.When You Are Old是爱尔兰诗人、剧作家叶芝William Butler Yeats （13 June 1865 28 January 1939）的名作。叶芝在1889年遇见女演员、爱尔兰独立运动战士Maud Gonne，并爱上了她。虽多次求婚，但均遭拒绝。他依然终生爱慕着她，为她写下了许多诗篇，When You Are Old就是其中一首，完成于1893年。 When You are Old William Butler Yeats WHEN you are old and gray and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep; How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty wit
