The body sins not tis the will
- DMI number:
- 13351
- First Line:
- The body sins not tis the will
- Last Line:
- That makes the action good or ill
- Poem Genre / Form:
- Extract / snippet from longer work and Couplet
- Themes:
- Virtue / vice
- Author:
- Robert Herrick
- Confidence:
- Absolute (100%)
- Comments:
- Extract from The parting verse, or charge to his supposed wife when he travelled ('Go hence and with this parting kiss'). Herrick (1825) I: 244-246.
- Title:
- The British muse, or, a collection of thoughts moral, natural, and sublime, of our English poets: who flourished in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. [T131617] [ecco]
- Page No(s):
- p.13
- Poem Title:
- [no title]
- Attribution:
- Herrick
- Attributed To:
- Robert Herrick
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