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Poem by George Wither


Change


The voice which I did more esteem
Than music in her sweetest key,
Those eyes which unto me did seem
More comfortable than the day,
These now by me as they have been
Shall never more be heard or seen,
But what I once enjoyed in them
Shall seem hereafter as a dream.

All earthly comforts vanish thus,
So little hold of them have we;
That we from them, or they from us,
May in a moment vanished be:
Yet we are neither just nor wise,
If present mercies we despise;
Or mind not how there may be made
A thankful use of what we had. 



George Wither


George Wither's other poems:
  1. For Anniversary Marriage-Days
  2. From a Satire written to King James I
  3. Song (Lordly gallants!)
  4. Veil, Lord, Mine Eyes Till She Be Past
  5. A Poet's Home


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Algernon Swinburne Change ("But now life's face beholden")
  • William Howells Change ("SOMETIMES, when after spirited debate")
  • Jones Very Change ("Father! there is no change to live with Thee")
  • Ella Wilcox Change ("Changed? Yes, I will confess it – I have changed")

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