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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)118974The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
No Loathsomeness in Love
1898Alfred Pollard

21. NO LOATHSOMENESS IN LOVE.

What I fancy I approve,
No dislike there is in love.
Be my mistress short or tall,
And distorted therewithal:
Be she likewise one of those
That an acre hath of nose:
Be her forehead and her eyes
Full of incongruities:
Be her cheeks so shallow too
As to show her tongue wag through;
Be her lips ill hung or set,
And her grinders black as jet:
Has she thin hair, hath she none,
She's to me a paragon.