Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IDEA: 24, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear some say, this man is not in love Last Line: I laugh at fortune, as in jest to die. | ||||||||
I hear some say, "This man is not in love." "What? Can he love? A likely thing," they say; "Read but his verse, and it will easily prove." O judge not rashly, gentle Sir, I pray. Because I trifle loosely in this sort, As one that fain his sorrows would beguile, You now suppose me all this time in sport, And please yourself with this conceit the while. Ye shallow censors, sometime see ye not In greatest perils some men pleasant be? Where fame by death is only to be got, They resolute? So stands the case with me. Where other men in depth of passion cry, I laugh at Fortune, as in jest to die. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IDEA: 14. TO TIME by MICHAEL DRAYTON IDEA: TO THE READER OF THESE SONNETS, INTRODUCTION by MICHAEL DRAYTON TO THE VIRGINIAN VOYAGE [1611] by MICHAEL DRAYTON A HYMNE TO HIS LADIES BIRTH-PLACE by MICHAEL DRAYTON A SKELTONIAD by MICHAEL DRAYTON AN AMOURET ANACREONTICK by MICHAEL DRAYTON AN ELEGIE UPON THE DEATH OF THE LADY PENELOPE CLIFTON by MICHAEL DRAYTON |
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