Explore "To Wish myself Courage" by William Carlos Williams on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
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!