Love

To Love.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

I'M free from thee; and thou no more shalt heare
My puling Pipe to beat against thine eare:
Farewell my shackles, (though of pearle they be)
Such precious thraldome ne'r shall fetter me.
He loves his bonds, who when the first are broke,
Submits his neck unto a second yoke.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “To Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/40/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “To Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/40/.

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