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Edmund Waller (Эдмунд Уоллер)


Old Age


The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er;
So calm are we when passions are no more.
For then we know how vain it was to boast
Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost.
Clouds of affection from our younger eyes
Conceal that emptiness which age descries.

The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd,
Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made:
Stronger by weakness, wiser men become
As they draw near to their eternal home.
Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view
That stand upon the threshold of the new. 



Edmund Waller's other poems:
  1. The Self Banished
  2. Of My Lady Isabella Playing on the Lute
  3. To a Lady Singing a Song of His Composing
  4. At Penshurst
  5. To One Married to an Old Man


Poems of another poets with the same name (Стихотворения других поэтов с таким же названием):

  • Arthur Symons (Артур Саймонс (Симонс)) Old Age ("It may be, when this city of the nine gates")
  • Caroline Clive (Каролина Клайв) Old Age ("Thou hast been wrong'd, I think old age")

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