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A review by franklyfrank
A Lover's Complaint and the Passionate Pilgrim by William Shakespeare
4.0
A Lover's Complaint: A Betrayed woman tells how her lover pursued, seduced, and then abandoned her, but admits that she would fall for the young man's false charms again. The OLDEST tale still around today. This 'complaint' is much longer than The Passionate Pilgrim, but after being dumped like that, she should be pretty angry and ranting longer than she is in the Passionate Pilgrim if she were the same person.
my rating, after several readings: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/LoversComplaint.html
The Passionate Pilgrim: This Seems like the perfect coda to A lover's complaint or A Lover's complaint should be the Coda to this one; both together are the perfect ode to love.
Although not all are attributed to Shakespeare, I'm going to read as if they are.
I read my copy online at https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeares-poems/the-passionate-pilgrim/
Several of the quotes, really jump out at me like in: from Sonnet XIII.
'Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,
A shining gloss that fades suddenly,
A flower that dies when first it begins to bud,'..... or
when he describes his love as ' Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle; Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty; Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is brittle;
Softer than wax.'
You can see the love he has for her, especially when he tells her in sonnet XIX. ' Live with me and be my love' Telling her that they will watch the shepherd feed their flocks, and he will 'make thee a bed of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move, Then live with me and be my love.
She answers him:
'If that the world and love were young, and truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.'
If all of these sonnets are not Shakespeare's, to the untrained eye and ear (mine) they both sound like him. It also reminds me of his Sonnet Venus and Adonis, when he speaks about
'Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh and green,
my rating, after several readings: http://shakespeare.mit.edu/Poetry/LoversComplaint.html
The Passionate Pilgrim: This Seems like the perfect coda to A lover's complaint or A Lover's complaint should be the Coda to this one; both together are the perfect ode to love.
Although not all are attributed to Shakespeare, I'm going to read as if they are.
I read my copy online at https://www.nosweatshakespeare.com/shakespeares-poems/the-passionate-pilgrim/
Several of the quotes, really jump out at me like in: from Sonnet XIII.
'Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good,
A shining gloss that fades suddenly,
A flower that dies when first it begins to bud,'..... or
when he describes his love as ' Fair is my love, but not so fair as fickle; Mild as a dove, but neither true nor trusty; Brighter than glass, and yet, as glass is brittle;
Softer than wax.'
You can see the love he has for her, especially when he tells her in sonnet XIX. ' Live with me and be my love' Telling her that they will watch the shepherd feed their flocks, and he will 'make thee a bed of roses, With a thousand fragrant posies, A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroidered all with leaves of myrtle.
A belt of straw and ivy buds, With coral clasps and amber studs;
And if these pleasures may thee move, Then live with me and be my love.
She answers him:
'If that the world and love were young, and truth in every shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love.'
If all of these sonnets are not Shakespeare's, to the untrained eye and ear (mine) they both sound like him. It also reminds me of his Sonnet Venus and Adonis, when he speaks about
'Sweet Cytherea, sitting by a brook
With young Adonis, lovely, fresh and green,