Goe, and catche a falling starre(Song)

1. Thou, when thou return'st, wilt tell me,

       All strange wonders that befell thee,

               And swear,

                No where

       Lives a woman true, and fair.

Answer: These lines have been taken from the poem “Goe, and catche a falling starre” is a song, peculiar to Donne, and different from typical Elizabethan lyrical poems. It is connected with women, but is not a poem on womanly love or love for women. In fact, the song is distinctly different from Donne’s usual Love poetry.

Following a list of impossible tasks, Donne adds a more likely task: go and travel for years, and despite seeing all kinds of unusual things, you won't find a single faithful woman. At its root, this is less likely to be an example of misogyny or social commentary than a spiritual metaphor regarding the church and individuals within it: across the world, not one sinless person can be found, and even someone who seems spotless at the moment will not last that way for very long.

The poet’s point of contention is that no woman, who is both true and fair, can be traced anywhere. This is well struck in the last two lines of the second stanza:

“No where

Lives a woman, true and faire.”

However, this is not all. The poet even claims that constancy in women is not only rare, but also short-lasting. Even if a woman be found fair and true, she will change and prove false in no time –

“Yet shee

Will bee

False, ere I come, to two or three.”