To a Lady. John James Piatt (1835-1917). I. Admiration. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. II. Love

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume II. Love. 1904.

I. Admiration

To a Lady

John James Piatt (1835–1917)

On Her Art of Growing Old Gracefully

YOU ask a verse, to sing (ah, laughing face!)
Your happy art of growing old with grace?
O Muse, begin, and let the truth—but hold!
First let me see that you are growing old.