Herrick. Of Love. A Sonnet.

OF LOVE. A SONNET.
by Robert Herrick

How love came in I do not know,
Whether by the eye, or ear, or no ;
Or whether with the soul it came
(At first) infused with the same ;
Whether in part 'tis here or there,
Or, like the soul, whole everywhere,
This troubles me : but I as well
As any other this can tell ;
That when from hence she does depart
The outlet then is from the heart.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 27.

Lucas Cranach, The Elder.
Venus and Cupid. 1509.

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