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Poems in the Library

"Growing Old" by Matthew Arnold, "Terminus" by Ralph Waldo Emerson, "An Old Man's Winter Night" by Robert Frost, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas, "When You Are Old" by William Butler Yeats, "The Last Leaf" by Oliver Wendel Holmes, and more, available in Middle Age, Old Age: Short Stories, Poems, Plays, and Essays on Aging, call number 808.8 M62

various, available in British Women Poets of the Long Eighteenth Century: An Anthology, section M. Poems on the New Year, Birthdays, and Aging, 821.508 B86

various in A Grain of Mustard Seed by May Sarton, 811.52 S251g

"In View of the Fact" by A.R. Ammons, available in Bosh and Flapdoodle, call number 811.54 A52bo

"Aging Female Poet Sits on the Balcony," "Aging Female Poet Reads Little Magazines," and "Aging Female Poet on Laundry Day" by Margaret Atwood, available in Selected Poems II, 811.54 A88s

"There is a Girl Inside" by Lucille Clifton, available in An Intricate Weave, 808.80352 I61

"Youth and Age" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, available in The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 821 C69co

"Forgetfulness" by Billy Collins, available in 100 Essential Modern Poems, 821.9108 A11

"Of His Lady's Old Age" by Pierre de Ronsard, available in The Portable Renaissance Reader, 808.8 R82p

"Old Men Playing Basketball" by B.H. Fairchild, available in The Blue Buick, 811.54 F165

"I Look into My Glass" by Thomas Hardy, available in Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy, 821 H27p

"Touch Me" by Stanley Kunitz, available in The Collected Poems, 811 K96c

"My Lost Youth" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, available in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 811 L85c

"Rooming Houses Are Old Women" by Audre Lorde, availabe in The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde, 811.54 L86c

"Late Ripeness by Czeslaw Milosz, available in New and Collected Poems, 891.85 M66ne

"Old Age" by Po Chü-i, available in Madly Singing in the Mountains, 895 M18

"Hail and Farewell" by Charles Reznikoff, available in The Poems of Charles Reznikoff: 1918-1975, 811.52 R467

"Like as the Waves Make Toward the Pebbled Shore" by William Shakespeare, available in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, Volume B, 820.8 N88a

"Sonnet 73" by William Shakespeare, available in Shakespeare's Sonnets, 822.33 Y7r or 822.33 Y7st

"Tithonus" by Lord Alfred Tennyson, available in The Poetical Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson, 821 T31poe

"Old Age Echoes" by Walt Whitman, available in Leaves of Grass, 811 W61la, v.3

"The Descent" by William Carlos Williams, available in The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams, volume 2, 811.52 W72co v.2

"Sailing to Byzantium" by William Butler Yeats, available in The Poems of W.B. Yeats, 821 Y41 po