The following poem was written about a woman called Maud Gonne. The poet, W. B. Yeats, was in love with this woman and had been rejected by her many times.
When You are Old By William Butler Yeats
When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fi re, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;
How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face;
And bending down beside the glowing bars, Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fl ed And paced upon the mountains overhead And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.
