Love
Against Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
WHen ere my heart, Love's warmth, but entertaines,
O Frost! O Snow! O Haile forbid the Banes.
One drop now deads a spark; but if the same
Once gets a force, Floods cannot quench the flame.
Rather then love, let me be ever lost;
Or let me 'gender with eternall frost.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Against Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/111/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Against Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/111/.
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