<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=583126" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When you are very old...</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">translation of a famous sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) <br>from Sonnets for Hélène</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you are very old, at evening, by the fire, <br>spinning wool by candlelight and winding it in skeins, <br>you will say in wonderment as you recite my lines: <br>'Ronsard admired me in the days when I was fair.'</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then not one of your servants dozing gently there<br>hearing my name's cadence break through your low repines<br>but will start into wakefulness out of her dreams<br>and bless your name - immortalised by my desire.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I'll be underneath the ground, and a boneless shade<br>taking my long rest in the scented myrtle-glade, <br>and you'll be an old woman, nodding towards life's close, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">regretting my love, and regretting your disdain.<br>Heed me, and live for now: this time won't come again.<br>Come, pluck now - today - life's so quickly-fading rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">(translation by Anthony Weir)</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Anthony+Weir">Anthony Weir</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=583126" data-title="When you are very old... de Anthony Weir" data-description="translation of a famous sonnet by Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) from Sonnets for Hélène When you are very old, at evening, by the fire, spinning wool by candlelight and winding it in skeins, you will say in wonderment as you recite my lines:..."></div> </div> </div>

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