Poetry Explorer

Classic and Contemporary Poetry

AT TWO-AND-TWENTY by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

Poet Analysis

First Line: MARIAN, MAY, AND MAUD
Last Line: WHAT CARE I?
Subject(s): AGING; LOVE - UNREQUITED;
MARIAN, May, and Maud
Have not passed me by --
Arched foot, and rosy mouth,
And bronze-brown eye!

When my hair is gray,
Then I shall be wise;
Then, thank Heaven! I shall not care
For bronze-brown eyes.

Then let Maud and May
And Marian pass me by:
So they do not scorn me now,
What care I?



Home: PoetryExplorer.net