The Mind
Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
From Poems of 1819
The Mind
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer
Into the darkness of the day to come?
Is not to-morrow even as yesterday?
And will the day that follows change thy doom?
Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way;
And who waits for thee in that cheerless home
Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return
Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
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MLA
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/54/.
Chicago
Shelley, Percy Bysshe. “Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/shelley/54/.
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