Poetry Archives

A continuing selection of classic and contemporary poems.

Dorothy Parker

“Then we will have tonight!” we said.
  “Tomorrow—may we not be dead?”
The morrow touched our eyes, and found
  Us walking firm above the ground,
Our pulses quick, our blood alight.
  Tomorrow’s gone—we’ll have tonight!

Online text © 1998-2008 Poetry X. All rights reserved.
From Sunset Rope

What are tags?
Tags, sometimes called “folksonomies,” are words that describe or categorize a poem, like “20th century modernism” or “Italian sonnet”. Tags can help you find poems that have something in common, based on how other people classify them.

« Previous