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UPON LOVE (6) by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: I HELD LOVE'S HEAD WHILE IT DID AKE
Last Line: FOR BEING TOO-TOO-KIND?
Subject(s): LOVE;
1. I held Love's head while it did ake;
But so it chanc't to be;
The cruell paine did his forsake,
And forthwith came to me.

2. Ai me! How shal my griefe be stil'd?
Or where else shall we find
One like to me, who must be kill'd
For being too-too-kind?



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