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40-59 Years Old

"Poems on My Fortieth Birthday to My Mother"

Lucille Clifton

"Men at 40"

Justice Donald

"Almost Forty"

Ada Limon

"At Forty"

A.K Ramanjuan

"Nearing 40"

Derek Walcott

"Toward A 44th Birthday"

Nellie Wong

"Peter Pan at 45"

John Dorsey

"Pairing the Geese on My Forty-Ninth Birthday"

Maxine Kumin

"Fiftieth Birthday-1859"

Thomas Hornsby Ferrill

"Turning Fifty"

Stephen Dunn

"Poem for my Fiftieth Birthday"

Robert Kelly

"Song at Fifty"

Patrick Kavanaugh

"Fifty"

Kenneth Rexroth

"Stockbroker Surrey"

Kenneth Allott

"The View if Fine from fifty"

Philip Larkin

"Turning Fifty"

Doug Anderson

"On my Fifttienth Birthday"

Carl Dennis

"A Minuet on Reaching the Age of Fifty"

George Santayana

"On Turning Fifty"

Steve Kronen

"To Peter Raven on His Fiftieth Birthday"

Howard Nemerov

"Dummy, 51, To Go to Meuseum Ventriloquist Dead at 75"

May Swenson

"For Dylan Thomas"

Miltos sachtouris (Trans. by Karen Emmerich)

"What I Want For My Fifty-Sixth Birthday"

Scott Wannaberg

"For My Father Dead at Fifty-Six, On My Fifty-Sixth Birthday"

Stanley Plumly

"To My Fifties"

Kenneth Koch

"At 59"

Benjamin Saltman

"Late Forties"

Mark Halliday

"After Forty Years of Age"

Patrick Kavanaugh

"The Bight"

Elizabeth Bishop

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