Gateway to the Classics: Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by Arthur Quiller-Couch
 
Oxford Book of English Verse, Part 2 by  Arthur Quiller-Couch

To Oenone

What conscience, say, is it in thee,

When I a heart had one,

To take away that heart from me,

And to retain thy own?


For shame or pity now incline

To play a loving part;

Either to send me kindly thine,

Or give me back my heart.


Covet not both; but if thou dost

Resolve to part with neither,

Why, yet to show that thou art just,

Take me and mine together!

— Robert Herrick
1591-1674   


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