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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MID-MOMENT, by CLARA MAXWELL TAFT
First Line: Youth, it has been good to lose you
Last Line: And fanned to aching fervor, long ago.
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: Youth, it has been good to lose you
Last Line: And fanned to aching fervor, long ago.
Subject(s): Old Age
Youth, it has been good to lose you.
I did not look behind me when you went.
Others may keep you if they can and choose to;
I only count the bitter hours I spent.
Old Age, it will be joy to catch you
And place your cooling hand within me, so. . . .
Quenching the fire that passion set a match to
And fanned to aching fervor, long ago.
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