Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OF TIME, by RICHARD FANSHAWE Poet Analysis First Line: Let us use it whilst we may Last Line: Love may return, but never lover. Variant Title(s): Of Beauty Subject(s): Beauty; Time; Transience; Impermanence | ||||||||
LET us use it whilst we may; Snatch those joys that haste away. Earth her winter coat may cast, And renew her beauty past: But, our winter come, in vain We solicit spring again: And when our furrows snow shall cover, Love may return, but never lover. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON CHAMBER MUSIC: 17 by JAMES JOYCE SOUTHERN GOTHIC by DONALD JUSTICE THE BEACH IN AUGUST by WELDON KEES THE MAN SPLITTING WOOD IN THE DAYBREAK by GALWAY KINNELL THE SEEKONK WOODS by GALWAY KINNELL |
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