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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: Supreme—awhile—then 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