Time & Brevity

Quid Sit Futurum Cras Fuge Quaerere

by Matthew Prior 1664–1721

From Poems on Several Occasions (1718)

Time & Brevity

FOR what To-morrow shall disclose.
May spoil what You To-night propose:
England may change; or Cloe stray:
Love and Life are for To-day.

MLA

Prior, Matthew. “Quid Sit Futurum Cras Fuge Quaerere.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/95/.

Chicago

Prior, Matthew. “Quid Sit Futurum Cras Fuge Quaerere.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/prior/95/.

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