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Poem by Jonathan Swift


On Time


Ever eating, never cloying,
All-devouring, all-destroying,
Never finding full repast,
Till I eat the world at last.



Jonathan Swift


Jonathan Swift's other poems:
  1. Dean Swift at Sir Arthur Acheson’s, in the North of Ireland
  2. Drapier’s Hill
  3. At Holyhead
  4. Verses on Blenheim
  5. Mrs Frances Haris's Petition


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • John Milton On Time ("Fly, envious Time, till thou run out thy race")
  • Francis Quarles On Time ("Time's an hand's-breadth; 'tis a tale")
  • Joanna Baillie On Time ("TIME sooth, since Time has been, has still sustain'd")
  • John Skelton On Time ("YE may hear now, in this rime")

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