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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD PRIMA DONNA SPEAKS, by HELEN WIEAND COLE
First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice
Last Line: With their remembered praise.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness
First Line: I made my choice: / 'twas children or my voice
Last Line: With their remembered praise.
Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Regret; Solitude; Loneliness
I made my choice:
'Twas children or my voice;
Now it is gone
I sit here sad, alone.
No one to care
Whither I go, or where
I spend the years;
They end at last in tears.
Forgot my name;
Impermanent is fame.
How dare I teach
Ambitious youth to reach
For such a prize,
When at the end there lies
Bitter regret,
Forgetfulness? And yet
Still in my ears
The plaudits of my peers
Fill lonely days
With their remembered praise.
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