Life's Uncertain Day

Thomas Love Peacock 1785 (Weymouth, Dorset) – 1866



The briefest part of life's uncertain day,
Youth's lovely blossom, hastes to swift decay:
While love, wine, song, enhance our gayest mood
Old age creeps on, nor thought, nor understood.

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Closest metre Iambic pentameter
Characters 190
Words 32
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 4

Thomas Love Peacock

Thomas Love Peacock was an English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Company. more…

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