Poems on Aging

Below are 41 poems on aging from poets known and unknown.

1. ‘In the Attic’ by Seamus Heaney
2. ‘In View of the Fact’ by A. R. Ammons
3. ‘Warning’ by Jenny Joseph
4. ‘Growing Old’ by Mathew Arnold
5. ‘Forgetfulness’ by Billy Collins
6. ‘Silence’ by Anthony Thwaite
7. ‘Age’ by Robert Creeley
8. ‘Terminus’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
9. ‘An Old Man’s Winter Night’ by Robert Frost
10. ‘Affirmation’ by Donald Hall
11. ‘The Old Gods’ by Dannie Abse
12. ‘I Look into My Glass’ by Thomas Hardy
13. ‘Random Ageist Verses’ by Peter Porter
14. ‘First Gestures’ by Julia Kasdorf
15. ‘Touch Me’ by Stanley Kunitz
16. ‘Nature’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
17. ‘The Password’ by Anne Stevenson
18. ‘Late Ripeness’ by Czeslaw Milosz
19. ‘Hail and Farewell’ by Charles Reznikoff
20. ‘Tired with All These, For Restful Death I Cry’ by William Shakespeare
21. ‘Like as the Waves Make Toward the Pebbled Shore’ by William Shakespeare
22. ‘Lullaby’ Jenny Joseph
23. ‘Young men dancing, and the old’ by Thomas Stanley
24. ‘Not for Me a Youngman’s Death’ by Roger Mcgough
25. ‘Tithonus’ by Lord Alfred Tennyson
26. ‘Lunch’ Lotte Kramer
27. ‘Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night’ by Dylan Thomas
28. ‘The Descent’ by William Carlos Williams
29. ‘Lines On Retirement, After Reading Lear’ by David Wright
30. ‘When You Are Old’ by William Butler Yeats
31. ‘Sailing to Byzantium’ by William Butler Yeats
32. ‘Written In a Carefree Mood’ by Lu Yu
33. ‘Mrs Baldwin’ by Fleur Adcock
34. ‘What I Regret’ by Ninna Cassian
35. ‘Old Flame’ by Linda Chase
36. ‘Blue Hydrangeas, September’ by Gillian Clarke
37. ‘That time of year thou mayst in me behold…’ by Maureen Duffy
38. ‘Ageing’ Ruth Fainlight
39. ‘Long Life’ by Elaine Feinstein
40. ‘On Hearing I’d Outlived My Son the Linguist’ by Roy Fisher
41. ‘Lieselott Among the Blackberries’ Gerda Mayer

Do you have a favorite poem on aging not included? Post it in the comment section below to be added to the list.

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