Time & Brevity
The Shortest Day
From Lyra Elegantiarum, ed. Frederick Locker (London: E. Moxon, 1867)
Time & Brevity
The day of brightest dawn (day soonest flown!)
Is that when we have met and you have gone.
Cite this poem
MLA
Landor, Walter Savage. “The Shortest Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/68/.
Chicago
Landor, Walter Savage. “The Shortest Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/landor/68/.
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