Aging

Affirmation by Donald Hall To grow old is to lose everything.

First Gestures by Julia Spicher Kasdorf Among the first we learn is good-bye,

Blues by Elizabeth Alexander I am lazy, the laziest

El Dorado by Edgar Allan Poe Gaily bedight, / A gallant knight,

Self-Portrait by Adam Zagajewski Between the computer, a pencil, and a typewriter

Age by Robert Creeley Most explicit--

When You are Old by W. B. Yeats When you are old and grey and full of sleep,

Do not go gentle into that good night by Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night,

In View of the Fact by A. R. Ammons The people of my time are passing away

Poem at Thirty by Michael Ryan The rich little kids across the street

My Lost Youth by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Often I think of the beautiful town

The Young Man's Song by W. B. Yeats I whispered,

At Thirty by Lynda Hull Whole years I knew only nights: automats

The Edges of Time by Kay Ryan

To Chloe: Who for his sake wished herself younger by William Cartwright There are two births; the one when light

The Human Seasons by John Keats He has his lusty Spring, when fancy clear

Since Nine— by C. P. Cavafy Half past twelve. The time has quickly passed