Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MY EYES ARE YOUNG, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER


Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

MY EYES ARE YOUNG, by                    
First Line: Soft spake I to age at his dusk of day
Last Line: When my youth with years had flown.
Subject(s): Adolescence; Eyes; Teen Agers


Soft spake I to Age at his dusk of day,
"Wouldst tell me thy secret, friend?
Thy form is gaunt and thy locks are gray,
Yet Youth withal doth seem to lend
Its spring-time smile and thee attend,
Give me thy secret, pray."

And Age replied: "Seest thou yonder field
With its silk-weed pods now burst,
And the fine white threads by the frosts revealed,
Not yet by the winds dispersed,
Nor yet by the snows amerced,
Of their cradle-forming shield?

My locks are like down on the silk-weed, hung
To pods on the frost-killed reeds,
My limbs are like leaves to their dead stalks clung,
But my eyes are liked margined seeds,
Not scattered as yet to meads,
And my eyes like them are young."

Methought as I wended my way alone
And viewed all the silk-weeds strung
With their sloat-eyed seeds, and their down not blown,
Of the golden words of this age-wise tongue,
And I vowed to keep my eyes still young
When my youth with years had flown.





Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!


Other Poems of Interest...
Home: PoetryExplorer.net