Love
Of Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
I Do not love, nor can it be
Love will in vain spend shafts on me:
I did this God-head once defie;
Since which I freeze, but cannot frie.
Yet out alas! the deaths the same,
Kil'd by a frost or by a flame.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Of Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/408/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Of Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/408/.
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