Une Mendiante Parisienne. (Translation) . Poem by Michael Walker

The poet addresses an old beggar woman in Paris, who has lost her good looks of youth. She is hunched in the cold of a street in Paris, no one cares about her any more. The only one who will kiss her again is death. I think that Hughes is a little harsh on this woman. Three quatrains in the rhyme scheme pattern abcb.
In meaning and tone, this poem resembles some poems of Francois Villon, the French poet of the late Middle Ages. Villon also wrote about faded beauty, especially in women. cf. 'Regrets de la Belle Heaulmiere', F. Villon.