Lyric Poem · Love
To-Morrow
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
When young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek, —
In thy place — ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled — To-day.
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“To-Morrow” by Percy Bysshe Shelley — quilloak.com/poems/to-morrow
Quick facts
- Poem
- To-Morrow
- Poet
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Length
- 6 lines
- Form
- Lyric Poem, Short Poems
- Themes
- Love, Sad, Short
Craft notes
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- Shape
- 6 lines · one 6-line stanza
- Line length
- Mostly 8-syllable lines (tetrameter length).
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- Author record
- Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822
- Source record
- PoetryDBTo-Morrow by percy-bysshe-shelley, PoetryDB transcription
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 640b1f7ed468f2d5…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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