Love

Love's play at Push-pin.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Love

LOve and my selfe (beleeve me) on a day
At childish Push-pin (for our sport) did play:
I put, he pusht, and heedless of my skin,
Love prickt my finger with a golden pin:
Since which, it felters so, that I can prove
'Twas but a trick to poyson me with love:
Little the wound was; greater was the smart;
The finger bled, but burnt was all my heart.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Love's play at Push-pin.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/42/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Love's play at Push-pin.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/42/.

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