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THINGS MORTAL STILL MUTABLE

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Things are uncertain; and the more we get,
The more on icy pavements we are set.




Quotes of the Day

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve praise than culture without nature.
• Marcus Tullius Cicero


Poems of the Day
  • Amy Lowell
    Climbing
    by Amy Lowell
    High up in the apple tree climbing I go, With the sky above me, the earth below. Each branch is the step of a wonderful stair Which leads to the town I see shining up there.