Poem of the Day: ‘Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?’
Sir John Suckling, one of the Cavalier poets attached to the court of Charles I, asserts the pointlessness of sighing after a girl who, as we in the twenty-first century might put it, just isn’t that into you.
Sir Anthony Van Dyck: 'Portrait of Sir John Suckling,' detail. Via Wikimedia Commons
