John Donne

“ Love might make me leave loving, or might try
⁠A deeper plague, to make her love me too;
Which, since she loves before, I'm loth to see.
Falsehood is worse than hate; and that must be,
⁠If she whom I love, should love me. ”

“ I LONG to talk with some old lover's ghost,
⁠Who died before the god of love was born. ”