IS NOT TODAY ENOUGH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEYPoet AnalysisPoet's Biography
First Line: Is not today enough? Why do I peer Last Line: Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
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?