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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MIDDLE AGE Matches Found: 154 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 40, by PAUL MONETTE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Oh boy oh boy four years to go before Last Line: If we sail at all hey 40's kid stuff Subject(s): Aging; Aids (disease); Middle Age; Sickness 40 - LOVE, by ROGER MCGOUGH Poem Source First Line: Middle - aged Last Line: Tween - them Subject(s): Middle Age A MINUET ON REACHING THE AGE OF FIFTY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old age, on tiptoe, lays her jewelled hand Last Line: And close our eyes, still smiling, on the dance. Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age ADULTERY AT FORTY, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At shower's head, high over the porcelain moonscape Subject(s): Middle Age APOTHEOSIS ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: I awaken sedately this mid-september morning Last Line: As the apotheosis of my happiness Subject(s): Love; Middle Age AT A MEETING OF FRIENDS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember - why, yes! God bless me! Last Line: The youth of his fifty summers he finds in his twenty friends. Subject(s): Friendship; Middle Age AT FIFTY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There it is again Last Line: But there it is again Subject(s): Middle Age; Desire AT FORTY, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was you, the glowing youth that went forth Last Line: Pierce back to him. Subject(s): Middle Age AT FORTY, by ATTIPAT KRISHNASWAMI RAMANUJAN Poem Source First Line: Our jatti, palace wrestler of mysore Last Line: Once jatti, wrestler, our teacher %at the gymn Subject(s): India; Middle Age; Wrestling And Wrestlers AT FORTY YEARS, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When for forty years we've climbed the rugged mountain Last Line: Sudden, the journey's done! Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Middle Age AT MY COUNTRY HOME IN CHUNG-NAN, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: Middle age - I grow somewhat fond of the way Last Line: We talk and laugh - we have no 'going-home' time Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Middle Age BAD-ASS AT FORTY, by PHILIP ASAPH Poem Source First Line: In a parking lot glistening with shards of glass Last Line: Kicking his grass, laughing, calling him out Subject(s): Middle Age BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness BREATHING EYE TO EYE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: After the newness has passed Last Line: Breathe through their eyes Subject(s): Love; Middle Age BRINGING HOME THE BEACON, by FELICIA LAMPORT Poem Source First Line: Middle age shines with delightful incandescence Last Line: As the only sure cure for persistent adolescence Subject(s): Middle Age CHRISTMAS FLOWERS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: With just ten days left till christmas Last Line: With the fragrance of naked newborns Subject(s): Love; Middle Age CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Janie, you may not believe a word Last Line: You're born unto me again Subject(s): Love; Middle Age COBB'S MEMORIES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A few more weeks, and tyrus cobb will be Last Line: Supremeawhilethen dropped beside the road? Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Cobb, Ty (1886-1961); Middle Age; Sports COLD, by RUTH PADEL Poem Source First Line: You're almost fifty. Nightlong Last Line: Your town. Where did we go? Subject(s): Middle Age DEFEAT AT MIDDLE AGE, by ALICE PORTER Poem Text First Line: I cannot look on him without his pride Last Line: And rivers to be crossed! Subject(s): Middle Age DIE AT 40!, by LILLIE BENDER ROONEY Poem Text First Line: Age! You should not be living at this hour Last Line: Commercial world no place for you appears. Subject(s): Middle Age DISGUST, by LIAM RECTOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was well towards the end Subject(s): Middle Age; Language; Words; Vocabulary DOCKERY AND SON, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Relationships; Disappointment; Ancestors & Ancestry; Middle Age' Universities And Colleges; Youth; Heritage; Heredity DOUBLE WEDDING, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: How relaxing %to be missing in action Last Line: Lovers to the end Subject(s): Love; Middle Age DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave withdrawing Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave withdrawing Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Waves DOVER BEACH' - A NOTE TO THAT POEM, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wave withdrawing Last Line: Let them go over