There are 322 Poems about Growing Old

Old Prairie House Between Tulsa
and Bartlesville on US 75
By Diane Glancy

'Mid my Gold-brown Curls
By George Eliot

1994
By Lucille Clifton

35/10
By Sharon Olds

from Dante Études: Book Three: In My Youth Not Unstaind
By Robert Duncan

X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
By Benjamin Franklin

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

A Happy Childhood
By William Matthews

A Man Then Suddenly Stops Moving
By Alberto Ríos

A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day
By John Donne

A Note Left in Jimmy Leonard’s Shack
By James Wright

A Sunset of the City
By Gwendolyn Brooks

A View of the Sea
By J. D. McClatchy

A Visit
By Tom Sleigh

A Winter Visit
By Dannie Abse

Affirmation
By Donald Hall

Against Whatever It Is That’s Encroaching
By Charles Simic

Allow Me
By Chungmi Kim

An Apartment with a View
By John Ciardi

An Old Man on the River Bank
By George Seferis

And the Grass Did Grow
By Ralph Angel

Antigua
By Gary Soto

April Inventory
By W. D. Snodgrass

Arion
By David Wojahn

At Darien Bridge
By James L. Dickey

At Stanley Bay
By Gregory Djanikian

At the Ear, Nose, and Throat Clinic
By Gail Mazur

At the Moment
By Joyce Sutphen

Aubade
By Philip Larkin

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“oh antic God”
By Lucille Clifton

“There is a button on the remote control called FAV...”
By Claudia Rankine

Barking
By Jim Harrison

Bears at Raspberry Time
By Hayden Carruth

Before Dawn on Bluff Road
By August Kleinzahler

Bel Canto
By Kenneth Koch

Belly good
By Marge Piercy

Belongings
By Sandra M. Gilbert

Better Days
By A. F. Moritz

Better Late than Never
By Bin Ramke

Birches
By Robert Frost

Bolero
By Gerald Stern

Buckdancer’s Choice
By James L. Dickey

Burial Rites
By Philip Levine

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Burning River
By Simon Joseph Ortiz

Buying the King-Sized Bed
By Fleda Brown

Cadmus and Harmonia
By Matthew Arnold

Calendar
By Janet Loxley Lewis

Call It Music
By Philip Levine

Calmly We Walk through This April’s Day
By Delmore Schwartz

Chaplinesque
By Hart Crane

Chokecherries
By Melissa Kwasny

Chomei at Toyama
By Basil Bunting

City Without a Name
By Czeslaw Milosz

Cleon
By Robert Browning

Commemoration
By Samuel Menashe

Common Blue
By Melissa Kwasny

Consecration
By Susan Stewart

Consolation
By Matthew Arnold

Contemplations
By Anne Bradstreet

Count Down
By Robin Morgan

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

crossing into canaan
By D.A. Powell

Crossing the Bar
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Crossroads
By Mary Barnard

Crusoe in England
By Elizabeth Bishop

Cuckoldom
By BJ Ward

Damp Rot
By John Engels

Day Room
By Tom Sleigh

from Doctor Drink, #1
By J. V. Cunningham

Duties of the Spirit
By Patricia Fargnoli

Early Morning, Left-Handed
By Hilda Raz

Elegy
By Anne Stevenson

Elegy 1969
By Mark Strand

Elegy IX: The Autumnal
By John Donne

from Epitaphs
By Abraham Sutzkever

Evening
By Gail Mazur

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

February Evening in New York
By Denise Levertov

Flying Deeper into the Century
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Funerals
By James Laughlin

Gascoigne’s Lullaby
By George Gascoigne

George Moses Horton, Myself
By George Moses Horton

Gerontion
By T. S. Eliot

Gnostic
By Honor Moore

Granny Scarecrow
By Anne Stevenson

Gray Weather
By Robinson Jeffers

Growing Old
By Matthew Arnold

Half Circle
By Ralph Angel

Hazard Faces a Sunday in the Decline
By William Meredith

Heaven for Stanley
By Mark Doty

High Windows
By Philip Larkin

His Wish to God
By Robert Herrick

Home Again Home Again
By A. F. Moritz

Hope: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

I Close My Eyes
By David Ignatow

I Dreamed That I Was Old
By Stanley Kunitz

I Remember, I Remember
By Thomas Hood

I was made erect and lone
By Henry David Thoreau

I Wasn’t One of the Six Million: And What Is My Life Span? Open Closed Open
By Yehuda Amichai

I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur

If It Should Ever Come
By Edward Dorn

Imbiancato
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

In the Basement of the Goodwill Store
By Ted Kooser

Insect Life of Florida
By Lynda Hull

It Follows
By Ruth Stone

It Was Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

January 22nd, Missolonghi
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Late Night Ode
By J. D. McClatchy

