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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A DIALOGUE BETWIXT, TIME AND A PILGRIME, by AURELIAN TOWNSEND Poet's Biography First Line: Aged man, that mowes these fields Last Line: Together twists their threads, and yet draws hers the longer. Alternate Author Name(s): Townshend, Aurelian | |||
Pilgrim: Aged man, that mowes these fields. Time: Pilgrim, speak; what is thy will? Pilgrim: Whose soil is this, that such sweet pasture yields? Or who art thou, whose foot stands never still? Or where am I? Time: In love. Pilgrim: His Lordship lies above. Time: Yes, and below, and round about Wherein all sorts of flowers are growing Which, as the early Spring puts out, Time falls as fast a-mowing. Pilgrim: If thou art Time, these flowers have lives, And then I fear Under some lily she I love May now be growing there. Time: And in some thistle or some spire of grass My scythe thy stalk before hers come may pass. Pilgrim: Wilt thou provide it may? Time: No. Pilgrim: Allege the cause. Time: Because Time cannot alter but obey Fate's laws. Chorus: Then happy those whom Fate, that is the stronger, Together twists their threads, and yet draws hers the longer. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TO THE LADY MAY by AURELIAN TOWNSEND YOUTH AND BEAUTY by AURELIAN TOWNSEND A ROW IN AN OMNIBUS BOX; A LEGEND OF THE HAYMARKET by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM SPHINX-MONEY by MATHILDE BLIND THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: ADIEU, MIGNONNE, MA BELLE by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 19. ELEGIAC VERSE: THE SECOND EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION FROM RUSSIAN HILL by INA DONNA COOLBRITH THE ASCENSION, SELECTION by CYNEWULF |
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