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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
FOUR SONNETS: 3, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poet's Biography
First Line: When you are old, and those who hail you now
Last Line: Foregtful even of our mutual dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: When you are old, and those who hail you now
Last Line: Foregtful even of our mutual dust.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki
Subject(s): Old Age
When you are old, and those who hail you now
A thing of promise, richer every year,
Shall trace a deeper glory on your brow
In that it shall be lordly and austere;
I shall recall, with heart bereft and stung --
The while my dazed eyes pitifully stare --
The strong turn of your wrist when you were young,
The brown curve of your throat when you were fair.
Although upon that day you will assume
Proportions more authentic and august
Than now are yours, I shall but know the doom
Of young limbs withered and of beauty gone --
Oh, rather that we lay already prone,
Foregtful even of our mutual dust.
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