Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AT PENSION TIME; TO A.R.F., by AUSTIN PHILIPS First Line: At pension time when, worn and grey Last Line: When we may restand pouch our payat pension time! Subject(s): Aging; Friendship; Old Age; Pensions; Time | ||||||||
AT pension time when, worn and grey, We home together, you and I, They shall be ours, in elder way, Those gifts the Gods to-day deny. Our scanty pence, combined, shall buy A cottage on some westering bay, Where hangs the changing Cornish sky O'er cliffs where gulls and gannets prey. There down the vale of years we'll stray, Old fogies both, whose memories fly To ardent hours of manhood's May, When yet the sun of youth was high. Still, well-content, we shall not sigh For thwarted dreams of vain essay, But let our lost ambitions lie, And, rather, pluck the passing day. No more will 'Forms' impart dismay, Nor dull 'Returns' compel the eye, Unchecked, our sober pens shall play With Muses middle-aged and shy. Time and his fleeting hours go by, Behind us bulks the years' array, The halcyon age is looming nigh When we may restand pouch our payAt pension time! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...ELEVEN EYES: FINAL SECTION by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: COME OCTOBER by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: HOME by LYN HEJINIAN THE FATALIST: TIME IS FILLED by LYN HEJINIAN SLOWLY: I FREQUENTLY SLOWLY WISH by LYN HEJINIAN ALL THE DIFFICULT HOURS AND MINUTES by JANE HIRSHFIELD A DAY IS VAST by JANE HIRSHFIELD FROM THIS HEIGHT by TONY HOAGLAND A BALLADE OF GREEN FIELDS; FOR F.W.M. by AUSTIN PHILIPS |
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