The Lamentation Of The Old Pensioner

Although I shelter from the rain
Under a broken tree,
My chair was nearest to the fire
In every company
That talked of love or politics,
Ere Time transfigured me.

Though lads are making pikes again
For some conspiracy,
And crazy rascals rage their fill
At human tyranny,
My contemplations are of Time
That has transfigured me.

There’s not a woman turns her face
Upon a broken tree,
And yet the beauties that I loved
Are in my memory;
I spit into the face of Time
That has transfigured me.

(1 votes, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Meeting Hidden by old age awhile In masker’s cloak and hood, Each hating what the other loved, Face to face we […]...

Hiawatha's Lamentation In those days the Evil Spirits, All the Manitos of mischief, Fearing Hiawatha’s wisdom, And his love for Chibiabos, Jealous […]...

The Scrutiny Why should you swear I am forsworn, Since thine I vowed to be? Lady, it is already morn, And ’twas […]...

Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation Since that first morning when I crawled Into the world, a naked grubby thing, And found the world unkind, My […]...

Nature's Way To tribulations of mankind Dame Nature is indifferent; To human sorrow she is blind, And deaf to human discontent. Mid […]...

Hamlet Off-Stage: She Wheel Ophelia puked hourly dawn till dusk, Retching mucous slobber, then spewing air. Scum that I am, I never stopped thinking […]...

Meditation on a Bone A piece of bone, found at Trondhjem in 1901, with the following runic inscription (about A. D. 1050) cut on […]...

A Man Young And Old: II. Human Dignity Like the moon her kindness is, If kindness I may call What has no comprehension in’t, But is the same […]...

250. Song-She's Fair and Fause SHE’S fair and fause that causes my smart, I lo’ed her meikle and lang; She’s broken her vow, she’s broken […]...

When You Are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And […]...

Remembered Women FOR a woman’s face remembered as a spot of quick light on the flat land of dark night, For this […]...

Sometimes with One I Love SOMETIMES with one I love, I fill myself with rage, for fear I effuse unreturn’d love; But now I think […]...

Curse of the Cat Woman It sometimes happens That the woman you meet and fall in love with Is of that strange Transylvanian people With […]...

Sonnet LXIII Against my love shall be, as I am now, With Time’s injurious hand crush’d and o’er-worn; When hours have drain’d […]...

To the Moon Oh gracious moon, now as the year turns, I remember how, heavy with sorrow, I climbed this hill to gaze […]...

The Ragged Wood O hurry where by water among the trees The delicate-stepping stag and his lady sigh, When they have but looked […]...

Coole Park, 1929 I meditate upon a swallow’s flight, Upon a aged woman and her house, A sycamore and lime-tree lost in night […]...

Ballade at Thirty-five This, no song of an ingénue, This, no ballad of innocence; This, the rhyme of a lady who Followed ever […]...

Forget Not the Field Forget not the field where they perish’d, The truest, the last of the brave, All gone and the bright hope […]...

The Whipping The old woman across the way is whipping the boy again And shouting to the neighborhood her goodness and his […]...

A Prayer For My Son Bid a strong ghost stand at the head That my Michael may sleep sound, Nor cry, nor turn in the […]...

The Three Monuments They hold their public meetings where Our most renowned patriots stand, One among the birds of the air, A stumpier […]...

Upon A Dying Lady I Her Courtesy With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace, She lies, her lovely piteous head amid dull red […]...

Love's Deity I long to talk with some old lover’s ghost, Who died before the God of Love was born: I cannot […]...

Taking up the fair Ideal Taking up the fair Ideal, Just to cast her down When a fracture we discover Or a splintered Crown Makes […]...

I make His Crescent fill or lack I make His Crescent fill or lack His Nature is at Full Or Quarter as I signify His Tides do […]...

Beauty WHAT does it mean? Tired, angry, and ill at ease, No man, woman, or child alive could please Me now. […]...

Murderers He was my best and oldest friend. I’d known him all my life. And yet I’m sure towards the end […]...

Why I Voted the Socialist Ticket I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life’s unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the […]...

A Lovers' Quarrel We two were lovers, the Sea and I; We plighted our troth ‘neath a summer sky. And all through the […]...

In the Country This life is sweetest; in this wood I hear no children cry for food; I see no woman, white with […]...

Daughter Why is the world at peace. This may astonish you a little but when you realise how Easily Mrs. Charles […]...

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage […]...

Bob's Lane Women he liked, did shovel-bearded Bob, Old Farmer Hayward of the Heath, but he Loved horses. He himself was like […]...

Colder He was six foot four, and forty-six And even colder than he thought he was James Thurber, The Thirteen Clocks […]...

199. Song-My Peggy's Charms MY Peggy’s face, my Peggy’s form, The frost of hermit Age might warm; My Peggy’s worth, my Peggy’s mind, Might […]...

Fairy Tale Many times upon a time There was a man who loved a woman. Many times upon a time There was […]...

The Rat Of Faith A blue jay poses on a stake Meant to support an apple tree Newly planted. A strong wind On this […]...

In Tara's Halls A man I praise that once in Tara’s Hals Said to the woman on his knees, ‘Lie still. My hundredth […]...

Tampa Robins The robin laughed in the orange-tree: “Ho, windy North, a fig for thee: While breasts are red and wings are […]...

Related posts: