To Lucasta, Going To The Wars Comments

Wonderful, I kept it in my heart, thanks.

Gallant! and true........

Tell me not (Sweet) I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly.

I think its awsome! ! I love it espically the begining! !

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The first foe in the field. thanks. I like it.

Lovelace was a Cavalier (Royalist supporter) during the English Civil War, though it is unlikely he actually fought in it, having been placed under an embargo by Parliament for his previous Royalist activities. The poem nowadays seems rather quaint, though the last two lines are probably his most often quoted.

The tempo of poem quite reveals the urgency of matter under consideration!

The first line and the last two lines of this poem are probably all in Barlett's, they are so emblematic of the custom wrapped round the patriarchal theft of males from females. What I like most about this is the sudden pairing of an amphibrach foot with an anapest (second line of the second verse) in what is mainly an iambic dawdle.