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The ever-rolling silent hours
  Will bring a time we shall not know,
When our young days of gathering flowers
  Will be an hundred years ago.

Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
Oxford Book of English Verse # 593

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• 12. Merciles Beaute: Captivity (Geoffrey Chaucer)
• 31. To Mistress Margaret Hussey (John Skelton)
• 39. Description of Spring (Henry Howard)
• 62. Icarus (Anonymous)
• 63. Madrigal (Anonymous)
• 64. How Can the Heart Forget Her? (Anonymous)
• 66. My Lady's Tears (Anonymous)
• 69. Since First I Saw Your Face (Anonymous)
• 70. There Is a Lady sweet and Kind (Anonymous)
• 84. Easter (Edmund Spenser)
• 95. Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis (Sir Philip Sidney)
• 145. "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?" (William Shakespeare)
• 146. "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes" (William Shakespeare)
• 151. "Being your slave, what should I do but tend" (William Shakespeare)
• 153. "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing" (William Shakespeare)
• 155. "They that have power to hurt and will do none" (William Shakespeare)
• 156. "How like a Winter hath my absence been" (William Shakespeare)
• 157. "From you have I been absent in the spring" (William Shakespeare)
• 159. "To me, fair friend, you never can be old" (William Shakespeare)
• 162. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" (William Shakespeare)
• 196. "Go and catch a falling star" (John Donne)
• 201. A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne)
• 235. Dawn (John Ford)
• 237. The Lover's Resolution (George Wither)
• 251. To Violets (Robert Herrick)
• 252. To Daffodils (Robert Herrick)
• 285. The Pulley (George Herbert)
• 286. Love (George Herbert)
• 318. On His Blindness (John Milton)
• 321. On His Deceased Wife (John Milton)
• 327. Why so Pale and Wan? (Sir John Suckling)
• 401. Hidden Flame (John Dryden)
• 423. To a Child of Quality (Matthew Prior)
• 431. "False though she be to me and love" (William Congreve)
• 432. A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret (William Congreve)
• 439. "O ruddier than the cherry!" (John Gay)
• 440. On a Certain Lady at Court (Alexander Pope)
• 475. Prayer for Indifference (Fanny Greville)
• 492. Love's Secret (William Blake)
• 503. A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
• 529. Perfect Woman (William Wordsworth)
• 530. Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
• 535. The World (William Wordsworth)
• 549. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• 554. Work Without Hope (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• 560. Twenty Years Hence (Walter Savage Landor)
• 562. "Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak" (Walter Savage Landor)
• 564. "Mother, I cannot mind my wheel" (Walter Savage Landor)
• 576. Finis (Walter Savage Landor)
• 585. At the Mid Hour of Night (Thomas Moore)
• 592. Jenny Kiss'd Me (Leigh Hunt)
• 593. Love and Age (Thomas Love Peacock)
• 597. When We Two parted (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 598. For Music (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 600. She Walks in Beauty (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 615. To —— (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 618. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 625. Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
• 635. "When I have Fears that I may cease to be" (John Keats)
• 637. Last Sonnet (John Keats)
• 682. "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 685. "If thou must love me, let it be for naught" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 686. "When our two souls stand up erect and strong" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 689. My Lost Youth (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• 692. I Do Not love Thee (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton)
• 704. Blow, Bugle, Blow (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• 705. Summer Night (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• 741. "Say not the struggle naught availeth" (Arthur Hugh Clough)
• 763. The Toys (Coventry Patmore)
• 777. Love (Alexander Smith)
• 787. Remember (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• 812. Earliest Spring (William Dean Howells)
• 831. A White Rose (John Boyle O'Reilly)
• 863. When You Are Old (William Butler Yeats)
• 869. The Second Crucifixion (Richard Le Gallienne)
• 876. Non Nobis (Henry Cust)
• 879. Renouncement (Alice Meynell)

