Of Love (I do not love, nor can it be)

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) (1591โ€“1674)

I do not love, nor can it beLove will in vain spend shafts on me;I did this godhead once defy,Since which I freeze, but cannot fry.Yet out, alas! the death's the same,Kill'd by a frost or by a flame.