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The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats
The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats

The Song of the Old Mother

William Butler Yeats * Track #9 On The Wind Among the Reeds

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William Butler Yeats

1899

The Song of the Old Mother by William Butler Yeats

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William Butler Yeats
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This is a poem about the trials of old age and the feelings of an elderly woman who works hard and views with annoyance the idleness of young people. It is reasonable to assume that ‘the young’ she refers to are her own children or grandchildren.

The tone is a matter of interpretation; if read alo...

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I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
Till stars are beginning to blink and peep;
And the young lie long and dream in their bed
Of the matching of ribbons for bosom and head,
And their day goes over in idleness,
And they sigh if the wind but lift a tress:
While I must work because I am old,
And the seed of the fire gets feeble and cold.

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