| When You are Old When you are old and grey and full of sleep, |
| Affirmation To grow old is to lose everything. |
| Age Most explicit-- |
| In View of the Fact The people of my time are passing away |
| Since Nine— Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed |
| Self-Portrait Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter |
| Two Horses and a Dog Without external reference, |
| Age and Death Come closer, kind, white, long-familiar friend |
| Beyond the Years Beyond the years the answer lies |
| Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year Instead of marrying the day after graduation |
| this kind of fire sometimes I think the gods |
| My Lost Youth Often I think of the beautiful town |
| The Young Man's Song I whispered, |
| To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger There are two births; the one when light |
| Blues I am lazy, the laziest |
| The Edges of Time |
| The Human Seasons He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear |
| El Dorado Gaily bedight, / A gallant knight, |
| To Earthward Love at the lips was touch |
| To Think of Time To think of time—of all that retrospection |
| First Gestures Among the first we learn is good-bye, |
| Poem at Thirty The rich little kids across the street |
| The Chicago Poem the bridges of Chicago |
| Forgetfulness The name of the author is the first to go |
| The Widows of Gravesend It is told & it is told & it is told again |
| The Tower What shall I do with this absurdity |
| Fear of the Future In the end one simply withdraws |
| Refusing at Fifty-Two to Write Sonnets It came to him that he could nearly count |
| Abandonment Under the Walnut Tree Something seems to have gnawed that walnut leaf |
| Almost Sixty No, I don't know |
| Quiet Prolonged exposure to death |
| Moonlight It will not hurt me when I am old |
| Fixed Interval When he turns fifteen, you'll be fifty-four |
| to my last period well, girl, goodbye |
| Gerontion Here I am, an old man in a dry month |