The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/On Himself (Love-sick I am, and must endure)

by Robert Herrick

For works with similar titles, see On Himself.

157. ON HIMSELF.

Love-sick I am, and must endure
A desperate grief, that finds no cure.
Ah me! I try; and trying, prove
No herbs have power to cure love.
Only one sovereign salve I know,
And that is death, the end of woe.