<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37440" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Prohibition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">TAKE heed of loving me;<br>At least remember, I forbade it thee;<br>Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste<br>Of breath and blood, upon thy sighs and tears,<br>By being to thee then what to me thou wast;<br>But so great joy our life at once outwears.<br>Then, lest thy love by my death frustrate be,<br>If thou love me, take heed of loving me.<br> Take heed of hating me,<br>Or too much triumph in the victory;<br>Not that I shall be mine own officer,<br>And hate with hate again retaliate;<br>But thou wilt lose the style of conqueror,<br>If I, thy conquest, perish by thy hate.<br>Then, lest my being nothing lessen thee,<br>If thou hate me, take heed of hating me.<br> Yet love and hate me too;<br>So these extremes shall ne'er their office do;<br>Love me, that I may die the gentler way;<br>Hate me, because thy love's too great for me;<br>Or let these two, themselves, not me, decay;<br>So shall I live thy stage, not triumph be.<br>Lest thou thy love and hate, and me undo,<br>O let me live, yet love and hate me too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=John+Donne">John Donne</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=37440" data-title="The Prohibition de John Donne" data-description="TAKE heed of loving me;/At least remember, I forbade it thee;/Not that I shall repair my unthrifty waste/Of breath and blood, upon thy sighs and tears,/By being to thee then what to me thou wast;/But so great joy our life at once outwears./Then, l..."></div> </div> </div>

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