Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Age
1807–1882 United States
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For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening twilight fades away
The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
Morituri Salutamus (1875)
And the bright faces of my young companions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.
The Spanish Student (1843)
The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,
And I am near to fall, infirm and weary.
Whatever poet, orator, or sage
May say of it, old age is still old age.
How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow
Into the arctic regions of our lives,
Where little else than life itself survives.
The course of my long life hath reached at last,
In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea,
The common harbor, where must rendered be,
Account of all the actions of the past.