When You Are Old

by William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

Ακούστε τον Richard Pasco να διαβάζει το ποίημα:



… και την Emma Fielding:



When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face;

And bending down beside the glowing bars,
Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled
And paced upon the mountains overhead
And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.


Πηγές:
Listen for Pleasure, Best Loved Verse, read by Gwen Watford and Richard Pasco, (2MC)-1991
BBC Radio Collection, The Nation’s Favourite Poems (2CD)-1998


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