Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS


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First Line: I am worn out with dreams
Last Line: Among the streams.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Aging; Men; Regret


I AM worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all day long I look
Upon this lady's beauty
As though I had found in a book
A pictured beauty,
Pleased to have filled the eyes
Or the discerning ears,
Delighted to be but wise,
For men improve with the years;
And yet, and yet,
Is this my dream, or the truth?
O would that we had met
When I had my burning youth!
But I grow old among dreams,
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams.





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