Late Ripeness
By Czeslaw Milosz

Light and Dark
By Barbara Howes

Light Thickens
By Elizabeth Biller Chapman

Lines On My Face
By J. D. McClatchy

Locksley Hall Sixty Years After
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Long time a child, and still a child, when years
By Hartley Coleridge

Lusty Youth should us ensue
By Henry VIII, king of England

Marco Polo at Finisterre
By Matthew Brenneman

Mary Shelley in Brigantine
By Stephen Dunn

Mary's Girlhood (for a Picture)
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Maternal
By Gail Mazur

Matisse, Too
By Alicia Ostriker

Meditations on the South Valley, Part XXIII
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Meditations on the South Valley: Part XX
By Jimmy Santiago Baca

Memorial Day
By Michael Anania

Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton

Michael: A Pastoral Poem
By William Wordsworth

Middle-Aged
By Ezra Pound

Monet Refuses the Operation
By Lisel Mueller

Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Class of 1825 in Bowdoin College
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Mortal shower
By Bob Hicok

Mother's Closet
By Maxine Scates

Mr. Flood's Party
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

My Life
By Mark Strand

My Mother's Nipples
By Robert Hass

My skeleton, my rival
By David Ignatow

Narrative Without People
By Hilda Raz

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

No Children, No Pets
By Sue Ellen Thompson

No Prisoners
By Thomas P. Lynch

Nostalgia and Complaint of the Grandparents
By Donald Justice

Not to Be Dwelled On
By Heather McHugh

Nothing Gold can Stay
By Robert Frost

Now
By Hilda Raz

Of Some Renown
By Jean L. Connor

Of the Last Verses in the Book
By Edmund Waller

Of the Progress of the Soul: The Second Anniversary
By John Donne

Old Black Joe
By Stephen C. Foster

Old Couple
By Charles Simic

Old Joke
By Alan Shapiro

Old Men Playing Basketball
By B. H. Fairchild

Old People’s Holiday
By Mary Kinzie

Old Woman in a Housecoat
By Georgiana Cohen

Older Love
By Jim Harrison

Older, Younger, Both
By Joyce Sutphen

On an Old Woman Dying
By Janet Loxley Lewis

On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again
By John Keats

On the Eve of a Birthday
By Timothy Steele

On the Metro
By C. K. Williams

Pacemaker
By W. D. Snodgrass

Parkinson’s Disease
By Galway Kinnell

Passing Through
By Stanley Kunitz

Paths
By John Montague

Penumbra
By Amy Lowell

Perhaps
By Hilda Morley

Poem for My Twentieth Birthday
By Kenneth Koch

Portrait
By Louise Bogan

Portrait of a Lady
By T. S. Eliot

Prisoners
By Denise Levertov

Prospice
By Robert Browning

from Quatrains: Second Hundred
By Patrizia Valduga

Rabbi Ben Ezra
By Robert Browning

Raking
By Tania Rochelle

Retirement
By Henry Timrod

Return in Autumn
By Paul Engle

from Rites of Passage
By Robert Duncan

Rock Me to Sleep
By Elizabeth Akers Allen

Rondeau
By Leigh Hunt

Rue
By Samuel Menashe

Sad Steps
By Philip Larkin

Sailing to Byzantium
By William Butler Yeats

Salt and Pepper
By Samuel Menashe

Saying Goodbye to Very Young Children
By John Updike

Scary Movies
By Kim Addonizio

Scree
By Alan Shapiro

Seeing It Through
By Alice Friman

Seele im Raum
By Randall Jarrell

Self-Portrait
By Robert Creeley

Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge

Sherbourne Morning
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

Simon Lee: The Old Huntsman
By William Wordsworth

Sixty-One
By Doug Anderson

Skin Cancer
By Mark Jarman

Skunk Hour
By Robert Lowell

Slowly: a plainsong from an older woman to a younger woman
By Judy Grahn

Small Woman on Swallow Street
By W. S. Merwin

Smoke
By Philip Levine

Song for the Last Act
By Louise Bogan

Song: I once rejoiced, sweet evening gale...
By Amelia Opie

Sonnet LX: Like as the Waves Make towards the Pebbled Shore
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXIII: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold
By William Shakespeare

Sonnet LXXXIV
By Anna Seward

Sonnets from the Portuguese 1: I Thought how Theocritus
By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Spring A. D.
By George Seferis

