Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume IV. The Higher Life. 1904. | | | | VI. Human Experience | | Frankford’s Soliloquy | | Thomas Heywood (c. 1570–1641) |
| | From “A Woman Killed with Kindness”
O GOD! O God! that it were possible | |
| To undo things done; to call back yesterday! | |
| That time could turn up his swift sandy glass, | |
| To untell the days, and to redeem these hours! | |
| Or that the sun | 5 |
| Could, rising from the West, draw his coach backward,— | |
| Take from the account of time so many minutes, | |
| Till he had all these seasons called again, | |
| These minutes and these actions done in them. | | | | |
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