"Since There's No Help" (Sonnet 61) by Michael Drayton

 

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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Who wrote the poem "Since There's No Help"?

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" explanation

"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.

"Love's Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

Love's Philosophy

The fountains mingle with the river

And the rivers with the ocean,

The winds of heaven mix for ever

With a sweet emotion;

Nothing in the world is single,

All things by a law divine

In one another's being mingle—

Why not I with thine?

 

See the mountains kiss high heaven,

And the waves clasp one another;

No sister-flower would be forgiven

If it disdain'd its brother;

And the sunlight clasps the earth,

And the moonbeams kiss the sea—

What is all this sweet work worth

If thou kiss not me?

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Who wrote the poem "Love's Philosophy"?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822)

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets. His literary reputation steadily grew after his death, and he greatly influenced subsequent poets such as Browing, Hardy, and Yeats. He had suffered from family crises, ill health, and a backlash against his atheism and radical political views. His second wife, Mary Shelley, was the author of "Frankenstein." He died at the age of 29 in a boating accident.

"Love's Philosophy" explanation

The poem consists of two 8-line stanzas with an ABABCDCD rhyme structure. The poet compares the connection between natural things and the relationship between him and his beloved. He expresses his desire for union of love just like unity in nature, using Personification, Metaphor, and the Rhetorical question.

 

"Bright Star" by John Keats

 

Bright Star

Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art—

Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night,

And watching, with eternal lids apart,

Like Nature's patient sleepless Eremite,

The moving waters at their priestlike task

Of pure ablution round earth's human shores,

Or gazing on the new soft fallen mask

Of snow upon the mountains and the moors—

No—yet still steadfast, still unchangeable,

Pillow'd upon my fair love's ripening breast,

To feel for ever its soft fall and swell,

Awake for ever in a sweet unrest,

Still, still to hear her tender-taken breath,

And so live ever—or else swoon to death.

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Who wrote the poem "Bright Star"?

John Keats (October 31, 1795 – February 23, 1821)

John Keats was an English Romantic poet. He was born in London as the eldest of 4 children. His works had been published for only 4 years before his death from tuberculosis at the age of 25. After his premature death, he became one of the most popular English poets. His poetic style distinctively causes extreme emotions through natural imagery.

"Bright Star" explanation

In the poem, addressing to a star, the poet wishes his love to be as constant as the star. The poem is punctuated as a single sentence with the rhyme form of the Shakespearean sonnet (ABABCDCDEFEFGG). It is said to have been a declaration of Keats' love for Fanny Brawne, his fiancée and muse.

 

 

“A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns

 

A Red, Red Rose

O my Luve is like a red, red rose

That’s newly sprung in June;

O my Luve is like the melody

That’s sweetly played in tune.

 

So fair art thou, my bonnie lass,

So deep in luve am I;

And I will luve thee still, my dear,

Till a’ the seas gang dry.

 

Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;

I will love thee still, my dear,

While the sands o’ life shall run.

 

And fare thee weel, my only luve!

And fare thee weel a while!

And I will come again, my luve,

Though it were ten thousand mile.

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Who wrote the poem “A Red, Red Rose”?

Robert Burns (January 25, 1759 – July 21, 1796)

Robert Burns was a Scottish poet and lyricist and is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland, also known as "the National Bard." He pioneered the Romantic movement. He died at the age of 37 on the day his son Maxwell was born. After his death, his writings greatly influenced both liberalism and socialism. He also became a cultural icon in Scotland and among Scottish emigrants and their descendants worldwide. In 2009, he was voted as the greatest Scot by the Scottish people in a vote run by a Scottish TV channel.

“A Red, Red Rose” explanation

"A Red, Red Rose" was a Scottish song, first published in 1794 in a collection of traditional Scottish songs. During the last 7 years of his life, Burns worked on projects to preserve traditional Scottish songs, and this was a part of the collection. Burns reportedly heard the song sung by a country girl, so inspired and wrote the lyrics down. Although it is often published as a poem, it has the form of a ballad and is meant to be sung aloud. It describes the speaker’s everlasting love for his or her beloved.

“How Do I Love Thee?” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 

“How Do I Love Thee?”

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height

My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight

For the ends of being and ideal grace.

I love thee to the level of every day's

Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.

I love thee freely, as men strive for right.

I love thee purely, as they turn from praise.

I love thee with the passion put to use

In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.

I love thee with a love I seemed to lose

With my lost saints. I love thee with the breath,

Smiles, tears, of all my life; and, if God choose,

I shall but love thee better after death.

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Who wrote the poem “How Do I Love Thee?” 

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (March 6, 1806 — June 29, 1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, famous in England and the U.S. during her lifetime. She was the eldest of 12 children and wrote poetry from 11. She was an avid reader and writer, and Shakespeare was her favorite. From 15, she suffered from frail health due to intense head and spinal pain and lung problems throughout her life. After her 1844 volume "Poems" had a great success, Robert Browning, an English poet and playwright, was inspired to write to her, praising her work. The two met in 1845, fell in love, and soon got married. Their special bond had an important influence on their respective subsequent writings. Her work also had a great influence on famous contemporary writers such as the American poets Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Dickinson.

“How Do I Love Thee?” explanation.

The poem was originally published as "number 43" out of a collection of 44 love sonnets, "Sonnets from the Portuguese." Elizabeth was initially reluctant to publish the poems because they were too personal. But her husband Robert Browning urged her to publish them, insisting that they were the best sequence of English sonnets since Shakespeare. For some privacy, she published them as translations of foreign sonnets, particularly Portuguese, probably because of Robert's nickname for her: "my little Portuguese."