Poems about aging are a little harder to find (though we will forever be in a swooning state about W.B. Yeats’ “When You Are Old”). That said, recently, as Woman’s Day reports ...

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere ...

Years ago my wife memorized a poem dear to many readers, especially elders, for its melancholy beauty: “When You Are Old,” by William Butler Yeats. Readers who know about Yeats’ unrequited ...

It can tell a story, pose a question, voice a desire – or a cry for help. We're asking you to write a poem in epistolary form, addressing anyone – a neighbor, a boss, a child, a lost lover ...

Here are two of Yeats’s short but best known poems; the first on the power of love, the second on the power of place.

As everyone you’ve asked to contribute will say, it’s impossible to pick just one favourite Yeats poem. But this is the ... and the ones I love, grow old. I recommend a song of the same ...