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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO TIME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: Day by day the threads of white
Last Line: Break not your arrow in my breast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Day by day the threads of white
Last Line: Break not your arrow in my breast!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Time
Day by day the threads of white
Multiply, Oh! hour-glass!
How passing swift your bright sands pass,
Fain would I hold you,
Linger, bide
Until these surges shall subside,
That sweep me forward unto bliss,
Oh! charging sun, I bid you rest,
Break not your arrow in my breast!
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