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NO LOATHSOMENESS IN LOVE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHAT I FANCY, I APPROVE, / NO DISLIKE THERE IS IN LOVE
Last Line: SHE'S TO ME A PARAGON.
Subject(s): LOVE;

What I fancy, I approve,
No Dislike there is in love:
Be my Mistresse short or tall,
And distorted there-withall:
Be she likewise one of those,
That an Acre hath of Nose:
Be her forehead, and her eyes
Full of incongruities:
Be her cheeks so shallow too,
As to shew her Tongue wag through:
Be her lips ill hung, or set,
And her grinders black as jet;
Ha's she thinne haire, hath she none,
She's to me a Paragon.



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