Time & Brevity
Youth and Age
From The Tower (1928)
Time & BrevityLiving
Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
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Codex Note
Four lines: the poet raged when young against a world that oppressed him, but now the world 'speeds the parting guest' with flattery.
Cite this poem
MLA
Yeats, W. B. “Youth and Age.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/73/.
Chicago
Yeats, W. B. “Youth and Age.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/yeats/73/.
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