Love
Upon Love.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
LOve scorch'd my finger, but did spare
The burning of my heart:
To signifie, in Love my share
Sho'd be a little part.
Little I love; but if that he
Wo'd but that heat recall:
That joynt to ashes sho'd he burnt,
Ere I wo'd love at all.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/83/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Love.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/83/.
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