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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO HIS WATCH, WHEN HE COULD NOT SLEEP, by EDWARD HERBERT Poet's Biography First Line: Uncessant minutes, whilst you move you tell Last Line: You die in time, time in eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Insomnia; Watches; Sleeplessness | |||
UNCESSANT minutes, whilst you move you tell The time that tells our life, which, though it run Never so fast or far, your new-begun Short steps shall overtake; for though life well May 'scape his own account, it shall not yours: You are Death's auditors, that both divide And sum whate'er that life inspir'd endures Past a beginning, and through you we bide The doom of Fate, whose unrecall'd decree You date, bring, execute; making what's new (Ill and good) old; for as we die in you, You die in Time, Time in Eternity. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...GROOM FALCONER; CIRCA 1903 by NORMAN DUBIE THE DEATH OF THE RACE CAR DRIVER by NORMAN DUBIE JOURNEY TOWARD EVENING by PHYLLIS MCGINLEY THE STARS THEIR PERFECTION by DONALD REVELL AN ODE UPON A QUESTION WHETHER LOVE SHOULD CONTINUE FOREVER by EDWARD HERBERT DITTY IN IMITATION OF THE SPANISH: ENTRE TANTO QUE L'AVRIL by EDWARD HERBERT EPITAPH FOR SIR PHILIP SIDNEY, AT ST. PAUL'S WITHOUT A MONUMENT ... by EDWARD HERBERT |
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