Middle Age

The sins of Youth are hardly sins,

So frank they are and free.

‘T is but when Middle-age begins

We need morality.

Ah, pause and weigh this bitter truth:

That Middle-age, grown cold,

No comprehension has of Youth,

No pity for the Old.

Youth, with his half-divine mistakes,

She never can forgive,

So much she hates his charm which makes

Worth while the life we live.

She scorns Old Age, whose tolerance

And calm, well-balanced mind

(Knowing how crime is born of chance)

Can pardon all mankind.

Yet she, alas! has all the power

Of strength and place and gold,

Man’s every act, through every hour,

Is by her laws controlled.

All things she grasps with sordid hands

And weighs in tarnished scales.

She neither feels, nor understands,

And yet her will prevails!

Cold-blooded vice and careful sin,

Gold-lust, blind selfishness,–

The shortest, cheapest way to win

Some, worse than cheap, success.

Such are her attributes and aims,

Yet meekly we obey,

While she to guide and order claims

All issues of the day.

You seek for honour, friendship, truth?

Let Middle-age be banned!

Go, for warm-hearted acts, to Youth;

To Age,–to understand!

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• The Higher Pantheism poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Grandmother poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Garden poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Flower poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Eagle poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Deserted House poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• The Brook poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Tears, Idle Tears poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sweet And Low poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• St. Agnes’ Eve poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Spring poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sir Launcelot and Queen Guinevere poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sir Galahad poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Sea Dreams poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Requiescat poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Recollection of the Arabian Nights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Princess: A Medley: The splendour falls on castle walls poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Pelleas And Ettarre poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Of Old Sat Freedom on the Heights poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson
• Of Old Sat Freedom poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems by Alfred 1st Baron Tennyson

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