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OF LOVE (3) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: INSTRUCT ME NOW, WHAT LOVE WILL DO
Last Line: TWILL HURT AND HEAL A HEART PIERO'D THROUGH.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Instruct me now, what love will do;
'Twill make a tongless man to wooe.
Inform me next, what love will do;
'Twill strangely make a one of too.
Teach me besides, what love wil do;
'Twill quickly mar, & make ye too.
Tell me, now last, what love will do;
'Twill hurt and heal a heart piero'd through.



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