us all I say with the thunder of %what's to be next in the world. It's we will be u Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Arnold, Matthew (1822-1888); Middle Age; Poetry And Poets; Waves EAST OF CARTHAGE: AN IDYLL, by KHALED MATTAWA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look here, marcus aurelius, we’ve come to see Last Line: Ts tentacles sewing a rupture I had nursed for too long Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Middle Age; Aging; Libya; Ancestors & Ancestry; Family Life; Mythology; Heritage; Heredity; Relatives END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry & Poets; Agriculture; Farmers END OF SUMMER, by STANLEY JASSPON KUNITZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An agitation of the air Last Line: Order their populations forth, %and a cruel wind blows Subject(s): Farm Life; Middle Age; Poetry And Poets EXPLORING NEW WORLDS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: So distant from my family land Last Line: Let janie and me discover eden's eastern shores Subject(s): Love; Middle Age FIFTEEN AND FIFTY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, darling, put your frown aside! Last Line: When thus you tyrannize. Subject(s): Middle Age; Youth FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY EVE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The figure alone is enough to keep me awake Subject(s): Middle Age FIFTY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy skies, misty mountains Subject(s): Middle Age FIFTY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rainy skies, misty mountains Last Line: My fiftieth year has come Subject(s): Middle Age FIFTY-THREE, by EILEEN MYLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've already had a lot of them Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age; Books; Trees; Reading FISHING AT FORTY, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: We got ourselves up Last Line: His silver and steel; the whiskey %behind the seat, half gone; %the long, hard winter coming on Subject(s): Aging; Fishing And Fishermen; Introspection; Life; Middle Age FIVE ACCOUNTS OF A MONOGAMOUS MAN, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you or I should die Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Snakes; Desire; Passion; Adultery; Children; Love; Middle Age; Absence; Relationships; Serpents; Vipers; Childhood; Separation; Isolation FLEA-MARKETING, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For two days now, in new york city Last Line: We'll inhabit for the rest of our visionary days Subject(s): Love; Middle Age FORTY, TREMBLING, by WENDY ROSE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She bore no children Last Line: She is not of this world %and no one rides to the rescue Subject(s): Middle Age FROM A CORRECT ADDRESS IN A SUBURB OF A MAJOR CITY, by HELEN SORRELLS Poem Source First Line: She wears her middle age like a cowled Last Line: Above the shocked, astonished %hunger Subject(s): Middle Age GAINING A BETTER PERSPECTIVE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Occasionally, my lady and I Last Line: Depends on seeing the present through older eyes Subject(s): Love; Middle Age GAME RESUMED, by RICHMOND LATTIMORE Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: My locker, green steel Last Line: (forgotten and unseen), %my self Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age; Sports GENETICS, by HANK MALONE Poem Source First Line: By the age of forty Subject(s): Middle Age GOLDEN APPLES OF THE SUN, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This crystalline midweek morning Last Line: Apples to be savored in our golden years together Subject(s): Love; Middle Age GREENHOUSE EFFECTS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Something there is profoundly anomalous Last Line: Like we're doing right this minute Subject(s): Love; Middle Age HERE IS MUSIC: 4, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Since, in my third decade Last Line: "go, my dear, go. And, going, find high happiness!" Subject(s): Middle Age HIBISCUS LOVE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Each morning, as I slip from the house Last Line: And recognize as your prince in his hibiscus disguise Subject(s): Love; Middle Age HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Last Line: The fruit bat swings on its branch, a tongueless bell Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: ?Took me cruising on his yacht Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth; Riches; Fortunes I AM FIFTY-TWO YEARS OLD', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is better not to be rich Subject(s): Middle Age; Self-criticism; Wealth IMITATIONS OF HORACE: ODE IV, 1, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Again? New tumults in my breast? Last Line: And now, on rolling waters snatch'd away. Variant Title(s): To Venus Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Middle Age; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IMPROVEMENT IN THE FORTIES, by THOMAS BARNARD Poem Text First Line: I lately thought no man alive Last Line: Grow, like himself, polite. