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ANTHEA'S RETRACTATION

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Anthea laugh'd, and, fearing lest excess
Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness
She with a dainty blush rebuked her face,
And call'd each line back to his rule and space.




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