Robert Herrick (1591-1674). To OEnone. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1907. The Book of Elizabethan Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

To Œnone

By Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


WHAT conscience, say, is it in thee
When I a heart had won,
To take away that heart from me,
And to retain thy own?

For shame or pity now incline	5
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,	10
Why, yet to show that thou art just,
Take me and mine together!