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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AGAINST THE MISER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS
First Line: Never shall these be young again who say
Last Line: Into rough golden breakers of the years to come!
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age
First Line: Never shall these be young again who say
Last Line: Into rough golden breakers of the years to come!
Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age
Never shall these be young again who say
that out of the flame of the earth, the sun, the flesh, the autumn bough,
out of the dark of tears, the palm of love, the earth behind the plough,
out of the winds across the fields of flowers and hay,
they will arrest with miser mind each clear and perfect thing.
Oh, pity these who walk about
like sharp old women, shawled and aproned, fingering
the amulet of memory's sum.
Let them mark the young who lie on some strange shore within the deep
embrace of beauty — who will suddenly rise and laugh and leap
into rough golden breakers of the years to come!
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