Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SEVENTY-FOUR AND TWENTY, by THOMAS HARDY 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 | ||||||||
HERE goes a man of seventy-four, Who sees not what life means for him, And here another in years a score Who reads its very figure and trim. The one who shall walk to-day with me Is not the youth who gazes far, But the breezy sire who cannot see What Earth's ingrained conditions are. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS AND THERE WAS A GREAT CALM' by THOMAS HARDY |
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