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Transience
Transience
Jul 24, 2026
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Death · Silence · Bells
Grief and Loss · Elegy · Clothing and Costume
Joy · Animals · Comic Verse / Song
Memory and Time · Memory · Nostalgia
Mortality · Grave · Memento Mori
Rose · Desire · Value and Scarcity
Ruins / the Abbey · Sic Transit Gloria Mundi · Ubi Sunt
Seasons · Winter · Autumn
Sun · Light and Dark · Fire
Time · Tempus Fugit · Clock
Transience · Decay · Carpe Diem
Vanitas · Contemptus Mundi · Vanity of Worldly Things
White and Red · Riddle · Secrecy and Concealment
A HINT TO PREMIERS AND FIRST CONSULS
(A Lyric): ‘If Time and Space, as Sages say’
A SUNSET
AD LYRAM.
An Enigma
APPENDIX POEMS WRITTEN IN EARLY YOUTH
As I Was Saying
ASH-WEDNESDAY 1930
Avril: Essays on the French Renaissance
Before Morning
Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art
CONSTANCY TO AN IDEAL OBJECT
Dreams
DUTY SURVIVING SELF-LOVE THE ONLY SURE FRIEND OF DECLINING LIFE
East Coker 1940
THE CASE for the EPHEMERAL
Faery Songs
FANCY
First and Last
For a War Memorial
FROM ZAPOLYA
Gold Leaves
I Because I do not hope to turn again
IMITATED FROM OSSIAN
Imitation
IMITATIONS: AD LYRAM
INSCRIPTION FOR A TIME-PIECE
Introduction to 'The Romance of Madame Tussaud's'
LETTER TO SIR HENRY GOODYERE
Lingering Last Drops
LOVE’S BURIAL-PLACE
Mellonta Tauta
O Hymen! O Hymenee!
ODE ON A GRECIAN URN
ODE ON MELANCHOLY
ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE
ON BALA HILL
On Death
On Everything
ON OBSERVING A BLOSSOM ON THE FIRST OF FEBRUARY 1796
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
Out of the Rolling Ocean the Crowd
PAIN
Quicksand Years
SNOW DROP.
Song: ‘If space and time, as sages say’
Song: ‘When we came home across the hill’
Sonnet - The Human Seasons
Sonnet: After dark vapours have oppress’d our plains
Sonnet on Visiting the Tomb of Burns
Sonnet: When I have fears that I may cease to be
Sonnet Written in Disgust of Vulgar Superstition
Sonnets
Sonnets and Verse
Stanzas
The Bells
The Calming Thought of All
The Coliseum
The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!
The Dismantled Ship
THE FADED FLOWER
The Four Men
THE GENTLE LOOK
The Happiest Day
THE IMPROVISATORE OR, JOHN ANDERSON, MY JO, JOHN
The Island of the Fay
THE KEEPSAKE
THE KNIGHT’S TOMB
The Picture of Dorian Gray
THE SNOW-DROP
The Sphinx
THE TEMPEST
The Valley of Unrest
Thoughts
To --
TO A PRIMROSE
TO AUTUMN
TO ONE WHO HAS BEEN LONG IN CITY PENT
To Zante
To —
THE TOWERS of TIME
VARIOUS POEMS
VENUS AND ADONIS
VER PERPETUUM
WHAT IS LIFE?
Year of Meteors (1859-60
Yonnondio
YOUTH AND AGE
Youth, Day, Old Age and Night