Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, SONNETS ON AGE: 5, by KATHRYN HOWARD WELLS


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SONNETS ON AGE: 5, by                    
First Line: I cannot tell this eager youth
Last Line: And know that soon one, too, must die.
Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fear; Dead, The


I cannot tell this eager youth
The terrors that oppress the old;
To tell him all the bitter truth
Would make his burning heart grow cold --
The sudden waking in the night,
With beating heart and gasping breath,
The choking cries, the numbing fright
Before the thought of coming death.

When face to face, the soul stands bare
Before the knowledge, horror bred,
That from this life it soon must fare
And lie among the moldering dead.
To see life go, hear death draw nigh,
And know that soon one, too, must die.





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