Now thou hast loved me one whole day, Tomorrow when thou leav'st, what wilt thou say? Wilt thou then antedate some new made vow? Or say that now We are not just those persons, which we were? Or, that oaths made in reverential fear Of Love, and his wrath, any may forswear? Or, as true deaths, true marriages untie, So lovers' contracts, images of those, Bind but till sleep, death's image, them unloose? Or, your own end to justify, For having purposed change, and falsehood, you Can have no way but falsehood to be true? Vain lunatic, against these 'scapes I could Dispute and conquer, if I would, Which I abstain to do, For by tomorrow, I may think so too. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE KEEP-SAKE by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE THE EARL O' QUARTERDECK by GEORGE MACDONALD ESCAPE AT BEDTIME by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON LITTLE GIFFEN by FRANCIS ORRERY TICKNOR LEFT BEHIND by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN THE CLOUDS: THE OLD EDUCATION by ARISTOPHANES THE STEPS OF THE COMMANDER by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK |