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AGAINST LOVE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHEN ERE MY HEART, LOVE'S WARMTH, BUT ENTERTAINES
Last Line: OR LET ME 'GENDER WITH ETERNALL FROST.
Subject(s): LOVE - COMPLAINTS;

When ere my heart, Love's warmth, but entertaines,
O Frost! O Snow! O Haile forbid the Banes.
One drop now deads a spark; but if the same
Once gets a force, Floods cannot quench the flame.
Rather then love, let me be ever lost;
Or let me 'gender with eternall frost.



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