Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AN OLD SONG, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I set my reed against my lips and blow Last Line: And you grow young, and I alive once more. Subject(s): Time | ||||||||
When you are very old. -- RONSARD TO HIS LADY. I SET my reed against my lips and blow, From out the sunset and the thick of May, The tune that in my throat has throbbed all day, To you, upon your terrace pacing slow. Listen, it is the sweetest tune I know; In the last light a little longer stay; Soon will I break and fling my reed away, And stripped of song forever from you go. Listen, I pipe you some December sere, The bough without the bloom, noons dark with rain, You old, I dead, the sharp wind at the door. Ah, how these notes will haunt that aging year! The brier will blossom by your walls again; And you grow young, and I alive once more. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND A CHRISTMAS FOLK-SONG by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE |
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