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TO ENJOY THE TIME

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

While fates permit us, let's be merry;
Pass all we must the fatal ferry;
And this our life, too, whirls away,
With the rotation of the day.




Quotes of the Day

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
• Woody Allen


Poems of the Day
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    Another Weeping Woman
    by Wallace Stevens
    Pour the unhappiness out From your too bitter heart, Which grieving will not sweeten. Poison grows in this dark. It is in the water of tears Its black blooms rise. The magnificent cause of being,