Love

To Cupid.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

I Have a leaden, thou a shaft of gold;
Thou kil'st with heate, and I strike dead with cold.
Let's trie of us who shall the first expire;
Or thou be frost, or I by quenchlesse fire:
Extreames are fatall, where they once doe strike,
And bring to'th' heart destruction both alike.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “To Cupid.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1129/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “To Cupid.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1129/.

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