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UPON LOVE (4) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE'S A THING, (AS I DO HEARE)
Last Line: IS TO LOVE, AND LIVE I'TH FIRE.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Love's a thing, (as I do heare)
Ever full of pensive feare;
Rather then to which I'le fall,
Trust me, I'le not like at all:
If to love I should entend,
Let my haire then stand an end:
And that terrour likewise prove,
Fatall to me in my love.
But if horrour cannot slake
Flames, which wo'd an entrance make;
Then the next thing I desire,
Is to love, and live i'th fire.



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