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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 2, by THOMAS CAMPION Poet's Biography
First Line: Though you are young and I am old
Last Line: Thou fool! To-morrow thou must die!'
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Youth
First Line: Though you are young and I am old
Last Line: Thou fool! To-morrow thou must die!'
Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Youth
THOUGH you are young, and I am old,
Though your veins hot, and my blood cold,
Though youth is moist, and age is dry;
Yet embers live, when flames do die.
The tender graft is easily broke,
But who shall shake the sturdy oak?
You are more fresh and fair than I;
Yet stubs do live when flowers do die.
Thou, that thy youth doth vainly boast,
Know buds are soonest nipped with frost:
Think that thy fortune still doth cry,
'Thou fool! to-morrow thou must die!'
Other Poems of Interest...
AFTER THE GENTLE POET KOBAYASHI ISSA by ROBERT HASS
BETWEEN THE WARS by ROBERT HASS
THE GOLDEN SHOVEL by TERRANCE HAYES
ALONG WITH YOUTH by ERNEST HEMINGWAY
THE BLACK RIVIERA by MARK JARMAN