Time & Brevity
To a Lady
From An American Anthology, 1787-1900, ed. E. C. Stedman (1900)
Time & Brevity
You ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)
Your happy art of growing old with grace?
O Muse, begin, and let the truth — but hold!
First let me see that you are growing old.
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Piatt, John James. “To a Lady.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt/7/.
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Piatt, John James. “To a Lady.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/piatt/7/.
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