The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Of Love (I do not love, nor can it be)

by Robert Herrick

For works with similar titles, see Of Love.

406. OF LOVE.

I do not love, nor can it be
Love will in vain spend shafts on me;
I did this godhead once defy,
Since which I freeze, but cannot fry.
Yet out, alas! the death's the same,
Kill'd by a frost or by a flame.