ABSTRACT
If at all these sonnets are to be equalled by the love poems of Donne… The feelings in many of the poems attributed to this period are not what most men would admit to be love. The Sun Rising, for example, with its opening [he quotes the first three lines] has none of the Provençal poet’s misery ‘that day should come so soon’. It is what Mr Gosse calls it, a ‘hymn of virile satisfaction’. A little more passionate, perhaps, is another, Break of Day.
