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| Introduction | |
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| Feeling Older From | |
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| Essays Montaigne "Death be not proud" | |
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| "Timor mortis conturbat me" Anonymous From | |
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| A Margin of Hope Irving Howe From "The Tower" | |
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| From "Sailing to Byzantium" | |
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| "Lines Written on the Eve of a Birthday" | |
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| From Gulliver's Travels Jonathan Swift From | |
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| From As You Like It William Shakespeare From "Sonnet on Turning Twenty-three" | |
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| From "On Being Twenty-six" Philip Larkin | |
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| From "On This Day I Complete My Thirty-sixth Year" | |
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| Lord Byron FromOn Old Age Cicero From "Rabbi Ben Ezra" Robert Browning Letter to Malcolm | |
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| From The View from 80 Malcolm Cowley | |
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| "This is what human beauty comes to" | |
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| From Satire | |
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| From Epistolae morales Seneca | |
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| From The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer | |
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| "The problem, unstated till now, is how" | |
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| Adrienne Rich "It's true, these last few years I've lived" | |
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| Adrienne Rich "One Art" Elizabeth Bishop | |
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| From Self-Consciousness | |
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| A Memoir John Updike From "The Vanity of Human Wishes" | |
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| "Dear Charles, My Muse, asleep or dead" | |
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| Philip Larkin From "St Mark's Rest" | |
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| John Ruskin "Yes I write verses now and then" | |
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| Walter Savage Landor From "Used: The Mind-Body Problem" | |
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| Kelly Cherry "As I Sit Writing Here" | |
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| Walt Whitman "Queries to My Seventieth Year" | |
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| Walt Whitman Letter to Malcolm | |
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| "It Is Time" Laurence Lerner | |
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| "Extempore Effusion Upon the Death of James Hogg" | |
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| From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage | |
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| "The Old Familiar Faces" Charles Lamb Letter to Malcolm | |
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| From "A Toccata of Galuppi's" | |
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| Robert Browning From "Faithful Wilson" | |
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| "The Face in the Mirror" | |
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| "I Look into My Glass" | |
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| "Growing Old" | |
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| From "Girl from Samos" | |
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| Menander "O sovereign my Lord! Oldness has come" | |
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| Ptah Hotep "For when thou art angry all our days are gone" | |
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| From The Book of Common Prayer | |
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| From The Diary of Alice James Alice James | |
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| "He who has lived sixty years" | |
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| Egyptian Papyrus Letter to W. Morton Fullerton Henry James | |
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| "My Picture Left in Scotland" | |
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| Ben Jonson | |
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| From Paradise Lost John Milton "Song" Christina Rossetti | |
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| "Old Age" Buland Al-Haydari | |
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| "What, then, is life if love the golden is gone?" | |
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| Mimnermus Chorus, from Herakles Euripides | |
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| From Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles "Jogger" | |
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