Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day
The speaker asks whether today is enough and whether a later day can change the addressee’s doom. The speaker describes the addressee’s cheerless home, already fled but awaiting a return under a burden that causes faintness and mourning.
By Percy Bysshe Shelley · Genre: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry · 93 words
First lines
Is not to-day enough? Why do I peer / Into the darkness of the day to come? / Is not to-morrow even as yesterday? / And will the day that follows change thy doom? / Few flowers grow upon thy wintry way; / And who waits for thee in that cheerless home / Whence thou hast fled, whither thou must return / Charged with the load that makes thee faint and mourn?
Genres
- Lyric Poetry — Eight lines move from the speaker’s questions about the future to a direct address concerning hardship and return.
- Melancholic Poetry — The wintry way, scarce flowers, cheerless home and exhausting burden sustain the verse’s sorrow.
Tags
uncertain future · homecoming · burdens · mourning · poetic fragment
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- Work type: Poem
- Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Date: Date unknown
- Language: English
- Genres: Lyric Poetry, Melancholic Poetry
- Length: 93 words
- Structure: 1 section, 1 paragraphs
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