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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
OLD AGE, by ELIZA KEARY Poet's Biography
First Line: Such a wizened creature
Last Line: "itself fair and free."
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: Such a wizened creature
Last Line: "itself fair and free."
Subject(s): Old Age
SUCH a wizened creature,
Sitting alone;
Every kind of ugliness thrown
Into each feature.
"I wasn't always so,"
Said the wizened
One; "sweet motions unimprisoned
Were mine long ago."
And again, "I shall be --
At least something
Out of this outside me, shall wing
Itself fair and free."
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