A line from a very old poem came to him.
Working back in time and reading older poems was easier.
For one older version, see a reference to it as an old poem.
Old poems, ballads, books he had read many times over, gave greater pleasure than ever.
He remembered another old, old poem his mother had read to him.
The plant's name appears in many old Japanese poems.
A poet recited an old poem: 'What did you see?
He sang the old poems as though our love could be revived.
Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been laments.
And it happened again in April, when he began a new poem about their first child, Nicholas, now 10 months old.