Another Victorian poem, urging us to seize the moment. Ernest Dowson wrote it, coining the phrase “the days of wine and roses”.
They are not long, the weeping and the laughter,
Love and desire and hate;
I think they have no portion in us after
We pass the gate.
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:
Out of a misty dream
Our path emerges for a while, then closes
Within a dream.