435. What if a Day by Thomas Campion
b'T Campion read by Classic Poetry Aloud: Giving voice to the poetry of the past.\\nwww.classicpoetryaloud.com\\n\\n--------------------------------------------\\n\\nWhat if a Day\\nby Thomas Campion (1567 \\u2013 1620) \\n\\nWhat if a day, or a month, or a year\\nCrown thy delights with a thousand sweet contentings?\\nCannot a chance of a night or an hour\\nCross thy desires with as many sad tormentings?\\nFortune, honor, beauty, youth\\nAre but blossoms dying;\\nWanton pleasure, doting love\\nAre but shadows flying.\\nAll our joys are but toys,\\nIdle thoughts deceiving;\\nNone have power of an hour\\nIn their lives\\u2019 bereaving.\\n\\n\\nEarth\\u2019s but a point to the world, and a man\\nIs but a point to the world\\u2019s compare\\xb4d centure;\\nShall then the point of a point be so vain\\nAs to triumph in a sely point\\u2019s adventure?\\nAs is hazard that we have,\\nThere is nothing biding;\\nDays of pleasure are like streams\\nThrough fair meadows gliding.\\nWeal and woe, time doth go,\\nTime is never turning;\\nSecret fates guide our states,\\nBoth in mirth and mourning.\\n\\n\\nFirst aired: 25 February 2009\\n\\nFor hundreds more poetry readings, visit the Classic Poetry Aloud index.\\n\\nReading \\xa9 Classic Poetry Aloud 2009'