Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME SEEMS NOT SHORT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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Last Line: And for a song?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Time


Time seems not short:
If so I call to mind
Its vast prerogative to loose or bind,
And bear and strike amort
All humankind.

Time seems not long:
If I peer out and see
Sphere within sphere, time in eternity,
And hear the alternate song
Cry endlessly.

Time greatly short,
O time so briefly long.
Yea, time sole battle-ground of right and wrong:
Art thou a time for sport
And for a song?





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