Love
No luck in Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
IDoe love I know not what;
Sometimes this, & sometimes that:
All conditions I aime at.
But, as lucklesse, I have yet
Many shrewd disasters met,
To gaine her whom I wo'd get.
Therefore now Ile love no more,
As I've doted heretofore:
He who must be, shall be poore.
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Herrick, Robert. “No luck in Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/586/.
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Herrick, Robert. “No luck in Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/586/.
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