Audio: When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

"When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats is another classic poem that goes the distance. Though it's only a few stanzas long, this love poem looks back on a full life with all its joys and sorrows. Cozy up and listen to this poem with your better half.

"When You Are Old" by W.B. Yeats is another classic poem that goes the distance. Though it's only a few stanzas long, this love poem looks back on a full life with all its joys and sorrows. disappointments and victories. Considered by some to be the greatest poet of all time, Yeats surely would want you to cozy up and listen to this poem with your better half.

When You Are Old By William Butler Yates Reading by Anne Coleman four liberal box dot org's When you are old and gray and full of sleep and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read and dream of the soft look. Your eyes had once and of their shadows deep. How Maney loved your moments of glad grace and loved your beauty with love, false or true. But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you and loved the sorrows of your changing face and bending down beside the glowing bars, murmur a little sadly, how Love fled and paste upon the mountains overhead and hid his face amid a crowd of stars and of poem.