Do you know of any poems which adequately describe growing old?

Here are some

Also, read Frost’s Death of the Hired Man

You Are Old Father William by Lewis Carroll.

Yes

@ucme It appears that your buggering bells on your hat are getting on your nerves.

No, just another bell end.

Lovely one this: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/184057

Rabbi Ben Ezra
BY ROBERT BROWNING

(First verse)

Grow old along with me!
The best is yet to be,
The last of life, for which the first was made:
Our times are in His hand
Who saith “A whole I planned,
Youth shows but half; trust God: see all, nor be afraid!’’

When You are Old by William Butler Yeats:”:

(First verse)

When you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;

(http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172055
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Pierre de Ronsard
From Sonnets pour Hélène

(First verse)

Quand vous serez bien vieille, au soir, à la chandelle,
Assise auprez du feu, devidant et filant,
Direz, chantant mes vers, en vous esmerveillant:
Ronsard me celebroit du temps que j’estois belle.

My favorite. haha

www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkUsnTZEGzk

Really funny, @Coloma. ROFL