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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOR YOUR SAKE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poet's Biography
First Line: For your sake who have left me grieving
Last Line: I see your hands and I wake and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Fathers; God; Old Age
First Line: For your sake who have left me grieving
Last Line: I see your hands and I wake and weep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Fathers; God; Old Age
FOR your sake who have left me grieving
I love the old who are tired of living,
Tired of travelling a road grown weary,
More than the young, more than the merry.
The old, patient and rosy faces
Stir my heart in its secret places.
The old eyes that ache for rest
Set my heart to bleed in my breast.
More than the children, golden and ruddy,
The bent knees and the feeble body
Stab my heart with the mother-pain,
For your sake in the night and rain.
For your sake I would fain enfold them,
The old heads to my breast and hold them,
Keep them safe from the lonely fear,
My kind love of many a year.
The old hands, I could kneel and kiss them,
Knotted and purple, could love them, caress them.
Ah, my dear, when the house is asleep,
I see your hands and I wake and weep.
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