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UPON LOVE (5) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: LOVE, I HAVE BROKE
Last Line: THE NECK WITH BANDS.
Subject(s): LOVE;

1. Love, I have broke
Thy yoke;
The neck is free:
But when I'm next
Love vext,
Then shackell me.

2. 'Tis better yet
To fret
The feet or hands;
Then to enthrall,
Or gall
The neck with bands.



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