Love

Comfort to a youth that had lost his Love.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

WHat needs complaints,
When she a place
Has with the race
Of Saints?
In endlesse mirth,
She thinks not on
What's said or done
In earth:
She sees no teares,
Or any tone
Of thy deep grone
She heares:
Nor do's she minde,
Or think on't now,
That ever thou
Wast kind.
But chang'd above,
She likes not there,
As she did here,
Thy Love.
Forbeare therefore,
And Lull asleepe
Thy woes and weep
No more.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Comfort to a youth that had lost his Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1033/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Comfort to a youth that had lost his Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1033/.

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