Classic and Contemporary Poetry
IN PRAISE OF OLD OLD, by CRATES First Line: Some giddy fools do rev'rend age deride Last Line: Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Krates Subject(s): Old Age | ||||||||
SOME giddy fools do rev'rend Age deride, But who enjoy'd it not, untimely died; We pray we may to good old age attain, And then of its infirmities complain; But their insatiate minds I must admire, Who old, infirm, and poor, can longer life desire. | 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 CHAMBER MUSIC: 29 by JAMES JOYCE |
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