Love

No Loathsomnesse in love.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

WHat I fancy, I approve,
No Dislike there is in love:
Be my Mistresse short or tall,
And distorted there-withall:
Be she likewise one of those,
That an Acre hath of Nose:
Be her forehead, and her eyes
Full of incongruities:
Be her cheeks so shallow too,
As to shew her Tongue wag through:
Be her lips ill hung, or set,
And her grinders black as jet;
Ha's she thinne haire, hath she none,
She's to me a 'Paragon.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “No Loathsomnesse in love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/19/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “No Loathsomnesse in love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/19/.

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