Arts: The Weekly Poem: To his wife - By James Harpur (after Ausonius, `Uxor vivamus...')

From: The Independent - London | Date: June 12, 2001 | Copyright information

Let us live, dear wife, as we have lived

And call each other by those names that lingered

On our lips the first night of our love.

As years add wrinkles to our ageing skin

I hope to God the day does not arrive

When I forget you are my sweet young thing

Or you no longer see me as your suitor.

Though you outlive the prophetess of Cumae

And I surpass the age of old King Nestor <...

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