Stay, speedy Time, behold, before thou pass, From age to age what thou hast sought to see, One in whom all the excellencies be, In whom Heav'n looks itself as in a glass. Time, look thyself in this tralucent glass, And thy youth past in this pure mirror see, As the world's beauty in his infancy, What is was then, and thou before it was. Pass on, and to posterity tell this, Yet see thou tell but truly what hath been; Say to our nephews that thou once hast seen In perfect human shape all heav'nly bliss, And bid them mourn, nay more, despair with thee, That she is gone, her like again to see. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE CITY AT THE END OF THINGS by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE SONNET: 18 by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE COR CORDIUM by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE ON A MOURNER by ALFRED TENNYSON THE INTRODUCTION by AL-DHAHABI AT FAREWELL by GEORGE W. BERGQUIST |