Time & Brevity
Feathers
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Time & Brevity
There falls with every wedding-chime
A feather from the wing of Time.
You pick it up, and say, "How fair
To look upon its colours are!"
Another drops, day after day.
Unheeded; not one word you say:
When bright and dusky are blown past,
Upon the hearse there nods the last.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Feathers.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/55/.
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Landor, Walter Savage. “Feathers.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/55/.
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