O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? (Twelfth Night, Act Ii, Scene Iii) Poem by William Shakespeare

O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? (Twelfth Night, Act Ii, Scene Iii)

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O mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O stay and hear! your true-love's coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journey's end in lovers' meeting-
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,-
Then come kiss me, Sweet and twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

O Mistress Mine, Where Are You Roaming? (Twelfth Night, Act Ii, Scene Iii)
Friday, January 3, 2003
Topic(s) of this poem: carpe diem
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Fabrizio Frosini 21 November 2015

''Twelfth Night'', Act II, Scene III This is a song sung by Feste, who spends most of Twelfth Night either drunk or suffering from some kind of mental problem....

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Gangadharan Nair Pulingat 12 August 2014

A beautiful poem from the great poet ever lived.

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Terry Craddock 12 August 2014

The opening line claim 'the mistress mine', asks where she is 'roaming' and moves into the next line which asks her to stay because, her 'true-love's coming'. The rendezvous is planned, the lovers are travelling to met, she is the 'pretty sweeting' and the desire is 'Journey's end in lovers' meeting'. This is Carpe Diem love, a poem about meeting the desired mistress for days of lustful loving, the loving is now and we should seize love, because love 'tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is' still unsure: ' thus love now intensely, live each all moments of love while we can. This sentiment is stated with 'In delay there lies no plenty, - ' and reinforced with 'Youth's a stuff will not endure.' We are told to love while young, make the most of youth and love, while we can.

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Ramesh T A 12 August 2011

Laughter is the end of mirth; so also lovers meeting is the end of journey of love! Very simple effective poem on love by Shakespeare the great!

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Suelynn Walters 12 August 2012

My Favourite Poet! I love him. How beautiful his words are. They touch my very soul.

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 July 2023

Once a month he went home to Stratford-On-Avon to his wife and family. WS had a great fantasy, I appreciate that very highest

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Sylvia Frances Chan 22 July 2023

WS great philosophy of life in 12 lines. He wrote this in an era where only one fourth of the people in London could read. London is where he resided to create, composed and sell his poems

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nicelog nicel 22 July 2023

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Deluke Muwanigwa 06 March 2021

Poetry as poetry shud be done....rhymed

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