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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
TO GET THE FINAL LILT OF SONGS, by WALT WHITMAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age
Last Line: Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences
Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Old Age
To get the final lilt of songs,
To penetrate the inmost lore of poets''"to know the mighty ones,
Job, Homer, Eschylus, Dante, Shakspere, Tennyson, Emerson;
To diagnose the shifting-delicate tints of love and pride and doubt''"to truly understand,
To encompass these, the last keen faculty and entrance-price,
Old age, and what it brings from all its past experiences.
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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
A BROADWAY PAGEANT by WALT WHITMAN