This week’s guest on “Poetry from Daily Life” is Jane Yolen, who divides her time between Hatfield, Massachusetts; Mystic, Connecticut; and Scotland. Jane began writing in 2nd grade and published her ...
AFTER the uninhibited passion of John Donne (yesterday’s poem) here is a much more cynical, perhaps more realistic, view of love from Donne’s Scottish contemporary, Sir Robert Ayton (1570-1638).