To Wish Myself Courage

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Title:     To Wish Myself Courage
Author: William Carlos Williams [More Titles by Williams]

On the day when youth is no more upon me
I will write of the leaves and the moon in a tree top!
I will sing then the song, long in the making--
When the stress of youth is put away from me.

How can I ever be written out as men say?
Surely it is merely an interference with the long song--
This that I am now doing.

But when the spring of it is worn like the old moon
And the eaten leaves are lace upon the cold earth--
Then I will rise up in my great desire--
Long at the birth--and sing me the youth-song!

[The end]
William Carlos Williams's poem: To Wish Myself Courage

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