TO SAPHO

Portrait of Robert Herrick
Robert Herrick 1591–1674

Sapho, I will chuse to go Where the northern winds do blow Endless ice, and endless snow; Rather than I once would see But a winter's face in thee,-- To benumb my hopes and me.

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