: | 10 |
Find that medicine, if you can, | |
For your dry, decrepit man: | |
Who would fain his strength renew, | |
Were it but to pleasure you. | |