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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty by Ogden Nash

10/12/2008 9:37:18 PM
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(1902 - 1971 / USA)
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A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
 
  Unwillingly Miranda wakes,
Feels the sun with terror,
One unwilling step she takes,
Shuddering to the mirror.

Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.

Shining like the morning star,
Like the twilight shining,
Haunted by a calendar,
Miranda is a-pining.

Silly girl, silver girl,
Draw the mirror toward you;
Time who makes the years to whirl
Adorned as he adored you.

Time is timelessness for you;
Calendars for the human;
What's a year, or thirty, to
Loveliness made woman?

Oh, Night will not see thirty again,
Yet soft her wing, Miranda;
Pick up your glass and tell me, then--
How old is Spring, Miranda?

Ogden Nash


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Tranquil Ocean (1/21/2007 5:42:00 AM)
What a brilliant ending to an awesome poem! !
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Mike Dunn (5/30/2006 9:26:00 PM)
A beautiful reflection on what makes one old... does the passage of time affect our age? What is one day from the next if we do not make it so.

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