Old Wine

Margaret Widdemer

If I could lift
My heart but high enough
My heart could fill with love:

But ah, my heart
Too still and heavy stays
Too brimming with old days.

This poem is in the public domain.

About This Poem

“Old Wine” was published in Widdemer’s collection The Old Road to Paradise (Henry Holt and Company, 1918).

Margaret Widdemer was born in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, in 1884. In 1919 her book The Old Road to Paradise won the Pulitzer Prize. She died in 1978.

Poetry by Widdemer

The Old Road to Paradise

(Dodo Press, 2008)

"To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger" by William Cartwright

"Beyond the Years" by Paul Laurence Dunbar

"Never give all the heart" by W. B. Yeats

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December 7, 2014