LOVE KILLED BY LACK.
by Robert Herrick


LET me be warm, let me be fully fed,
Luxurious love by wealth is nourished.
Let me be lean, and cold, and once grown poor,
I shall dislike what once I lov'd before.



Rubens. Venus Frigida, 1614
Rubens. Venus Frigida, 1614.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 36.


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