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EPISODE · Jul 15, 2020 · 1 MIN

When You Are Old

from Yellow Sheaves Poetry · host Aditi Bist

This is a poem by the 19th century Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The speaker is asking his lover to think ahead to the future and the time when they will be old and suggests that the lover will regret not being with him once she realises the true face of all those false lovers around her.. but at that moment she will not be able to do anything about it.

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This is a poem by the 19th century Irish poet William Butler Yeats. The speaker is asking his lover to think ahead to the future and the time when they will be old and suggests that the lover will regret not being with him once she realises the true face of all those false lovers around her.. but at that moment she will not be able to do anything about it.

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