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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: RETIREMENT Matches Found: 47 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` BACK TO COUNTRY WITH PULITZER, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I left here at eight Subject(s): Aging; Illness; Conduct Of Life; Success; Failure; Retirement; Love - Loss Of; Literary Prizes 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 BEING RETIRED, COMPLAINS AGAINST THE COURT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from court, where after toil we get Last Line: Vanquish'd, I triumph; fighting, peace I find. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Retirement; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens DEAR LITTLE LADY WITH SNOW WHITE HAIR, by PAULINE KUNDERD MANLY Poem Text Last Line: I hope to see you again over there. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Retirement; Seamstresses; Dead, The; Work; Workers EASE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lined coat, warm cap and easy felt slippers Last Line: I wonder if the courtiers at the western capital know of these things, or not? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Comfort; Retirement 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 FLOUNDER, by RON SALISBURY Poem Source First Line: I cannot imagine my life at a pace that allows the gracious gathering Last Line: The problem is this, I don't know if she's joking or not Subject(s): Life; Retirement GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What madness so stirs the heart of man Last Line: O hours worthy to be numbered in herbs and flowers Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens And Gardening; Retirement; Solitude GOLDEN YEARS, by MICHAEL CERAOLO Poem Source First Line: Loyalty was travelling down a one-way street Last Line: A gold watch is not a golden parachute Subject(s): Retirement GROTESQUES, by ROBERT COOPERMAN Poem Source First Line: When your surgeon-father retired Last Line: As you are now, his shop %silent less than a year Subject(s): Fathers; Retirement HAVING CLIMBED TO THE TOPMOST PEAK OF THE INCENSE-BURNER MOUNTAIN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up and up, the incense-burner peak! Last Line: Then, with lowered head, came back to the ants' nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mountain Climbing; Nature; Retirement ISABELLA; OR, THE MORNING, SELECTION, by CHARLES HANBURY WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The monkey, lap-dog, parrot, and her grace Last Line: Guiltless they'll gaze, and innocent adore. Subject(s): Generals; Morning; Retirement LAST DAYS OF PROSPERO, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The aging magician retired to his island Last Line: Low chucklings or grand, indifferent sighs Subject(s): Retirement NANNERL MOZART: SPEAKING OF HER RETIREMENT, by SHARON CHMIELARZ Poem Source First Line: Home. Woman with cat, canary and bimperl the dog Last Line: A song which dies without a singer? Subject(s): Retirement ON THE EVE OF HIS RETIREMENT, THE WEIGHT-GUESSER GOES ALL OUT, by DAVID CLEWELL Poem Source First Line: In her fortuneteller's booth, madame starlight Last Line: Or not, your guess is as good as mine Subject(s): Carnivals; Retirement OZARK ODES: FRED, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One of your more irascible poets from the hill country Last Line: Drinking less, putting on a few pounds Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Carpenters; Retirement PAX BRITANNICA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behind her rolling ramparts england lay Last Line: Watchful she leaned. Subject(s): Calm; Great Britain - Relations With France; Nations; Peace; Retirement; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility RESIGNATION, by JENNIFER MILITELLO Poem Source First Line: How nudity looks on the laundry line and Last Line: Winter boats to groan and twist rope %against clocks that grind and do not tick Subject(s): Retirement RETIRED, by NAOMI ROACH KLAPP Poem Text First Line: Their eyes, reflecting the dimness Last Line: They will meet again -- and yet again. Subject(s): Retirement RETIREMENT, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hackneyed in business, wearied at that oar Last Line: To close life wisely, may not waste my own. Subject(s): Retirement 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 RETIREMENT, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something tells him he is off-limits Subject(s): Retirement RETIREMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of solitude, silence, and rest Last Line: Freedom for solitude, silence, and rest. Subject(s): Life; Nature; Rest; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETIREMENT, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a cottage on some cambrian wild Last Line: Shall make sweet music o'er my lonely grave. Subject(s): Retirement RETIREMENT DAYS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: In my mountain retreat 'mid forest and lakes Last Line: That gives solace and joy to these last. Subject(s): Memory; Retirement; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness RETIREMENT PARTY, by JAMES A. AUTRY Poem Source First Line: They all come Last Line: And other words of comfort for times like these Subject(s): Retirement RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the crimson cloud of even Last Line: "and all the past is vain." Subject(s): Retirement; Death; Peace; Dead, The RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On beds of daisies idly laid Last Line: Meet to adore some calf of gold. Subject(s): Greed; Happiness; Labor & Laborers; Nature; Pleasure; Retirement; Avarice; Cupidity; Joy; Delight; Work; Workers SENT TO RETIRED SCHOAR LIN HO-CHING, by CHIH YUAN Poem Source First Line: Reflecting %in the lake Last Line: I'll ride my inspiration %make a casual visit Subject(s): Retirement; Solitude; Zen Buddhism SMALL DEFEATS: IN A DUBLIN CATACOMB, IN A RETIREMENT CONDO, by GORDON WEAVER Poem Source First Line: In a dublin catacomb, I saw a nun's mummy Last Line: And raise up all your fallen flesh! Subject(s): Condominiums; Dublin, Ireland; Retirement SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement; Agriculture; Farmers SWINEHERD, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When all this is over,' said the swineherd Last Line: And the apple-blossom is allowed to wither on the bough Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Farm Life; Retirement THE GARDEN, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How vainly men themselves amaze Last Line: Be reckoned but with herbs and flowers? Subject(s): Contentment; Gardens & Gardening; Retirement; Solitude; Loneliness THE GRAIN-TRIBUTE, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came an officer knocking by night at my door Last Line: To return to others the corn in my great barn. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Retirement; Taxes; Wages; Salaries 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 OLD RETIRED SEACAPTAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old sea-captain has sailed the Last Line: In the cloud of his beetling beard. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Discontent; Retirement; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dissatisfaction; Ocean THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 131, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born thirty years ago Last Line: To lie in a stream and wash out my ears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Retirement; Travel; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Journeys; Trips THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 175, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The place where I've retired Last Line: When I first feel the sun's heat Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mountains; Nature; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 297, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cold mountain is a leakproof cliff Last Line: I'm content to laugh and sing Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Contentment; Mountains; Retirement; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE RETIRED PORK-BUTCHER AND THE SPOOK, by G. E. FARROW Poem Text First Line: I may as well Last Line: A game of cards at night. Subject(s): Butchers; Ghosts; Retirement; Supernatural 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 VALLEY WIND, by LU YUN Poem Text First Line: Living in retirement beyond the world Last Line: My cottage becomes a universe. Alternate Author Name(s): Shih-lung Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Retirement THOUGHTS OF A RETIRED DIAMOND CUTTER, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Care, carefully chosen, even Last Line: To design? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Diamonds; Retirement TO LALAGE (ON HER RESIGNATION AS FILE CLERK), by RHEINHART KLEINER Poem Text First Line: Sweet mistress of the cabinets Last Line: Was more than you could do! Subject(s): Retirement; Secretaries; Women TOMORROW, by JOHN COLLINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the downhill of life when I find I'm declining Last Line: May become everlasting to-morrow. Subject(s): Country Life; Retirement VOCATIONS, by DAN QUISENBERRY Poem Source First Line: My attorney said %'we've gotta get you a job' Last Line: I don't think well with a suit on Subject(s): Baseball; Retirement; Sports |
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