Collection
Poems for Retirement
Poetry about the joys and challenges of life post-career.
BY The Editors
Blessings And Good Wishes
won’t you celebrate with me
Lucille Clifton
- Rita Dove
My Triumph
John Greenleaf Whittier
The Blessing of the Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog
Alicia Ostriker
Live Blindly and upon the Hour
Trumbull Stickney
Against Retirement
Poet’s work
Lorine Niedecker
Reflections On Retirement
The Uniform
Marvin Bell
The Halls
Mark Halliday
- John Koethe
The Farm
David Lee
Retirement
Henry Timrod
- Karl Shapiro
Dramatic Monologues
- David Clewell
- Alfred Corn
- Ralph E. Greene
Resigning from a Job in a Defense Industry
Sandra McPherson
Poems About Change
from constant change figures
Lyn Hejinian
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Immortal Sails
Alfred Noyes
Waterlily Fire
Muriel Rukeyser
Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold
William Shakespeare
- Wendy Videlock