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Read & copy the quotation
“You did not come, And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb.”
- Date
- 1901
Meaning of “You did not come, And marching Time drew…”
Absence becomes more painful as time continues, with the missed meeting represented not as a single moment but as a prolonged experience of disappointed expectation.
Where does it come from?
“A Broken Appointment,” Poems of the Past and the Present (1901), Project Gutenberg #3168. The poem's speaker addresses an absent person; the line is retained as dramatic lyric context.
