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 AN ODE, SELECTION by RICHARD FANSHAWE |
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