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LOVE'S PLAY AT PUSH-PIN by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE AND MY SELFE (BELEEVE ME) ON A DAY
Last Line: THE FINGER BLED, BUT BURNT WAS ALL MY HEART.
Subject(s): LOVE;

Love and my selfe (beleeve me) on a day
At childish Push-pin (for our sport) did play:
I put, he pusht, and heedless of my skin,
Love prickt my finger with a golden pin:
Since which, it festers so, that I can prove
'Twas but a trick to poyson me with love:
Little the wound was; greater was the smart,
The finger bled, but burnt was all my heart.



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