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• 12. Merciles Beaute: Captivity (Geoffrey Chaucer)
• 31. To Mistress Margaret Hussey (John Skelton)
• 39. Description of Spring (Henry Howard)
• 62. Icarus (Anonymous)
• 63. Madrigal (Anonymous)
• 64. How Can the Heart Forget Her? (Anonymous)
• 66. My Lady's Tears (Anonymous)
• 69. Since First I Saw Your Face (Anonymous)
• 70. There Is a Lady sweet and Kind (Anonymous)
• 84. Easter (Edmund Spenser)
• 95. Splendidis Longum Valedico Nugis (Sir Philip Sidney)
• 145. "Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?" (William Shakespeare)
• 146. "When, in disgrace with Fortune and men's eyes" (William Shakespeare)
• 151. "Being your slave, what should I do but tend" (William Shakespeare)
• 153. "Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing" (William Shakespeare)
• 155. "They that have power to hurt and will do none" (William Shakespeare)
• 156. "How like a Winter hath my absence been" (William Shakespeare)
• 157. "From you have I been absent in the spring" (William Shakespeare)
• 159. "To me, fair friend, you never can be old" (William Shakespeare)
• 162. "Let me not to the marriage of true minds" (William Shakespeare)
• 196. "Go and catch a falling star" (John Donne)
• 201. A Hymn to God the Father (John Donne)
• 235. Dawn (John Ford)
• 237. The Lover's Resolution (George Wither)
• 251. To Violets (Robert Herrick)
• 252. To Daffodils (Robert Herrick)
• 285. The Pulley (George Herbert)
• 286. Love (George Herbert)
• 318. On His Blindness (John Milton)
• 321. On His Deceased Wife (John Milton)
• 327. Why so Pale and Wan? (Sir John Suckling)
• 401. Hidden Flame (John Dryden)
• 423. To a Child of Quality (Matthew Prior)
• 431. "False though she be to me and love" (William Congreve)
• 432. A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret (William Congreve)
• 439. "O ruddier than the cherry!" (John Gay)
• 440. On a Certain Lady at Court (Alexander Pope)
• 475. Prayer for Indifference (Fanny Greville)
• 492. Love's Secret (William Blake)
• 503. A Red, Red Rose (Robert Burns)
• 529. Perfect Woman (William Wordsworth)
• 530. Daffodils (William Wordsworth)
• 535. The World (William Wordsworth)
• 549. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• 554. Work Without Hope (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
• 560. Twenty Years Hence (Walter Savage Landor)
• 562. "Proud word you never spoke, but you will speak" (Walter Savage Landor)
• 564. "Mother, I cannot mind my wheel" (Walter Savage Landor)
• 576. Finis (Walter Savage Landor)
• 585. At the Mid Hour of Night (Thomas Moore)
• 592. Jenny Kiss'd Me (Leigh Hunt)
• 593. Love and Age (Thomas Love Peacock)
• 597. When We Two parted (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 598. For Music (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 600. She Walks in Beauty (George Gordon, Lord Byron)
• 615. To —— (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 618. "Music, when soft voices die" (Percy Bysshe Shelley)
• 625. Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
• 635. "When I have Fears that I may cease to be" (John Keats)
• 637. Last Sonnet (John Keats)
• 682. "I thought once how Theocritus had sung" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 685. "If thou must love me, let it be for naught" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 686. "When our two souls stand up erect and strong" (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
• 689. My Lost Youth (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
• 692. I Do Not love Thee (Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton)
• 704. Blow, Bugle, Blow (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• 705. Summer Night (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
• 741. "Say not the struggle naught availeth" (Arthur Hugh Clough)
• 763. The Toys (Coventry Patmore)
• 777. Love (Alexander Smith)
• 787. Remember (Christina Georgina Rossetti)
• 812. Earliest Spring (William Dean Howells)
• 831. A White Rose (John Boyle O'Reilly)
• 863. When You Are Old (William Butler Yeats)
• 869. The Second Crucifixion (Richard Le Gallienne)
• 876. Non Nobis (Henry Cust)
• 879. Renouncement (Alice Meynell)

Not unto us, O Lord,
Not unto us the rapture of the day,
The peace of night, or love's divine surprise,
High heart, high speech, high deeds 'mid honouring eyes;
For at Thy word
All these are taken away.

Henry Cust (1861-1917)
Oxford Book of English Verse # 876