"All Lovely Things" by Conrad Aiken (poetry reading)

This poem would be much better known if it had been written by A E Housman. It sounds like him. Or maybe more like Ezra Pound imitating him:

O woe, woe,
People are born and die,
We also shall be dead pretty soon
Therefore let us act as if we were
Dead already...

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[ThomasPinching]

gorgeous

[falitosis]

Silvery wine floating in space

[MtotheATTHEW]

your voice is like silvery wine flowing through a space ship

[Idlinfarm]

Thank you. I needed that.

[marianneotv]

.. come back true love, sweet youth remain....

impermanence... ;-)