Love

Upon Love.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

LOve's a thing, (as I do heare)
Ever full of pensive feare;
Rather then to which I'le fall,
Trust me, I'le not like at all:
If to love I should entend,
Let my haire then stand an end:
And that terrour likewise prove,
Fatall to me in my love.
But if horrour cannot slake
Flames, which wo'd an entrance make;
Then the next thing I desire,
Is to love, and live i'th fire.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/288/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/288/.

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