Love

Of Love and Liking

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Poems, &c.

Love

To like or not to like, doth lie
In the election of a curious eio:
But should I only what I see approve,
This were but liking and not love.

Or t'would be general, as Boys
At the first sight long for their glorious toys,
Which they embrace til fresh varietie
Shews fairer objects to the eie.

Go Muse! and let my Stella know
I like her person wel: but tel her too!
I love her soul with mine, and thus I find
When out of sight she's in my mind.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “Of Love and Liking.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/25/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “Of Love and Liking.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/25/.

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