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard Of Killaloe Variant Title(s): On Mending His Thoughts Subject(s): Middle Age IN PRAISE OF THANKSGIVING, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Haloed by the pungent fragrance of paper-whites Last Line: And the way you welcome me home at the end of the day Subject(s): Love; Middle Age INLAND SEA, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Although we sense easter and passover Last Line: That instinct to head upstream periodically Subject(s): Love; Middle Age LEARNING TO SWIM, by HICOK. BOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At forty-eight, to be given water, Last Line: Most of all, their dissolve Subject(s): Middle Age; Swimming & Swimmers LINES FOR MY 55TH BIRTHDAY, by THOMSON WILLIAM GUNN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love of old men is not worth a lot Last Line: And what involuntary clawing spasm Alternate Author Name(s): Gunn, Thom Subject(s): Middle Age LISTENING TO THE WAVES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Sitting on this tiny balcony facing the ocean Last Line: They might invite us home Subject(s): Love; Middle Age LOVE IN MID-LIFE, by JR. ROBLEY WILSON Poem Source First Line: It's whimsy manages us Last Line: Later melting, later thaw %in dead-certain winters Subject(s): Love; Middle Age LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 48, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the fireflies of our youth Last Line: Of our middle age Subject(s): Middle Age LOVE'S LITANY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Sunday a.M. Is the one moment in the week Last Line: Will sustain us until dust appropriates our passion Subject(s): Love; Middle Age LOVE-BLOOMS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Sitting here in this quiet living room Last Line: As I was last night, absorbed in your love Subject(s): Love; Middle Age LOVED ONE, by JOSEPH HANSEN Poem Source First Line: Understand, he is naked in the sea Last Line: Soap-scented hands, another birthday card Subject(s): Middle Age LOVERS' SUNDAY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Now, the four o'clock lord's-day sun Last Line: As souls in love since time's first sunday Subject(s): Love; Middle Age MAKING SWEET MUSIC, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Janie and I escape into friday evening Last Line: They never even played Subject(s): Love; Middle Age MAN AND CAMEL, by MARK STRAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ometimes there would be a fire and I would walk into it Subject(s): Middle Age; Camels MEMORIAL DAY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Our thoughts this long weekend Last Line: She places around her hero's neck Subject(s): Love; Middle Age MEN AT FORTY, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Behind their mortgaged houses Subject(s): Aging; Labor And Laborers; Middle Age MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thinking of a son Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion; Theology MENSTRUATION AT FORTY, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was thinking of a son Last Line: I would have possessed you before all women, %calling your name, %calling you mine Subject(s): God; Menstruation; Middle Age; Religion MEZZO CAMMIN, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half of my life is gone, and I have let Last Line: The cataract of death far thundering from the heights. Subject(s): Middle Age; Spinsters; Old Maids MID-WAY, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a precise moment in time Last Line: And what better could he do? Subject(s): Surrealism; Middle Age MIDDLE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last minutes of your life Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last minutes of your life Last Line: Without this voice, you will spend all winter %blackening into bits Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE AGE, by MARIAN DE ZEEUW Poem Source First Line: Probably %when the tightly furled Last Line: As to pierce %the garden %wall Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age MIDDLE AGE, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Left alone with the cows to-day Last Line: All this is the burthen of middle age. Subject(s): Freedom; Future; Middle Age; Past; Liberty MIDDLE AGE, by PAULA RANKIN Poem Source First Line: The groundhog we dumped in the