Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SI JEUNESSE SAVAIT!, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the veil from the eyes is lifted Last Line: And the strong years cheat us still. Subject(s): Love - Complaints | ||||||||
WHEN the veil from the eyes is lifted The seer's head is gray; When the sailor to shore has drifted The sirens are far away. Why must the clearer vision, The wisdom of Life's late hour, Come, as in Fate's derison, When the hand has lost its power? Is there a rarer being, Is there a fairer sphere Where the strong are not unseeing, And the harvests are not sere; Where, ere the seasons dwindle, They yield their due return; Where the lamps of knowledge kindle While the flames of youth still burn? O, for the young man's chances! O, for the old man's will! Those flee while this advances, And the strong years cheat us still. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...TALKING RICHARD WILSON BLUES, BY RICHARD CLAY WILSON by DENIS JOHNSON THE BRIDGE by ALEXANDER ANDERSON THE RABBI'S SON-IN-LAW by SABINE BARING-GOULD MISGIVINGS by WILLIAM MATTHEWS THROUGH AGONY: 1 by CLAUDE MCKAY HEMATITE HEIRLOOM LIVES ON (MAYBE DECEMBER 1980) by ALICE NOTLEY QUICK AND BITTER by YEHUDA AMICHAI A MOTHER'S PICTURE by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN |
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