Classic and Contemporary Poetry
RESIGNATION, by BLISS CARMAN Poet's Biography First Line: When I am only fit to go to bed Last Line: I will go there and stay a little while. Subject(s): Old Age | ||||||||
WHEN I am only fit to go to bed, Or hobble out to sit within the sun, Ring down the curtain, say the play is done, And the last petals of the poppy shed! I do not want to live when I am old, I have no use for things I cannot love; And when the day that I am talking of (Which God forfend!) is come, it will be cold. But if there is another place than this, Where all the men will greet me as "Old Man," And all the women wrap me in a smile, Where money is more useless than a kiss, And good wine is not put beneath the ban, I will go there and stay a little while. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...AT EIGHTY I CHANGE MY VIEW by DAVID IGNATOW FAWN'S FOSTER-MOTHER by ROBINSON JEFFERS THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES by ROBINSON JEFFERS OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON A WINTER ODE TO THE OLD MEN OF LUMMUS PARK, / MIAMI, FLORIDA by DONALD JUSTICE AFTER A LINE BY JOHN PEALE BISHOP by DONALD JUSTICE TO HER BODY, AGAINST TIME by ROBERT KELLY SONG FROM A COUNTRY FAIR by LEONIE ADAMS A MORE ANCIENT MARINER by BLISS CARMAN |
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