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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
WHEN I AM OLD, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL
First Line: When I am old my hands will find
Last Line: When I am old.
Subject(s): Old Age
First Line: When I am old my hands will find
Last Line: When I am old.
Subject(s): Old Age
When I am old my hands will find
Some tasks to do that I have missed
In busy days. Some wounds to bind,
Perhaps the leisure to be kind,
When I am old.
When I am old, and work is done,
The lovely things that seem to fade
Like dewdrops in the morning sun --
Illusive, vague -- may yet be won,
When I am old.
When I am old, and night at last
Comes creeping softly on hushed feet,
May only loving looks be cast
On my still face, as friends go past,
When I am old.
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