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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: OLD AGE Matches Found: 1210 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 1941, by BARBARA M. SIMON Poem Source First Line: In her best brown suit Last Line: And mother still waiting %for the music to begin Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women A BALLAD, SHEWING HOW AN OLD WOMAN RODE DOUBLE AND WHO RODE BEFORE HER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The raven croak'd as she sat at her meal Last Line: Started and screamed with fear. Variant Title(s): The Old Woman Of Berkeley Subject(s): Devil; Exorcism; Old Age; Prayer; Sin; Singing & Singers; Women; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub A CAROL CLOSING SIXTY-NINE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A carol closing sixty-nine - a resume - a repetition Last Line: The undiminish'd faith -- the groups of loving friends. Subject(s): Old Age A CHANT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With all our mirth, I doubt if we shall be Last Line: Due to the corpses you have gone and seen to. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Corpses; Morticians; Old Age; Cadavers A CHARACTER OF JOHN MORT, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy old man! Who stretch'd beneath the shade Last Line: Shall hallow in their hearts thy spotless name. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Old Age A CITY ECLOGUE, by W." "J. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "'twas sunday morning, quite serene the air" Last Line: "let us poor cits do whatsoever we may, / our headstrong spouses still will have their way!" Alternate Author Name(s): "j., W.; Subject(s): Cities;marriage;old Age; Urban Life;weddings;husbands;wives A DECANTER OF MADEIRA, AGED 86, TO GEORGE BANCROFT, AGED 86, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good master, you and I were born Last Line: The wine we drank, the man we knew. Subject(s): Bancroft, George (1800-1891); History; Old Age; Historians A FACE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His face was like a snake's - wrinkled and loose Last Line: And withered. Subject(s): Animals; Old Age; Snakes; Serpents; Vipers A FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Old Age; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A GOLDEN WEDDING: C.B.-E.A.B., 1825-1875, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speech is silver - silence gold' Last Line: "earth how fair and heaven how bright!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A GOODBYE; BOURNEMOUTH, MARCH 22, 1898, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we see our dear nestor go by? Last Line: And the land you love! Subject(s): Farewell; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Old Age; Towns; Parting A MANTEL CLOCK, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: A tireless servant of old time it stands Last Line: To us it would be more than ornament. Subject(s): Clocks; Old Age; Time A MAPLE LEAF, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So bright in death I used to say Last Line: The gold and scarlet of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The A MASQUERADE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little old woman before me Last Line: "that I was ninety-nine." Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Masquerades; Mothers & Daughters; Old Age A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A PEN-PICTUR' OF A CERT'IN FRIVVOLUS OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most ontimely old man yit! Last Line: "sich a fool-old-man as me!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Churches; Old Age; Childhood; Cathedrals A PURCHASE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was bent and feeble Last Line: I bought a smile for dry discouraged lips. Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age; Retail Trade; Women; Stores; Shops; Shopkeepers A SONG (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in an april wood Last Line: Bides with me yet. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG IN SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bees that rifle the mango blossom Last Line: Their lips have tasted the purple sea. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Spring A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risen from rented rooms, old ghosts Last Line: To lean on you so hard, so long! Subject(s): Old Age A WOMAN-GROWN, by VIRGINIA STAIT Poem Text First Line: In grief I would have cried out yesterday Last Line: A woman -- grown. Perhaps a woman old! Subject(s): Aging; Growth; Old Age; Women ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I do not profess to understand Last Line: Beyond the rapture and the dread? Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age ABISHAG: RECOLLECTIONS IN OLD AGE, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: I have know horrors Last Line: He never knew me Subject(s): Abishag (bible); Old Age; Women; Women In The Bible ABRIDGED, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I knew a man, walked round his yard Last Line: To anything. When the man fell, %someone who loved him %removed human being Subject(s): Death; Neighbors; Old Age ACHES AND PAINS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abba jacob said: / the older I get, the more clearly I believe Last Line: Like manna. Like respite. Like rain Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Old Age ACRE OF GRASS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture and book remain Last Line: Forgotten else by mankind, %an old man's eagle mind Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age ACTS OF PRESERVATION; FOR THEA KATI, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: Every story she tells Last Line: They are all the same size Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marriage; Old Age AD ASTRA: 1, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The leaves are falling fast, and winter drear Last Line: With rapture of a love that cannot die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age ADA RUEL, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queens of hell had lissome necks to crane Subject(s): Youth; Women - Old Age ADAM'S OFF OX, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is old, the man still talks, at Last Line: "but his ""off ox"" has come to stay; we hear it quoted every day." Subject(s): Old Age ADDIE HALL., by JEANNE M. NICHOLS Poem Source Last Line: Ready for the spring thaw when next it came Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ADDITIONAL LIMERICKS FOR THE 1861 EDITION OF A BOOK OF NONSENSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man with a beard Last Line: Which relieved that old man and his nose Subject(s): Old Age ADMONITION TO MYSELF, by CHAO MENG-FU Poem Source First Line: Your teeth are loose, your head is bald Last Line: Leave them behind to give the world %something to talk about Subject(s): Old Age ADVICE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could endure to have you die Last Line: Do not survive your thirtieth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Old Age; Dead, The ADVICE TO AN OLD MAN OF SIXTY-THREE, ABOUT TO MARRY A GIRL OF SIXTEEN, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now fie upon him! What is man Last Line: Think on thy coffin, not thy bridal bed. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Old Age ADVICE TO THE OLD BEAUX, by CHARLES SEDLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scrape no more your harmless chins Last Line: In vain we grant, if she refuse. Subject(s): Mnemonics; Old Age AEOLUS: THE OLD MEN, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, how right the ancient saying is Last Line: And have no wits, although we think us wise. Subject(s): Old Age AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why will they never speak? Last Line: Head-shakes and head-nods Subject(s): Old Age AFTER HAN YU, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Almost fifty-four, %and suddenly pills appear Last Line: Still need wood for the fireplace Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Old Age AFTER HORACE (ODES III, 5), by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ibyas, man of property Subject(s): Old Age; Human Conduct AFTER LALON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: It's true I got caught in Subject(s): Old Age AFTER LALON, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's true I got caught in Last Line: Dont follow my path %to extinction Subject(s): Old Age AFTER MANY YEARS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After many years and long Last Line: Hand in hand forever on the path of peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Peace AFTER SIXTY, by MARILYN ZUCKERMAN Poem Source First Line: The sixth decade is coming to an end Last Line: Smoke pipes of wisdom %-- fly Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AFTER SKINNYDIPPING, THE OLD COUPLE FISHES FOR BROWN TROUT, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Peel back that thin top layer of the earth's Last Line: On their own Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love; Old Age; Rivers AFTER TOUCH, by JAN CLAUSEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After late evenings Subject(s): Homosexuality; Old Age AFTERMATH, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: The purple grapes hang ripe on the wall Last Line: Seems to grow old and shiver. Subject(s): Old Age AFTERNOON ALONG THE FIREHOLE RIVER, by LAURIE KUTCHINS Poem Source First Line: Lying face up in the grass Last Line: Among the various husks Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age AGAINST THE MISER MIND, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Never shall these be young again who say Last Line: Into rough golden breakers of the years to come! Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age AGE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, tho I see him not, is near Last Line: But bargains: those he will not strike. Subject(s): Old Age AGE, by BERTHA PALMER LANE Poem Text First Line: I hear an old man's voice Last Line: Far off. Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College AGE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then life grows cold Last Line: Light up the sky. Subject(s): Aging; Old Age AGE AND YOUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell thee,' said the old man, 'what is life' Last Line: "whose consciousness is as an unknown curse?" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AGE IN PROSPECT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise youth's hot blood if you will, I think that Subject(s): Old Age AGE IN PROSPECT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise youth's hot blood if you will, I think that Subject(s): Old Age AGE IN YOUTH, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From far she's come, and very old Last Line: This is a scar upon the year. Subject(s): Old Age AGE SPEAKS TO YOUTH, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE Poem Text First Line: The windows of my soul are shadowed so Last Line: My soul fares forth on its immortal quest. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AGE UNFIT FOR LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maidens tell me I am old Last Line: When that death bids come away. Subject(s): Old Age AGED, by ALICE GORTON HART Poem Source First Line: Not to die before their deaths Last Line: To no sound of sea within: %lost resonance whispers its longing Subject(s): Old Age AGED ACTOR APEAKS, by CHARLES OSBORNE Poem Source First Line: I'm having a sale of old memories Last Line: You see, there's nothing else, %they're really all I have Subject(s): Actors And Actresses; Old Age AGED FISHERMAN, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You fish for people Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Old Age AGED NINETY YEARS, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of her old age flashed clear Last Line: Would sink, like her, in chilly arms of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Graves; Old Age; Solitude; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness AGENDA AT 74, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tap barometer, burn trash Last Line: Tap the fucking barometer... Subject(s): Activity; Life; Old Age; Exercise AGERATUM, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: We two sowed this ageratum Last Line: You—have gone! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Old Age; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness AGING TOGETHER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch myself aging in your eyes Subject(s): Animals; Old Age AGING WOMAN SPEAKS OF THAW, by JEANNE EMMONS Poem Source First Line: Beneath the bright sky, the snow slumps Last Line: I am going to grow old Subject(s): Aging; Old Age AGO, by ELIZABETH JENNINGS Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Old %few years more attend me, I am redundant Subject(s): Old Age ALAS, SO LONG!, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Dear one, we were young so long Last Line: And ah! Shall we be young together? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love; Old Age ALEC, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At niney-seven my uncle found god heavy Last Line: And gilded an unfinished god for its vault Subject(s): Old Age; Uncles ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT., by TOM TICO Poem Source Last Line: The sound of foghorns Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ALMSWOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Friendship ALMSWOMEN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Last Line: Some bell-like evening when the may's in bloom. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Landscape; Old Age; English ALREADY OLD AGE IS WRINKLING MY, by SAPPHO Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Aphrodite; Erotic Love; Love; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Women AMONG THOSE KILLED IN THE DAWN RAID WAS A MAN AGED A HUNDRED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning was waking over the war Subject(s): War; Old Age; Death; Dead, The AMORETTI: 4, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New year, forth looking out of janus' gate Last Line: Prepare your selfe new love to entertaine. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Winter; Spring; Youth; Old Age; Life; Death AN ACRE OF GRASS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Picture and book remain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age AN ANCIENT TO ANCIENTS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where once we danced, where once we sang, gentlemen Last Line: Gentlemen. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age AN EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Social Classes; Caste AN EPISTLE TO ROBERT NUGENT WITH PICTURE OF DR. SWIFT, SELECTION, by WILLIAM DUNKIN Poem Text First Line: Hibernia's helicon is dry, / invention, wit and humour die Last Line: Is but a shell without the gem. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits; Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) AN OLD CATCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now god be wi' old symon Last Line: "come, troll the bowl to me" Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;old Age AN OLD CHAR-WOMAN, by CRANSTON STROUP Poem Text First Line: An old char-woman', the inscription read Last Line: Ancestral ages' suffering mars her face. Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids AN OLD LADY, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: I know an old lady of over fourscore Last Line: Sheds fragrance distilled from her joys and her tears. Subject(s): Old Age; Women AN OLD MAN CONFESSES, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no cause, and god has not confessed Last Line: Inside the fact had drained. And then he died Subject(s): Old Age; Boredom AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by HELENE BUHLERT BULLOCK Poem Text First Line: All day I played, and grew with the flowers Last Line: "life is death." Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by ALEXEY (ALEXIE) VASSILIEVICH KOLTSOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall saddle a horse Last Line: For us in the west. Subject(s): Old Age AN OLD MAN'S SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye are young, ye are young Last Line: Death cometh at last. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth AN OLD MAN'S WINTER NIGHT, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: All out-of-doors looked darkly in at him Last Line: It's thus he does it of a winter night. Subject(s): Winter; Old Age AN OLD MAN; AFTER CAVAFY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in a corner, alone in the clatter and babble Subject(s): Old Age AN OLD POET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My hand, my pen, lie still Last Line: Flows calm at last! Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets AN OLD SIOUX IN THE CITY, by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: He seems a sunburnt page ripped out Last Line: Where ages say—a gun. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; War AN OLD WOMAN, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: I saw her as I passed her corner Last Line: Worn, utterly weary, she was asleep. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Homeless; Old Age AN OLD WOMAN PASSES, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old woman passes like a rotund tower Last Line: The vast face of god begins to rise. Subject(s): Old Age; Women AN OLD WOMAN WALKING ON THE ROAD, by LOUISE A. JOHNSON Poem Text First Line: Grey the day! And grey her life! Last Line: Trudging, lonely, on her way. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Solitude; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Loneliness AN OLD WOMAN'S VISION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No better day to come Last Line: Like a sucking stone going down... Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Reunions; Dead, The AN OLD WOMAN: 1, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, an old woman in the light of the sun Last Line: Forgive and bless all men like the holy light. Subject(s): Life; Old Age AN OLD WOMAN: 2. HARVEST, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, an old woman whose heart is like the sun Last Line: "sign from the dead." Subject(s): Old Age AN OLD WOMAN: IN WAR-TIME, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is too old to look upon such days Last Line: Must she take this, fresh with her, to the grave? Subject(s): Old Age AN OLD, OLD MAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here by the borderland Last Line: And heavy thoughts that tire. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Wales; Loneliness; Welshmen; Welshwomen AN OLD-FASHIONED SONG, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: No more walks in the wood Last Line: No more walks in the wood Subject(s): Old Age ANNA, by ELISABETH MURAWSKI Poem Source First Line: Hands on her thickening waist Last Line: And white linoleum's design stands out %sharp beneath her old woman's shoes Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women APOLOGY, by DUANE NIATUM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great uncle joe Last Line: When I am the elder in the next bed Subject(s): Old Age APRIL 7, 1987 - MOM, DYING, by PEARL STEIN SELINSKY Poem Source First Line: Will they know Last Line: I wonder these last days %will anbody know Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women APRIL INVENTORY, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The green catalpa tree has turned Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Old Age APRIL INVENTORY, by WILLIAM DEWITT SNODGRASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The green catalpa tree has turned Last Line: There is a loveliness exists, %preserves us, not for specialists Alternate Author Name(s): Gardons, S. S.; Mcconnell, Will; Snodgrass, W. D. Subject(s): Old Age AQUATINT FRAMED IN GOLD, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six flights up in an out-of-date apartment house Last Line: Ironically recording an hour of no importance. Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits ARBOR, by NANCY WILLARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As a child she planted Last Line: They look out on another country Subject(s): Arbors; Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women ARE YOU CONTENT?, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call on those that call me son Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age ARE YOU CONTENT?, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call on those that call me son Last Line: But I am not content Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age AS A BOY WHEN DESPERATE I'D PRAY WITH BARE KNEES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But from the window I look like an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Boys; Men; Nature; Old Age; Prayer; Youth AS I SIT WRITING HERE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit writing here, sick and grown old Last Line: May filter in my daily songs. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets AS IT IS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this squat body, / the most delicate things Last Line: Down like snow. Oh world, I said. Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Old Age AT 62 I'VE OUTLIVED 95 PERCENT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just before dark Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At age eighty to discover my illusion Last Line: And carry an umbrella in the sun Subject(s): Old Age AT EIGHTY YEARS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: At eighty years the sun of life hangs low Last Line: Then death to hallow all, at eighty years. Subject(s): Death; Life; Old Age; Dead, The AT EIGHTY-THREE SHE LIVES ALONE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Enclosure, steam-heated; a trial casket Last Line: Oh, paper bird with folded wings. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness AT MIDNIGHT, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in the night Last Line: About his shoulders Subject(s): Thought; Old Age; Sunrise; Mallards; Drakes AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey Last Line: When we may rest—and pouch our pay—at pension time! Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time AT SEVENTY SUDDENLY, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do I know that I didn't know at ten? Last Line: That unlettered word our breathing is all about Subject(s): Love; Old Age AT SEVENTY-FIVE: REREADING AN OLD BOOK, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My prayers have been answered, if they were prayers. I live Last Line: Some of the words I said, which are these poems. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Prayer AT SIXTY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have pried up, brushed off the self in me Last Line: When I am too beaten down to lift a spoon %I taste the sharp pepper of his cruelty Subject(s): Old Age AT THE BANK OF A LAKE, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Black sedans the mayor ordered %from the city Last Line: Of a naked moonlit woman %asleep beside a lake Subject(s): Lakes; Nature; Nudity; Old Age AT THE OLD LADIES' HOME, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: There in a row of chairs upon the porch Last Line: I change my prayer, and ask for strength to live. Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Aging; Old Age AT THE SHOE-MENDING SHOP, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Here's a homely gathering Last Line: To far perplexing places. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue AT THIRTY-FIVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three score and ten, the psalmist saith Last Line: Old age! Thy name is thirty-five! Subject(s): Growth; Old Age AT TWILIGHT (ON THE WAY TO GOLCONDA), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary, I sought kind death among the rills Last Line: And hope that conquers immemorial hate. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue AUGURY, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Streams of golden sunlight spilled Last Line: And the age-old urge of spring. Subject(s): Old Age AUNT FLOSSY, by JEAN PRIESTLEY FLANAGAN Poem Source First Line: She climbs the stairs Last Line: Around noon %she'll have a beer Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Women AUNT HANNAH JACKSON, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Despite her sixty years aunt hannah jackson rubs on other people's Last Line: Her a good-natured fool Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age AUNT MAVIS, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: She's been here before Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUSPEX, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, I cannot still it Last Line: The poet and his song. Subject(s): Birds; Old Age AUTONOMIC, by JOHN STONE Poem Source First Line: When love arrives %like hunger-thirst Last Line: To lie down first %bones will follow Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Old Age AUTUMN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Tis the golden gleam of an autumn day Last Line: When the autumn of age shall come to me Subject(s): Autumn;old Age;seasons; Fall AUTUMN, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of crows high from the northland flies Last Line: While the old man unto our lady prays. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Peace; Dead, The AUTUMN MEDITATIONS: 001, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Bones of the lonely-wretched spend no quiet nights Last Line: To tread my past over mountains and rivers? Subject(s): Old Age AUTUMN MEDITATIONS: 003, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Autumn finds me old and poorer Last Line: Life's strivings, as with me, are feeble Subject(s): Old Age AUTUMN POET, by VIRGINIA BARRETT Poem Source First Line: Dry leaves settle in the cool front hall Last Line: The old woman plays in a shapeless black coat %button missing, she skips through the orchard Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUTUMN SUN., by LOUISE SOMERS WINDER Poem Source Last Line: Two canes - out of step Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women AUTUMNUS, by JOSHUA SYLVESTER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the leaves in autumn wither Subject(s): Love; Old Age AWAKENING, by ALEJANDRA PIZARNIK Poem Source First Line: Lord %the cage has become a bird Last Line: What will I do with my fear Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Innocence; Old Age BACK TO THE FARM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll buy a little farm somewhere,' the old Last Line: They turn their eyes to the old home farm. Subject(s): Farm Life; Old Age; Retirement; Weariness; Agriculture; Farmers; Fatigue BAD LANDS, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bad because you do not yield Last Line: Ours! Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Male-female Relations BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring it is cheery Last Line: What can an old man do but die? Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age BALLAD, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She's up and gone, the graceless girl Last Line: To meet her father's will! Subject(s): Adversity; Old Age BALLADE OF YOUTH AND AGE, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring at her height on a morn at prime Last Line: These are a type of the world of age. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Brown, Thomas Edward (1830-1897); Old Age; Youth BEAUTIFUL WOMEN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women sit or move to and fro, some old, some young Last Line: Than the young. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women BEAVER DAM ROAD, by SHELDON STUMP Poem Source First Line: I want to give my mother, who is sixty-three, an assignment Last Line: My father will walk in looking for his 'goddamn keys' %and she'll be gone Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BEDTIME STORY, by ROBERT MEZEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Accidents will happen - still, in time Last Line: Let him go. We choose our time to die. %come, love, come close, and murder me with a kiss Variant Title(s): If I Should Die Before I Wak Subject(s): Boxing And Boxers; Death; Ketchel, Stanley (1886-1910); Old Age; Youth BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE, by GEORGE BANCROFT GRIFFITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you have a gray-haired mother Last Line: Before it is too late. