An illustration of a theme, from the works of John Keats , W. B. Yeats , Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, Percy Bysshe Shelley , John Masefield ,
A. E. Housman , Edmund Waller , George Peele , and John Milton
Each poem shows how the writer faces the realities of time and mortality
Chosen by Barbara Burnham and M. H. Allen