Elizabeth Hart Pennell. Youth and Age. Harriet Monroe, ed. Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912-22

Harriet Monroe, ed. (1860–1936). Poetry: A Magazine of Verse. 1912–22.

Youth and Age

By Elizabeth Hart Pennell


YOUTH has music on his lips
And in his hurrying feet,
Rhythm in his finger-tips
And in his laughter sweet.

Age has silence on his tongue—	5
Never a note or sound;
But his heart is often wrung
By music all around.

Youth has tongue, but lacks an ear—
He whistles, pipes and sings.	10
Age is still, but he can hear
Silence and growing things.