Starina
By Eleanor Lerman

Stowaway
By Stanley Moss

Terminus
By Ralph Waldo Emerson

That First Year
By Pier Giorgio Di Cicco

The Affliction (I)
By George Herbert

The Author to His Body on Their Fifteenth Birthday, 29 ii 80
By Howard Nemerov

The Beach in August
By Weldon Kees

The Bean Eaters
By Gwendolyn Brooks

The Bethlehem Nursing Home
By Rodney Torreson

The Blessed Damozel
By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

The Blue Robe
By Wendell Berry

from The Bridge: Quaker Hill
By Hart Crane

The Cane-Bottom’d Chair
By William Makepeace Thackeray

The Circus
By Kenneth Koch

The City
By C. P. Cavafy

The City's Oldest Known Survivor of the Great War
By James Doyle

The Death of the Hired Man
By Robert Frost

The Deer Lay Down Their Bones
By Robinson Jeffers

The Elephant
By Dan Chiasson

The End of an Ethnic Dream
By Jay Wright

The Erotic Civilization
By A. F. Moritz

The Father
By Ronald Ross

The Foggy, Foggy Blue
By Delmore Schwartz

The Garden by Moonlight
By Amy Lowell

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Greatest Love
By Anna Swir

The heart asks pleasure first
By Emily Dickinson

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Kindness of Others
By Cathy Song

The Last Leaf
By Oliver Wendell Holmes

The Last Man’s Club
By James Galvin

The Letter Scale
By Jacques Réda

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot

The New World
By Amiri Baraka

The Northeast Corridor
By Donald Revell

The Old Codger’s Lament
By Carl Rakosi

The Old Front Gate
By Paul Laurence Dunbar

The Old Maid
By Sara Teasdale

The Old Man Drew the Line
By Carl Rakosi

The Old Swimmin' Hole
By James Whitcomb Riley

The Orchid Flower
By Sam Hamill

The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney

The Perfect Life
By John Koethe

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Poet Orders His Tomb
By Edgar Bowers

The Pomegranate and the Big Crowd
By Alberto Ríos

The Prisoner of Chillon
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

The Promise
By Sharon Olds

The River of Bees
By W. S. Merwin

The River-Merchant’s Wife: A Letter
By Ezra Pound

The Scholar-Gipsy
By Matthew Arnold

The Ships Move On
By Hilda Morley

The Silver Lily
By Louise Glück

The Sound of One Fork
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

The Story of the End of the Story
By James Galvin

The Surrealist Learns To Fly
By Jennifer O'Grady

The Thought of Something Else
By Wendell Berry

The Three-Legged Dog at the Heart of Our Home
By Linda Gregerson

The Visitation
By Samuel Menashe

The Wheel Revolves
By Kenneth Rexroth

The Wild Old Wicked Man
By William Butler Yeats

The Words Under the Words
By Naomi Shihab Nye

There was an Old Man of Calcutta
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of New York
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Thermopylæ
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man on the Border
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Man with a Beard
By Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Nice
By Edward Lear

They
By Wendell Berry

They Flee From Me
By Thomas Wyatt

They Sit Together on the Porch
By Wendell Berry

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
By Charlotte Smith

This Lime-tree Bower my Prison
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Thyrsis: A Monody, to Commemorate the Author's Friend, Arthur Hugh Clough
By Matthew Arnold

To a Lady, Who Sent the Author a Present of a Fashionable Bonnet
By Elizabeth Moody

To Mary
By William Cowper

To Tanya on My Sixtieth Birthday
By Wendell Berry

To the Consolations of Philosophy
By W. S. Merwin

Together
By Maxine W. Kumin

Touch Me
By Stanley Kunitz

Town Hall, Fifteenth Arrondissement
By Pierre Martory

Tracings
By Michael Anania

Trip to Delphi
By Alice Friman

Trollius and trellises
By Charles Bukowski

trouble with spain
By Charles Bukowski

Turning Forty
By Jonathan Galassi

Ultima Thule: Dedication to G. W. G.
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ulysses
By Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Uncle's First Rabbit
By Lorna Dee Cervantes

Uninvited Reader
By A. F. Moritz

Vandergast and the Girl
By Louis Simpson

Walter Llywarch
By R. S. Thomas

War Widow
By Chris Abani

wax job
By Charles Bukowski

Way Out West
By Amiri Baraka

We Old Dudes
By Joan Murray

Weighing In
By Rhina P. Espaillat

What Is Impossible
By A. F. Moritz

When I Consider How my Light is Spent
By John Milton

When I Was Fair and Young
By Elizabeth I

When You Are Old
By William Butler Yeats

White hair does not weigh
By Samuel Menashe

Wildflowers
By Richard Howard

Wingfoot Lake
By Rita Dove

Winter
By Czeslaw Milosz

Winter Stars
By Larry Levis

Wonder as Wander
By Sharon Olds

Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday
By Gregory Corso

x-pug
By Charles Bukowski

Ye Old Mule
By Thomas Wyatt

Young Woman
By Howard Nemerov

Youth and Age
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Youth and Calm
By Matthew Arnold

[It's been two thousand years now]
By Marie-Claire Bancquart

[My mother saw the green tree toad]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Old Mother turns blue and from us]
By Lorine Niedecker

[Over a cup of coffee]
By Stephen Dobyns