<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365963" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Wife's Mood</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Don’t grumble and growl and roar at me<br>Old man, when your temper’s turning, <br>I’ve long since tired of your vain disputes<br>In the halls of your lordship’s learning, <br>You think, old man, you can tame me now<br>By beating your breakers shoreward, <br>I’ve never put up with your antics yet<br>When your spume is fuming forward.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Don’t shriek at me, ’ said the old man sea<br>As she whipped at his crests in temper, <br>‘It’s always the way that your humour turns<br>Each bleak and harsh September; <br>Will ever you calm yourself, you witch<br>And settle my troubled rancour, <br>Or shriek and howl like a grey old owl<br>At my spindrift’s sullen anger? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘Old, I was old when the world was young<br>In my hallowed depths and deeps, <br>What did I want with a wife like you<br>Whose temper never sleeps? ’<br>‘Don’t carp and cavil at me, ’ she shrilled<br>In the runnels at rocks uncovered, <br>‘I’d turn the tide in a backward slide<br>For the sake of a new-found lover.’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">She turned to whip at the whining wires: <br>‘I’m leaving you and your brood, ’<br>The sea came grumbling round the Pier<br>‘It’s only the old wife’s mood.<br>She’s light and happy in other months, <br>In love that’s ever the way.’<br>The old wife crept from her hiding place<br>To join him, out in the bay.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">15 March 1975</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=David+Lewis+Paget">David Lewis Paget</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=365963" data-title="The Old Wife's Mood de David Lewis Paget" data-description="'Don’t grumble and growl and roar at me Old man, when your temper’s turning, I’ve long since tired of your vain disputes In the halls of your lordship’s learning, You think, old man, you can tame me now By beating your breakers shoreward..."></div> </div> </div>

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