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age BEFORE NIGHT FALLS, by LYNN KOZMA Poem Source First Line: I need to do %a few important things Last Line: I want to hold the world close %spit in the face %of doom Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BELLS RING GLORIA, by FABIO FIALLO Poem Source First Line: A miracle, little clara, is an event as rare as hard to Last Line: Will leave that secret of mine till some other time! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age BELLY DANCER IN THE NURSING HOME, by RONALD W. WALLACE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The crazy ladies are singing again Alternate Author Name(s): Wallace, Ron Subject(s): Old Age; Women BENCH, by MICHAEL LIEBERMAN Poem Source First Line: Goldin approached the bench by the path. There sat a plump Last Line: The future always does.' Subject(s): Old Age; Self BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BETTER LIFE, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think I must be asleep when you sit at my bedside Subject(s): Old Age BIRD WOMAN, by KATHRYN A. YOUNG Poem Source First Line: Let me draw you in charcoal Last Line: A madonna on the corner %our lady of the stones Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BIRTHDAYS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A birthday is a solemn thing; a fellow Last Line: A few more teeth have fallen out, but I'm as happy as a boy. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue BLACK EYES, SNUB NOSE, WIDE MOUTH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the speeding train, thinking Subject(s): Memory; Beauty; Old Age BLACK LUCY; VICTORY LAKE NURSERY HOME, 1974, by ROBERT WARD Poem Source First Line: My red hair. My red hair Last Line: Sometimes I tell them, it's nice. It reminds %me of home Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BLASE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Some people live in a most dismal way Last Line: Before they begin their story is told. Subject(s): Old Age BLESSING THE ANIMALS, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Not yet a saint, he placed his hand on a wrinkled Last Line: Teats that swayed, she felt her cloven holiness Subject(s): Old Age BLIND WILLIAM'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stand from my shadow where it goes Last Line: Is tamed white by time Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Blindness; Old Age BLUE SPRINGS, GEORGIA, by REE YOUNG Poem Source First Line: On the new jersey shore he met her Subject(s): Old Age BO-BO AT 83, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: It is warm inside my eyes Last Line: Across the valley the cricket's sound rubbed against the sky Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BODY, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body is too many children, they are all hungry at once. As I write Last Line: Sleep Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Solitude BODY OF JOHN, by RONALD ALLISON KELLS MASON Poem Source First Line: Oh I have grown so shrivelled and sere Subject(s): Old Age BOSS'S LAMENT, by HERBERT SCOTT Poem Source First Line: This ain't no business for old men Last Line: Will take my place. No more you don't %need to know nothing about groceries Subject(s): Grocers; Old Age BOTH LESS AND MORE, by RICHARD WATSON DIXON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I rode my horse to the hostel gate Subject(s): Old Age BOUTS RIMES IN PRAISE OF OLD MAIDS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail all ye ancient damsels fair or brown Last Line: Greatly alone you stand without a prop. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women - Old Age BROOKLYN ELDER, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Bones bent and curled Last Line: A three legged bop, over rugged ice Subject(s): African Americans; Memory; Old Age BROTHER RUGINO, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: They loved him more to know that he was mad Last Line: "till it is white"" -- and dipped the robe again." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Brothers; Old Age; Half-brothers BUT NOW IT'S WINTER, by KATHRYN BURT Poem Source First Line: When it was spring and you turned the earth Last Line: And find myself listening outside your door %long after you've gone to sleep Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women BY THE RAPIDS, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: I abhor noisy places Last Line: But 'free and easy wandering' in my chuang tzu Subject(s): Japan; Old Age BY THE SALPETRIERE, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a poor old woman on the bench Last Line: And fled, with great strides, like a man possess'd. Subject(s): Old Age; Death; Dead, The CAKE OF SOAP, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: In a cane chair in her yard Last Line: A candle end, %enough %to reach the other side Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CANTILENA, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Spring in young hearts sets tenderness Last Line: From old hearts, memories. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Hearts; Old Age; Youth CATCHING HER BLUE RIBBONS, by DICK BAKKEN Poem Source First Line: My mother %swung me all %the way Last Line: Loosed hair %white %streaming Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CERTAIN PEOPLE, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My father lives by the ocean Last Line: I'd known him all my life. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Old Age; Strangers CHANSON NOIR, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: When I am an old woman Last Line: Are slow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Old Age CHARM FOR THE WARY SENSE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Thorned in the thicket / of briary days Last Line: On mint and on berry. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue CHESTNUT VENDOR, ROME, by ELIOT KAYS STONE Poem Text First Line: So old, she seems, the ages drape her form Last Line: I glimpse that country in her faded eyes. Subject(s): Old Age; Roman Empire; Women CHILDHOOD, by JENS IMMANUEL BAGGESEN Poem Text First Line: There was a time when I was very small Last Line: (h. W. Longfellow) Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Subject(s): Old Age; Time CHILDHOOD, by FRANCES CROFTS DARWIN CORNFORD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to think that grown-up people chose Last Line: And I knew that she was helplessly old, %as I was helplessly young Subject(s): Old Age; Time CHLOE TO AMARYLLIS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That you are poor, that I grow old Last Line: The god all ready to our hand. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age CHRISTMAS MORNING., by FREDERICK GASSER Poem Source Last Line: Grandma's pin cushion %overflows Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CITY, EVENING, AND AN OLD MAN: ME, by DHOOMIL Poem Source First Line: I've taken the last drag Last Line: Is now slowly turning its madness %into windowpanes and lights Subject(s): Old Age CLIMBING EVEREST, by FREDERICK SEIDEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The young keep getting younger, but the old keep getting younger. Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Youth; Old Age CLOCK WAS STRIKING TWELVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You find your boat moored on another shore' Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Old Age; Time CLOSING DOWN: OLD WOMAN ON BOARDWALK, by ENID DAME Poem Source First Line: Still holding on in this body Last Line: Jack - election night - the rain %with its many small noises Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COME BACK, DEAR DAYS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come back, dear days, from out the past! Last Line: Now I am poor and sad and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Old Age; Past COMFORT, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You told me age was a black wolf that lay Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Old Age COMING AND GOING, by GRACE STEELE HYDE TRINE Poem Text First Line: They stood rejoicing at his birth Last Line: The tired old man smiled. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War COMPLETELY SEDUCED, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: & missing children Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles CONSOLATIONS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The delights of old age Last Line: Saying I'm young again Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age COSTA GERIATRICA, by URSULA ASKHAM FANTHORPE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Evening quarters; land %of the tranquil solo deckchair Last Line: That's the man I want at my funeral, %if anything ever happens to me Alternate Author Name(s): Fanthrope, U. A. Subject(s): Old Age COUNT ARNALDOS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Who had ever such adventure Last Line: In our galley thou must go Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Old Age; Sailors And Sailing COURAGE COOL'D, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot love, as I have lov'd before Last Line: Must needs wax cold, if wanting bread and wine. Subject(s): Old Age COUSIN FRANCIS SPEAKS OUT, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Buddy's uncle hiram felt bad about his sister, mable Last Line: Is to pull the teeth. Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living COWBOY FILM, by TOM MATTHEWS Poem Source First Line: When asked her opinion Last Line: But you cannot expect films to smell Subject(s): Old Age CRABBED AGE AND YOUTH, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Last Line: For methinks thou stays too long Subject(s): Old Age; Youth CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women; Idiots CRAZY JANE TALKS WITH THE BISHOP, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met the bishop on the road Last Line: For nothing can be sole or whole %that has not been rent Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Fools; Love; Men; Old Age; Women CRAZY OLD MAN FROM FARIBAULT, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: You'll find him in this town Last Line: And the blind squint defiantly into dawn Subject(s): Absence; Death; Old Age CRONE, by LEAH SCHWEITZER Poem Source First Line: She squats shameless Last Line: Fly %out of her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN OLD AGE, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I change Subject(s): Old Age DAGUERREOTYPE TAKEN IN OLD AGE, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know I change Subject(s): Old Age DANCER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have ruled %for forty years Last Line: I wonder, %the dancer or the dance? Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Men; Old Age; Sex; Virginity DANCING, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Home from school I found Last Line: He asked if some evening he could take me / dancing Subject(s): Grandparents; Dancing; Youth; Old Age DANNY MURPHY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was as old as old could be Last Line: He was as young as young could be! Subject(s): Old Age DARK WATER, by KARYN M. WOLVEN Poem Source First Line: I come naked %to drink dark water Last Line: The river will carry us %to its end Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DAUGHTER, by KATHARYN HOWD MACHAN Poem Source First Line: As you once moved for me Last Line: Demanding say goodbye to me, old %woman; in your dying I dance, dance Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DAVID, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Why should the gay, the beautiful, the young Last Line: Not david—but goliath paid the price.' Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Goliath; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Youth DEAF MARTHA, by ANN TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor martha is old, and her hair is turn'd grey Last Line: "that ""what a man soweth, the same shall he reap. " Subject(s): Deafness; Old Age; Women DEAR LOVE, DO YOU REMEMBER?, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest one, do you remember Last Line: Till from earth we pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Old Age DEAR MEN AND WOMEN, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the quiet before cockcrow when the cricket's Last Line: With a love that is almost joy I remember them: %lost, and all mine, all mine, forever Subject(s): Brooks, Van Wyck (1886-1963); Memory; Old Age DEATH IS INTENDED, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't that what eskimos did when they were old Last Line: Even the white new hampshire mountains Subject(s): Death; Eskimos; Ice; Native Americans; Old Age DEATH MASK, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the mirror now Last Line: The sudden / exhaling Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Old Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men DECANTING GRANDMA, by SUSAN FAWCETT Poem Source First Line: When we came to your house, dad and grandpa Last Line: Dad forced your door Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DECEMBER, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS Poem Source First Line: Here's an old lady walking down the street Last Line: But she smiles anyway %she breathes deeply Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DEDICATION POEM, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Outcast from her home in syria Last Line: Shall be young, forever young. Subject(s): African Americans; Old Age; Negroes; American Blacks DEFERRED, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: The knights of old are long since dead Last Line: To drink the tears of man. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DELIGHT IN HER VOICE., by RUTH HOLTER Poem Source Last Line: Of five hundred miles Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DEMIGODDESS, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt myrtle was very old now and lived Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Raccoons DEMIGODDESS, by JAMES TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt myrtle was very old now and lived Last Line: Enough in this world Subject(s): Aunts; Old Age; Raccoons DEMONOLOGUE (4), by JEFF CLARK Poem Source First Line: This morning from his bed sir Last Line: Than to the thing itself would suckle him Subject(s): Birds; Old Age DENNER'S OLD WOMAN, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this mimic form of a matron in years Last Line: Since apelles not more for his venus obtained! Subject(s): Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women DESCRIPTIONS, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: The clouds pregnant with rain Last Line: At the slightest wind of annoyance. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Rain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DESPITE GARBLED WORDS., by TOM TICO Poem Source Last Line: With their usual warmth Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women DIS ALITER VISUM; OR, LE BYRON DE NOS JOURS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop, let me have the truth of that! Last Line: Here comes my husband from his whist. Subject(s): Old Age; Opportunity; Art & Artists DISCONTENTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "poor, when a boy, but opulent, when old" Last Line: "I have it now, when life is nearly done" Subject(s): Old Age;wealth; Riches;fortunes DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DOCUMENT, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great painter, hokusai Subject(s): Hokusai Katsushika (1760-1849); Old Age DON, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Black as a crow, with a satin sheen Last Line: The master you carried at gettysburg. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age DONATELLO'S MAGDALENE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old woman / enrobed in nothing Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Donatello (1386-1466) DOORS, DOORS, DOORS: 1. OLD MAN, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, it's four flights up and for what Subject(s): Old Age; Theology DOWAGER, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The hill fronts my garden Last Line: In her own family. Subject(s): Old Age; Widows & Widowers DREAM, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit Last Line: But I, myself,—alas! Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares DYING, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting on the shore Last Line: After noise, tranquillity. Variant Title(s): The Old Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife Last Line: It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Variant Title(s): Fire Of Life;the Dying Fire;the End;epigram;finis;introduction To The Last Fruit Off Old Tree;envoi;on His Seventy-fifth Birthday;farewell;on Himself Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Old Age; Dead, The EACH BIRD WALKING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not while, but long after he had told me Last Line: "I said, ""that’s good, that’s enough."" " Subject(s): Old Age EACH BIRD WALKING, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not while, but long after he had told me Last Line: I said, 'that's good, that's enough Subject(s): Old Age EARTH WOMAN, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: She sits weaving %her dreams Last Line: Like soft sand on an %open grave Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ECHOING., by FRANCINE PORAD Poem Source Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EGAN O RAHILLY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in a distant place I hold my tongue Last Line: Who once said all his say, when he was young! Subject(s): Old Age EIGHTY YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is left behind him quite Last Line: Else we had lost him utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Old Age; Spiritual Life; Dead, The ELDERLY SEX, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life's buried treasure's deeper still Subject(s): Old Age; Love - Erotic ELDORADO, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Gaily bedight / a gallant knight Last Line: If you seek for eldorado!' Subject(s): Heaven; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Paradise; Work; Workers ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: At everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEGY ON THE FIRST DAY OF SPRING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my mother's garden even the ragweed Last Line: And us again, as astonished as we are %at everything we can still remember Subject(s): Music And Musicians; Old Age; Spring ELEGY: THE CONTEMPT OF OLD AGE, by MIMNERMUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a short time our precious youth will stay Last Line: The gods on age throw all this misery. Alternate Author Name(s): Mimnermos Subject(s): Old Age EMANCIPATION, by MRS. C. B. F. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: "I work or play, as I think best" Last Line: I would not climb life's hill again --/glory be! I'm sixty! Alternate Author Name(s): Mrs. C. B. F. Subject(s): Old Age;women EMBERS, by LLOYD VAN BRUNT Poem Source First Line: An old woman %with eyes like wasps' nests Last Line: With low embers in the sky Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EMPTY WINTER STREET., by ALEXIS ROTELLA Poem Source Last Line: Fighting the wind Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women END OF THE ROAD, by TAO K'AI Poem Source First Line: Here I am, seventy-six Last Line: Given in to fate, freely, without constraint Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism EPHEMERA, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silver-green lanterns tossing among windy branches Subject(s): Old Age; Memory EPICUREAN, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In childhood's unsuspicious hours Last Line: O death! Life hath not been too long. Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus Subject(s): Epicureanism; Old Age EPIGRAM ON LAIS' MIRROR, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lais of the haughty smile Last Line: And cannot what I used to be.' Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age EPIGRAM: EHEU FUGACES, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What horace says is / eheu fugaces Last Line: Sighing I murmur, 'o mihi praeteritos!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Horace (65-8 B.c.); Language; Old Age; Words; Vocabulary EPITAPH TO MRS. FRELAND, IN EDWELTON CHURCHYARD, NOTTINGHAM, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: She drank good ale, strong punch, and wine Last Line: And lived to the age of ninety-nine Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women ERECHTHDEUS: OLD AGE, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let my spear lie down for the spider to weave its thread Last Line: Sweet words which the wise have said. Subject(s): Old Age ESCAPE, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: Sometimes the old woman trapped there %would call Last Line: Pushing her hungers into the world's dark corners %everyone denies her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ESTELLE'S TESTIMONY, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said I was 'promiscuous' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Death; Old Age; Dead, The ETHICS, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In ethics class so many years ago Subject(s): Woman - Old Age; Paintings & Painters EUDOCIA'S SONG, FR. THE EMPOEROR OF THE EAST, by PHILIP MASSINGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou slow, thou rest of trouble, death Last Line: In one short hour's delay, is tyranny. Variant Title(s): Death Invoked;to Death;death Invoked;invocation;sad Song Subject(s): Old Age EUTHANASIA, by EDWARD WINSHIP Poem Text First Line: Beyond the far horizon, many - hilled Last Line: As weary winter lays him down to die? Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Old Age; Winter; Dead, The EVANESCENT, by MARVIN BARRETT Poem Text First Line: To die with the incontrovertible memory of something that will happen is Last Line: The center that is I ... Was me. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The EVENING GRACE, by LINDA-RUTH BERGER Poem Source First Line: She comes washed for sleep Last Line: Her gold chain has no clasp Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads; Railways; Trains EVENING TRAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man sleeping in the evening train Last Line: Rocks and bounces onward through sleeping fields, %our unknown stillness %holding level as water sea Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Railroads EVENING, EAST OF WHEELING, by GRAY JACOBIK Poem Source First Line: Malatcha took an hour to reconcile Last Line: She just weeds, having let the weeds %grow big, her anger just so wild Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVIE, by ELLIN E. CARTER Poem Source First Line: She lived a little, for a long time Last Line: In the snapshot, left without a word %evading scrutiny Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women EVOCATION, by LIONEL STEVENSON Poem Text First Line: Crouching beneath the rain Last Line: Flings dancing sparks of fire. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers EXALTATION, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: It's gone, now, %that thrill, that rush Last Line: All points of the compass %before me Subject(s): Aging; Memory; Old Age; Travel EXISTENCE OF SARGE, by TINO VILLANUEVA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old man places his hat on the table Last Line: Tendons of his thick arms in bold relief Subject(s): Old Age; Politics FADED, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah face, young face, sweet with unpassionate joy Last Line: Filling my stillness here. She sings it well. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Women FALLING IN LOVE AT SIXTY-FIVE, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is like the first and last time I tried a coleman Last Line: To answer what was being insisted on Subject(s): Books; Insects; Maine (state); Night; Old Age; Love – Nature Of; Reading; Bugs; Bedtime FAR BUGLES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain road bent round a cliff Last Line: Taking, and leaving, the old, imponderable load. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Life; Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FAREWELL OF AN OLD MAN, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No peace or quiet in the countryside Last Line: Will crush a man Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Farewell; Old Age FAREWELL TO ARMS, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His golden locks time hath to silver turned Last Line: To be your beadsman now that was your knight. Variant Title(s): The Aged-man At Arms;the Old Knight;an Old Soldier;youth's Waning;polyhmnia: Sonnet;farewell To Arms (to Queen Elizabeth) Subject(s): Aging; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Lee, Sir Henry (1532-1611); Loyalty; Old Age; Retirement; Time FATHER, by JEAN LIPKIN Poem Source First Line: Lately his haunch has grown stiff Subject(s): Old Age; Women FATHER WILLIAM [QUESTIONED], FR. ALICE IN WONDERLAND, by CHARLES LUTWIDGE DODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man said Last Line: Be off, or I'll kick you downstairs!' Alternate Author Name(s): Carroll, Lewis Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Youth FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old woman sits on a bench before the door and quarrels Last Line: The stir of the world, the music of the mountain Subject(s): Deer; Old Age FEAR OF DEATH, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is it now with me Last Line: But the breeze has dropped and silence is the last word Subject(s): Old Age; Mortality FEAR OF DEATH, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is it now with me Subject(s): Old Age FEBRUARY 3, 1899, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just sixty years ago to-day Last Line: And that is all I know Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Old Age FEBRUARY MORNING, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man takes a nap Last Line: The snow falls all day long. Subject(s): Books; February; Frost, Robert (1874-1963); Morning; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Reading FEELING OLD AGE, by LIU TSUNG-YUAN Poem Source First Line: I've always known that old age would arrive Last Line: The ancient hymns have overtones Subject(s): Old Age FERRY CROSSING, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the granite breakers, a world of roiling Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age FIELDS OF THE LONG-DELIVERED, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: In every pottery fragment Last Line: Of fields holding the land for the living Subject(s): History; Old Age FIFTY-TWO DEGREES AT NOON, JULY 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All the oldsters try to look vigorous Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age FIRE SPIRIT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am old. / you warm yourselves at these fires Last Line: Where shall I turn for comfort? Subject(s): Old Age FIRED, by FANNIE BARRIER WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fired! / why, here I am just as true Last Line: Though_ _ _ _ _ _fired. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue FIREFLIES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was that evening with the fireflies Last Line: With flashes of light around your head. %it was then Subject(s): Fireflies; Happiness; Kisses; Love; Old Age FIRST NIGHT, by PETER KANE DUFAULT Poem Source First Line: It's the first night, I suppose Last Line: Never wake up in a million years Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Women FIRST THING TO GO, by PEG BOYERS Poem Source First Line: The first thing to go is the neck Last Line: You have become what you had never dreamed of becoming: %old Subject(s): Aging; Ginzburg, Natalia; Old Age; Writing And Writers FISHING NAKED, by KEVIN STEIN Poem Source First Line: Bent knee within the cathedral %of indian summer, I canoed crooked creek's Last Line: Yearning for change, vertiginous %along the shifting line water and shore unmake, %all of us fishing Subject(s): Canoes And Canoeing; Fishing And Fishermen; Old Age; Pleasure FLAGS, SCROLLS, ROBES, DESERTS, WAVES, SELS, by PHILIP KOBYLARZ Poem Source First Line: A slug. Many wrinkles in sand. The beach is silent after the storm Last Line: Chair when its resting. Clouds another form of ash. We forget the %mementos Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Russia; Seashore FLEEING TIME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The winds grow keener every day, as from Last Line: Fast! Subject(s): Old Age; Time FLEXIBLE FLYER, by CYNTHIA SOBSEY Poem Source First Line: The blizzard is over Last Line: When march stumbles over her shadow Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FLYING WHEEL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young the days were long Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Old Age; Religion FOG-TALK, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking the heaved cement sidewalk down main street Last Line: All sorts of joy, nodding yes. He says I don't know Subject(s): Fog; Friendship; Old Age FOR A DISSOLVING MUSIC, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be seen? Last Line: Not hope of heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Emptiness; Old Age; Solitude FOR A GOLDEN WEDDING, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young love is passion Variant Title(s): Old Lov Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age FOR A POSTCARD OF MY MOTHER AT THE BEACH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oyster weeps the pearls of denouement Subject(s): Seashore; Women - Old Age; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR AN OLD WOMAN AT THE GATE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your permission slip has been stationed, decoded, stamped Subject(s): Security Checks; Women - Old Age FOR MRS. NA; AGED 67, CU CHI VIETNAM, 28 DECEMBER 1985, by WILLIAM DANIEL EHRHART Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I always told myself %if I ever got the chance to go back Last Line: Trying to think of something else to say %besides 'I'm sorry' Alternate Author Name(s): Ehrhart, W. D. Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FOR MY GRANDMA WHO IS DEAD, by CAROLYN WHITE Poem Source First Line: What if the dead are not immortal, but simply dead? Last Line: Something I cannot misremember %something you no longer need Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women FOR THE INAUGURATION OF A PUBLIC SCHOOL, CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man's thought of school Last Line: To girlhood, boyhood look, the teacher and the school. Subject(s): Camden, New Jersey; Memory; Old Age; Schools; Students FOR YOUR SAKE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For your sake who have left me grieving Last Line: I see your hands and I wake and weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Fathers; God; Old Age FOREST OF DELIGHT, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The imagination begins, trying to fold Last Line: Stare, you dumb bastard, why don't you stare?' Subject(s): Imagination; Old Age FOUR SONNETS: 3, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, and those who hail you now Last Line: Foregtful even of our mutual dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Old Age FOURTH OF JULY AT SANTA YNEZ, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the makeshift arbor of leaves Subject(s): Old Age FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Women; Work; Workers FRAU BAUMAN, FRAU SCHMIDT, AND FRAU SCHWARTZE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone the three ancient ladies Last Line: And their snuff-laden breath blowing %lightly over me in my first sleep Subject(s): Greenhouses; Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women FREEDOMS, by JOSEPHINE MILES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ten new freedoms Subject(s): Freedom; Old Age; Liberty FRIBBLE, by SHERYL NOETHE Poem Source First Line: Last year at deaf school Last Line: Venu, our predicament is older than stone Subject(s): Deafness; Friendship; Love; Old Age FROM INLAND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that you and I were young Last Line: That fled so bravely to its death. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Old Age; Past; Relationships; Youth FROM JOSEF IN THE REST HOME, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: I'm still alive Last Line: By the t.V. Tray Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Immigrants; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Poland; United States FROM LORINE, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How am I really? %I'm all right Last Line: When it can't %be given away? Subject(s): Old Age FROM THE GREATER TESTAMENT (XXII, XXIII, AND XXVI), by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I doe bemoan my youthful sinne Last Line: My heart comes nigh to break in two. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Old Age; Youth FROST, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Earth bows herself before the frost to-night Last Line: And sighs for spring and supplicates the dawn. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The FROSTING, by WYN COOPER Poem Source First Line: The rain is crooked as it hits the window Last Line: And good riddance too, nasty old coot Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age; Rain FROZEN SEA, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We walked on it, in the very flesh Last Line: Was north, the sides of the north, everywhere Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Cold; Old Age; Silence; Solitude FUJI-YAMA, by A. WALTER SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: As an old noble-lady Last Line: A fiery heart leaps. Subject(s): Asian Americans - Japanese; Old Age; Women; Japanese In The United States FUTURE, by WESLEY MCNAIR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because, married so young, with three Last Line: Wisps of gray, and just like that were gone Subject(s): Future; Old Age; Writing And Writers FUZZY LOGIC, by E. R. CARLIN Poem Source First Line: At the mouth of west newport trail Last Line: This isn't a playground. Stop horsing around up there Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Scars GAFFER GRAY, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ho! Why dost thou shiver and shake Last Line: Well-a-day! Subject(s): Old Age GALLANT AGE, by N. M. FRIES Poem Text First Line: Oh, gallant age, with head held high Last Line: To keep young feet from going astray. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue GATHERING, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: Black birds rise like smoke from the hills Last Line: Grip fast to what %we must let go Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GEEZERLY, by ARCHIE RANDOLPH AMMONS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stoop to slip a long Last Line: It's way too far to fall Alternate Author Name(s): Ammons, A. R. Subject(s): Old Age GENERATIONS, by DOROTHY BECK Poem Source First Line: Blue ice melts %in the jaws of spring Last Line: Your dreams now Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GENTLEMAN GEORGE, by W. A. HORN Poem Text First Line: Gentleman george in his youthful days was the pride of the eighth hussars Last Line: The slash of a whip on a skeleton hip, as the hoof-strokes echo away. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; Dead, The GERONTION, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am, an old man in a dry month Last Line: Thoughts of a dry brain in a dry season. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Cowardice; Decay; Emptiness; Old Age; Estrangement; Outcasts; Rot; Decadence GIANT SPRUCE, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The giant spruce; almost a forest in itself Last Line: That go sweeping by Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude GIGGLES IN THE SOUL, by SHELLY JANSEN Poem Source First Line: Standing in a mirror of empty hearts Last Line: As I slipped into %the murky depths of %possibility Subject(s): Old Age GLORY HOLES FOR LARRY, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's not only young guys dying of aids Last Line: To the joys of gay sex Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Aids (disease); Old Age; Friendship GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: Adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude; Death - Babies; Loneliness GOD'S MOOD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These daughters are bone Last Line: He is tired of eve's fancy and %adam's whining ways Subject(s): Death - Children; Old Age; Solitude GOD'S WEATHER: MAY, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: There's a blurr'd roll of drumbeats. The soft south wind straying Last Line: With the sigh of the southwind, the balm of god's weather. Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Months; Old Age; Spring GOING BACK HOME, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's nothing sadder than returning Last Line: Steeple, and in its shade were planted people who once were chums of mine. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Retrospection GOING TO THE HEALER, by MARILYN J. BOE Poem Source First Line: Grandma hanson walked me, no-nonsense style, into a bungalow crowded with men Last Line: In 1936, the winter of my 9th birthday, the winter %grandma died Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GONE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When the morning fair and sweet Last Line: All are gone! Subject(s): Children;memory;old Age; Childhood GOT SO GRANDMA., by PAUL WEINMAN Poem Source Last Line: Cept when we did a little sinning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRACES, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Chilled when the dark wells Last Line: Whatever was no entrance before Subject(s): Baths And Bathing; Old Age; Women GRAMPA SCHULER, by RUTH SUCKOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grampa schuler, when he was young Last Line: "young fools coming to!" Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Youth; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's mighty sweet, I guess Last Line: But dang it! God, don't speed me Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Old Age GRANDMA WHISPERING., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: You're my favorite Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMAMMA'S LECTURE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Grandmamma sits in her high-backed chair Last Line: With her sweetheart, when she was a girl. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANDMOM MOM, by GENEVIEVE CARMINATI Poem Source First Line: Round round grandmom mom Last Line: Tell me again, grandmom mom %round round Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER, by SUSAN GITLIN-EMMER Poem Source First Line: The past forgets itself Last Line: The dance of women who will not to die, %the ghost dance Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE: THE BABA YAGA, by LISA RESS Poem Source First Line: Yellow claws start from the pot Last Line: All night she is brushing her hair, brushing mine %winding the hanks on narrow spools Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER'S QUILT., by EVELYN BRADLEY Poem Source Last Line: Long after sunset Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRANDMOTHER'S TIMING, by M. L. BROWN Poem Source First Line: My grandmother lies at home Last Line: The only lesson left to her to learn Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age GRANDMOTHER, SPARROW, GLASS; FOR LUCIEN STRYK, by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: Grandmother never was a bird Last Line: Her songs sung into the glass %and no further Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women GRAY STRANDS OF HAIR, by PHILIP S. BRYANT Poem Source First Line: It's a %poor excuse Last Line: Years together Subject(s): Old Age GROWING OLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it parting with the roundness Last Line: Walk, by way of growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Old Age; Sunset; Twilight GROWING OLD (1), by YUAN MEI Poem Text First Line: Now that I am old I get up very early Last Line: Lay snoring, and hated to leave my bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Old Age GROWING OLD (2), by YUAN MEI Poem Text First Line: When I was young and had no money to spend Last Line: "to be poor when one is old does not matter at all." Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Old Age; Property; Possessions GRUMPUS AT 78, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will I end up as a fierce old man Last Line: I enjoy - so be it I'm still here Subject(s): Old Age GUARD THY HEART!, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Guard thy heart! As tho' thy ladye Last Line: Cheerly up the starry sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Love; Old Age; Passion; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Theology GUN IN THE HAND IS WORTH . . ., by KALAMU YA SALAAM Poem Source First Line: It was a cliche Last Line: Well play like I'm %sweet sixteen and %hit me! Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HAT LADY IN THE PARLOR WINDOW, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upper-left corner of the parlor window broken Last Line: And luke dragging it out by a stiff front leg Subject(s): Grief; Old Age HATS, by SANDRA ALCOSSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auntie lies in the rest home Last Line: Point their fingers, run as fast as they can in the opposite direction Subject(s): Prose Poem; Old Age; Illness HE ONLY SAID, 'I'M VERY WEARY', by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I think I'll go to bed Subject(s): Old Age HEADS IN THE WOMEN'S WARD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pillow after pillow lies Subject(s): Old Age; Women HEADS IN THE WOMEN'S WARD, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On pillow after pillow lies Last Line: Smiles are for youth. For old age come %death's terror and delirium Subject(s): Old Age; Women HELEN - OLD, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great lady, were you helen long ago? Last Line: In troy. ...I know. ...Cease, child—you trouble me! Subject(s): Old Age HER DELIRIUM, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: The old lady %(a child of seven) Last Line: And why are they beating %an old lady of eighty-nine? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HER LISTENING: AUTUMN ON 10TH STREET, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: With her walker %she moves to the bathroom Last Line: She recalls hearing %since morning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women HERE IS MUSIC: BALLADE, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Not a man's major blunder, fault, misdeed Last Line: From stab, sting, goad of one time slender-seeming sin. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT MEDICUS, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: We two, that once were young, to-day Last Line: Since first we looked, longed, loved ... Stood paramours. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love HERE IS MUSIS: 19. BEFORE AND AFTER: AFTER, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Books as our background. Books Last Line: All life still brings ... True, blest begetter of these songs! Subject(s): Books; Libraries & Librarians; Old Age; Reading HIS RETURN TO LONDON, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the dull confines of the drooping west Last Line: Give thou my sacred reliques buriall. Variant Title(s): A Return To London Subject(s): London; Old Age HIS WISH TO GOD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would to god, that mine old age might have Last Line: Reading thy bible, and my book; so end. Subject(s): God; Old Age HOLY RIVERS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The veins on the back of my hand (nwo that I'm old) Last Line: I ask you to take it in yours and trace the holy rivers with your fingers Subject(s): Blood Vessels; Hands; Old Age HOME, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: Ambitious dreams of youthful worldliness Last Line: The simple, obvious service due from me! Subject(s): Home; Old Age HOME, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again in glenties and the autumn wind / is blowing Last Line: By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of donegal. Subject(s): Absence; Donegal, Ireland; Graves; Home; Love; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Tombs; Tombstones HONEY, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: Near ninety, wanting to die Last Line: A smothering and final goodness, %over an entire life Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Women HONOUR WITH AGE, by WALTER KENNEDY Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: At matyne [matin] houre in midis of the nicht Last Line: Honor with aige till every vertew drawis Variant Title(s): The Praise Of Ag Subject(s): Old Age HOSPITAL'S RECREATION PROGRAM, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: Even if my father loved music Last Line: And would occur within three months Subject(s): Family Life; Old Age; Religion HOUSE I LOVED, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go walking along the old street Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Ruins HUACO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the blind coraquenque Last Line: A ferment of sun; %yeast of shadow and heart! Subject(s): Incas; Old Age I AM AWFULL AGED IN APIERANCE LATELY AND AM EXACTLY LIKE THIS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Old Age I KNOW AN AGED MAN CONSTRAINED TO DWELL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken! Subject(s): Old Age; Poverty; Robins; Prisons & Prisoners I KNOW WHAT I KNOW, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: I am not an old woman Last Line: Ashamed they are %I'm crying Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women I LAUGH AT MYSELF, OLD MAN, WITH NO STRENGTH LEFT, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: Free in the flow; and floated home the same a drifting boat Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism I SHALL LIVE TO BE OLD, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall live to be old, who feared I should die young Last Line: And to envy sometimes the way of the early dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age I WON, YOU LOST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last of day gathers Subject(s): Old Age; Absence; Separation; Isolation I'D RATHER BE YOU, LITTLE WIDE-EYED BOY, by FLORENCE DAVIDSON STROTHER Poem Text First Line: Yes, little boy, I am old as you say Last Line: And a head full of notions out of a book. Subject(s): Old Age I'M A-WEARY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a-weary with care, I'm a-weary with care Last Line: Like the sea-waves around yon lone rock on the shore. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue I'M SIXTY-TWO AND CAN DROP DEAD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I kissed the river's cold moving lips Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self-gratification I'M UGLY. IS IT MY FAULT?, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: I didn't want anyone to think Last Line: I want to see you crying %while I die Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness IF YOU GET THERE BEFORE I DO, by DICK ALLEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Air out the linens, unlatch the shutters on the eastern side, Subject(s): Old Age; Summer IMAGE OF AN UNREAL PLACE-A SKETCH, by JOZE UDOVIC Poem Source First Line: The wind sighs, shut in a cage in the square Last Line: From house to house %the threatening letters of night Subject(s): Night; Old Age; Solitude IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 2, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pensive, ancient woman, like a relief Last Line: Where a shipwrecked manco-capac weeps Subject(s): Nostalgia; Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ancient curacas, the oxen Subject(s): Old Age IMPERIAL NOSTALGIAS: 3, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ancient curacas, the oxen Last Line: A ancient, exiled coraquenque Subject(s): Old Age IMPROMPTU, by FRANCOIS JOACHIM DE PIERRE DE BERNIS Poem Text First Line: While you with virtue, sense, and wit combine Last Line: Can this be named 'to fall'? Subject(s): Old Age IN A BOX, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw them last night in a box at Last Line: With that far-away look in her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Night; Old Age; Youth; Bedtime IN FISHERROW, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A hard north-easter fifty winters long Last Line: Reproachful, with a strange and doleful cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Old Age; Women IN FORMER SONGS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In former songs pride have I sung, and love, and passionate, joyful life Last Line: For my last stand -- my pealing, final cry. Subject(s): Old Age IN JANUARY, 1962, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his hat on the table before him Last Line: Near the soft gray felt hat on the table Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Winter; Country Life; Old Age IN OLD AGE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pace of time changes Last Line: Often lingering longer than I can bear Subject(s): Old Age IN PRAISE OF OLD AGE, by ANAXANDRIDES Poem Text First Line: Old age, which we both hope and fear to see Last Line: Which gains him love, and veneration too. Subject(s): Old Age IN PRAISE OF OLD OLD, by CRATES Poem Text First Line: Some giddy fools do rev'rend age deride Last Line: Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Krates Subject(s): Old Age IN RESPECT OF THE ELDERLY, by THOMAS PEACOCK (20TH CENTURY) Poem Source First Line: Let your eyes look at old people Last Line: Respect your elders Subject(s): Old Age IN THAT STILL HOME, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Their wants are very few Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Old Age; Memory; Love IN THE END WE ARE ALL LIGHT, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I love how old men carry purses for their wives Last Line: And how the burden of the other comes to be %light as a feather blown, more quickly vanishing Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age IN THE PROCESSION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "spring comes: and baseball, robust flower, in every meadow's seen" Last Line: As often sighs is the man who was -- and now is not -- a boy Subject(s): Aging;old Age;seasons;time IN THE RANELAGH GARDENS: EASTER SUNDAY 1988, by MACDARA WOODS Poem Source First Line: Easter falls early this year Last Line: Hunting under drowned and folded leaves %with the water beetles Variant Title(s): In The Ranelagh Gardens: Easter Saturda Subject(s): Easter; Holidays; Old Age IN THE SMOKING CAR, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: That hatless chewed woman sending me messages Last Line: Her certain knowledge, older than cats %that I am pretending, pretending, pretending Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women IN THE YARD, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: If I sit long enough on this wooden bench Last Line: I think I'll sit right here on this old bench %for twenty years and watch the dogwood grow Subject(s): Old Age; Psychoanalysis; Relationships INCANTATION, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Light as motion, people flit lightly along Last Line: To hold the golden light of winter dusk. Subject(s): Conversation; Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets INCOMPLETE - COMPLETE, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've lived my life some seventy weary years Last Line: "and I've ten cities waiting for thee here." Subject(s): Old Age INEVITABLE, by RUFINO BLANCO-FOMBONA Poem Source First Line: Will you be brave?' the old man asks the young Last Line: Go, lad!' the old man says. 'you now know tears!' Subject(s): Advice; Old Age INTERIM: 9, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are poor spendthrifts, scattering gold youth Last Line: With terrible triumph over our hope and dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Old Age; Nightmares INVITATION, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you are weary come and sit beside Last Line: His own blue sky! Subject(s): Old Age IRENE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: The pale sweetpea of her bonnet moves Last Line: After children - she grows flowers Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ISIS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was e'er ancient time began Last Line: And none my hidden glory know. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Old Age; Temples; Mosques IT MUST BE TIRESIAS' HOUSE, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: I guess you want to meet the old fellow Last Line: We consider much is achieved %if we keep him silent Subject(s): Old Age JAIME SABINES; XVI, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Can you open your eyes and see us now? Last Line: There's a fallen wall between us, %only the body of god, only his body. Subject(s): Death; Old Age JANUARAENEID, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father, barely, %in the bird morning, puts Last Line: Of a sister of charity, o my father! Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Parents JOHN OTTO, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John otto of brunswick, ancestor Last Line: Your eyes of a promise in the land? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Old Age JOSIE, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: Ain't it funny?' she said Last Line: No, I don't care that my johnny never came back - not any %more - no, not really Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women JOURNEY, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: Probably by now he will have closed up the bookcases at the Last Line: Brambles. And he will have left Subject(s): Memory; Old Age JOURNEY, by MERRILL ANN GONZALES Poem Source First Line: You will see a shape Last Line: I know when I enter her threshold %there will be no leaving Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women JUANA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Again I see you, ah my queen Last Line: For you that not remember it. Subject(s): Love; Old Age JUMPING THE MOON, by CAROL MICKETT Poem Source First Line: Remember when mr. Baker fell in the grocery store Last Line: Spread on the floor spinning like a frozen pie Subject(s): Food And Eating; Mankind; Old Age JUST WHEN, by KYESOM Poem Source First Line: Just when did my green age go Last Line: Knowing the way would have led me to mourn Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Old Age KEEPSAKE FOR THE OLD MAN OF CHUNG-CHOU, by LING YI Poem Source First Line: A lifetime of no place to rest Last Line: In the empty hills gibbons sing down a setting sun Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism KINGDOM OF CHILDREN, by ANN CAMPANELLA Poem Source First Line: I lead mother to a seat in the gazebo Last Line: Her nonsense makes them whinny, buck and smile Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Women KISS THE DEAR OLD MOTHER, by JOSEPHINE POLLARD Poem Text First Line: Kiss the dear old mother, her cheek is wan and wasted Last Line: Kiss the dear old mother now and then. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age KIST (I.M. 14TH FEBRUARY 1975), by DENNIS O'DRISCOLL Poem Source First Line: On that lovers' morning, our hearts chimed Last Line: Took on the wrinkled grain %of coffin wood Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Valentine's Day KNITTING, by BARBARA CROOKER Poem Source First Line: My grandmother's needles Last Line: I take words and knit them back in poems %something could be made of this Subject(s): Aging; Knitting; Old Age; Women KODIAK WIDOW, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: The curtains speak to me Last Line: The curtains hold the news %the gossip of flying geese and tears Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LA GITANA NARANJA, by MARIE HENRY Poem Source First Line: She carries soil inside her belly Last Line: She invites you %into her eyes Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LADY MARJORY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady marjory lay on her bed Last Line: Were as cold as ever her feet had been! Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Dreams; Love – Loss Of LAIS' MIRROR, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, take my votive glass Last Line: Venus, let me never see. Variant Title(s): The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass To Venus Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age LAIS' MIRROR, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, take my votive glass Last Line: Venus, let me never see. Variant Title(s): The Lady Who Offers Her Looking-glass To Venus;lais Growing Old;a Farewell Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age LAME ONE, by SHERWOOD ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: At night when there are no lights my city is a man who arises from a Last Line: My city is a murmur of voices coming out of a pit Subject(s): Life; Neighbors; Old Age LAMENT FOR OLD MEN, by VERNE BRIGHT Poem Text First Line: They have such narrow passage between the years Last Line: The strong limbs withered, the gaunt flesh crucified. Subject(s): Lament; Old Age LAST FLOWERING, by MARY WOLFERS TRESSLER Poem Source First Line: She grew a riot of roses Last Line: I see the final garden %bloom - on two thin arms Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LAST WORDS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will, are you sitting and watching there yet? And I know, be a certain skill Last Line: To-morrow make ready my grave, will. To-morrow new flowers will be blowing. