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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO A LOVELY WOMAN, by JANE DRANSFIELD First Line: Those myriad hours and days unwillingly spent Last Line: My record has authority as true. Subject(s): Women | |||
Those myriad hours and days unwillingly spent In total want of aught to give Time worth, Cut not upon the granite monument, But strike them from the record of my birth. Upon the registration leaf mark not Dull clock told age -- years utterly devoid Of things remembered gladly -- nor allot To me Time measured but not Time enjoyed. One moment may be immortality! Yet since this world must keep its mortal file, Within the book set down my natal day As when we met; my end -- shall I foretell? The day I lose you. Calendared by you My record has authority as true. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ARISTOTLE TO PHYLLIS by JOHN HOLLANDER A WOMAN'S DELUSION by SUSAN HOWE JULIA TUTWILER STATE PRISON FOR WOMEN by ANDREW HUDGINS THE WOMEN ON CYTHAERON by ROBINSON JEFFERS TOMORROW by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD LADIES FOR DINNER, SAIPAN by KENNETH KOCH GOODBYE TO TOLERANCE by DENISE LEVERTOV THE CASTLE OF CHILLON by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON |
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