to be seriously playful. Catullus is playful, too, but more intense; the Elizabethan keeps lusty defiance in check. "My Sweetest Lesbia" is only partly a carpe diem poem. It moves us because it celebrates love without begging or bragging, and because of the pathos of its minor key; its unconsoled, recurring awareness of that "ever-during night".My Sweetest Lesbia
from Carol Rumens: The Guardian: Books blog: Poem of the week: My Sweetest Lesbia by Thomas Campion
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