MICHAEL DRAYTON'S
"Love's Farewell"
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part,-
Nay I have done, you get no more of me;
And I am glad, yea, glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly I myself can free;
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows,
And when we meet at any time again,
Be it not seen in either of our brows
That we one jot of former love retain.
Now at the last gasp of loves latest breath,
When his pulse failing, passion speeches lies,
When faith is kneeling by his bed of death,
And innocence is closing up his eyes,
- Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over,
From death to life thou might'st him yet recover!
Michael Drayton, is born on 1563 at Hartshill, England. He died on 1631 in London. He is an English poet who first write odes in English in the manner of Horace. in his old age he wrote some of his most delightful poetry, espicially the fairy poem Nymphidia in 1627, with its mock-heroic undertones, and the The Muses Elizium in 1630. One of his best works is the example above the Love's Farewell. This information is just few about Drayton, but nonetheless, the poem above is worthy to remember.
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