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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: WOMEN - OLD AGE Matches Found: 14 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` ADA RUEL, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The queens of hell had lissome necks to crane Subject(s): Youth; Women - Old Age ALMSWOMAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At quincey's moat the squandering village ends Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Friendship AN EDUCATION IN THE EIGHTIES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in the grandparent's program Last Line: Even if you wet your pants Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Social Classes; Caste AT DEEP MIDNIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's at dinnertime the stories come, abruptly Subject(s): Food & Eating; Night; Women - Old Age; Bedtime BOUTS RIMES IN PRAISE OF OLD MAIDS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail all ye ancient damsels fair or brown Last Line: Greatly alone you stand without a prop. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Women - Old Age DONATELLO'S MAGDALENE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old woman / enrobed in nothing Last Line: To make each cucifix? Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Donatello (1386-1466) FOR A POSTCARD OF MY MOTHER AT THE BEACH, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My oyster weeps the pearls of denouement Last Line: The meaness of pearls, and wasted as ocean weirs Subject(s): Seashore; Women - Old Age; Beach; Coast; Shore FOR AN OLD WOMAN AT THE GATE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your permission slip has been stationed, decoded, stamped Subject(s): Security Checks; Women - Old Age OLD LADIES' HOME, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sharded in black, like beetles Last Line: Shortens with each breath drawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Nursing Homes; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living STAIN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She scrubbed as hard as she could with a stone Subject(s): Laundry & Laundering; Women - Old Age THE ANGEL AND THE LITTLE OLD LADY, by ROBERT LAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel / appeared to Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Angels; Wishes THE CENTENARIAN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't think we shall Last Line: There's whiskey in the jar! Subject(s): Women - Old Age; Drinks & Drinking; Wine THE GREAT BLACK HERON, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I stroll in the woods more often Last Line: Complete in herself as a heron Subject(s): Hanoi, Vietnam; Fish & Fishing; Women - Old Age; Anglers THE HIGH-TONED OLD CHRISTIAN WOMAN, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poetry is the supreme fiction, madame Last Line: Wink as they will. Wink most when widows wince Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Women - Old Age |
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