Reaction to Love Songs in Age

From the poem we see sheet music that has been forgotten about over the years that have been worn and torn by everyday life and have almost become part of the furniture. However, when the woman in the poem has become widowed, she discovers the music, as if waiting for her, and she remembers how she used to play them. The poem talks of how love promises so many things and then does not deliver. "It had not done so then, and could not now".  - This could connotate that thoughts of marriage in her youth did not please her, and it still does not now and also that she never wanted to get married to start with, but love promised so much for her but failed to deliver.