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Poem by Thomas Stearns Eliot


Song


If space and time, as sages say,
    Are things which cannot be,
The fly that lives a single day
    Has lived as long as we.
But let us live while yet we may,
    While love and life are free,
For time is time, and runs away,
    Though sages disagree.

The flowers I sent thee when the dew
    Was trembling on the vine,
Were withered ere the wild bee flew
    To suck the eglantine.
But let us haste to pluck anew
    Nor mourn to see them pine,
And though the flowers of love be few
    Yet let them be divine.

1907

Thomas Stearns Eliot


Thomas Stearns Eliot's other poems:
  1. Mr. Apollinax
  2. Hysteria
  3. Sweeney Erect
  4. Sweeney Among the Nightingales
  5. Cousin Nancy


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Samuel Johnson Song ("Not the soft sighs of vernal gales")
  • Charlotte Mew Song ("Love love to-day, my dear")
  • John Davidson Song ("THE boat is chafing at our long delay")
  • Percy Shelley Song ("Rarely, rarely, comest thou")
  • George Etherege Song ("LADIES, though to your conquering eyes")
  • Edgar Poe Song ("I saw thee on thy bridal day") 1827
  • Bryan Procter Song ("Here's a health to thee, Mary")
  • Bayard Taylor Song ("NOW the days are brief and drear")
  • Mary Chudleigh Song ("Why, Damon, why, why, why so pressing?")
  • Isaac Bickerstaffe Song ("How happy were my days, till now")
  • George Lyttelton Song ("When Delia on the plain appears") 1732
  • Philip Massinger Song ("Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, Death")
  • Hilaire Belloc Song ("Inviting the influence of a young lady upon the opening year")
  • Amy Lowell Song ("Oh! To be a flower")
  • Elinor Wylie Song ("It is my thoughts that colour")
  • Mary Montagu Song ("How happy is the harden'd heart")
  • Emma Lazarus Song ("Frosty lies the winter-landscape")
  • Richard Sheridan Song ("Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen")
  • George Crabbe Song ("Cease to bid me not to sing")
  • Anna Seward Song ("FROM thy waves, stormy Llannon, I fly")
  • Aubrey De Vere Song ("HIS war-horse beats a distant bourne")
  • Edith Nesbit Song ("NOW the Spring is waking")
  • Maria Lowell Song ("O BIRD, thou dartest to the sun")
  • William Monkhouse Song ("WHO calls me bold because I won my love")
  • Eliza Acton Song ("Give me gay music !—we will not dwell")
  • Christina Rossetti Song ("O roses for the flush of youth")
  • Irwin Ginsberg Song ("The weight of the world") 1954

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