On the 16 th day of the Blog
chatter’s #WRITEAPAGEADAY, Here is a poem with love as the major theme.
Poet: Edmund Waller
Poem: GO, Lovely Rose!
Go, lovely Rose!
Tell her that wastes her time and me,
That now she knows,
When I resemble her to thee,
How sweet and fair she seems to be.
Tell her that's young,
And shuns to have her graces spied,
That hadst thou sprung
In deserts where no men abide,
Thou must have uncommended died.
Small is the worth
Of beauty from the light retired:
Bid her come forth,
Suffer herself to be desired,
And not blush so to be admired.
Then die—that she
The common fate of all things rare
May read in thee;
How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!
"Go, Lovely Rose" is lyric poem with four
quatrains (four-line stanzas) in which the speaker addresses a rose he is
sending to a young lady. It was first published in 1645 in Poems, a
collection of Waller's works. It is among the most famous and most admired
short poems in English literature. The
poet adopts the common theme of carpe diem in the best tradition of Cavalier
poetry, utilizing the easily recognizable symbol of the rose for a woman ripe
for romance. In this version Waller establishes the rose as a go-between for
the poet to his love, adopting the figurative language of personification.
Edmund
Waller led a most adventurous life who was born 1605 at Coleshill in U.K. His reputation,
as in so many cases, rests upon his songs: though he showed skill in the
couplet afterwards used with such power by Dryden. He is graceful and
accomplished always, on occasion fervent; and once at any rate, in his later
years, highly imaginative. Among his
lyric verses, such pretty pieces as Go, Lovely Rose, and On a Griddle may be
instanced. Opportunistic as a man, his opportunism
is equally clear in the readiness with which he adopts every new literary
fashion.
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