Mutability II (The flower that smiles today...)

Percy Bysshe Shelley * Track #138 On The Complete Poetical Works Of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume 2

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Mutability II (The flower that smiles today...) by Percy Bysshe Shelley

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More commonly titled The Flower That Smiles Today, this poem is one of Shelley’s shorter works, and has no consistent meter, however, it has a consistent ABABCCC form.

The message of this poem is quite different from his more famous first Mutability–whatever we want slips away. We all “wake” from o...

Mutability II (The flower that smiles today...) Annotated

[Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824.
There is a fair draft amongst the Boscombe manuscripts.]

I.
The flower that smiles to-day
To-morrow dies;
All that we wish to stay
Tempts and then flies.
What is this world's delight?
Lightning that mocks the night,
Brief even as bright.

II.
Virtue, how frail it is!
Friendship how rare!
Love, how it sells poor bliss
For proud despair!
But we, though soon they fall,
Survive their joy, and all
Which ours we call.

III.
Whilst skies are blue and bright,
Whilst flowers are gay,
Whilst eyes that change ere night
Make glad the day;
Whilst yet the calm hours creep,
Dream thou—and from thy sleep
Then wake to weep.

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