“Fate! Fate! All things pass away; Life is forever, youth is for a day. Love again if you may Before the stars are blown out of the sky And the crickets die; Babylon and Samarkand Are mud walls in a waste of sand.” IfsLifeMayLife IsDeathDiesStarsForeverFateSkyDyingYouthWallWasteAll ThingsSandMudCricketPassing AwayImpermanenceLove AgainBabylonSamarkand Book:Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher Source: Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher
“Yellow melon flowers Crawl beneath the withered peach-trees; A date-palm throws its heavy fronds of steel Against the scoured metallic sky.” TreeSkyFlowerFruitHeavyYellowSteelPalmsPeachesWitheredMetallicMelons Book:Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher Source: Selected Poems of John Gould Fletcher