Author Topic: Sonnets 09: Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old (Read 686 times)

Lorenzo · « **on:** June 10, 2010, 01:28:36 PM »

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Let you not say of me when I am old,
In pretty worship of my withered hands
Forgetting who I am, and how the sands
Of such a life as mine run red and gold
Even to the ultimate sifting dust, "Behold,
Here walketh passionless age!"â€”for there expands
A curious superstition in these lands,
And by its leave some weightless tales are told.

In me no lenten wicks watch out the night;
I am the booth where Folly holds her fair;
Impious no less in ruin than in strength,
When I lie crumbled to the earth at length,
Let you not say, "Upon this reverend site
The righteous groaned and beat their breasts in prayer.

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Author Topic: Sonnets 09: Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old (Read 686 times)

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Sonnets 09: Let You Not Say Of Me When I Am Old