Since There's No Help (Sonnet 61)
Since there’s no help, come let us kiss and part.
Nay, I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free.
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of Love’s latest breath,
When, his pulse failing, Passion speechless lies;
When Faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And Innocence is closing up his eyes—
Now, if thou wouldst, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might’st him yet recover!
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Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631)
Michael Drayton was an English poet in the Elizabethan era. Although almost nothing about his early life is known, it is speculated that Drayton was a servant who became famous through patronage. He wrote many love poems but lived and died a bachelor. Drayton was the first to make the term "ode" popular in England.
"Since There's No Help" (Sonnet 61) is Drayton's most famous poem. In the poem, the speaker adamantly declares the ending of a love relationship at first. But later, the speaker desperately tries to change the situation and revive the relationship. Some scholars suggest that the poem was inspired by Anne Goodere, eldest daughter of his benefactor Sir Henry Goodere.
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