559. To My Ninth Decade. Walter Savage Landor. 1909-14. English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald. The Harvard Classics

English Poetry II: From Collins to Fitzgerald.
The Harvard Classics. 1909–14.

559. To My Ninth Decade

Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)


TO my ninth decade I have totter’d on,
And no soft arm bends now my steps to steady;
She, who once led me where she would, is gone,
So when he calls me, Death shall find me ready.