Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OULD SNARLY-GOB, by JAMES STEPHENS Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little fire in the grate Last Line: Get up and run about! Subject(s): Old Age | ||||||||
There was a little fire in the grate; A fistful of red coal, Might warm a soul, But scarce could heat a body that had weight -- Not mine, at any rate. A glum old man was sitting by the fire, With wrinkled brow, Warming himself, somehow; And mumbling low, this melancholy sire, A singular desire. If I were young again, said he, if I Were only young again, I'd laugh at pain! I'd jeer at people groaning, and I'd try To pinch them ere they'd die! The young folk laugh and jump about and play And I am old, And grey, and cold! If I were only young again, and they Were old, and cold, and grey, I'd pull them from the fire, I'd jeer and shout, I'd say, for fun, Get up and run And warm yourself, you lazy, doddering lout! Get up and run about! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS |
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