woods Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE AGE, by JASON SHINDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many of my friends are alone Subject(s): Single People; Middle Age; Bachelors; Unmarried People MIDDLE AGE, MISSOULA, by VERLENA ORR Poem Source First Line: Clouds have gathered in the last corner Last Line: Where september draws its knives Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE AGE: A NOCTURNE, by ROBERT SCHAEFFER PHILLIPS Poem Source First Line: The silver tea service Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE-AGED, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their faces, safe as an interior Last Line: Upon what terms, with how much left unsaid Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLE-AGED; A STUDY IN EMOTION, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis but a vague, invarious delight Last Line: "to see the brightness of." Subject(s): Middle Age MIDDLEAGED MAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a middleaged man, tim flanagan Subject(s): Middle Age MONTAUK HIGHWAY, by HARVEY SHAPIRO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Murderous middle age is my engine Subject(s): Labor And Laborers; Middle Age MONTH OF SUNDAYS, OR THREE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Most sunday mornings Last Line: To protect you with my love all week Subject(s): Love; Middle Age 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 MRS. SHAW'S CADILLAC, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When cindy shaw told me Last Line: Sometimes as big as car fins Subject(s): Women; Middle Age; Childhood Memories NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NEXT DAY, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from cheer to joy, from joy to all Last Line: Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary Subject(s): Aging; Housewives; Middle Age; Wisdom NIGHTFLOWERS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: There's nothing less romantic Last Line: In a universe of blossoming possibilities Subject(s): Love; Middle Age NODDING OFF, by SHARON KOUROUS Poem Source First Line: Peering through the microscope of middle age Last Line: Though magnified, still tends to disappear Subject(s): Aging; Middle Age NOVEMBER PLANTING, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Less than three weeks ago, sweet jane Last Line: As we entered the earth together Subject(s): Love; Middle Age NOW OR NEVER, by UNKNOWN+14 Poem Source First Line: Seven years ago Subject(s): Middle Age; Women ODE ON CELESTIAL MUSIC, by BRIAN PATTEN Poem Source First Line: It's not celestial music it's the girl in the bathroom singi Last Line: I bend close to the floorboards hoping %for at least one flower to appear Subject(s): Middle Age OLD-FASHIONED FAMILY DINNER AT HOME, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Janie, her two sons, and I Last Line: And why jamie and I never seem to watch tv Subject(s): Love; Middle Age ON A HIGH PART OF THE COAST OF CUMBERLAND, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, that seemed so mildly to retire Last Line: From finite cares, to rest absorbed in thee! Variant Title(s): Evening Voluntaries: 2 Subject(s): Middle Age ON HIS THIRTY-THIRD BIRTHDAY, by CH'ANG KUO FAN Poem Source First Line: More than thirty years have rushed Last Line: Better I stayed home %and raised prize melons Subject(s): Birthdays; Middle Age ON REACHING FORTY, by CARLTON KENDALL Poem Text First Line: Youth is no longer mine Last Line: Weaving a play no human can fortell. Subject(s): Middle Age OUR BOSTON TEA PARTY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For three days and nights Last Line: They licensed dissent in its many guises and intents Subject(s): Love; Middle Age PARKING, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I live where I have always been Last Line: Lands, and coos like a fool in the dark Subject(s): Automobiles; Middle Age; Youth; Passion PART OF A LETTER TO THE CODNIGOLA BOY, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Caro ragazzo, yes, sure, let's meet Last Line: What he has given he's given, the rest %is exhausted compassion Subject(s): Middle Age PART OF HISTORY, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: So much history lingers in this city Last Line: Enter this city's history for a few fiery heartbeats Subject(s): Love; Middle Age PERISHABLE, IT SAID, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perishable, it said on the plastic container Last Line: Inside that hour with its perishing perfumes and clashings Subject(s): Middle Age PHILLIS'S AGE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How old may phillis be, you ask Last Line: And phyllis is some forty-three. Subject(s): Love; Middle Age PICKING LOVE APPLES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: