Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TEMPUS FUGIT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI


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First Line: Lovely spring
Last Line: And lapsing to winter cold.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Transience; Impermanence


LOVELY Spring,
A brief sweet thing,
Is swift on the wing;
Gracious Summer,
A slow sweet comer,
Hastens past;
Autumn while sweet
Is all incomplete
With a moaning blast.
Nothing can last,
Can be cleaved unto,
Can be dwelt upon.
It is hurried through
It is come and gone,
Undone it cannot be done;
It is ever to do,
Ever old, ever new,
Ever waxing old
And lapsing to Winter cold.





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