Social Commentaries
On Childish love
From Clarastella (1650), Epigrams, Lib. 1
Social Commentaries
Children their mothers more than fathers love.
The cause is plain: the fathers often prove
Uncertain and unknown, and so it is:
For who can love what he nor knows, nor sees?
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Heath, Robert. “On Childish love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/162/.
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Heath, Robert. “On Childish love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/162/.
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