greykit.poetry — #time

• 1906 [rudyard-kipling] Cities and Thrones and Powers
  Puck of Pook’s Hill

  Empires bloom and fall like flowers — each blossom certain its brief season is forever.

  #time#history#1900s
• 1849 [edgar-allan-poe] A Dream within a Dream
  Poems (1849)

  Poe asks whether a life lived as a dream is therefore less real — then stands on a surf-tormented shore, watching the golden sands slip through his fingers, unable to save even one grain from the pitiless wave.

  #lyric#loss#time#mortality#1840s
• 1820 [john-keats] Ode on a Grecian Urn
  Poems Published in 1820

  Meditating on the frozen figures of an ancient urn, Keats finds that unheard melodies surpass the heard, and that the urn's last lesson to man is that beauty and truth are one.

  #ode#art#beauty#time#1820s
• 1818 [percy-bysshe-shelley] Ozymandias

  A traveller's report of a ruined desert statue whose pedestal proclaims the vast ambitions of a king whose works have wholly vanished.

  #sonnet#ruin#time#power#1810s