Friday, January 3, 2003

Love And Life Comments

Rating: 3.5

All my past life is mine no more,
The flying hours are gone,
Like transitory dreams giv'n o'er,
Whose images are kept in store
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Lord John Wilmot
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Khairul Ahsan 09 August 2018

'This live-long minute true to thee' - Liked this line most of all!

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Glen Kappy 09 August 2018

hmmm... another poet using the excuse of time to get a woman in bed? -gk

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Susan Williams 09 August 2018

All my past life is mine no more, / The flying hours are gone, - - -I love it when a poem speaks to me like this poet does. Proves that some truths last for centuries.

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Chandan Dey 09 August 2018

Life and Time are both active and dynamic entities. Are they separated? In the end the poet tells us if you know the science behind the illusory time philosophically, you may realize that there is no separation between you and your time. The poem describes the relationship between love, life and time wonderfully. Chandan

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Anil Kumar Panda 09 August 2018

'Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I, by miracle, can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows. '..is the gist of the poem. Time can't be trapped and used as and when one liked. Very nice poem about illusive nature of time and how present makes the sense.

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Savita Tyagi 09 August 2018

Lovely poem. This moment is all we have to own and to offer.

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Dr Antony Theodore 09 August 2018

Then talk not of inconstancy, False hearts, and broken vows; If I, by miracle, can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows. a very fine poem.. tony

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Adrian Flett 09 August 2018

Life in a fleeting moment is crystallised, 'This live-long minute true to thee'

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Kumarmani Mahakul 09 August 2018

This is a beautiful poem on love and life having touching expression and nice collocation.

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Edward Kofi Louis 09 August 2018

Time's speed! ! Flying hours! Thanks for sharing this poem with us.

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Lungelo S Mbuyazi 09 August 2018

Nice piece of artwork, ... I like the style of writing here...

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Mahtab Bangalee 09 August 2018

wonderfully starting this poem- All my past life is mine no more, ...... Like transitory dreams giv'n o'er, Whose images are kept in store By memory alone. //// Excellent pensive writing on LOVE AND LIFE

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Ruta Mohapatra 09 August 2018

'If I, by miracle, can be This live-long minute true to thee, 'Tis all that Heav'n allows.'........Great lines!

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Victor Oyedele 09 August 2018

False hearts, and broken vows I felt that👏👏

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Lungelo S Mbuyazi 27 May 2018

Short, but has a lot to offer....nice poem

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An interesting poem about human life. Likes.

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Parishay Fatima 13 December 2017

That's Awesome and Superb!

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Rebecca Navarre 10 August 2017

Beautifully Done! ! ! ! ! Beautifully Phrased! ! ! ! ! Cherish The Moments Gave! ! ! ! ! Ever So Much Praise! ! ! ! ! Thank You For Sharing! ! ! ! !

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Lantz Pierre 09 August 2017

This poem is hilarious. A defense for being a randy, promiscuous lothario. The argument here is something like, please don't worry about by past infidelities, indiscretions and peccadilloes because they're all in the past. And you can't rightly accuse me of anything I haven't done yet, so don't bother me with theoreticals that have no concrete basis in actual events. No retributions. No preemptive strikes. Only this immediate carnal delight. Now let's get on with it. I think it's pretty funny to dismiss causality and issues of identity persisting through time as meaningless since we depend on them, explicitly and implicitly, to get us safely through each and every day. Does anybody really think that they're discontinuous with the person that they were yesterday? And that we use that continuing sense of identity to predicate how we'll act tomorrow? Unless we need to throw all that out the window for a little quicky satisfaction now. Hot stuff.

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Seamus O Brian 09 August 2017

The most existential expression on the theme of love, but the moment is now gone, so I must also. (I knew Robert would find those first 2 stanzas appealing) :)

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