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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TODAY, by JACQUIN DAVIS First Line: If I had only this one day to live Last Line: With dead, unchanging, useless issues lies. | |||
If I had only this one day to live, Would I thus idly precious moments bide? Would not the time be all too short to meet The pressing duties I now put aside? Tomorrow, like the poppies' evil drug, Leads me to dream of deeds sublimely done. Today, each second usefully employed Might, in reality, my dreams be won. In truth, I know I have but this today. Tomorrow's sun may in my sight ne'er rise, And yesterday, its joys and woes forgot, With dead, unchanging, useless issues lies. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...IN HOSPITAL: 28. DISCHARGED by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY SONNET: ON FAME (1) by JOHN KEATS TO A SISTER OF CHARITY by EDWIN GEORGE ALEXANDER GREENES FUNERALLS: SONNET 1 by RICHARD BARNFIELD LAMENT FOR PIONEERS by VERNE BRIGHT |
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