| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | To His Mistresses | | By Robert Herrick (1591–1674) |
| | (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. | | | | |
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