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A Valentine poem for older lovers.

  

 

   
 

The years speed by
Remorselessly,
Each bearing a fragment of our past,
Like broken glass.
And so do we.

One day upon another treads
Unceasingly,
Like sheep with undistinguishable heads
Crowding together
One on another.
And so do we.

Minute by minute
Uncountably,
Like raindrops upon the horizon's limit
Or waves of the sea,
Our short lives pass imperceptibly.
And so do we.

Against the advancing, bracing tide
Our love shall stand
On beaches unfathomably wide
Where shell heaps on shell and sand meets sand,
With towering cliffs that the elements hide
And lines of waves that the waves efface,

Yet shall our footsteps together trace
A path as we travel it hand in hand,
That vast immeasurable strand,
Planting a kiss upon its face,
One for you and yet one for me
Defiantly.
So shall it be.

  
 

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Home Sonnets 1 - 50 Sonnets 51 - 100 Sonnets 101 - 154 A Lover's Complaint. Sonnet no. 1
First line index Title page and Thorpe's Dedication Some Introductory Notes to the Sonnets Sonnets as plain text 1-154 Text facsimiles Other related texts of the period
Picture Gallery
 Thomas Wyatt Poems Other Authors General notes  for background details, general policies etc. Map of the site Valentine Poems
London Bridge   as it was in Shakespeare's day, circa 1600. Views of London   as it was in 1616. Views of  Cheapside  London, from a print of 1639. The Carrier's  Cosmography.   A guide to all the Carriers in London.  As given by John Taylor in 1637. Oxquarry Books Ltd

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