Classic and Contemporary Poetry
I'M YOUNG, AND IT IS EARLY, by CAROLINE CLIVE First Line: I'm young, and it is early to leave the world behind Last Line: The glad, the free, the busy -- for I am going blind. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Blindness; Visually Handicapped | ||||||||
I'M young, and it is early to leave the world behind, But my eyes are waxing dim, and I feel I shall be blind; Last summer I could count you laburnum's golden show'r, But now I scarce can see there is a tree in flow'r. I must put aside my wheel, my work unfinish'd lies, Except the plaited straws which I plait without my eyes; I sit and feel them passing through my fingers all in gloom, Long, long before the twilight has darken'd in the room. When I am blind, my mother, O do not me forsake; I shall need a hand to guide me, a hand that I may take; The world with me went gaily, but now I lag behind The glad, the free, the busy -- for I am going blind. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE BLIND POET by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) HE HAD A GOOD YEAR by MARVIN BELL THE BLIND SHEEP by RANDALL JARRELL THE BLIND by EDGAR LEE MASTERS THE BLIND DOG OF VENICE by RON PADGETT BATTLE AFTER WAR by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON BOARDING: 5. THE DADAR SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND by REETIKA VAZIRANI |
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