Go, Lovely Rose! Comments

This is not what is usually called a sonnet nowadays.

Dear Raju Basu, Edmund Waller has written this poem and he is the author, there is no doubt but he lived in the year 1606 to 1687, he can't answer you. Kiran.

Like Robert Herrick's 'Gather ye rose-buds while ye may, ' and Andrew Marvell's 'Had we but world enough and time, ' Waller's 'Go, lovely rose' is one of English poetry's great 'seize the day' poems: a love lyric that cautions the beloved that life is too short to withold love. Waller's ingenious variation of this popular 17th century theme is NOT to address the beloved directly but indirectly, instead addressing the rose (symbol of love) to speak on his behalf. A beautifully-made, beautiful poem.