Love

Loves Haesitation. To Clarastella

by Robert Heath fl. 1636–1659

From Clarastella (1650), Poems, &c.

Love

Why should I love that thing
Can no affection bring?
Since reason doth from liking draw
Reciproque friendship, shall I thaw
When her love freezeth? tel me why
When she disdaineth, should not I?

Yet Loves Religion
Bids me love, though she frown;
By whose more sacred lawes Heav'n knowes
We are enjoyn'd to love our foes:
Though she reject me then, yet I
Must love my Stella, til I die.

Love! I your pow'rs obey
True love can ne'r decay:
And since that Virtue lives in you
Which made me like, and love you too
At first; I am oblieg'd, and I
Must love thee to Eternitie.

MLA

Heath, Robert. “Loves Haesitation. To Clarastella.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/52/.

Chicago

Heath, Robert. “Loves Haesitation. To Clarastella.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/heath_r/52/.

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