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.

(C) Thomas Love Peacock
04/10/2015


Best Poems of Thomas Love Peacock

• Love And Age
• The Grave Of Love
• Rich & Poor; Or Saint & Sinner
• Seamen Three
• The Monks Of St. Mark
• Quintetto
• A Glee
• I Dug Beneath The Cypress Shade
• The War Song Of Dinas Vawr
• Beyond The Sea
• Instead Of Sitting Wrapped Up In Flannel
• The Flower Of Love
• Palmyra (2nd Edition)
• Lines On The Death Of Julia
• Duet
• A Fragment
• Castles In The Air
• The Tomb Of Love
• Sir Hornbook
• The Morning Of Love