So much turbulence has scourged my life Last Line: In our garden's other bed Subject(s): Love; Middle Age PLANTING BY DREAM-LIGHT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Last evening, sweet saturday eve Last Line: With today's bright blooms Subject(s): Love; Middle Age PORTS OF CALL, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Last week, my fair lady and I Last Line: Along the landfall we're planning to explore Subject(s): Love; Middle Age QUICKLY AGING HERE, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to drink in Last Line: South, into the kitchen, into / nowhere? Subject(s): Middle Age RECONSIDERING CERTAIN EPICS AT MIDLIFE, by SUSAN KOLODNY Poem Source First Line: What was it, when he was off cavorting with the nymphs Last Line: Marking the shapes that the waves make, rrivals and departures %of red boats in the harbor? Subject(s): Middle Age RED FLAGS YELLOW FLAGS, by NILA NORTHSUN Poem Source First Line: I don't get it Last Line: Sometimes I just vunt to be alone Subject(s): Middle Age RONDEL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I am fifty-six Subject(s): Middle Age RONDEL, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I am fifty-six Last Line: Come and celebrate with me Subject(s): Middle Age SCENTS OF WONDERMENT, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: The sky below which I drive home tonight Last Line: To perpetuate a scents of wonderment Subject(s): Love; Middle Age SKYBISCUS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: It's one of the clearest nights of the season Last Line: We're reborn to every fourth of july Subject(s): Love; Middle Age SONG FOR MIDDLE YEARS, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE Poem Text First Line: Through all my life my heart has loved to sing Last Line: To live a joy that swells too full for song. Subject(s): Middle Age SONNET AT FORTY, by BROOKS HAXTON Poem Source First Line: When who I am lost touch with who I was Last Line: I could not want back what had felt worthwhile, %or think why who I was picked who I am Subject(s): Middle Age SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#8), by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whereas yesterday he made his hand feel the sky, his leg fathom the Last Line: Ask me again if who I was is who I have become Subject(s): Middle Age STATUES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: I awaken into a sunny, 59th street morning Last Line: The two of us flowing through love's cascade Subject(s): Love; Middle Age STELLA'S BIRTHDAY, 1718, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stella this day is thirty-four Last Line: To split my worship too in twain. Variant Title(s): On Stella's Birthday Subject(s): Aging; Johnson, Esther (1681-1728); Love; Middle Age STILL LAUNCELOT RIDES, by MARY SINTON LEITCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We hold augustus actual and conceive Last Line: Still ride king arthur's knights to seek the grail. Subject(s): Middle Age STREET WALKERS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: For five days of unadulterated excitement Last Line: Grateful we don't have to beg for each other's love Subject(s): Love; Middle Age SUN-STRUCK, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: This sunny afternoon gladdens my sad heart Last Line: Without your rays Subject(s): Love; Middle Age THE COUNTRY SINGER, by CARL RAKOSI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There ain't nothin special about me. Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Middle Age; Songs THE HOTEL NORMANDIE POOL, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the cold pool in the metal light Subject(s): Blacks - History; Holidays; Middle Age; New Year THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 48, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the fireflies of our youth Last Line: Of our middle age Subject(s): Middle Age THE MIDDLE-AGED, by ADRIENNE CECILE RICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their faces, safe as an interior Subject(s): Middle Age THE MIDDLEAGED MAN, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a middleaged man, tim flanagan Last Line: Running from his eye to his ear Subject(s): Middle Age THE PAUSE THAT REFRESHES / OR CLIMBING BACK ON THE ROOF, by HETTIE JONES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was forty-five Subject(s): Middle Age; Menstruation 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 THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I had not expected to be an ordinary woman Subject(s): African Americans – Women; Mothers & Daughters; Middle Age THIRTIETH ANNIVERSARY REPORT OF THE CLASS OF '41, by HOWARD NEMEROV Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We who survived the war and took to