<link href="css/hmh.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <meta content="urn:uuid:dea2f32c-88b5-480f-96f9-3030971205dd" name="Adept.expected.resource"/> </head> <body><a id="p119"/> <h1 class="chaptertitle poemtitle paired">She Remembers the Famous Poets</h1> <blockquote> <p class="left "> <em>Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir à la chandelle . . . —Ronsard</em><br/> <em>When you are old and grey and full of sleep . . . —Yeats</em></p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="left ">Now I am old and grey and sit alone beside my fire,<br/> I think of lovely boys I knew when I was young and fair.<br/> And some of them wrote poems about my eyes and their desire,<br/> My winsome Irish Willie and my gallant French Pierre.</p> </blockquote> <div class="timebreak "> </div> <blockquote> <p class="left ">It makes me smile to think about how we made love, and all<br/> The tender things they told me, as I gaze into the flames<br/> These winter nights; but, Lord! I never can recall<br/> A single word of all they wrote, or even their last names.</p> </blockquote> </body> </html>