Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HERE AND NOW, by CATHERINE CATER Poet's Biography First Line: If here and now be but a timely span Last Line: The future as we see the now and here. Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
If here and now be but a timely span Between today's unhappiness, tomorrow's Joys, what if today's abundant sorrows Never end, tomorrow never comes, what then? If youth, impatient of the disrespect Accorded it, yearns to be old, Age chafes beneath the manifold Losses of its prime and mourns neglect; So let it be for here and now, my dear, Not for the when of an eternity; No gazer in the crystal ball can see The future as we see the now and here. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND |
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