My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires had been wasting my heart, for I was drawing near the hillside above the grave.
ATTRIBUTION:
Petrarch (1304–1374), Italian poet (FRANCESCO PETRARCA). Sonnets to Laura in Death (l. 36–40).
OxBL—V. Oxford Book of Modern Verse, The, 1892–1935. William Butler Yeats, ed. (1936) Oxford University Press.
