MEN IMPROVE WITH THE YEARS
by: W. B. Yeats (1865-1939)
- AM worn out with dreams;
- A weather-worn, marble triton
- Among the streams;
- And all day long I look
- Upon this lady's beauty
- As though I had found in a book
- A pictured beauty,
- Pleased to have filled the eyes
- Or the discerning ears,
- Delighted to be but wise,
- For men improve with the years;
- And yet, and yet,
- Is this my dream, or the truth?
- O would that we had met
- When I had my burning youth!
- But I grow old among dreams,
- A weather-worn, marble triton
- Among the streams.
"Men Improve with the Years"
is reprinted from The Wild Swans at Coole. W.B. Yeats.
New York: Macmillan, 1919. |
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