Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark-a…

Take your delight in momentariness, Walk between dark and dark-a shining space With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.

Robert Graves

1929

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Shortness of life The ephemeral Life

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Poem

Time

1929

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Robert Graves

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Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." The Complete Poems: In One Volume. Penguin Books, 2003, l. 10-12.

Original citation

Graves, Robert. "Sick Love." Poems 1929. Seizin Press, 1929, l. 10-12.

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