| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909. | | | | Wrinkles | | By Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864) |
| | | WHEN Helen first saw wrinkles in her face | |
| (’Twas when some fifty long had settled there | |
| And intermarried and branched off awide) | |
| She threw herself upon her couch and wept: | |
| On this side hung her head, and over that | 5 |
| Listlessly she let fall the faithless brass | |
That made the men as faithless.
But when you | |
| Found them, or fancied them, and would not hear | |
| That they were only vestiges of smiles, | |
| Or the impression of some amorous hair | 10 |
| Astray from cloistered curls and roseate band, | |
| Which had been lying there all night perhaps | |
| Upon a skin so soft, ‘No, no,’ you said, | |
| ‘Sure, they are coming, yes, are come, are here: | |
| Well, and what matters it, while thou art too!’ | 15 | | | |
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