
Don't Bring Me No Rocking Chair
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With age comes a growing thoughtfulness: what was it all for? What have we made of our lives, what have we known of love, what have we enjoyed of beauty and how do we come to terms with our going? This remarkable book contains thoughts on all such concerns. Its variety is extensive but one thing is sustained throughout. The quality of ideas and expression is of the highest. On whichever page you alight there is something that will offer comfort, delight, and insight. While the world of money, ambition and worldly cares recedes, matters of the heart and spirit come to matter more. This book is the ideal companion on that journey. -- Joan BakewellMore details
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- Cover
- Description
- Title Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- 1: Ancient and Modernr
- 'I am a jolly foster'
- 'I have been a foster.'
- Even such is Time
- Pluck the Fruit and Taste the Pleasure
- Sephestia's Song to her Child
- from Macbeth
- Sonnet XVIII
- Sonnet XIX
- Sonnet LXXIII
- from Cymbeline
- from As You Like It
- To Celia
- The Good Morrow
- The Sun Rising
- 'Death be not proud'
- Song
- On Himself
- To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his grey hairs
- The parting verse, the feast there ended.
- To the Virgins, to make much of Time
- To Daffodils
- Sic Vita
- Virtue
- How Soon hath Time
- On Time
- On the University Carrier
- To Chloe, Who Wished Herself Young Enough For Me
- To His Coy Mistress
- Wit and Wisdom
- A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover
- On a Fly Drinking Out of His Cup
- On the Death of Dr Robert Levet
- 'Epitaph on Mrs Clerke'
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
- Song from The Duenna
- The Echoing Green
- The Angel
- Sound, Sound the Clarion
- The Old Familiar Faces
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday
- Jenny Kiss'd Me
- 2: Individual / Body
- Anodyne
- poem to my uterus
- I Look into My Glass
- The Face in the Mirror
- Old Man Leaves Party
- Face Lift
- On Going Deaf
- from Hair
- Hairless
- Cancer Winter
- Here
- Sixty Years After
- The 90th Year
- During the Eclipse
- Workhorse
- Finale
- His Diagnosis
- Naked Vision
- About Time
- Maura
- Thirtieth
- Should You Die First
- Child Burial
- Somewhat Unravelled
- Bearhugs
- Climbing My Grandfather
- Wheesht, Wheesht
- In the Hospital, Near the End
- On Aging
- 3: Mind / Social
- Father William
- Things
- Poem for a Birthday
- from King Lear
- His Old Approach
- Piano
- Hospital Evening
- Memoirs
- The Other House
- The Tune the Old Cow Died of
- City
- Fast Forward
- Ranunculus Which My Father Called a Poppy
- The Explosion
- How Lies Grow
- My Children
- Indian Cooking
- Mama Dot
- Names
- Politics
- The Emigrant Irish
- from I Am Waiting
- Age
- Of all those starting out
- Heredity
- 'I stepped from Plank to Plank'
- A Consumer's Report
- Why Should Not Old Men Be Mad?
- What the Doctor Said
- Naima
- Sonnet lxxxviii: A Final Sonnet
- I Held a Shelley Manuscript
- J.P. Donleavy's Dublin
- Dress Rehearsals
- Day Trip
- Late Show
- When I Grow Up
- The Old Fools
- A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter
- Swineherd
- Love in a Bathtub
- The May Tree
- How to Behave with the Ill
- Visiting Stanley Kunitz
- France
- Elegy
- Water
- 4: Spirit / Archetypal
- from East Coker
- Into Rail
- from A Shropshire Lad (xiii)
- London Bells
- Her Greatest Love
- An Observation
- At Eighty
- Late Ripeness
- Ninetieth Birthday
- Grandfather
- To Waken an Old Lady
- Beautiful Old Age
- Sailing to Byzantium
- from Ode on a Grecian Urn
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Let Me Die a Youngman's Death
- The Revisit
- Strawberry Meringue
- Defying Gravity
- The Last Days of the Comeback Kid
- from Findings
- The Reassurance
- The Presence
- I Remember, I Remember
- Four Ducks on a Pond
- Handbag
- from A Shropshire Lad (xl)
- Funeral Blues
- In the Waiting Room
- from The Ship of Death
- Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam
- Charon
- from A Drunk Man Looks at the Thistle
- John Anderson, my jo
- Fiere
- When You Are Old
- A Different Kind of Dark
- The Trees
- The Condom Tree
- Everything Changes
- Variation and Reflection on a Theme by Rilke
- poem in praise of menstruation
- Primary Wonder
- Heaven To Be
- When I Woke, Everything Was the Same, but Different
- Swan in Falling Snow
- from Abide with Me
- Max
- Everything Is Going To Be All Right
- Train Ride
- A Call
- from In the Village
- The Present
- Going without Saying
- Snow
- from Johann Joachim Quantz's Five Lessons
- Scintillate
- Crossing the Bar
- Skald's Death
- Late Fragment
- 5: Older Poets
- The Railway Children
- Lunch
- The Old Gods
- At Brute Point
- Swimming in the Flood
- Miracle
- Blue Hydrangeas
- Fanfare
- On Hearing I'd Outlived My Son the Linguist
- Lullaby
- Old Flame
- Mrs Baldwin
- Not for Me a Youngman's Death
- Ageing
- A Patient Old Cripple
- Sea Canes
- Long Life
- What I Regret
- Lives
- In the Attic
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX OF POETS
- INDEX OF TITLES & FIRST LINES
- Copyright
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