Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pleasures! Away; they please no more Last Line: This is the time our eyes should close. Subject(s): Aging | ||||||||
Pleasures! away; they please no more. Friends! are they what they were before? Loves! they are very idle things, The best about them are their wings. The dance! 'tis what the bear can do; Music; I hate your music too. Whene'er these witnesses that Time Hath snatcht the chaplet from our prime, Are call'd by Nature, as we go With eye more wary, step more slow, And will be heard and noted down, However we may fret or frown, Shall we desire to leave the scene Where all our former joys have been? No, 'twere ungrateful and unwise! But when die down our charities For human weal and human woes, This is the time our eyes should close. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS MEMORY AS A HEARING AID by TONY HOAGLAND AMOROSA AND COMPANY by CONRAD AIKEN GRAY WEATHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS FROM THE SPANISH by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON A FIESOLAN IDYL by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR |
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