Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime, Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

“Love, all alike, no season knows nor clime,

Nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.”

Answer: These lines have been quoted from Donne’s love lyric “The Sun Rising”. In these lines, the poet speaks of the nature of true love which transcends the limitations of time and space.

The poet rebukes the sun for its peeping so early in the morning through the windows and curtains of the bedroom, where he and his beloved are making love to each other. The poet does not believe that lovers should follow the sun. The season of lovemaking cannot be controlled by the movements of the sun. The poet further says that the sun may rise and rebuke school boys for being late in rising from bed, like a pedantic schoolmaster. It may wake up the court huntsmen who must get ready early in the morning for attending to the king. It may also rouse the farmers who, at the time of harvest must get up early and do their work in the fields, and he as busy as ants. But love is not to be controlled by the sun. It has nothing to do with hours, days, months, or years, in fact, it is with the passage of time. In other words, true love rises above the consideration of months and years. Love always remains the same and is above both time and space.

Through these lines, the poet professes the immortality and eternity of perfect love which is not subject to change or destruction in the passage of time.