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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE PRIME OF LIFE, by WALTER LEARNED
First Line: Just as I thought I was growing old
Last Line: Just as I thought I was growing old.
Subject(s): Aging; Gray (color); Life; Old Age; Women; Grey (color)
First Line: Just as I thought I was growing old
Last Line: Just as I thought I was growing old.
Subject(s): Aging; Gray (color); Life; Old Age; Women; Grey (color)
JUST as I thought I was growing old,
Ready to sit in my easy chair,
To watch the world with a heart grown cold,
And smile at folly I would not share,
Rose came by with a smile for me,
And I am thinking that forty year
Isn't the age that it seems to be
When two pretty brown eyes are near.
Bless me, of life it is just the prime!
A fact that I hope she will understand,
And forty year is a perfect rhyme
To dark brown eyes and a pretty hand.
These gray hairs are by chance, you see —
Boys are sometimes gray I am told;
Rose came by with a smile for me,
Just as I thought I was growing old.
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