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(Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) More
. . . Look! this flesh how it crumbles to dust and is blown!
These bones, how they grind in... More
... asks what it’s too late to ask:
“Where is my life? Where is my life?
What have I... More
... it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that it is... More
... the girls who came at dawn
To pay a visit to the young child, and how, when he grew up to... More
... with dozens of as yet
Unrealized projects, and a strict sense
Of time running out, of... More
A forty-year-old woman is only something to men who have loved her in her youth! More
A man growing old is going
down the dark stairs.
He has been speaking of the... More
A man has every season while a woman only has the right to spring. That disgusts me. More
A man’s as old as he’s feeling,
A woman as old as she looks. More
A photo of someone else’s childhood,
a garden in another country—world
he had no part... More
A process in the weather of the world
Turns ghost to ghost; each mothered child
Sits in... More
A wish
Refines the lines around the mouth
At these ten-year intervals. More
A woman’s always younger than a man
At equal years. More
Admit it, it is your youth that you regret, more even than your crime; it is my youth you hate,... More
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we... More
After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete. More
Age is a limit we impose upon ourselves. You know, each time you Westerners celebrate your... More
Age: I go slower as time goes faster. More
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, not spare a... More
Alice grown lazy, mammoth but not fat,
Declines upon her lost and twilight age;
Above in... More
All out of doors looked darkly in at him
Through the thin frost, almost in separate... More
All that remains is the mad desire for present identity through a woman. More
all that we might have been,
all that we were—fire, tears,
wit, taste, martyred... More
Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love.
My daughters and sons have put me away... More
Although crowds gathered once if she but showed her face,
And even old men’s eyes grew dim,... More
Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that... More
An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small,
In blast-beruffled plume,
Had chosen thus to... More
An old man bending I come among new faces,
Years looking backward resuming in answer to... More
An old, mad man still climbing in his ghost,
My fathers’ ghost is climbing in the rain. More
And cried, ‘Before I am old
I shall have written him one
Poem maybe as cold
And... More
And fade into the light of common day. More
And Manuel embraced his mother and they laughed together: Délira’s laugh sounded surprisingly... More
And since to look at things in bloom
Fifty springs are little room, More
And they wonder, as waiting the long years through
In the dust of that little chair,
What... More
And this must be the prime of life . . . I blink,
As if at pain; for it is pain, to... More
Art is eternally young, but the poet ages. If only he remained as young as art! If only it aged... More
As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age. More
As if time put an edge
Round the last shape of things
To show them there.... More
As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft. More
As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his. More
As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some... More
At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an... More
At first thou gav’st me milk and sweetnesses;
I had my wish and way:
My dayes were... More
At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for... More
At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty. More
At thirty-one, when some are rich
And others dead,
I, being neither, have a job instead.... More
At twelve I was determined to shoot only
For honor; at twenty not to shoot at all;
I know... More
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment. More
Away with us he’s going,
The solemn-eyed:
He’ll hear no more the lowing
Of the... More
Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn’t enough for you. More
Be with me, Beauty, for the fire is dying;
My dog and I are old, too old for roving. More
Because I do not hope to know again
The infirm glory of the positive hour More
Because I do not hope to turn again
Because I do not hope
Because I do not hope to turn More
Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with... More
Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, We have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell. More
Believe me, if all those endearing young charms,
Which I gaze on so fondly today,
Were to... More
Bill’s 32. He looks 32. He looked it five years ago, he’ll look it twenty years from now. I... More
Breaking with old friends is one of the most painful of the changes in all that piling up of a... More
But at my back I always hear
Time’s winged chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before... More
But could youth last, and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then these... More
But I must needs take my petulance, contrasting it with my accustomed morning hopefulness, as a... More
But it dies hard, that world;
Or, being dead,
Putrescently is pearled.... More
But man grows old, lies down, remains where once he’s laid. More
But the body fails us and the mirror knows, and we no longer insist that the gray hush be carried... More
But the conquered grew meek and still.
They slowly and silently aged.
They kept their... More
But there are no fractions, the world is an integer
Like us, and like us it can neither stand... More
But whenever the roof came white
The head in the dark below
Was a shade less the color of... More
But you were not living at all,
and I was half-living,
so where the years blight these... More
By words, by voices, a lost way—
And here above the chimney stack
The unknown... More
Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty... More
Come, let me sing into your ear;
Those dancing days are gone,
All that silk and satin... More
Come, madam wife, sit by my side
And let the world slip. We shall ne’er be younger. More
Condemned to Hope’s delusive mine,
As on we toil from day to day,
By sudden blasts or... More
Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of... More
Doesn’t that show what an old man I am, when I can say to a mother “I love your daughter,”... More
Every year lays more earth upon us, which weighs us down from aerial regions, till we go under... More
Fair Hope! our earlier Heaven! by thee
Young Time is taster to Eternity.
The generous... More
First, the cold friction of expiring sense
Without enchantment, offering no promise
But... More
For age with stealing steps
Hath clawed me with his crutch, More
For I could tell you a story which is true;
I know a lady with a terrible tongue,
Blear... More
For insolent old lechers
you will weep soon on the lonely curbing More
For she has outlived the dates in the back of Fords, she has outlived the penises of her teens to... More
For the first fourteen years for a rod they do whine,
For the next as a pearl in the world... More
For, as our different ages move,
‘Tis so ordain’d (would Fate but mend it!),
That I... More
Forty years on, when afar and asunder Parted are those who are singing today. More
Growth provides novel experiences for youth; decay the same, alas, for age. More
Half life is over now,
And I meet full face on dark mornings
The bestial visor, bent... More
Harvey: You’re a hell of a lot younger than I am. And you’re a dancer.
Gillian: I’m a... More
her image
Warped in the weather, turned beldamish.
Then back came winter on me at a... More
Here is the ancient floor,
Footworn and hollowed and thin
Here was the former... More
His golden locks time hath to silver turned;
O time too swift, O swiftness never... More
How can I go on, I cannot. Oh just let me flop down flat on the road like a big fat jelly out of... More
Humph! Talkin’ ‘bout me lookin’ old! When you pull down yo’ britches, you look lak de... More
I am devoted to those who endured, like Colette. It is easier ... to kiss the world a bitter... More
I am fifty-one years old today. Gray hairs are getting into my brow; hair grows perceptibly... More
I am grown old and my memory is not as active as it used to be. When I was younger I could... More
I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors. More
I am worn out with dreams;
A weather-worn, marble triton
Among the streams;
And all... More
I bade, because the wick and oil are spent
And frozen are the channels of the blood.... More

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