{"id":10115,"date":"2023-11-04T13:50:10","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=10115"},"modified":"2023-11-04T13:50:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T13:50:31","slug":"to-a-poet-a-thousand-years-hence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/to-a-poet-a-thousand-years-hence\/","title":{"rendered":"To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence<\/h3>\n

by James Elroy Flecker<\/p>\n

I who am dead a thousand years,
\nAnd wrote this sweet archaic song,
\nSend you my words for messengers
\nThe way I shall not pass along.<\/p>\n

I care not if you bridge the seas,
\nOr ride secure the cruel sky,
\nOr build consummate palaces
\nOf metal or of masonry.<\/p>\n

But have you wine and music still,
\nAnd statues and a bright-eyed love,
\nAnd foolish thoughts of good and ill,
\nAnd prayers to them who sit above?<\/p>\n

How shall we conquer? Like a wind
\nThat falls at eve our fancies blow,
\nAnd old Moeonides the blind
\nSaid it three thousand years ago.<\/p>\n

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown,
\nStudent of our sweet English tongue,
\nRead out my words at night, alone:
\nI was a poet, I was young.<\/p>\n

Since I can never see your face,
\nAnd never shake you by the hand,
\nI send my soul through time and space
\nTo greet you. You will understand.<\/p>\n

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James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) was an English poet, dramatist, and diplomat. Though his literary career was cut short by his premature death from tuberculosis at age 30, Flecker left behind a memorable body of poetic works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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