The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Lips Tongueless

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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2654074The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Lips Tongueless
1898Alfred Pollard

203. LIPS TONGUELESS.

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.