There are 82 Poems about Midlife

“Four Quartets” Revisited
By Belle Randall

A Day on the Big Branch
By Howard Nemerov

Adding It Up
By Philip Booth

After the Gentle Poet Kobayashi Issa
By Robert Hass

All the Women Caught in Flaring Light
By Minnie Bruce Pratt

American Future
By Peter Bethanis

Aspects of Robinson
By Weldon Kees

Aubade
By Philip Larkin

“Find Work”
By Rhina P. Espaillat

“Your Luck Is About To Change”
By Susan Elizabeth Howe

Bedtime Story
By Charles Wright

Being in Love
By Chungmi Kim

Believe It
By John Logan

Burning Drift-Wood
By John Greenleaf Whittier

Cast Off
By Belle Randall

Crepuscule with Muriel
By Marilyn Hacker

Dockery and Son
By Philip Larkin

Don Juan: Canto the Twelfth
By Lord Byron (George Gordon)

Early Morning in Milwaukee
By John Koethe

Escaped Housewife Prefers the Term Cosmetologist
By Karen Craigo

Ex-Basketball Player
By John Updike

Failing and Flying
By Jack Gilbert

Food
By Brenda Hillman

For the Ex-Wife on the Occasion of Her Birthday
By Thomas P. Lynch

Formulary
By Sandra McPherson

Going Back
By Gregory Djanikian

Grimalkin
By Thomas P. Lynch

High Windows
By Philip Larkin

Hope: An Assay
By Jane Hirshfield

Hymn to the Comb-Over
By Wesley McNair

I Wish I Want I Need
By Gail Mazur

In the Park
By John Koethe

In the Winter of My Thirty-Eighth Year
By W. S. Merwin

Letter to Brooks: Spring Garden
By Major Jackson

Liberty
By Thomas P. Lynch

Loiter
By Forrest Gander

Long Story Short
By G. E. Murray

Love Poem for an Enemy
By Richard Katrovas

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

Maturity
By Philip Larkin

Memories of West Street and Lepke
By Robert Lowell

Men at Forty
By Donald Justice

Menstruation at Forty
By Anne Sexton

Middle-Aged
By Ezra Pound

Middle-Aged Midwesterner at Waikiki Again
By John Logan

Midstairs
By Virginia Hamilton Adair

Miniver Cheevy
By Edwin Arlington Robinson

Next Day
By Randall Jarrell

On Teaching the Young
By Yvor Winters

Poem for Christian, My Student
By Gail Mazur

Quickly Aging Here
By Denis Johnson

Sad Steps
By Philip Larkin

Scavenging the Wall
By R. T. Smith

Self-Portrait at 38
By Jennifer Tonge

Shore Scene
By John Logan

Sitting Outside at the End of Autumn
By Charles Wright

Subject To Change
By Marilyn Taylor

Suburban Pastoral
By Dave Lucas

Synopsis for a German Novella
By John Fuller

The Apples
By W. S. Di Piero

The Awkward Age
By Henri Coulette

The Constant Voice
By John Koethe

The Ghost in the Martini
By Anthony Hecht

The Human Seasons
By John Keats

The Idea of Ancestry
By Etheridge Knight

The Lime Orchard Woman
By Alberto Ríos

The Living End
By Samuel Menashe

The Oven Bird
By Robert Frost

The Passions that we Fought with and Subdued
By Trumbull Stickney

The Perfect Life
By John Koethe

The Photos
By Diane Wakoski

The Road Not Taken
By Robert Frost

Thirty-Eight. To Mrs ____y
By Charlotte Smith

Though some Saith that Youth Ruleth me
By Henry VIII, king of England

Ties that Bind
By Richard Emil Braun

To Autumn
By Louise Glück

True Love
By Sharon Olds

Turning Forty
By Kevin Griffith

Washington Square
By Frederick Morgan

West Topsham
By John Engels

Where I’ll Be Good
By Michael Ryan

Woodstock
By Peter Balakian