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Old Age LATE LOVING, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in my mind I marry you every year Last Line: That the house is filled again with the odor of ointment Subject(s): Love; Old Age LAUGHTER, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Youth; Old Age; Self LAUGHTER (YOUTH SPEAKS TO HIS OWN OLD AGE), by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, whom these eyes, no longer mine Last Line: Youthful and cruel, wild, divine! Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LAUS VENERIS (A PICTURE BY BURNE-JONES), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pallid with too much longing Last Line: Daughter of foam and fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Variant Title(s): The Venus Of Burne-jones Subject(s): Art & Artists; Burne-jones, Edward Coley (1833-1898); Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women LAVENDER, by ELEANORE SANDERS LANE Poem Text First Line: She sat upon the porch Last Line: "and little dirty hands." Subject(s): Old Age; Women LAWYER PETE, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: Every night of his life my grandfather washed dishes Last Line: Rewashing all the dishes after he went to bed Subject(s): Grandparents; Memory; Old Age LEARNED RESPONSE, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: As the nurse shifts nana in her coma Last Line: And that tuft od gray hair %holding on Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LEAVES OF EBONY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cigarette glows Last Line: With ponchos of ice and no hat Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Old Age LEGACIES, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: I don't know if the old people will return one day Last Line: Never have remorse, as we have Subject(s): Absence; Grandparents; Old Age LEGACY, by JACK T. LEDBETTER Poem Source First Line: Mother... %we rode along the river in silence Last Line: Not calling you %anymore Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LES CONSOLATIONS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les tresors de la vieillesse Last Line: De nouveau je juis jeune Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age LET US THEN REJOICE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Last Line: And the tiresomeness of old age %earth will hold us Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LETTERS FROM THE COAST, by REGINA DECORMIER-SHEKERJIAN Poem Source First Line: In this sea-riddled town of fogs and salt Last Line: And she walks to the hen house Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a busy dream, forgotten ere it fades" Last Line: So we in iron selfishness stand strong Subject(s): Dreams;life;old Age;time; Nightmares LIFE AND DEATH AT SUNRISE (NEAR DOGBURY GATE, 1867), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hills uncap their tops Last Line: "-- he was ninety-odd. He could call up the french revolution." Subject(s): Old Age LIKE AN OLD DOG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a heap of sighs Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age LILAC TIME, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The winter was fierce, my dear Last Line: Will make me form-I-dable. Subject(s): Flowers; Lilacs; Old Age; Seasons; Winter LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man at a station Last Line: You afflicting old man at a station Subject(s): Old Age; Preaching And Preachers LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of brigg Last Line: Could be seen when he walked about brigg Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of blackheath Last Line: That uncommon old man of blackheath Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of pinner Last Line: That elastic old person of pinner Subject(s): Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of newry Last Line: Within twenty miles' distance of newry Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of rye Last Line: You abstemious old person of rye! Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of brill Last Line: You obsequious old person of brill Subject(s): Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man in a garden Last Line: And I trust you'll go out of my garden Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of minety Last Line: At the heads of the people of minety Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of dean Last Line: Would make me too fat, %that cautious old person of dean Subject(s): Dieting; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of skye Last Line: And entranced all the people of skye Subject(s): Old Age; Singing And Singers LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of the dargle Last Line: For the fish in the depths of the dargle Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old lady of france Last Line: Which grieved that old lady of france Subject(s): France; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was old person of diss Last Line: Which absorbed that old person of diss Subject(s): Old Age; Suicide LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of bow Last Line: You will go back directly to bow! Subject(s): Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man whose despair Last Line: Whereon one fine day, he rode wholly away, %which partly assuaged his despair Subject(s): Despair; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of ickley Last Line: That moony old person of ickley Subject(s): Old Age; Turtles LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of bray Last Line: That valuable person of bray Subject(s): Old Age; Singing And Singers LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of wilts Last Line: That elegant person of wilts Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of spithead Last Line: That doubtful old man of spithead Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man of thames ditton Last Line: You abruptious old man of thames ditton Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age LIMERICK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old person of stroud Last Line: That impulsive old person of stroud Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Old Age LIMERICKS FOR THE 1846 AND 1855 EDITIONS OF A BOOK OF NONSENSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old derry down derry Last Line: That immovable man of kildare Subject(s): Old Age LOCKSLEY HALL SIXTY YEARS AFTER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late, my grandson! Half the morning have I paced these sandy tracts Last Line: Then I leave thee lord and master, latest lord of locksley hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Old Age LOCKSMITH, by AUSTIN HUMMELL Poem Source First Line: You never find him dead-bolted outside Last Line: His hearing to the gentle rev of her heart Subject(s): Love; Old Age LODGING WITH THE OLD MAN OF THE STREAM, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men's hearts love gold and jade Last Line: (arthur waley) Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Kindness; Old Age LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO SETTLE OUT, by HAN SHAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Completely forgotten the way by which he came Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism LOUISE, by BOB HICOK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said I looked like jesus and it was true. I looked Last Line: From a cross and think of anything but revenge Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age; Servants; Domestics; Maids LOUISE, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She said I looked like jesus and it was true. I looked Last Line: From a cross and think of anything but revenge Subject(s): Household Employees; Old Age LOVE AND AGE, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I played with you 'mid cowslips blowing Last Line: Will be an hundred years ago. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Youth LOVE AND AGE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I played with you 'mid cowslips growing Subject(s): Old Age; Youth LOVE TEN YEARS OLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Our love this day is ten years old Last Line: And knows the man is old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age LUCIE, by ISABEL STEWART MCMEEKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eighty gallant years were not enough Last Line: This brevity of eighty vivid years. Subject(s): Old Age; Women MADNESS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wardrobe towers above the table lamp Last Line: Who rearranges with impartial feet %the silence in the caverns of a skull Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Variant Title(s): Longitud Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Old Age; Rooms MADONNA AND CHILD, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers & Sons; Old Age MAN, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: A man with a full mustache and white hair Last Line: That gleams on the iron bed? Subject(s): Old Age MANTEL PHOTOGRAPHS., by RICHARD STRAW Poem Source Last Line: Under dish towels Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MARGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, friend, you got troubles? Like it's Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Old Age; Dead, The MARGINS, by J. D. SMITH Poem Source First Line: The park's old men play their checkers Last Line: Again wearing new spats and gold cufflinks, %living high on margins Subject(s): Old Age MARIE AND ELLA (2), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Marie coffin, my mother's neighbor on the south Last Line: Who've seen the world, from both top and bottom Subject(s): Geese; Neighbors; Old Age; Women MARRIAGE OF TWO OLD MEN (1), by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Has he married my father? Have I married his Last Line: What will happen to us, tad, without a woman? Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Single People; Solitude MARY LUDWIG IN OLD AGE (WHOM HISTORY KNOWS AS MOLLY PITCHER), by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: Once a year, like returning leaves, they come Last Line: Round a cup of tea in the kitchen was tawny, and kind Subject(s): Old Age; Women MARY SMART, by MARK JARMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mistakes flash back and half blind me Last Line: Less like a ghost, she said, than a figure of speech Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Peace MATRIMONIAL MELODIES: 4. AMPLE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I buy a dinner jacket? Last Line: The old one did all right for me! Subject(s): Old Age MATURITY, by THELMA HOFFMANN Poem Text First Line: One day I shall like a quiet room Last Line: That old has come to stay! Subject(s): Old Age MAUDIE PURTLEBAUGH'S HOUSE, by LISA VICE Poem Source Last Line: While she shows me which stamps %to save for my book Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MEDITATIONS OF AN OLD WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On love's worst ugly day Subject(s): Old Age; Women MEDITATIONS OF AN OLD WOMAN, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On love's worst ugly day Last Line: In such times, lacking a god %I am still happy Subject(s): Old Age; Women MEETING AN OLD MAN, by YIN LUAN Poem Source First Line: On the road I met an old man Last Line: Taking four rests, then five Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism MEMORIES OF HORSES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The lines in the hands of old people Last Line: And the wind sketches in the grass, if you are happy, %running children and horses Subject(s): Memory; Old Age MENG TZU'S SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrows gleaning gutters Last Line: Sides flaps without passion Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude MENTAL CASES, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: --and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love Subject(s): Insanity; Nursing Homes; Voices; Madness; Mental Illness; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living METAMOPHOSIS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I am old, all I want to do is try; Subject(s): Old Age MEXICO IS A FOREIGN COUNTRY; FOUR STUDIES IN NATURALISM, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies, over the map Subject(s): Mexico; Butterflies; Mangoes; Soldiers; Nature; Old Age MID-MOMENT, by CLARA MAXWELL TAFT Poem Text First Line: Youth, it has been good to lose you Last Line: And fanned to aching fervor, long ago. Subject(s): Old Age MINK COAT, by LILA CHALPIN Poem Source First Line: In the old age home Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Mink; Old Age MIRRORS, by HERBERT H. LONGFELLOW Poem Text First Line: I am told that beauty is a reflection Last Line: I am looking at a mirror and a reflection. Subject(s): Beauty; Mirrors; Old Age; Women; Youth MISS MILLY O'NAIRE, by WILLARD GROSVENOR BLEYER Poem Text First Line: She is not young and fair Last Line: Miss millionaire. Subject(s): Comedy; Love; Old Age; Puberty; Sex; Ugliness; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes MISTAKEN LIGHTS: A PORTRAIT OF ATTA, by GARY SCHROEDER Poem Source First Line: With the children raised and gone Last Line: Reaching out to measure %the distances to nothing Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MOLOCH, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Old moloch walks the way tonight Last Line: It shames the hearts of men. Subject(s): Old Age MOMENT MUSICALE, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The round moon hangs above the rim Last Line: Behold, all things are made anew! Subject(s): Old Age MOMENTS OF FULFILLMENT-WRITING DOWN MISCELLANEOUS (2.)......, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: As I grow old, and weaker grow my eyes Last Line: In dangling spider webs: %and I see them mistakenly as flying butterflies Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Old Age MONTANA PEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the middle of montana, eating Last Line: Look in at the two of them, glowing Subject(s): Old Age; Relationships MOOFER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: I remember skin the color of tea %wrapped his large-boned body. He wore Last Line: Such self-satisfied %little universes, %such lost children, %such americans Subject(s): Farm Life; Immigrants; Old Age; Prairies MOON, THE STARS., by GARY ASPENBERG Poem Source Last Line: An empty cup Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MOONLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It will not hurt me when I am old Last Line: It will not hurt me when I am old. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: God had got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery; Serfs MOSES, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walk on bones Last Line: Like a bush %god got his eye on Subject(s): Bible; Moses; Old Age; Slavery MOTHS, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: We flit about Last Line: And our only speech a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Relationships; Togetherness; Weariness; Fatigue MOUNTAIN LIVING: 16, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Though a slice of cloud Last Line: This white haired mountain man Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 17, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: What a pity the blue mountains Last Line: Anyway who ever heard %of a lazy transcendental? Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN LIVING: 5, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING Poem Source First Line: Through a face full of clear frostiness Last Line: Have completely melted Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism MOUNTAIN VALLEY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in this mountain valley, we have struggled Last Line: Staring down at our cornfields covetously. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The MR AND MRS DISCOBBOLOS: 2, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr and mrs discobbolos %lived on the top of the wall Last Line: Of the whole of the clan discobbolos? Subject(s): Death; Old Age MR. FLOOD'S PARTY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old eben flood, climbing alone one night Last Line: That many friends had opened long ago. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Alienation (social Psychology); Drinks & Drinking; Old Age; Solitude; Toasts; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Estrangement; Outcasts; Wine; Loneliness MRS., by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: What I'd really like to do tonight Last Line: That summer, a bad one for the farmers Subject(s): Memory; Middle Age; Neighbors; Old Age; Past MUY VIEJA MEXICANA, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Text First Line: I've seen her pass with eyes upon the road Last Line: Through eyes that open inward and look back. Variant Title(s): Una Anciana Mexicana Subject(s): Old Age; Women MY 71ST YEAR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After surmounting three-score and ten Last Line: Reporting yet, saluting yet the officer over all. Subject(s): Old Age MY FATHER AT HIS HEIGHT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: I grew to his exact same size Last Line: All right! That's it! Everyone out of the water!' Subject(s): Fathers; Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Sons MY FATHER, FAR IN SOME HOSPITAL, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: I startle him with my late Last Line: I rage gently, %'goodnight' Subject(s): Absence; Family Life; Fathers; Love; Old Age; Telephones MY LOVE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My love, she is no longer young Last Line: The grace of paradise. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Wrinkles MY LOVE IS YOUNG, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love is young & I am old Subject(s): Love; Old Age MY MOTHER, HEMMING NAPKINS, by ELEANOR G. R. YOUNG Poem Text First Line: She sits there in her high-backed rocking-chair Last Line: Remembering all the lovely things she knows. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age MY OLD WOMAN, by NORMA ALMQUIST Poem Source First Line: I'm shaping my old woman, I would say Last Line: Her eyes look out through mine, confront the stare; %we start to walk out past where we have been Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women MY SONG, by KING D. KUKA Poem Source First Line: Sitting, legs crossed, copper-toned old man Last Line: He has sung Subject(s): Old Age MY SOUL AND I, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Why don't I die and set you free?' Last Line: You soon will cast a woman's vote. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Soul; Loneliness NAMING THE CATARACTS, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my doctors had told me, you have stars in your eyes, Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Old Age; Sight NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Text First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America NEIGHBOR, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: Suppose that old woman Last Line: And saw her there, %a tiny nest of roots Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEIGHBOR ON HER., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: Even just the so-so folks Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Last Line: Old women, waited, patiently Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age NEW AND OLD (TO A YOUNG LADY), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For what is old you nothing care Last Line: The other only stays a minute! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Old Age; Youth NEW HEARING AID., by ELIZABETH SEARLE LAMB Poem Source Last Line: Adjusting it, she tunes in %on crickets Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NEW TALE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The bells rang for a king inevitably winning Last Line: Under black roofs lonely spinners. No gold. No bride. Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NEW-MOWN HAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, oh sweet, from the fields to-day Last Line: Of hours in grateful trusting spent. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age NEWS FROM AN OLD WOMAN, by IRENE BLAIR HONEYCUTT Poem Source First Line: In her seventies one night Last Line: Get up and set out tobacco %or scrub the kitchen floor Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NIGHT COUNTRY, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Night is the country of sounds Last Line: Crying and raving mad Subject(s): Absence; Love; Memory; Old Age; Prisons And Prisoners NIGHT POEMS: 3, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Michal, what wealth of kisses do I owe Last Line: To bear the fullness of your I am yours! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Passion NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHTMARE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night long, / we have heard the sound of guns Last Line: Will the word come to-day?' Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Sleep NINETY YEARS TODAY., by CAROL DAGENHARDT Poem Source Last Line: Resting on her bed Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NINETY-ONE TODAY., by DOROTHEA L. DUNNING Poem Source Last Line: Waving old glory Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers NOSTALGIA AND COMPLAINT OF THE GRANDPARENTS, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our diaries squatted, toad-like Last Line: The dead don't get around %much anymore Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age NOTHING HERE IS QUITE ALIVE, by DAVID HENDERSON Poem Source First Line: A small alberta spruce, %one side stricken Last Line: As this last corner of my heart Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Winter NURSING HOME LOBBY., by EDWARD J. RIELLY Poem Source Last Line: How long it's been Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women NURSING HOME: THE CANARY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In this hospital odor Last Line: Spokes down the hall. Subject(s): Canaries; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living NURSING HOME: THE DOLL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rouge the cracked china of her cheeks Last Line: Put her away unbroken. Subject(s): Facades; Nursing Homes; Appearances; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living NURSING HOME: THE VISIT, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild-animal fear is upon him Last Line: His hair through the cage. Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Nursing Homes; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living NURSING-HOME HALL., by CHARLES B. DICKSON Poem Source Last Line: Are you my son? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OBAKE, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Once late at night I saw obasan Last Line: It's her I'm hiding from Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Fear; Old Age; Teaching And Teachers ODES IV, 10. TO LIGURINUS, A BEAUTEOUS YOUTH, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true, thou yet art fair, my ligurine Last Line: Why am I old? Or why was ever young? Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Youth OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: OLD AGE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What man is he that yearneth Last Line: Blown from night and the north. Subject(s): Old Age OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: OLD AGE, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever yearns for plenitude of years Last Line: Man's final heritage Subject(s): Old Age OF YEARS, by WHILHELMINA T. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: It does not matter who you are Last Line: But their strength. Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Youth OFF CAPE SANTO GARCIA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea! Thy waves are cold and dark Last Line: But not a faithless friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Old Age; Sea; Weariness; Ocean; Fatigue OH! PAN!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Pan-pan-darling old man! Subject(s): Old Age OLD, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now bleak days rule, with hints of snow Subject(s): Old Age OLD, by TERRY J. FOX Poem Source First Line: She is an old movie that no one watches anymore Last Line: An old movie star that no one watches anymore Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD ADAM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind is blowing cold from the west Last Line: "and why should I go in?" Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In me is a little painted square Last Line: Some evening I shall not return to my people. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The OLD AGE, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Thou hast been wrong'd, I think old age Last Line: Then turn to grey and are at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brook sings on the selfsame strain Last Line: But finds no echo in my brain Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My old uncle is long and narrow Last Line: But it is not necessarily serious. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: I put a lot of stock in the old Last Line: Like smoke, no one notices it, they are gone %into sleep %and light Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such a wizened creature Last Line: "itself fair and free." Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by JOHN MORRIS-JONES Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Old age never comes alone' - it brings sighs Last Line: And now a long lack of sleep, %and, soon enough, long slumber Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the midnight and the morn Last Line: Until thyself shall wish them dead!' Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Old Age; Socialism OLD AGE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It may be, when this city of the nine gates Last Line: Which god may have grown tired of reckoning, Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when into the garden paths by night Last Line: Laughter is dead. There is no mirth in boys. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE ALONE, by EMILY RANDLE Poem Text First Line: Resilient swallow-wings tonight have wound Last Line: Dreading the way those ominous wings have flown. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AGE IN HIS AILING, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As, reduced to skimmed milk, to slander the cream Subject(s): Old Age; Youth OLD AGE MUST BE LIKE THIS, by MARILYN ZUCKERMAN Poem Source First Line: Alone and sick at three in the morning Last Line: Wonders who will feed her birds Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD AGE'S LAMBENT PEAKS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The touch of flame - the illuminating fire - the loftiest look at last Last Line: The lights indeed from them -- old age's lambent peaks. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AND OUT, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the down-and-outer say, 'I'm Last Line: Pass, if he will blithely do his stunt with cheerful and undaunted front. Subject(s): Old Age OLD AND YOUNG, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ago, on a bright spring day Last Line: "I am too old, too old to play!" Subject(s): Old Age OLD AND YOUNG, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They soon grow old who grope for gold Last Line: For them old age itself is young. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth OLD AND YOUNG, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Grandpa, what are the drums a-saying? Last Line: I'll be a soldier in your place. Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers OLD ARE WAITING, by LIONEL BASNEY Poem Source First Line: Morning and evening Last Line: For their bodies to refresh them Subject(s): Old Age OLD ARISTIPPUS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night morn of glass / in cage of age Last Line: Say the murmurous measurers Subject(s): Aristippus (435-366 B.c.); Old Age; Philosophy & Philosophers OLD BILLY, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Around the turn of the century, in montana Last Line: Than the breakfast she'd had this morning Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD BLACK MEN, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have dreamed as young black men dream Last Line: As though they did not care. