# W.Yates & Love
27.10.11 | marina malheiro
O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG
by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- SWEETHEART, do not love too long:
- I loved long and long,
- And grew to be out of fashion
- Like an old song.
- All through the years of our youth
- Neither could have known
- Their own thought from the other's,
- We were so much at one.
- But O, in a minute she changed--
- O do not love too long,
- Or you will grow out of fashion
- Like an old song.
"O Do Not Love Too Long" is reprinted from In the Seven Woods. W.B. Yeats. New York: Macmillan, 1903. |
" (...) Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song".