Now
Out of your whole life give but a moment!
All of your life that has gone before,
All to come after it-so you ignore it
So you make perfect the   present-condense
In a rapture of rage for perfections endowment

Thought and feeling and soul and sense-
Merged in a moment which gives me at last
You around me for once, you beneath me, above me
Me - sure that despite of time future, time past - 
This tick of our life - times one moment you love me

How long such suspension may linger?
Ah, sweet - the moment eternal - just that and no more
When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core
While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

Robert Browning


 


Last Updated: 25 October 2002
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