Time & Brevity
Inscription for a Time-Piece
From Poems of Coleridge, selected by Arthur Symons (1905)
Time & Brevity
Now! it is gone.--Our brief hours travel post,
Each with its thought or deed, its Why or How:--
But know, each parting hour gives up a ghost
To dwell within thee-an eternal NOW!
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MLA
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Inscription for a Time-Piece.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/85/.
Chicago
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. “Inscription for a Time-Piece.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/coleridge/85/.
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