Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IDEA: 5, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing but no, and aye, and aye, and no? Last Line: "then answer ""no,"" and ""aye,"" and ""aye"" and ""no." Variant Title(s): "nothing But No And I, And I And No""; | ||||||||
Nothing but "No," and "Aye," and "Aye," and "No"? How falls it out so strangely you reply? I tell ye, Fair, I'll not be answer'd so, With this affirming "No," denying "Aye." I say, "I love," you slightly answer "Aye"; I say, "You love," you pule me out a "No"; I say, "I die," you echo me an "Aye"; "Save me," I cry, you sigh me out a "No"; Must woe and I have nought but "No" and "Aye"? No I am I, if I no more can have; Answer no more, with silence make reply, And let me take myself what I do crave. Let "No" and "Aye" with I and you be so; Then answer "No," and "Aye," and "Aye" and "No." | 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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