Love

Carpe Diem

by William Shakespeare 1564-1616

From The Golden Treasury, ed. F. T. Palgrave (1861)

Love

O Mistress mine, where are you roaming?
O, stay and hear! your true-love's coming
That can sing both high and low;
Trip no further, pretty sweeting,
Journeys end in lovers' meeting--
Every wise man's son doth know.

What is love? 'tis not hereafter;
Present mirth hath present laughter;
What's to come is still unsure:
In delay there lies no plenty,--
Then come kiss me, Sweet-and-twenty,
Youth's a stuff will not endure.

MLA

Shakespeare, William. “Carpe Diem.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/179/.

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Shakespeare, William. “Carpe Diem.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shakespeare/179/.

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