Love
On Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
LOve bade me aske a gift,
And I no more did move,
But this, that I might shift
Still with my clothes, my Love:
That favour granted was;
Since which, though I love many,
Yet so it comes to passe,
That long I love not any.
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Herrick, Robert. “On Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/251/.
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Herrick, Robert. “On Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/251/.
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