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Old Age; African Americans; Dreams; Disappointment; African Americans; Negroes; American Blacks; Nightmares; Negroes; American Blacks OLD CAT SOMBER MOON, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Running into feeling befuddles. A kiss, a moment, spiky Last Line: Are. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers OLD CLOCKS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The old clocks often have encouraging faces Last Line: Next to our bed with their mild wisdom: it's okay, %oh yes, oh yes, it's okay, it's okay Subject(s): Old Age; Wisdom OLD COUPLE, by F. PRATT GREEN Poem Source First Line: The old couple in the brand-new bungalow Last Line: The way, on windy nights, linoleum lifts Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age OLD COUPLE, by GARRET ROSENBLATT Poem Source First Line: He made of poems paper boats Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age OLD COUPLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Old Age; Togetherness; Mortality OLD FINN (85) WALKS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Why? Y don't have no car Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age; Walking OLD FOLK'S HOME, JERUSALEM, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evening, the bees fled, the honeysuckle Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening / to them Subject(s): Old Age OLD FOLKS LAUGH, by MAYA ANGELOU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have spent their Last Line: Forgive life for happening %to them Subject(s): Old Age OLD HANDS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Months since we've made love Last Line: Melting, your fingers blazing at the latch Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age OLD HEN SCRATCHES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then looks, scratched then looks. %my life Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Hens; Life; Nature; Old Age; Self OLD HOUSES, by RUTH WHITMAN Poem Source First Line: I wear this house like a barrel Last Line: How come this new me %is looking out of an old house Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD ITALIANS DYING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years the old italians have been dying %all over america Last Line: In a black boat without sails %making his final haul Subject(s): Old Age OLD JOHN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old john, if I could sit with you a day Last Line: Dear, brave, old scotchman! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Old Age OLD LADIES' HOME, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharded in black, like beetles Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living OLD LADY, by ROBERT SARGENT Poem Source First Line: Here's the old lady, dumped by her daughter Last Line: And throwing her head back, says, with some pride, %'I counted twelve planes.' Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD LOVE, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must be very old , sir giles' Last Line: True love is not so hard to smutch. Subject(s): Love - Nature Of; Old Age OLD MAN, by JAMES HENRY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At six years old I had before mine eyes Last Line: That at threescore and ten I'll from the picture %be even more distant than I was at six Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, or lad's-love, - in the name there's nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN, by PHILIP EDWARD THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man, or lad's-love, - in the name there's nothing Last Line: Only an avenue, dark, nameless, without end Alternate Author Name(s): Eastaway, Edward; Thomas, Edward Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The old man walks down the lonely streets Last Line: It's probably because he lives on a corner or in a shack Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man walks with lowered head Last Line: Frail bridges to infinity. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The OLD MAN IN SAN JOSE, by SESSHU FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Apart from the terror Last Line: Through the bottom of his glass Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN ON TRAIL, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I prayed so hard for old age to come Last Line: Is today a curse in my hands? Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age OLD MAN RIVER, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everything elegant %but this water Last Line: Don't say nothin' %must know somethin' Subject(s): Old Age; Rivers OLD MAN SUCCUMBING TO RETROSPECTION, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How his mind was always filled with music how Last Line: Even so something more or something a little less. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Poetry & Poets OLD MAN THROWING A BALL, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is tight at first, stiff, stands there atilt Subject(s): Old Age; Dogs; Games; Recreation; Pastimes; Amusements OLD MAN TOLD ME, by LANCE HENSON Poem Source First Line: It is enough for me Last Line: I must %weep Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN WHO LOVED BICYCLES, by PENNY HARTER Poem Source First Line: The old man who loves bicycles lives alone in a small gray bungalow Last Line: Foot in the withering grass Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN WITH A DOG, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Climbing the hill Last Line: What will I do? %how will I live? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Aging; Old Age OLD MAN'S BITTERNESS, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: I have no child to take down my writings Last Line: To tell no difference between large and small %is the true nature of things, heaven's gifts Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Old Age OLD MAN'S EVENSONG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a teeny mite Last Line: Home on the sod. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Men; Old Age OLD MAN'S FLOWERS, by DAVID MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: At evening we'd glimpse him through trees Last Line: This patch of starry bloom and blossomed star %by some old man who tells us what we are Subject(s): Old Age; Religion OLD MAN'S LAMENT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He says that when the posthos Last Line: The foot that's been cut off Subject(s): Old Age OLD MAN; AFTER CAVAFY, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back in a corner, alone in the clatter and babble Last Line: Resting on the table in the noisy cafe Subject(s): Old Age OLD MARY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My last defense Subject(s): Old Age OLD MEMORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thought, fly to her when the end of day Last Line: That would be harsh for children that have strayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age OLD MEN, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are raw, monotonus skies Subject(s): Old Age OLD MEN, by KATHRYN MARIS Poem Source First Line: Dad said my ass was getting fat Last Line: A kindred artist of a different kind, %the kind of artist I won't be again Subject(s): Aging; Art And Artists; Men; Old Age OLD MEN, by JEFFREY SCHWARZ Poem Source First Line: 100 year old men dream Last Line: But no one's far enough away to make them out Subject(s): Old Age OLD MEN DIE HARD, by NICHOLAS LLOYD INGRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Old men die hard! No calm and easy breath Last Line: "they'll even say, ""it's best!"" . . . And journey on." Subject(s): Old Age OLD MEN FISHING, by DANIEL RAY CAMPION Poem Source First Line: They swim among reflections from the spring Last Line: With a paper clip, a jug, and a bit of string Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Mankind; Old Age OLD MEN ON THE BENCHES, PERSIA, IOWA, by ANN STRUTHERS Poem Source First Line: The old men sit on the benches outside Last Line: Easy to throw away when the time comes Subject(s): Iowa; Mankind; Old Age OLD MEN'S COUNSEL, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young men's counsel breathes desire Last Line: Plans, persists, and then succeeds. Subject(s): Old Age OLD MONK, by SHEN YING Poem Source First Line: Sun shines back Last Line: Of the mendicant's meal Subject(s): Monks; Old Age; Zen Buddhism OLD MRS. COURT AND HER QUILT, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: She is raggedy ann at seventy-six Last Line: Though your lives are in pieces, love one another Subject(s): Old Age; Quilts; Sewing OLD NUNS' TALK, by SISTER MARGARET Poem Text First Line: I do not fear for margaret Last Line: It will be spring forever in her mind. Subject(s): Old Age OLD OAK TABLE., by DAVID ELLIOT Poem Source Last Line: Follow the grain Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD PEOPLE, by PEARL HOGREFE Poem Text First Line: Their house is quiet now. They have no guests Last Line: They rest, like silent earth from which they came. Subject(s): Old Age OLD PEOPLE ON THE NURSING HOME PORCH, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Able at last to stop Subject(s): Emptiness; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living OLD PEOPLE ON THE NURSING HOME PORCH, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Able at last to stop Subject(s): Emptiness; Nursing Homes; Old Age OLD PIRATE IN THESE WATERS, by ALI PUSKULLUOGLU Poem Source First Line: I am too old to burn ships, even if I am a pirate don't mind me Last Line: And they rub their freckled faces, their wet noses, their mouths Subject(s): Old Age; Pirates OLD QUEEN LOOKS AT WINTER, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: The king, the old pervert, is dying Last Line: July its slipper %in the chill yearfeast Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Old Age OLD SADIE, by EDITH CHERRINGTON Poem Text First Line: Old sadie, mop in hand, plods up a flight Last Line: How base the model clay has come to be. Subject(s): Museums; Old Age; Art Gallerys OLD THOUGHT, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Old folks are quiet Last Line: And not changed easily. Subject(s): Old Age OLD TIMER'S DAY, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When the tall puffy Subject(s): Baseball; Old Age OLD TIMERS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old men meet they ask for news of Last Line: "and dead they still remain," Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Weariness; Loneliness; Fatigue OLD TIMERS: FOR THE OLD, CLIMBING STAIRS IS DEMANDING, by LAURENCE PERRINE Poem Source Last Line: For I mean to get there notwithstanding Subject(s): Old Age OLD TIMERS: KEEPING UP WITH THE TIMES, by LAURENCE PERRINE Poem Source First Line: On youth, long descended from sands Last Line: As no one knew better than they did Subject(s): Old Age OLD WHITE RUSSIAN, by CH'EN MENG-CHIA Poem Source First Line: Glorious days he had, and a chivalrous spirit Last Line: Makes him cough out again; he calls 'nathasha!' Subject(s): China - Foreign Population; Old Age; Russian Revolution OLD WOMAN, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something approaches, about Last Line: The terror of full repose, %and so no terror Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Art And Artists; Old Age; Photography And Photographers; Women OLD WOMAN, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The girls whose feet moved so fast, where did they go? Last Line: A secret bite-mark on the cheek, a nerve deep in %the palm of the hand somewhere betraying who they Subject(s): Old Age OLD WOMAN, by ARUN KOLATKAR Poem Source First Line: An old woman grabs Last Line: To so much small change %in her hand Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by HARRIET ROSENBAUM Poem Source First Line: The old woman sits on top of the mountain Last Line: Dying I still hear that old woman Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The owl-car clatters along, dogged by the echo Last Line: Homeless. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, by IAIN CRICHTON SMITH Poem Source First Line: Today she is sitting by a window Last Line: Time is crouching on the window Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women OLD WOMAN, by MIRIAM VEDDER Poem Text First Line: A very old woman once lived in a house Last Line: And what the old woman wrapped 'round her at night. Subject(s): Old Age; Wellesley College; Women OLD WOMAN ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, by BERWYN MOORE Poem Source First Line: We drive by an old woman Last Line: She separates the wheat from the chaff Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN OPENS HER DOOR., by ZHANNA P. RADER Poem Source Last Line: Into the night Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN SO FAT., by CARROW DE VRIES Poem Source Last Line: She'd be an omnibus Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN'S ROOM, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: Is empty again; she's always a-bustle Last Line: With tortoiseshell and her army of bobby pins Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Old Age OLD WOMAN'S SONG III, by DELLA CYRUS Poem Source First Line: You wouldn't think just one more falling tooth Last Line: Enjoy the whole catastrophe Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN, ESKIMO, by COLETTE INEZ Poem Source First Line: Her singing makes %the rain fall Last Line: For her children %to hear later on Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN., by DOROTHY MCLAUGHLIN Poem Source Last Line: For someone else's rainy day Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN., by JR. CHARLES D. NETHAWAY Poem Source Last Line: One after the other Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN: LAMENT, by MICHAEL BORICH Poem Source First Line: It's a sunny hill from the marketplace Last Line: The hurl of my heart at the headlong years Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD WOMAN; REST HOME, by NORMA ALMQUIST Poem Source First Line: They fed me breakfast three times Last Line: I can't seem to get ready %for what's going to happen Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OLD WOMEN, by GEORGE MACKAY BROWN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Go sad or sweet or riotous with beer Last Line: Those same old hags would weave into their moans %an undersong of terrible holy joy Subject(s): Old Age; Women OLD WOMEN, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arthritically bent, in black, spindle-legged Last Line: Our imperfect, earthly love Subject(s): Old Age; Women ON A PARCHED NOVEMBER CARPET, by BARBARA L. THOMAS Poem Source First Line: Oak leaves and maple Last Line: Mother chooses not to hear %begins another story %safer Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ON AN OLD MINSTER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old minster, when my years were few Last Line: And, as its maker is, divine. Subject(s): Clergy; Old Age; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops ON AN OLD STATESMAN, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls, nor yet we may discern the dawn Last Line: The onward march of man. Subject(s): Old Age; Statesmen ON AN OLD WOMAN, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mycilla dyes her locks, 'tis said Last Line: No subsequent immersion. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Old Age; Women ON ANSELM'S TRAIL AT DAYBREAK, by KATHRYN STRIPLING BYER Poem Source First Line: I looked down and saw her Last Line: This earth I walk into sunrise Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Memory; Old Age; Women ON MY BIRTHDAY, by ROSE HIRSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Septuagenary body %you serve me well Last Line: I've spun, I've spun %seventy times - %ellipsing the sun! Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women ON SHADOWS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: It was september, it was where shadows gnaw the branches Last Line: How can one hold on to it, without degrading it Subject(s): Bodies; Old Age ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD LADY, by L. K. GARRISON Poem Text First Line: They tended you for many years Last Line: I for my part was glad. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Old Age; Dead, The; Paradise ON THE MOUNTAIN, by NEIDHART VON REUENTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the mountain, in the valley Last Line: All the young ones into the bushes. Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sacrifices; Women ON THE SHELF, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: To pause, to make an end!' to heed Last Line: And polished for the master's use. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age ONE THING CERTAIN, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's read %memory's broken, that we hold color Last Line: By the testament of his shock Subject(s): Memory; Old Age ORGAN SONGS: CHRISTMAS SONG OF THE OLD CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, for youth to seek the strong Last Line: Father, take us back with him! Subject(s): Children; Christmas; Old Age; Childhood; Nativity, The ORPHAN, by PHILIP DACEY Poem Source First Line: My father's thinking out loud Last Line: But we won't notice that Subject(s): Death; Fathers And Sons; Old Age OSTEOPOROSIS, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, you wonder how to turn, if Last Line: Preparing to recite %the blessing before the meal Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women OTHER EARLY LIMERICKS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man who forgot Last Line: Which he very soon filled full of tears Subject(s): Grief; Nonsense; Old Age OULD SNARLY-GOB, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a little fire in the grate Last Line: Get up and run about! Subject(s): Old Age OUR ANCIENT RUIN, by CRUPPER D. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: The new-chum leaned against the bar Last Line: We've got one ancient ruin here Alternate Author Name(s): Crupper D. Subject(s): Old Age OUR FIFTY-FIFTH; 1843-1897, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our fifty-fifth! Since first, in '43 Last Line: This bond of friendship shall survive them all! Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Time OUR YEARS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: As a sigh! As sweet and as sad Last Line: And there with our years we return. Subject(s): Old Age OVER THE BITTER LAND, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That wander around. Far Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age PALACE POEMS: 001, by WANG CHIEN+(1) Poem Source First Line: At home I loved to wear old clothes Last Line: Can it be time for me to see my lord? Subject(s): Old Age PAN'S PROPHECY, SELECTION, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am old and wise and strong Last Line: Complain they that their age grows cold? Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Old Age PARENTS, by TERRY SPOHN Poem Source First Line: Dogs raise their heads from sleep. The rabbit's paws are wet. In the first Last Line: Bread cooling in the sun. She doesn't intend to die Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age; Parents PARERGON: THE EYES, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When his lover died Last Line: And walked on. Like those! Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age PARLOR WINDOW, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: Is agape-old, toothless mouth Last Line: In their long, crooked eyes Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Old Age PASSING GO, by WILLIAM PITT ROOT Poem Source First Line: Bowlegged behind her cane Last Line: Works every time now %don't it, dear? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PASTORAL 1 (FIRST VERSION), by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man who goes about Last Line: Astonish me beyond words! Subject(s): Old Age PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening / the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fatigue PATIO, by JORGE LUIS BORGES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With evening %the two or three colors of the patio grew weary Last Line: It is lovely to live in the dark friendliness %of covered entrance way, arbor, and wellhead Subject(s): Future Life; Old Age; Weariness PATTERNS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm past eighty now and as I sit down Last Line: She was waiting for theseus to return? Subject(s): Old Age PENANCE, by ELAINE HANDLEY Poem Source First Line: Three times a week she makes her way Last Line: And leaves for church %waiting for grace Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying %to make you hear Last Line: I am a lady young in beauty waiting Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth PICTURE OF OLD AGE, by PATTI TANA Poem Source First Line: Looking through her pictures Last Line: Her home echoes her own silence Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PIN, by LARS LUNDKVIST Poem Source First Line: On a hill outside the city Last Line: The birds also are dead Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Old Age PIONEER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The very old woman sits softly Last Line: She will fall softly asleep... Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Pioneers; Women PLAINTIVE ECHOES, by SYLVIA ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: To-day my heart / is a haunted manor Last Line: My hopeful thoughts! Subject(s): Old Age PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PLUM TREE IN BLOSSOM., by DOROTHEA L. DUNNING Poem Source Last Line: For great, great grandson Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women POCKET BILLIARDS, by SUSAN EISENBERG Poem Source First Line: After fifty years of vacations Last Line: Who has carpal tunnel syndrome. %on tuesdays Subject(s): Billiards; Old Age; Parents POEM FOR GRANDMOTHER, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: A swirling mist blows through Last Line: She knew what %I meant Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women POKING AROUND THE RUBBISH, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Some rotting, most clean vanished Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Art And Artists; Old Age; Photography And Photographers; Women POLLEN-OLD-WOMAN, by JUDITH MOUNTAIN LEAF VOLBORTH Poem Source First Line: Listen ... %pollen-old-woman Last Line: There is pollen beneath her tongue Subject(s): Old Age; Women POMEGRANATE WIDOW, by MONA ELAINE ADILMAN Poem Source First Line: Mrs pinsky perches on her gallery Last Line: She trips downstairs %to the delicatessen, and hopes mr. Klein is no prude Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PORCH ROCKER EMPTY., by H. F. NOYES Poem Source Last Line: Slowly climbs the steps Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women POWERS OF WATER CARRY ME, by ELICURA CHIHUAILAF Poem Source First Line: I am old and I watch the horizon from a flowering tree Last Line: Oarsmen, row! I go in silence %in the invisible song of life Subject(s): Death; Life; Old Age PRAISING SPECTACLES, by YUAN MEI Poem Source First Line: How swift is the coming of old age! Last Line: Dare I your companionship spurn? Alternate Author Name(s): Tzu-ts'ai Subject(s): Eyeglasses; Old Age PRINCESS, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: Out of the premiums he had paid she put a new front porch Last Line: Entice the newly planted, twining vines Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women PROGNOSIS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man alone in a house Last Line: Doesn't even understand %what makes the weather Subject(s): Old Age PROMISE, by HEBERTO PADILLA Poem Source First Line: A while ago Last Line: I never dared give you a real answer Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Poetry And Poets PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience; Reputation; Theology; Impermanence PROVIDE, PROVIDE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The witch that came (the withered hag) Last Line: With boughten friendship at your side %than none at all. Pr0vide, provide! Subject(s): Bible; Fame; Old Age; Religion; Transience PUSH, by JAY P. WHITE Poem Source First Line: You can find me at the gym before noon where gray men Last Line: Radiating clemency and comedy, unspoken, no eye contact %made Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness QUAND VOUS SEREZ BIEN VIEILLE, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, no man will start to hear Subject(s): Old Age QUAND VOUS SEREZ BIEN VIEILLE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, at night, by candlelight Last Line: These flowers in their blossom go quickly out of season Subject(s): Old Age; Transience QUEER, by ELSIE BENTLEY MALIN Poem Text First Line: I love a poem with a swing Last Line: To welcome home . . . The queer old thing. Subject(s): Old Age QUERIES TO MY SEVENTIETH YEAR, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Approaching, nearing, curious Last Line: Dull, parrot-like and old, with crack'd voice harping, screeching? Subject(s): Old Age RAINY SUNDAY., by LOUISE SOMERS WINDER Poem Source Last Line: The mother's day card Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women READING HER THE NEWS., by JANE K. LAMBERT Poem Source Last Line: Who died today, dearie?' %she asks Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women REFLECTIONS OF LA VIEJA, by ALMA CERVANTES Poem Source First Line: I woke up in the morning Last Line: Goodnight, viejo %yo tambien te amo' Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age; Wrinkles REMEMBERANCE, by EVA SPARKS TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: We talked of intervening years today Last Line: Alone he wraps his hurt with bandage frayed. Subject(s): Old Age; Widows & Widowers REMEMBRANCE, by EGMONT HEGEL ARENS Poem Text First Line: It is holiday time in the woods Last Line: Of winter's snow. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age REPRISE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm very old now Last Line: I want to make love with you %before I die Subject(s): Erotic Love; Old Age REQUIESCIT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell his story. He was one Last Line: Upon his grave. I cannot doubt he sleeps. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Old Age; Dead, The RESIGNATION, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am only fit to go to bed Last Line: I will go there and stay a little while. Subject(s): Old Age RETIREMENT, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone talks here, nobody listens Last Line: To make things come out even, and end when you do Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement RETURN CREEPING, by CLARISSA BUCKLIN Poem Text First Line: She thought that creeping back to spinsterhood Last Line: Until the blessed warmth of peace should come. Subject(s): Old Age RETURN OF THE LOST SON, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: It is color that carries our lives Last Line: The golden grip of sunflowers Subject(s): Fathers And Sons; Old Age; Weariness REVOLUTIONARY STORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good mother, what quaint legend are you reading Last Line: "who ever have been loved." Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Books; Roses; American Revolution; Love – Loss Of; Memory RHYME, THE CONSOLER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The injuries of time Last Line: Rhyme brings with honeyed tones an anodyne to pain. Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Time RIDDLE, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: What goes on four legs Last Line: How comes my mother thus? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women RIDDLE, by SUSAN FANTL SPIVACK Poem Source First Line: Gone wild, grown old Last Line: Apple tree, daughter of the hill Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women RIVER AND A YOUNG WOMAN 5, by ALES DEBELJAK Poem Source First Line: After all, why sadness? Why fear? We don't know the depths of finnish Last Line: The man who stands somewhere in the open, alone, on the high plains? Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Poetry And Poets RIVER SNOW, by LIU TSUNG-YUAN Poem Source First Line: A thousand mountains. Flying birds vanish Last Line: Alone with his hook. Cold river. Snow Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism ROADWAYS, by SARA NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Just as the little country road divides Last Line: By bringing peace to crown our happiness! Subject(s): Old Age; Roads; Travel; Paths; Trails; Journeys; Trips RUBAIYAT, SELS., by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tomorrow I will haul down the flag of hypocrisy Last Line: If I don't enjoy myself now, when shall I? Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Old Age SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision SALVE SENESCENTEM, by MOSHARREF OD-DIN IBN MOSLEH OD-DIN SADI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now is the time when weakness comes, -- & strength goes Last Line: Keep this all the rest may go to beast & birds Alternate Author Name(s): Saadi Subject(s): Old Age SAM AND JIM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When old sam johnson sat in state, that Last Line: Pompous prodigies lie down, and, dying, kill off their renown. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Biography; Old Age; Writing & Writers; Biographers SAND HILLS, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is spread with rough grained silk Last Line: Flecked by the dim fire of giant stars. Subject(s): Old Age; Silk SATIRE: 10. OLD AGE, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Source First Line: In youth a thousand different features strike Last Line: And hates the gray decrepitude of lust Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Old Age SATURDAY AT THE BORDER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am writing my first villanelle Last Line: Is what he's found in his first villanelle. Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets SAVANNAH LADIES, by WALLACE WHATLEY Poem Source First Line: Two old ladies, friends since girls Last Line: And don't forget your taxi money Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SCHERZO, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the down is on the chin Last Line: "time to say good-bye; it snows." Subject(s): Old Age SECRET MEAL, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Swept sky, swept shore: always Last Line: The words burn upon our lips Subject(s): Old Age; Secrets SEEING OFF THE DEAD, by JOYCE SUTPHEN Poem Source First Line: We are all dying to know what is going Last Line: They look so happy to be on their way %we almost grow younger just watching them Subject(s): Old Age SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Age Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SEETA, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thinking myself between cities Last Line: My life did not comprise me it was so brief Variant Title(s): Seeta In Her Old Ag Subject(s): Aging; Life; Old Age SENESCENT LOVERS, by T. S. KERRIGAN Poem Source First Line: The andersons, grown old Last Line: Hiw strange that they'd insist %this latter love is lost Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SENEX TO MATT. PRIOR, by JAMES KENNETH STEPHEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Matt: old age has brought to me Last Line: I knew that once: but now--I think it. Alternate Author Name(s): Stephen, J. K. Subject(s): Old Age; Prior, Matthew (1664-1721) SENILITY CAY, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a nail-paring cast from the moon's leprosy Last Line: Is the gaunt gap where what was a man will be Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Old Age SENIOR CITIZENS POLKA FOR JOHN MINCZESKI, by DANIEL TOBIN Poem Source First Line: That afternoon of my twelfth year Last Line: Of my ashcan maestro like you %may I get up and dance Subject(s): Old Age SET OF DENTURES, A SMOKESTACK, A KNOLL, by DEBORAH GORLIN Poem Source First Line: Outdoors in august, laboring all day in his garden, he's shirtless Last Line: Which were born with nothing we cannot bear Subject(s): Bodies; Men; Old Age SEVEN, by RUTH GENEVIEVE WORK IODICE Poem Source First Line: We were hardly the pleiades Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SEVEN TWILIGHTS: 3, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the tree bares, the music of it changes Last Line: "your lights and music. It will be good to talk." Variant Title(s): The House Subject(s): Houses; Music & Musicians; Old Age SEVEN-THIRTY PUN, by PAUL T. HOGAN Poem Source First Line: You call with your plan for my evening Last Line: In the dust of a case %no one recalls Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry And Poets SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here goes a man of seventy-four Last Line: What earth's ingrained conditions are. Subject(s): Old Age SHADOWED VANITY, by ORCHID PEDEN Poem Text First Line: Since age has come to us Last Line: Since they're not seen by him. Subject(s): Old Age; Vanity SHADOWY OUTLINE, by HELEN M. FIRTH Poem Text First Line: She paid small fee to generosity Last Line: Their way through life, they grasp its withered flowers. Subject(s): Old Age SHE LOOKS BEYOND TO-MORROW, by RUTH FITCH BARTLETT Poem Text First Line: I will wear purple bonnets Last Line: Tell me any foolish thing! Subject(s): Hats; Life; Old Age; Youth SHE STILL LIVES ON RUE VALETTE, NEAR LE PANTHEON, by ANGELA KARSZO Poem Source First Line: Her neighbours call her 'la fiancee eternelle' Last Line: As no one knows that every night she falls %asleep to dream hope & forgiveness Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SHE WALKS SLOWLY, by NORA REZA Poem Source First Line: A window serves as empty light Last Line: Gathering up the ravellings %of a jute doormat Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SILENCE OF WOMEN, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Old men, as time goes on, grow softer, sweeter Last Line: But must make music %any way it can Subject(s): Old Age; Women SILHOUETTES, by IRMA SCOTT LERICHE Poem Text First Line: An old fir tree with lifted arms Last Line: Stands looking straight to god. Subject(s): Old Age SILVER ANNIVERSARY, by BEULAH ALLYNE BELL Poem Text First Line: Always and always there was full return Last Line: For leaving her unmarried in the mind. Subject(s): Old Age SINCE I CAME TO THIS T'IEN T'AI TEMPLE, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: How many other men will watch those mountains stand Subject(s): Old Age; Temples; Zen Buddhism SING-SONG; A NURSERY RHYME BOOK: 102, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dear old woman in the lane Last Line: And wheel her chair round, if we may. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Neighboring Subject(s): Old Age; Women SISTER MAIME FIELDS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: Dull patina %over rim of blue eye Last Line: All heavy loads lighter Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Memory; Old Age SISTERS, by JUDITH WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the vine-shadows on the veranda Last Line: I walk alone,' say the old sisters on the veranda Subject(s): Old Age; Women SKY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: On a bright blue day in october Last Line: And the lakes look as deep as the sky Subject(s): Grandchildren; Grandparents; Old Age SNOW STORM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere men speak in whispers Last Line: Force, and the night comes on. Subject(s): Army Life; Old Age; Snow; Soldiers; War; Drills & Minor Tactics SO HAPPY WITH MY FAT OLD BODY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Still quick enough to slap a fly Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Nature; Old Age SOMETIMES FATE WILL STEAL A BABY, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Soft as a bundle of rags Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death - Children; Fate; Nature; Old Age SOMEWHERE IN A HOUSE WHERE YOU ARE NOT, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: There is sunlight coming through windows Last Line: Revolve slowly around and around %without you Subject(s): Guests; Houses; Old Age SON OF MEDGAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Medgar isn't %wasn't %won't be Subject(s): Murder; Old Age; Trials SONG FOR AN OLD FRIEND, by ELIAS MIGUEL MUNOZ Poem Source First Line: She is small and lends advice Last Line: Today her voice is being lost %in the signs of a farm dance gone, %in the hope of a morning %and a d Subject(s): Absence; Friendship; Old Age SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When tunes jigged nimbler than the blood Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Dancing & Dancers SONG OF THE HIGHEST TOWER, by ARTHUR RIMBAUD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Idle youth / by all availed Last Line: When hearts entwine! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG: NOW THAT SHE IS HERE; FOR JOE-ANNE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old man now, who's learned at last Last Line: Who used to think I knew. But now I know. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Wisdom SONG: PURE SERENE MUSIC, by XIN QIJI Poem Source First Line: The thatched eaves are small and low Last Line: A lying by the stream, idly shelling lotus-pods Subject(s): Old Age SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon Last Line: Till I am old no more. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SONNET, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like wine grown stale, the street-lamp's pallor Last Line: At rest because old memories have grown cold. Subject(s): Old Age; Women SONNET TO LADY FITZGERALD, IN HER SEVENTIETH YEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such age how beautiful! O lady bright Last Line: As pensive evening deepens into night. Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women SONNET: 13, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wrinkled crabbed man they picture thee Last Line: Or taste the old october brown and bright. Variant Title(s): Winter Subject(s): Christmas; Old Age; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Winter; Nativity, The SONNET: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long. Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73; Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: OLD AGE, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The course of my long life hath reached at last Last Line: That oped, to embrace us, on the cross its arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Old Age SOUL WHISPERS, by HENRY T. PRAED Poem Text First Line: How shall I seek to know you Last Line: And the centuries' race be done. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past SOUR TASTE OF OLD MEN, by JOEL FRIEDERICH Poem Source First Line: I think of them as a roux Last Line: The loosened selves pouring out of me like milk Subject(s): Old Age SPEECH AFTER LONG SILENCE, by LLOYD VAN BRUNT Poem Source First Line: Feverish and mumbling %disheveled in a lawn chair Last Line: Like mist through a country dawn Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SPEEDING YEARS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How swift the years roll on, my friend, how Last Line: Homeward on a dray; how swift the years roll on! Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue SPLITTING AN ORDER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to watch an old man cutting a sandwich in half Subject(s): Food & Eating; Old Age; Man-wiman Relationships SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: FIDDLER JONES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth keeps some vibration going Last Line: And not a single regret. Variant Title(s): Fiddler Jones Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Old Age SPRAY OF FLOWERS (NOT GIVING IN TO OLD AGE), by GUAN HAN-QING Poem Source First Line: I've plucked every bud hanging over the wall Last Line: I'll walk the lane of misty flowers %no more Subject(s): China - Yuan Dynasty (1260-1341); Flowers; Old Age SPRING, by MARY KATHARINE REELY Poem Text First Line: God, how I hate it, spring! Last Line: God, how shall I endure it, spring! Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Spring SPRING FORWARD, FALL BACK, by ALPAY ULKU Poem Source First Line: Be a facilitator, not a roadblock, says the lady who runs the news stand Last Line: The first now wheeling over the city, how if you look just right, you could %believe we were moving Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Past SPRING SONG, by HERMANN HESSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm cries every night Last Line: Forever goes thy way. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Spring SQUARE, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: On the square one hears the cries of a woman Last Line: And the happy driver %of an empty car Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude STAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She scrubbed as hard as she could with a stone Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women - Old Age STAINED BY EARLIER DAYS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And stories from the grandmother Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Memory; Old Age STILL LIFE, by KAREN HEAD Poem Source First Line: Precariously held by a magnet to the filing cabinet next to my desk, is a Last Line: Night she whispered his name, over and over, like a question, 'cliff?' Subject(s): Grandparents; Love; Old Age STONEBREAKER'S DAUGHTER, by ORLANDO RICARDO MENES Poem Source First Line: A rocky podium. A mannered pose Last Line: The gulls have flown to africa Subject(s): Memory; Old Age STRIPPER, by RACHEL LODEN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the woman %in the mirror %undressing Last Line: Dreamskin, a dilapidated girdle %pickled grey with washing Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women STUDENTS' DOG, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: The students play at breaking the ice Last Line: He is old %their age Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness STUDY IN REVERSION, by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: I know a human owl Last Line: And sits. Subject(s): Old Age SUMMER BREEZE., by EDWARD J. RIELLY Poem Source Last Line: A torn teddy bear Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUMMER COMPANY, by EUGENE ROGER COLE Poem Source First Line: I cannot tell you Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUN AND MOON, by JOSE SANTOS CHOCANO Poem Source First Line: Between my aged mother's hands gleam bright Last Line: The moon in my dear mother's silver hair! Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age SUNBEAMS IN THE WOOD, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark ye not the sunbeams glancing Last Line: To a home of light. Subject(s): Calm; Old Age; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility SUNRISE AND SUNSET: 2. SUNSET, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Ah! - here I stand and dream, and sunset's red dominions Last Line: Wins, when all lesser loves are past. Subject(s): Love; Old Age; Passion SUNSET POINT, by R. D. JAMESON Poem Text First Line: And in the flower month, I'll leave,' I / said Last Line: But when I kissed your eyes, my lips were wet! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBB AT THE TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones SURPRISE PARTY, by JOSEPH EDWARD POWELL Poem Source First Line: On her birthday, she couldn't sit still Last Line: But for the bathroom light that burned %like a huge candle above her Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SURVIVOR, by WILHELMINA YOUNG Poem Source First Line: We sit at the round oak table Last Line: Cries real tears, the other %just stares Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women SUSANNAH TO THE ELDER, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: Eyes that pierced my nakedness Last Line: Crush the juice from one Subject(s): Bodies; Nudity; Old Age; Relationships; Youth TATTOO, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Tattoos; Old Age TELL ME NOW, by WANG CHI Poem Text First Line: Tell me now, what should a man want Last Line: And, at the end, need no paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kung; Wang Ch'i Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Contentment; Old Age TEN THOUSAND MILES FROM IRAQ, by THOMAS DORSETT Poem Source First Line: Who ever heard of a trophy with wrinkles? Last Line: What more can one hope for these days? Subject(s): Life; Old Age TENANTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to the old woman Last Line: In one crow's bill. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Old Age; Sheep; Dead, The TENDERLOIN CAFETERIA POEM, by ALLAN DAVIS WINANS Poem Source First Line: I have sat one too many Last Line: The other on the %obituary column Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THANKS TO SIR WALTER, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nine weeks in a nursing home Last Line: Keep him and sleep well. Subject(s): Death; Nursing Homes; Peace; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Dead, The; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THAT PATCHED-UP BALL, by PAUL WEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Just because he sent me to spade up the crummy Last Line: Just past noon Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THE ABDUCTION, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some things I do not profess to understand Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE AGED INDIAN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Warriors! My noon of life is past Last Line: The mighty of departed time. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Old Age THE AGED LOVER RENOUNCETH LOVE, by THOMAS VAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loathe that I did love Last Line: So shall ye waste to dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrowden, 2d Baron Vaux Of Subject(s): Aging; Love; Old Age THE ALARM, by HILDEBRAND JACOB Poem Text First Line: What is't, good prying friend, you say? Last Line: Tis time to be in haste, to live! Subject(s): Barbers; Clocks; Hair; Old Age; Time THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel / appeared to Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Angels; Wishes THE ANNUITY, by GEORGE OUTRAM Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: I gaed to spend a week in fife Last Line: I'm charged for her annuity. Subject(s): Old Age THE ARCHBISHOP AND GIL BLAS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think I feel much older; I'm aware I'm rather gray Last Line: I'm old enough to walk alone, but not so very old! Subject(s): Old Age THE BATTLE, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, do not smile at her as she goes past Last Line: For well, she knows that she must lose at last! Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE BEAN EATERS, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They eat beans mostly, this old yellow pair Last Line: Tobacco crumbs, vases and fringes. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Farm Life; Old Age; United States; Women; Agriculture; Farmers; America THE BLUDE RED ROSE AT YULE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blude red rose at yule may blaw Last Line: To daunton me, &c. Variant Title(s): To Daunton Me Subject(s): Old Age THE BOYS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has there any old fellow got mixed with the boys? Last Line: Dear father, take care of thy children, the boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Friendship; Old Age; Schoolmates THE BRIDGE OF LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Across the rapid stream of seventy years Last Line: To where all glories of our being tend Subject(s): Death;old Age;time; "dead, The; THE CENTENARIAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think we shall Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE CENTENARIAN'S STORY, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me your hand, old revolutionary Last Line: Stands forever the camp of that dead brigade. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brooklyn, New York; Old Age; United States - History; Veterans THE CHAPERON, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I take my chaperon to the play Last Line: As young -- as young as she! Subject(s): Old Age THE CHARWOMAN, by GEORGE LAWRENCE ANDREWS Poem Text Last Line: Spent dozing in the sun. Subject(s): Old Age THE CHORUS, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A greek I worked for once would always say Subject(s): Old Age; Tragedy THE CONVENT PORTER, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was an ancient, bearded man Last Line: And took the old man praying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The THE CROWS, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman who has grown old Last Line: The literary review, Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE DEEF OLE MAN, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I onct was peert an' activ' Last Line: Be stone deef in my year. Subject(s): Aging; Deafness; Old Age THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Last Line: New discovery may lie. The deer in that beautiful place lay down their bones: I must wear mine Subject(s): Deer; Old Age; Death; Dead, The THE DREAM DURING MY MOTHER'S RECUPERATION, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take it out - thirsty - put my teeth in my mouth Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age; Sickness; Women; Illness THE DREAMER, by JOHN D. MCMASTER Poem Text First Line: When he was young he wanted to be / bold Last Line: His life a failure and his soul a song. Subject(s): Failure; Old Age THE DREAMERS, by LYDIA LITTELL Poem Text First Line: Two old men with heads together Last Line: Tread the ways of youth again. Subject(s): Old Age THE DUN COW AND THE HAG, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the river volga near the village of anskijovka Last Line: Ran off her dress like a lowered hem. Subject(s): Cows; Drowning; Old Age; Poisons & Poisoning; Volga River, Russia; Women THE DYING SPANIEL, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old oscar, how feebly thou crawl'st to the door Last Line: And the friend and the foe pass away, one by one! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Youth THE ELDER WOMAN'S SONG: 4, FR. KING LEAR'S WIFE, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, merry, merry will my heart be Last Line: And go like a lady, warmly drest. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN, by GEORGE CANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the side of a murmuring stream an elderly gentleman sat Last Line: And in plumped this son of a woman to follow his wig, cane, and hat. Subject(s): Old Age THE ENCHANTED ISLE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The drifting years have brought me to Last Line: The world of love and dreams is hers. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Love; Old Age THE ENDURING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now in an hour the meadows bright with gold Last Line: Yet cannot break their timeless influence. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Maturity; Old Age THE EXCAVATION, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this dry, stubble field Last Line: In this dry, stubble field. Subject(s): Archeology; Artifacts; Curiosities & Wonders; Fathers; Native Americans; Old Age; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FAITH OF OLD, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years with their changes come, and the years with their plans unfold Last Line: Divine. Subject(s): Old Age THE FOOT-SOLDIER'S SONG, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd like to be the old man/ I saw along the way: Last Line: On the first day of the war. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Soldiers THE FORSAKEN, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bloom of youth had faded from her face Last Line: A broken heart and early grave foretell. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 2. THE FEAST, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no fragrant sandal-paste Last Line: All the secret of your tears. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age THE GHETTO-JEW, by ISRAEL GOLDBERG Poem Text First Line: I marked in the midst of the glittering throng Last Line: A jeer be the last of its pages? Alternate Author Name(s): Learsi, Rufus Subject(s): History; Jews; Jews - Persecution; Memory; Old Age; Historians; Judaism THE GOLD STAR, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elaine's job on the geriatric ward included encouraging Subject(s): Mothers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE GOLDEN YEARS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All I do these drawn-out days Subject(s): Old Age THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers THE HAG, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old hag sat on the park bench, picking her teeth Last Line: And see what else the world means. Subject(s): Homeless; Old Age; Women THE HALF-ACRE OF MILLET, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So green the leaves in late september sun Last Line: Now I'm told they don't plant millet around here. Subject(s): Nature; Old Age THE HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame. Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Old Age THE ICE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her day out from the workhouse-ward, she stands Last Line: She, who's been old, is now a child again. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE IDIOT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The hand that rocked his cradle once Last Line: A coffin to contain his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The THE IRON GATE, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is this patriarch you are kindly greeting? Last Line: Thanks, brothers, sisters, -- children, -- and farewell! Subject(s): Old Age THE KIND OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kind old man - the mild old Last Line: When he was as tough as they! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Memory; Old Age; Youth; Childhood THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (1), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a chair at every hearth Last Line: And the fret lies on me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement THE LAMENTATION OF THE OLD PENSIONER (2), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although I shelter from the rain Last Line: That has transfigured me. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Retirement; Work; Workers THE LAST BOHEMIANS, by EDWARD FIELD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We meet in a cheap diner and I think, god Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Bruce Subject(s): Greenwich Village, New York City; Bohemians; Old Age THE LAST LEAF, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once before Last Line: Where I cling. Subject(s): Adversity; Melville, Major Thomas; Old Age THE LAST MAN'S CLUB, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE LAST MEMORY, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am old, and think of the old days Last Line: When you are no more young, and I am old. Subject(s): Old Age THE LITTLE HOUSE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will have a little house Last Line: For the children lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Houses; Loss; Mothers; Old Age; Childhood THE LITTLE MAN IN GREEN, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a little man in green Last Line: "counting, ""three""." Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE LITTLE OLD MAN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little old man with the curve in his back Last Line: The little old man whom the children would miss. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Old Age THE LITTLE OLD WOMEN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the winding folds of old capitals Last Line: On whom the dreaful claw of god lies heavy? Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Nightmares THE LONG ROAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The white road leads through the meadows, on Last Line: Where the spectral moon-fire lies on the road that leads to home. Subject(s): Home; Old Age THE MAY MORNING AND THE OLD MAN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morn is very clear, the young morn Last Line: Listen, listen and follow! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE MILL, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly in the depths of the night the windmill turns Last Line: The old mill that turns and, weary, turns, and dies. Subject(s): Old Age; Windmills THE MILL (2), by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in grey dusk the mill turns faltering Last Line: On the old mill that turns and turns and dies Subject(s): Old Age; Windmills THE MIRROR OF LAIS, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, lais, once of hellas the delight Last Line: What I was once, I ne'er again can be! Subject(s): Mirrors; Old Age THE MISSUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind to the missus, who spends the long Last Line: She's expecting is love. Subject(s): Gratitude; Love; Old Age THE MOON IS A DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flavio gonzales, seventy-two, made jackhammer Last Line: "is a diamond." Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry & Poets THE NEW YEAR'S NIGHT OF AN UNHAPPY MAN, by JEAN PAUL RICHTER Poem Text First Line: Once on a time, it was the new year's night Last Line: The golden years can never more return. Subject(s): Aging; Holidays; New Year; Old Age; Sin; Youth THE NO-LONGER-MERRY ANCIENT MONARCH, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old king cole was a merry old soul Last Line: And called for his fiddlers three. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Old Age; Wealth; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Riches; Fortunes THE ODE OF DECLINE, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With forces well-nigh spent Last Line: And bloom as lilies again beneath the recovered skies. Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD AGE OF QUEEN MAEVE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain poet in outlandish clothes Last Line: A murmur of soft words and meeting lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Courts & Couriers THE OLD BRIDGE, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the old, old bridge, with its crumbling Last Line: But we, -- no more! Subject(s): Bridges; Old Age THE OLD CATCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The aged catcher dons his mask- Last Line: The backbone of the team! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Old Age; Sports THE OLD CODGERS' LAMENT, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can say now Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD COUPLE, by EDWIN H. ROLFSON Poem Text First Line: He wanders about the house Last Line: Forty years ago.) Subject(s): Old Age; Togetherness THE OLD COUPLE (THE WORKHOUSE - OLD STYLE), by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old wife speaks: Last Line: The lord shouldn't grant a long life to the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Poverty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD INDIAN, by ARTHUR STANLEY BOURINOT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We walked one morning in the long ago Subject(s): Old Age; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE OLD ITALIANS DYING, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For years the old italians have been dying / all over america Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD LABOURER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His fourscore years have bent a back of oak Last Line: Just seventeen pence to starve on, seven days long. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE OLD LADIES OF AMSTERDAM, by CONSTANCE URDANG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Indomitable, in black stockings, the old ladies of amsterdam Last Line: In the honey-colored light of vermeer. Subject(s): Amsterdam, Netherlands; Old Age; Women THE OLD LURE (FLEET STREET), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the gaunt night covers the city Last Line: And the pals of long ago. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Friendship; Old Age THE OLD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Steadfast and serene Last Line: Old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Experience; Life; Old Age; Wisdom THE OLD MAN AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man never had much to say Last Line: "take keer of yourse'f!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE OLD MAN AND THE MOTORCYCLE, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old man had inoperable cancer. Subject(s): Old Age; Motorcycles THE OLD MAN DREAMS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for one hour of youthful joy! Last Line: To please the gray-haired boys. Subject(s): Classmates; Dreams; Marriage; Old Age; Schoolmates; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE OLD MAN DREW THE LINE, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Old Age; Fathers & Sons THE OLD MAN OF THE ALPS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Whose eyes a look of pity show Last Line: In that unchanging realm, where love reigns evermore! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN OF VERONA, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy the man who his whole time doth bound Last Line: The voyage life is longest made at home. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN'S BLESSING, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine eye is dull, my hair is white Last Line: By hearts like thine is freedom won! Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Nationalism - Ireland; Old Age; Youth THE OLD MAN'S COMFORTS AND HOW HE GAINED THEM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are old, father william,' the young man cried Last Line: And he hath not forgotten my age. Variant Title(s): Father William Subject(s): Clergy; Comfort; Faith; God; Men; Old Age; Prayer; Youth; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Belief; Creed THE OLD MAN'S COUNSEL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among our hills and valleys, I have known Last Line: Is at my side, his voice is in my ear. Subject(s): Holidays; Old Age; Trees THE OLD MAN'S SIGH. A SONNET, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dewdrops are the gems of the morning Last Line: Whose total being is act, alone remain behind! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN'S SONG, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Age is not a thing to measure Last Line: Such as heaven might well supply. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MAN'S WISH, by WALTER POPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I live to grow old (for I find I go down) Last Line: Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.' Subject(s): Country Life; Old Age THE OLD MEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a handful of meal in the barrel, and a Last Line: With a stake in the great hereafter, sealed by the hand of death. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Wrinkles; Dead, The; Fatigue THE OLD MEN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old men who have studied Last Line: Be yours! Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD MEN USED TO SING, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African-americans; Funerals; Old Age; Burials THE OLD MIRROR, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN Poem Text First Line: The mirror hangs in the garret Last Line: Has answered smile with smile. Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD PITCHER, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: He hobbles lamely from the bench Last Line: Those boys with iron hand! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Knowledge; Old Age; Sports THE OLD PLAYER, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtain rose; in thunders long and loud Last Line: Dream on! There's nothing but illusion true! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Old Age; Actresses THE OLD SAILOR, by IRVIN C. KREEMER Poem Text First Line: I'm too old to go sailing again, you may think Last Line: And be feeling the bite of the spray. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails THE OLD SAINT, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The day is gone, the solemn night draws down Last Line: God's city with the mansions of the blest. Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Rest; Sleep; Nightmares THE OLD SEA CAPTAIN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: In the secluded, sleepy town Last Line: Are his companions now. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Ships & Shipping THE OLD SEAMAN, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me why mine eyes are bent Last Line: And all my home is—here. Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors THE OLD WOMAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely old woman sits out in the street Last Line: "muhammad-ar-rasul-allah." Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE OLD WOMAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: White-faced friends in the midst of today Last Line: And shows old heirlooms of amazing stones. Subject(s): Old Age THE OLD WOMAN LAMENTS THE DAYS OF HER YOUTH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I seem to hear lamenting / the armoress who once was fair Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Beauty; Old Age; Women; Youth; Transcience THE OLD WOMAN OF TROYES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is an old woman, certainly one Last Line: Of this old woman of troyes! Subject(s): Old Age; Troy; Women THE OLD WOMEN, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They pass upon their old, tremulous feet Last Line: An old grey woman with a shaking head. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE OLD WORKMAN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are you so bent down before your time Last Line: "when I lie underground." Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE OLD WORLDLING, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: He shambles by each sunny afternoon Last Line: Bitter forever! Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE ONE FORGOTTEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit speeding down an all souls' eve Last Line: "hush! Hear the banshee sobbing past the door." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Old Age THE OUTWARD SHOWS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She was the premiere danseuse of the ballet Last Line: I'll swear that she was forty if a day Subject(s): Old Age THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE PETIT VIEUX, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sow your wild oats in your youth,' so we're always told Last Line: Sow your nice tame oats and then . . . Hi, boys! Let 'er rip. Subject(s): Old Age; Paris, France; Sex THE PICTURE, by MARIA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Ere dissolves the house of clay Last Line: But in blessing was she bless'd. Subject(s): Models; Old Age; Paintings & Painters; Women THE PLEASURES OF OLD AGE, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my grandmother lisette turned ninety-nine Subject(s): Old Age; Romance; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 127, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man takes a young wife Last Line: Both show the other affection Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Marriage; Old Age; Youth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 195, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old and sick final years over a hundred Last Line: Why would I envy the clever ways of others Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Old Age; Buddha; Buddhists THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 274, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold cliff's remoteness is what I like Last Line: But the pearl of my mind stays safe Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Old Age; Solitude; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 304, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among high cliffs / there's plenty of breeze Last Line: A white-haired old man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Old Age; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE PRAISE OF AGE, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere Last Line: The more of age the nerar hevynnis blisse.' Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THE PREACHER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the one tree you love so well and hardly Subject(s): Old Age; Nature; Social Commentgaries; Country Life; Death; Dead, The THE PRIDE OF WESTMORELAND, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met a man of ninety-three Last Line: Like harry the eighth before me. Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE PRIME OF LIFE, by WALTER LEARNED Poem Text First Line: Just as I thought I was growing old Last Line: Just as I thought I was growing old. Subject(s): Aging; Gray (color); Life; Old Age; Women; Grey (color) THE PRODIGAL SON, by ROBERT BLY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The prodigal son is kneeling in the husks Last Line: Under the water there's a door the pigs have gone through Subject(s): Bible; Religion; Old Age; Theology THE RAINBOW, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chased a rainbow in my youth Last Line: Now I am growing old. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue THE RAISIN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I drank cool water from the fountain Subject(s): Old Age THE RED HAT, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady had come right through the front door Last Line: Smiling behind the screen with her clothes off Subject(s): Women – Old Age; Hats; Memory THE RESSONING BETUIX AIGE AND YOWTH, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quhen fair flora, the godes fo the flowris Last Line: O yowth thy flowris faidis fellone sone!' Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THE RETIREMENT, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone talks here, nobody listens Last Line: To make things come out even, and end when you do Subject(s): Old Age; Retirement THE RETURN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy came home from a foreign land Last Line: "my son, my son, my wandering boy." Subject(s): Home; Old Age; Sons; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Fatigue THE RETURN, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see myself sometimes, an old man Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses; Odysseus THE RIDDLE, by E. H." "H. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Where's an old woman to go when the years Last Line: "leaving her faltering, furrowed and scored - / what's an old woman's reward?" Alternate Author Name(s): "h., E. H.; Subject(s): Old Age;riddles;women THE RIVER, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far up on the mountain the river begins Last Line: And bless thee in shadow and sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Old Age; Rivers; Sailing & Sailors THE RUINED NUNNERY, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a tempestuous eve; the rains Last Line: Are swept from off the stage! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE SABBATH BELLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old man sits in his easy chair Last Line: To dwell with his own forever Subject(s): Old Age THE SECOND CONCESSION OF DEER, by WILLIAM WYE SMITH Poem Text First Line: John tompkins lived in a house of logs Last Line: Of his own domain in deer. Subject(s): Change; Family Life; Houses; Old Age; Relatives THE SHADES OF NIGHT, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shades of night were falling fast, / and the rain wa falling faster Last Line: Unhappily I'm married.' Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Old Age THE SHADOW OF THE YEARS, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm still retaining my slenderness, my hair is thick and you'd never guess Last Line: You're willing to leave before the dance is over! Subject(s): Old Age; Wrinkles THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: FEBRUARY, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah for pittie! Wil rancke winters rage Last Line: Hye thee home, shepheard, the day is nigh wasted. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): February; Old Age THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 84, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But when she view'd his countenance o'ercast Last Line: Her tender eyes bright tears of ruth bedim. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Love; Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 96, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Where kneels the knight, absorbed in silent prayer Last Line: Lo! Yearning toward him leans his lily-maid! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Knights & Knighthood; Old Age THE SLUGGARD, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the sluggard say, when he was Last Line: Broth. Subject(s): Advice; Old Age THE SONG OF THE DRAINER (ON TOWARD MOUNTAIN), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is the drainer- / out on the moorland bleak and grey, using his Last Line: Such is the drainer. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Solitude; Work; Workers; Loneliness THE SPINNING WOMAN, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening, sleep she drove away Last Line: (andrew lang) Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Dead, The THE SPUR, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it is horrible that lust and rage Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Lust; Anger THE STATUARY, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mong purple deeps and foam-engirdled shallows Last Line: Till now his fame to the four winds is blown. Subject(s): Craftsmanship; Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE STONE LANTERN, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: Old, dilapidated, grey; no longer a light-giver Last Line: To bring light and perfume. Subject(s): Old Age; Stones; Granite; Rocks THE SUBWAY ENTRANCE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was her guide. He lived in hell. Every day he thought Subject(s): Nursing Homes; Fathers & Daughters; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THE SUPERSEDED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As newer comers crowd the fore Last Line: Too, drop behind? Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers THE TENTH MUSE: THE FOUR AGES OF MAN, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo now four other act upon the stage Last Line: And in that hope I bid you all farewell. Variant Title(s): The Four Ages Of Man Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Home; Life; Marriage; Middle Age; Old Age; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE THINGS THAT MATTER, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I've nearly done my days Last Line: Let me know something when I'm dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Old Age THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE TRAGEDY OF BEAUTY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Is there to womanhood a woe so deep Last Line: She first perceives that time upon her steals? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Old Age THE TURN OF THE ROAD, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was playing with my hoop along the road Last Line: ...Maybe she was a witch from foreign lands! Subject(s): Old Age; Supernatural; Women THE UNTHRIFT, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in the shade of the tree Last Line: Is gone. Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude; Loneliness THE VERY OLD, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The very old are forever Subject(s): Old Age THE WAIT, by MILDRED D. SHACKLETT Poem Text First Line: Two old men, invariably together Last Line: Disowning that they wait! Subject(s): Old Age; Wood Carving; Whittling THE WAKEFUL BRIDE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old earl lay in his restless bed Last Line: The smouldering heart's pent fire. Subject(s): Love - Age Differences; Old Age; Youth THE WEDDING COUPLE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fifteen years ago his heart Subject(s): Marital Love; Old Age THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too old for love and still to love! Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Old Age THE WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion THE WISDOM OF ELD, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spend our lives in learning pilotage Last Line: And ancients musical at close of day. Subject(s): Old Age; Wisdom; Youth THE WISDOM OF MERLYN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the time-words of merlyn, the voice of his age recorded Last Line: Heart. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Wisdom; Dead, The THE WISE-WOMAN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the last low cottage in blackthorn lane Last Line: Perchance. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Old Age; Women THE YACHT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The vessel that rests here at last Last Line: There may be still one left for you. Subject(s): Old Age THEADOSIA, by GRACE BAUER Poem Source First Line: She was my mother's mother's mother Last Line: The only time I ever saw that woman %lying down Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THEODORA, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seventy to-day - my birthday Last Line: Good-bye? -- theodora! Subject(s): Old Age; Youth THERE IS A GIRL INSIDE, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN AT A JUNCTION, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But remained on the rails of the junction Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A BARGE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which helped that old man in a barge Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN IN A MARSH, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That instructive old man in marsh Subject(s): Old Age; Teaching And Teachers THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF CARLISLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who danced with that man of carlisle Subject(s): Old Age; Solitude THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF CASHMERE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And perceived two fat ducks of cashmere Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DEE-SIDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To come under my hat at dee-side! Subject(s): Hats; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNBLANE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To request you won't stay in dunblane? Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF DUNROSE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which soothed that old man of dunrose Subject(s): Melancholy; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF EL HUMS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the roads and the lanes of el hums Subject(s): Homeless; Hunger; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF GIRGENTI, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That susceptible man of girgenti Subject(s): Food And Eating; Fruit; Old Age; Wealth THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF IBREEM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You disgusting old man of ibreem! Subject(s): Old Age; Torture THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF MESSINA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the perfect delight of messina Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF PORT GRIGOR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That electric old man of port grigor Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THE HILLS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That persistent old man of the hills Subject(s): Mountains; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF THREE BRIDGES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which relieved that old man of three bridges Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN OF WEST DUMPET, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And was heard through the whole of west dumpet Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN ON THE BORDER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which vexed all the folks on the border Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WHO FELT PERT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's a leetle too short- is my shirt! Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WHO SAID- HUM!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And said, 'I've no jints in my thumb!' Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD MAN WITH A RIBBON, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This is quite the best use for my ribbon Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON IN BLACK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That helpless old person in black Subject(s): Fear; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BAR, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That placid old person of bar Subject(s): Old Age; Serenity THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BARNES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You luminous person of barnes! Subject(s): Clothing And Dress; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BLYTHE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That lively old person of blythe Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BREE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And swam back again into bree Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Mermaids And Mermen; Old Age; Sea THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BRUSSELS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which distressed all the people of brussels Subject(s): Discontent; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF BUDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which perplexed all the people of bude Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CANNES, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: She constantly fanned them at cannes Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CASSEL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which perplexed that old person of cassel Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHEAM, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In the beautiful meadows of cheam! Subject(s): Drums; Musical Instruments; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CHINA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And all of them settled in china Subject(s): China; Old Age; Travel THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DEAL, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That mysterious old person of deal Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DOWN, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: He alarmed all the people of down Subject(s): Anger; Ill-tempered; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF DUNDALK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had better go back to dundalk!' Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF FIFE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which cured that old person of fife Subject(s): Healing; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF FILEY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And delighted the people of filey Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF FLORENCE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which choked that old person of florence Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF GRANGE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That aquatic old person of grange Subject(s): Old Age; Sailors And Sailing THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HARROW, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And I'll wheel you all day in this barrow! Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HOVE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That tranquil old person of hove Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF JODD, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And squeaked to the people of jodd Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF LOO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That vexatious old person of loo Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF NICE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That affable person of nice! Subject(s): Geese; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PAXO, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which relieved that old person of paxo Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PETT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Which relieved that old person of pett Subject(s): Old Age; Regret THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PISA, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Round the walls of the city of pisa Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age; Punishment THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF PUTNEY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That romantic old person of putney Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF RAMLEH, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: All of which he took with him to ramleh Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF RIMINI, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And was never more heard of at rimini Subject(s): Nonsense; Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SARK, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You obnoxious old person of sark Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SESTI, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That repulsive old person of sestri Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF SHIELDS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Followed after that person of shields Subject(s): Farm Life; Fields; Old Age; Travel THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON WHO SAID, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Do you think I've a very large head?' Subject(s): Old Age THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON WHO SUNG, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bloo! Sausages- kidnies, and tongue! Subject(s): Old Age; Singing And Singers THERE'S JUSTICE, by PHYLLIS HOGE THOMPSON Poem Source First Line: I'm old enough now. I'm out of danger Last Line: I have found my own cold place to sleep %outside and alone Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THEY ARE ALL WE ARE ALL, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Over puget sound %as it always was Subject(s): Arabs; Jerusalem; Jews; Middle East - Conflicts; Old Age; Palestine THINGS WE THINK WE CANNOT SEE: 3. WOLVES, by DIANE JARVENPA Poem Source First Line: Today my father saw wolves on the french river Last Line: At each vista the moon hangs just for him Subject(s): Fathers; Nursing Homes; Old Age; Parents; Parkinson's Disease THINKING OF THE OLD MOUNTAINS TOWARD THE END OF AUTUMN, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Used to live north of square hut Last Line: Living a life like that Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism THIRD RAIL, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because they are two old birds Last Line: Interminably flowing, in veiled phosphorescencies turning %and turning on themselves, wave on wave Subject(s): Absence; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Love - Marital; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age THOUGH NARROW BE THAT OLD MAN'S CARES, AND NEAR, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To chase for ever, on aërial grounds! Subject(s): Heaven; Wisdom; Old Age THOUGHTS NEAR ASHAMPSTEAD AERODROME, HARVEST-TIME, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Not for the last time be our england filled Last Line: "god bless friend hodge,"" they say; ""his gear be sped!" Subject(s): Airports; England - Social Life & Customs; Farm Life; Harvest; Old Age; Agriculture; Farmers THREE ANECDOTES, by DEBORAH TALL Poem Source First Line: We made love in a field outside gort Last Line: As we choose to stay? Your face turned towards the gate Subject(s): Farewell; Love; Old Age; Patriotism; Travel THREE CROWS COMES A WEDDING DAY., by ANNE MCKAY Poem Source Last Line: Nana used to say Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women THREESCORE AND TEN, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So landor wrote, and so I quote Last Line: With light of retrospect. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Old Age TIME THE HANGMAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor old abner, poor old white-haired nigger Last Line: Are on your knees, and you are silent and broken. Subject(s): African Americans; Old Age; Negroes; American Blacks TIME TO KILL, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man and his dog Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Time; Old Age TO A BLOSSOMING PEAR TREE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful natural blossoms, Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Pear Trees; Old Age; Pears TO A BRETON BEGGAR (DOL CATHEDRAL), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the brown shadow of the transept door Last Line: The glamour of the celt! Subject(s): Celts; Old Age; Poverty; Prayer; Solitude; Thought; Loneliness; Thinking TO A DEAD FLAME, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear x, you wouldn't believe how curious Last Line: Set spinning to confuse and stay the sun Variant Title(s): To A Former Mistress, Now Dea Subject(s): Old Age TO AN AGED FRIEND, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long thy voice amongst us may be heard Last Line: Forget the grave in trustful thoughts of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Old Age; Spring TO AN ELDER POET, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To be able Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age; Flowers TO AN OLD AN DISTINGUISHED GENTLEMAN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you in the ashen park Last Line: To the pearl gleaming in your tie Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Old Age TO AN OLD BLACK WOMAN, HOMELESS AND INDISTINCT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your every day is a pilgrimage Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Homeless; Women – Old Age TO AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripeness is all; her in her cooling planet Subject(s): Old Age; Women TO AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ripeness is all; her in her cooling planet Last Line: And but in darkness is she visible Subject(s): Old Age; Women TO AN OLD MONK ON MOUNT T'IEN T'AI, by KUAN HSIU Poem Source First Line: Living alone where none other dwells Last Line: For me alone, relaxes his discipline, this moment Variant Title(s): To An Old Monk On Mount Tian Ta Subject(s): Monks; Old Age; Zen Buddhism TO AN OLD SWEETHEART, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Strange, is it not, that I should pass to-day Last Line: In which the fond old melody was mute. Subject(s): Love; Old Age TO AN OLD TREE, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: The tree must stand, it cannot run Last Line: And seen ten thousand storms go by! Subject(s): February; Old Age TO AN OLD, OLD BOOK, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: To what strange chance, thou sere and yellow books Last Line: Thy wisdom taught cannot for aye grow old. Subject(s): Books; Old Age; Wisdom; Reading TO ANGELINA FROM NIKOS IN HIS OLD AGE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time comes, angelina, and the day's blinking Last Line: So all my life I rode my horse Subject(s): Old Age TO ANGELINA FROM NIKOS IN HIS OLD AGE, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time comes, angelina, and the day's blinking Last Line: So all my life I rode my horse Subject(s): Old Age TO BE OLD, by HELEN ELDRED STORKE Poem Text First Line: Against the quicksands of receding life to sink Last Line: "the everlasting arms are underneath." Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The TO DICK, ON HIS SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I am very old and wise Last Line: The angel sent the stars to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Youth TO DOCTOR BALE, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good aged bale Last Line: To have thy dyeng day. Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby Subject(s): Old Age TO DR. FRANCIS N. PELOUBET; ON HIS SEVENTY-FIFTH BIRTHDAY, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some men in age can well contrive Last Line: Up to the sunny skies! Subject(s): Birthdays; Old Age; Peloubet, Francis Nathan (1831-1920) TO END HER FEAR, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be kind to her Last Line: "may whisper, ""I am afraid!" Subject(s): Old Age TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME, by ROBERT KELLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Long over, what's on the tree Last Line: The form plain Subject(s): Old Age TO HER PORTRAIT, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This that you see, the false presentment Last Line: Tis death, 'tis dust, 'tis shadow, yea, 'tis %nought Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Old Age; Portraits TO HIS MAID PREW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These summer-birds did with thy master stay Last Line: Not two, but all the seasons of the yeare. Subject(s): Old Age TO HIS WIFE, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be life what it has been, and let us hold Last Line: Count not the years, but take of each its boon. Subject(s): Love - Marital; Old Age; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love TO LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! Of all the riches that are mine Last Line: What gift have I withheld before thy throne? Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age TO MICHAL: SONNETS AFTER MARRIAGE: 8. AFTER RONSARD, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old, and I-if that should be Last Line: "when I was happy, beautiful, and young." Subject(s): Marriage; Old Age; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TO MY AULD BREEKS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now gae your wa's-tho' anes as gude Last Line: For philip was, like him, a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Money; Old Age TO MY NINETH DECADE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To my ninth decade I have totter'd on Last Line: So when he calls me, death shall find me ready. Subject(s): Old Age TO MY OLD ARMCHAIR, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Well, well, old friend, we've had some jolly / times Last Line: And have no qualms about an old age pension. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age TO OLD AGE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see in you the estuary that enlarges and spreads Last Line: Grandly as it pours in the great sea. Subject(s): Old Age TO ONE BEING OLD, by LANGDON ELWYN MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her aged hands are worn with works of love Last Line: Though silver are her locks, her heart is gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Varley, John Philip Subject(s): Old Age TO RODIN'S STATUE OF AN OLD COURTESAN, by GERTRUDE CALLAGHAN Poem Text First Line: Lean, shrunken limbs that were so finely formed Last Line: Your splendid soul! Subject(s): Courtesans; Old Age TO THE BIO-BIO, by ANDRES BELLO Poem Source First Line: Blest were he, o bio-bio! Last Line: Wish to live now for myself' Subject(s): Absence; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Solitude TO THE MEMORY OF AN OLD MAN (H.F.), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: And is he gone-the genial, dear old man Last Line: "is re-united to its father—god." Subject(s): Memory; Old Age TO THE TRAVELLER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Mine is this fount, mine all that greets your view Last Line: Tis not enough? There is no more. Pass on! Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Weariness TO THE TUNE OF HUAN CHI SHA, by SU SHIH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I wandered along the ch'I-shui to clear spring monastery Last Line: Too early crying Alternate Author Name(s): Su Dongpo; Tzu-chan; Su Tung-p'o; Su Shi Subject(s): Old Age; Zen Buddhism TO WAKEN AN OLD LADY, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Old age is Last Line: Piping of plenty. Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Old Age; Work; Workers TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN, by RICHARD LEHNERT Poem Source First Line: Two windowless weeks of heaving Last Line: A thousand thank yous %and then the light Subject(s): Gratitude; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Widows And Widowers TODAY I LIKE LIFE MUCH LESS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And always, much always, always always! Subject(s): Old Age TOGETHER, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: The moments fly, the days fulfil the year Last Line: Fire-forged, time-tested are the bonds of years. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Old Age; Togetherness TOO OLD, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are so young,' she said, a break in her tone Last Line: To life . . . Till they are old, lonely, and lame! Subject(s): Old Age TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. O SEA, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sea, with white lines of foam caught by the winter sun Last Line: That listen let your strange vocabulary continue. Subject(s): Old Age; Travel; Journeys; Trips TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A SCENE IN LONDON, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Both of them deaf, and close on eighty years old Last Line: And she nods her blind head and gives a raucous screech in answer. Subject(s): London; Love; Old Age TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. A SONG OF ONE IN OLD AGE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary and broken, old age, art thou now come upon me? Last Line: Only perpetual joy. Subject(s): Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. IN EXTREME AGE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto thee, o nature, I abandon myself Last Line: And I and thou are one, and I alone am not. Subject(s): Old Age TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AFTER FIFTY YEARS, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Looking back now, after fifty years and more when the main work of life is done Last Line: My lovers, and they me, for evermore. Subject(s): Memory; Old Age; Weariness; Fatigue TRANSLUCENT FINGERS, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Translucent fingers on the yellow keys Last Line: To live among the other waxen flowers. Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Old Age TRICKSTER, by MARGARET C. SZUMOWSKI Poem Source First Line: You filled the governess's shoes with frogs Last Line: Make a stout cage of these arms Subject(s): Fathers; Old Age; Practical Jokes TRUE CONQUERORS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old farmers, travelers, workmen (no matter how crippled or bent) Last Line: True conquerors o'er all the rest. Subject(s): Old Age TRYING TO REMEMBER, by JUDITH MINTY Poem Source First Line: A note from my friend on this morning of the first Last Line: I am trying to remember what my grandmother told me Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women TUMESCENCES, REMEMBRANCES, by ELISAVIETTA RITCHIE Poem Source First Line: When I am old and ache and cannot see Last Line: My swelling chins and bosoms all awag %straining to keep my lovers, and my pride Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women TWO FROM THE MONTEREY HOTEL: 1. LET'S RAISE A GLASS OF PORT TO THE OLD, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: Didn't know much about the old guy Last Line: Weighing as much as two full golf bags Subject(s): Hotels; Monterey, California; Old Age; Rooms TWO SWANS, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One morning during carnival they found two Last Line: Fixedly into a fixed and empty sky. Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Old Age ULYSSES, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It little profits that, an idle king Last Line: To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Ulysses Impatient Of Rest Subject(s): Aging; Explorers; Labor & Laborers; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Perseverance; Religion; Sea; Ulysses; Wandering & Wanderers; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Work; Workers; Theology; Ocean; Odysseus; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes UNBLESSED BROKE A DAY OUT OF THE WEEK AND TASTED IT, by EVA STROM Poem Source Last Line: Time had become matter and like matter would grow old Subject(s): Old Age UNCLE ED LACKED A FINGER, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: How odd I thought it, as a boy Last Line: Still feeling there the tingle of a hot %stove four inches off Subject(s): Old Age; Uncles UNITED JEWISH APPEAL, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother was eighty-nine and blind Subject(s): Old Age; Grandparents; Childhood Memories; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers UNWRITTEN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Numberless letters that form across the page Last Line: But fold my hands till the terrible joy is past? Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Letters; Memory; Old Age; Writing & Writers VACATION'S END, by WENDY BREUER Poem Source First Line: Already the shasta daisies look Last Line: And your children %who've scattered Subject(s): Old Age; Summer; Vacation VANISHING POINT, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: Who will remember after I'm dead? Last Line: And one or two scrubby hills %more rock than grass Subject(s): Old Age; Women VANISHING POINT, by DIXIE LEE HENDERSON PARTRIDGE Poem Source First Line: In the long line of her memory Last Line: Carry her out %into april Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VAST FIELDS, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I will tell you a secret, perhaps I have already begun to grow Last Line: The earth will burn with me. To the very end Subject(s): Old Age VISION: MARY CASSATT IN HER LAST YEARS, by GERALDINE CLINTON LITTLE Poem Source First Line: The pond at beaufresne in early summer holds Last Line: The staid resonances of philadelphia Subject(s): Cassatt, Mary (1844-1926); Old Age; Paintings And Painters; Women VISIT, by VIRGINIA RINALDY TERRIS Poem Source First Line: The woman in the old-age home remembers Last Line: The daughter has nothing to say Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISIT FROM HER SON, by JULIA ERIN NUNNALLY DUNCAN Poem Source First Line: She leans over her oil heater Last Line: When them that have no business to talk %keep on talking just the same Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISIT TO BABCIA, by JOSEPH JOHN KELLY Poem Source First Line: The home where grandmothers come to rave Last Line: She's down there alive with my wife and son Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women VISITING THE EIGHTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD POET, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eighty-five-year-old man stands up Last Line: Who stands up and says, 'no doubt you've already lived this?' Subject(s): Old Age; Poetry And Poets VIXI, by L. S. Poem Text First Line: I have lived and I have loved Last Line: And sleep—worth all the rest of them. Subject(s): Old Age VOX CIVITATIS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "what news, my neighbours of the riming trade?" Last Line: "I in my glorious sons, you in your mother. / licenced. R.L.E'strange" Subject(s): London Fire (1666);old Age;women; Great Fire Of 1666 WABAN MERE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Fair centre of a fair demesne Last Line: The age of gold is now. Subject(s): Love; Memory; Old Age; Pictures WAITING FOR THE BUS, by AMIN KASSAM Poem Source First Line: Old men wait at the stop Last Line: And talk of death Subject(s): Old Age WAITING FOR THE NEWS OF DEATH, by SHEILA BUNKER NICKERSON Poem Source First Line: She is dying in a tiny village Last Line: Will have inched closer to the scythe Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WAITING WITH NANA, by MARIE ANNE CARTIER Poem Source First Line: Now nana talks to people who are not there Last Line: I tell her she will be home for christmas %I tell her lies Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WALKERS, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that she can keep with ease Last Line: And does not know. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Women; Childhood WALT, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Going up for the assault that morning Last Line: Hugger-mugger anyhow %inside my shirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Old Age; Sea Voyages; World War I WATER AND WORDS; WITH THANKS TO EMILY DICKINSON, by MARTIN GALVIN Poem Source First Line: The only thing my mother feared of death Last Line: And guess that it and all things else were right Subject(s): Mothers; Old Age WE - GROWN OLD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I who yesterday was young Last Line: We, grown old. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Old Age; Time WEIGHTS AND MEASURES, BY OUR OWN TOM DALY, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Signor, I getting old and gray Last Line: But—rose keess me yestiday! Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Daly, Thomas Augustine (1871-1948); Old Age; Prayer WEIN, WEIB - ! (THE COMPLAINT OF THE OLD LAKEMAN), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too old em I to sail eny more Last Line: They'll git you every time! Subject(s): Old Age; Sailing & Sailors; Seamen; Sails WELCOME TO DEATH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why should we linger on earth, when have fled Last Line: There's release from all ills in thy grasp! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue WHAT A NURSE TOLD ME, by JACK T. LEDBETTER Poem Source First Line: On tuesdays my mother woke early Last Line: And smelled the hot grain frying %in the sun Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WHAT I KNOW ABOUT MY GRANDMOTHER, by PAUL MARTIN Poem Source First Line: I remember her flowered apron, her hair Last Line: We have no pictures that show her young Subject(s): Grandparents; Old Age WHAT IF EVERYONE YOU'VE LOVED, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of the young, who don't know it Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Old Age WHAT THE OLD MAN SAID, by ALICE ROBBINS Poem Source First Line: Well, yes, sir; yes, sir, thankee Subject(s): Old Age WHAT THE OLD MAN SAID, by ELEANOR MAY SARTON Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: At sixty-five said, I fight every day Last Line: (the old man died, but he did not despair) Subject(s): Old Age WHAT THE OLD MAN SAID, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Don't you take no sail off 'er Subject(s): Old Age; Sea WHAT THE OLD WOMEN SEE, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby with his heavy head keeps tipping over Subject(s): Old Age; Youth; Mothers WHAT'S LEFT AFTER A GOOD WOMAN DIES?, by CHARLES FISHMAN Poem Source First Line: After her death, the silence chills Last Line: This dream of relief. These icicles %nothing in this house warms Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WHEN 'GRAND OLD MEN' PERSIST IN FOLLY, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And then straight onward to sanremo Subject(s): Grandparents; Melancholy; Old Age WHEN AN OLD MAN GETS TO THINKING, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man gets to thinking of the years he's traveled through Last Line: And the joys of real contentment linger with us to the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Old Age WHEN I AM OLD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When I am old, and it is spring Last Line: Buried alive inside a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Old Age WHEN I AM OLD, by ELEANOR VOSWINKEL Poem Text First Line: When I am old my hands will find Last Line: When I am old. Subject(s): Old Age WHEN ONE IS OLD, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When one is old one may forget Last Line: When one is old. Subject(s): Old Age; Regret WHEN ONE IS YOUNG, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When one is young what matters care? Last Line: When one is young. Subject(s): Old Age; Youth WHEN SHADOWS LENGTHEN, by LOIS MAHAVIER Poem Text First Line: I am no longer young, and drifting fast Last Line: No echo answers; yet serene, I go. Subject(s): Old Age; Secrets; Shadows WHEN THE SUN SHINES MORE YEARS THAN FEAR, by JANET FRAME Poem Source Last Line: I have no hunger, %remove my plate Subject(s): Human Rights; Old Age WHEN UNCLE DOC WAS YOUNG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though doctor glen - the best of Last Line: When uncle doc was young. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Old Age; Physicians; Childhood; Doctors WHEN YOU ARE OLD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When you are old and grey and full of sleep Last Line: And hid his face amid a crowd of stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): Sonnet To Helen: 1 Subject(s): Desire; Loss; Love; Memory; Old Age WHITE ON WHITE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white cobra lily, / oyster-white plaster walls, / a glass of chablis Last Line: White parasites, white peacocks, white amanitas. Subject(s): Old Age WHITE STEPS, by MARY MOSES MUNDT Poem Text First Line: At night old women sit on their white steps Last Line: But now you sit—perhaps god meant it so. Alternate Author Name(s): Mundt, Mrs. Karl E. Subject(s): Life; Old Age; Women; Youth WHO GATHER GOLD, by ANDREW BICE SAXTON Poem Text First Line: They soon grow old who grope for gold Last Line: For them old age itself is young. Subject(s): Old Age WHY TELL?, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: I know the ground my grandsire tilled Last Line: Fas gloriari! Subject(s): Old Age WILD OLD WICKED MAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I am mad about women Last Line: Daybreak and a candle-end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Men; Old Age; Passion WILDFLOWERS, by PAMELA MARIE USCHUK Poem Source First Line: I arrange cornflowers, brown-eyed susans Last Line: I'll see you again in the clouds %when the wind stops Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WINGS FOR HER HORSES, by LINDA KAY Poem Source First Line: Feet, quickly now! Don't hesitate! Last Line: Where can an old woman find wings for her horses? Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WINTER RAIN, by OVRO'OM RAISIN Poem Text First Line: Gray and old, gray and pale Last Line: Sobbing, weeping, over our sins. Subject(s): Old Age WINTER SUN, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is noon. A park Last Line: Licking the almost deaf %and greenish stone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Autumn; Old Age; Seasons; Trees WITCH!, by IRENE K. WILSON Poem Source Last Line: Banging her door Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WITH AGE WISDOM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At twenty, stooping round about, Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Old Age WITH ELEANOR NEAR THE END OF A MINUS TIDE, by WALTER DAVID PAVLICH Poem Source First Line: The moon has allowed %us this walk Last Line: Where we were %and where the water will be Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WITHERED WOMAN, by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: A withered woman on our street Last Line: Made holy by the silent weeping for half-forgotten things. Subject(s): Old Age; Women WITNESSES' HOUSE, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From the scratchy sleep of old age, Subject(s): Old Age WOMAN'S HOME, by FAYE MOSKOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Spring has come to the baptist home Last Line: Forgive this fumbling guest %who tenderly disturbs your dust%to buy herself a past Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women WOMEN'S SLEEP, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: Old women often sleep so heavily Last Line: But the sleep doors are too stiff. They sleep %deep as cement, and recognize no one Subject(s): Dreams; Old Age; Rest; Sleep WONDER-BOUND, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They'd told me he was hoar and old Last Line: Had he to me less merry seem'd. Subject(s): Happiness; Old Age; Joy; Delight WOODSMOKE AT 70, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it is never the same Last Line: Swirl and it's gone... Subject(s): Old Age; Smoke WRAPPED SONGS, by LYNNE KNIGHT Poem Text First Line: The wind sings in a smaller Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Women WRITING ON THE WALL, by JOSE FONTINHAS Poem Source First Line: I remember, they all were very young, I no longer so, but Last Line: Our knees and grew to the very water's edge. Sometimes there was a wind Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age YOU MOCK ME IN YOUR YOUTH, by SAMUEL HA-NAGID Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Building their coffins for boys Subject(s): Old Age; Youth YOU TALK OF GOING BUT DON'T EVEN HAVE A SUITCASE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will be an old man sometime Subject(s): Old Age; Time; Memory YOU'RE TROUBLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aren't you asked the pretty Last Line: But now I'm old and harmless Subject(s): Old Age YOUNG CHILD ASKS / 'ARE YOU AN OLD LADY?', by GERI BARTON Poem Source Last Line: Autumn nightfall Subject(s): Aging; Old Age; Women YOUTH AND AGE, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Beneath a tree's green leafy shade Last Line: That e'en on earth he had been bless'd. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Verse, a breeze mid blossoms straying Last Line: And tells the jest without the smile. Subject(s): Friendship; Old Age; Youth YOUTH AND AGE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With cheerful step the traveller Last Line: The fears of wary age! Subject(s): Life; Mist; Old Age; Pain; Pleasure; Travel; Youth; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips YOUTH, AND AGE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God on our youth bestowes but little ease Last Line: But on our age most sweet indulgences Subject(s): Old Age |
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