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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO-MORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poet's Biography
First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise
Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Future; Past; Time
First Line: Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise
Last Line: All the dull yesterdays that I have known.
Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D.
Subject(s): Future; Past; Time
Old fraud, I know you in that gay disguise,
That air of hope, that promise of surprise:
Beneath your bravery, as you come this way,
I see the sordid presence of To-day;
And I shall see there, long ere you are gone,
All the dull Yesterdays that I have known.
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