Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IDEA: 37, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, why should you command me to my rest Last Line: If when night comes you bid me go away. Variant Title(s): Night And Day Subject(s): Love | ||||||||
Dear, why should you command me to my rest When now the night doth summon all to sleep? Methinks this time becometh lovers best; Night was ordain'd, together friends to keep; How happy are all other living things Which through the day disjoin by sev'ral flight, The quiet ev'ning yet together brings, And each returns unto his love at night. O thou, that art so courteous else to all, Why shouldst thou, Night, abuse me only thus, That ev'ry creature to his kind dost call, And yet 'tis thou dost only sever us? Well could I wish it would be ever day, If when night comes you bid me go away. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE INVENTION OF LOVE by MATTHEA HARVEY TWO VIEWS OF BUSON by ROBERT HASS A LOVE FOR FOUR VOICES: HOMAGE TO FRANZ JOSEPH HAYDN by ANTHONY HECHT AN OFFERING FOR PATRICIA by ANTHONY HECHT LATE AFTERNOON: THE ONSLAUGHT OF LOVE by ANTHONY HECHT A SWEETENING ALL AROUND ME AS IT FALLS by JANE HIRSHFIELD CANZONET: TO HIS COY LOVE by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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