wife Last Line: And done with it. What is there to discuss? %there's nothing left for us to say of us Subject(s): Middle Age THIRTY-EIGHT AND PLUS, by WALTER TAYLOR ANDERSON Poem Source First Line: I woke up this morning: about half past four Last Line: One said no: and the other said yes Subject(s): African Americans - Song And Music; Blues (music); Middle Age THIRTY-FIVE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weary heart! Thou'rt half-way home Last Line: Save hers whose clasped hand will bring the on to heaven! Subject(s): Middle Age THREE ON LUCK; LATE CHILD, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never minded having such old parents Last Line: His finger would be quicker on the trigger Subject(s): Parents; Middle Age THREE VALENTINES TO THE WIDE WORLD: 3, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, in the middle of my life, the earth stalks me Last Line: Love and art, which are compassionate Subject(s): Middle Age; Women TIME IN A BOTTLE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Oh, if only last evening at the symphony Last Line: As we do, janie, one day at a time Subject(s): Love; Middle Age TO MR. FORBES-ROBERTSON: 5. MIDDLE AGE, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Sometimes I think life's best is middle age Last Line: To me at least that it is best by far. Subject(s): Middle Age TO RICHARD HOWARD ON OUR BIRTHDAYS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Shedding the scales of early Last Line: Outspeeding its own sound. Subject(s): Birthdays; Howard, Richard (b. 1929); Middle Age TO-MORROW IS MY BIRTHDAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, then, another drink! Ben jonson knows Last Line: Let's walk and hear the lark. Subject(s): Birthdays; Jonson, Ben (1572-1637); Middle Age; Poetry & Poets TOO MANY IRONS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: From wednesday evening to sunday afternoon Last Line: Cramming our calendar for the week ahead Subject(s): Love; Middle Age TRINITY OF JEWISH POETS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: We ventured out last night Last Line: For more than forty years - people of the word Subject(s): Love; Middle Age TWENTY QUESTIONS, by DAVID LEHMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did the moth fly into the flame? Was it for the same reason Subject(s): Middle Age; Man-woman Relationships; Conduct Of Life; Male-female Relations TWO SONGS OF PEACE: 2, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love was not in the war Last Line: Whose borders we shall never cross Subject(s): Peace; War; Middle Age TWO SONNETS FOR FIFTY, by WILLIAM VAN WYCK Poem Text First Line: I thought love was eternal and mine eyes Last Line: Of my love grave! Who are the sons of god? Subject(s): Middle Age TWO TREES, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Janie...Just invoking your name Last Line: Robed only in trust, married in a shared covenant of love Subject(s): Love; Middle Age UPON A VENERABLE RIVAL, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full thirty frosts since thou wert young Last Line: Who old, though grey, a fool. Subject(s): Love; Middle Age; Youth UPON THE LAST DAY OF HIS FORTY-NINTH YEAR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scritch, scratch, said the frozen spring snow Last Line: And feels the gut pull of steep maturity Subject(s): Middle Age VALENTINE FOR LADY JANE, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: Driving home to you Last Line: We'll be equal parts of the same broken heart Subject(s): Love; Middle Age VANDERGAST AND THE GIRL, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Extramarital Affairs; Divorce; Middle Age VARIOUS RESPONSES ON AN OCEAN VOYAGE: 1, by HUANG TSUN-HSIEN Poem Source First Line: In the years and months of my middle age Last Line: In only one year I have received %twice the 'dawn of flowers' Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Middle Age; Sea Voyages WAKING THE MORNING DREAMLESS AFTER LONG SLEEP, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But with the sentence: “use your failures for paper.” meaning, I Last Line: Of ruined paper into a basket, pulling them out again Subject(s): Middle Age; Writing & Writers WHERE I'LL BE GOOD, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wanting leads to worse than oddity. Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Middle Age WHITE CHRISTMAS, by LOUIS DANIEL BRODSKY Poem Source First Line: I awaken tentatively into this still morning Last Line: Fill my eyes with her christmas snow Subject(s): Love; Middle Age WISH, by WILLIAM PAGE Poem Source First Line: My fifty-fourth birthday is passing Last Line: And chew on it without regret %until it's sweet Subject(s): Middle Age; Wishes |
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