AGAINST LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICKPoet AnalysisPoet's Biography
First Line: When ere my heart, love's warmth, but entertaines Last Line: Or let me 'gender with eternall frost. Subject(s): Love - Complaints
When ere my heart, Love's warmth, but entertaines, O Frost! O Snow! O Haile forbid the Banes. One drop now deads a spark; but if the same Once gets a force, Floods cannot quench the flame. Rather then love, let me be ever lost; Or let me 'gender with eternall frost.