cavalier poets

 cavalier poets

PRO. RAM CHAWLE

Cavalier Poets are the group of 17th-century English lyric poets  Richard Lovelace, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, Edmund Waller, and Robert Herrick. , associated with the Royalists as opposed to Roundheads, who supported Parliament. ,i. e.  the followers of King Charles I at the time of the English Civil War. Three of them—Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling, and Richard Lovelace—were attached to the court of Charles, and one, Robert Herrick, was a clergyman Herrick, a clergyman, was detached from the court, his short, fluent, graceful lyrics on love and dalliance, and his carpe diem (“seize the day”) philosophy (“Gather ye rose-buds while ye may”) are typical of the Cavalier style. Besides writing love lyrics addressed to mistresses with fanciful names like Anthea, Althea, Lucasta, or Amarantha. These poets were influenced by Ben Jonson and formed an informal social, as well as literary circle. the Cavaliers sometimes wrote of war, honour, and their duty to the king. Sometimes they deftly combined all these themes as in Richard Lovelace’s well-known poem, “To Lucasta, Going to the Wars,” which ends,
I could not love thee, dear, so much
Loved I not honour more.

Robert Herrick's "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time":

PRO. BHARANISRI

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
   Old time is still a-flying:
And this same flower that smiles to-day
   To-morrow will be dying.
The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun,
   The higher he's a-getting,
The sooner will his race be run,
   And nearer he's to setting.

That age is best which is the first,
   When youth and blood are warmer;
But being spent, the worse, and worst
   Times still succeed the former.

Then be not coy, but use your time,
   And while ye may go marry:
For having lost but once your prime
   You may for ever tarry.