On the 15 th day of the Blog
chatter’s #WRITEAPAGEADAY, Here is a poem with love as the major theme.
Poet: SIR JOHN SUCKLING
Poem: THE CONSTANT LOVER
Out upon it, I have loved
Three whole days together!
And am like to love three more,
If it prove fair weather.
Time shall moult away his wings
Ere he shall discover
In such whole wide world again
Such a constant lover.
But the spite on’t is, No praise
There is due at all to me:
Love with me had made no stay,
Had it any been but she.
Had it any been but she,
And that very face,
There had been at least ere this
A dozen dozen in her place.
Sir John Suckling (1609- 1642) was educated at Cambridge. On inheriting a large fortune from his
father in 1629, he travelled abroad. Witty and generous, he was a great favourite at the Court of
Charles the First but plotting to rescue Strafford from the Tower obliged him to seek safety out of
England. Suckling has a pretty wit, and there are few situations in life in which he cannot find food for
laughter. Nor is the laughter coarse and cynical as with many of his successors; it is a pleasant,
mercurial quality, that disarms the most captious. Suckling's intent in this poem was to amuse the
audience. He did this by sort of poking fun at love. For most people, love is a very serious subject.
Suckling's view on love seems to be a bit teasing. In the time the poem was written, (17th Century)
love was a very common theme with poets. The poem suggest that the love will remain if one’s partner
continues to be as “constant” and beautiful as they are at the beginning of the relationship.
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