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"The Vine" by Robert Herrick

I DREAM'D this mortal part of mine Was Metamorphoz'd to a Vine; Which crawling one and every way, Enthrall'd my dainty Lucia. Me thought, her long small legs & thighs I with my Tendrils did surprize; Her Belly, Buttocks, and her Waste By my soft Nervlit's were embrac'd., Here the poet, Robert Herrick, uses conceit to help support the imagery representing sexual repression, domination, and control over the mind and body that is overwhelmingly present in the poem.