Famous Short Growing Up Poems

Famous Short Growing Up Poems. Short Growing Up Poetry by Famous Poets. A collection of the all-time best Growing Up short poems

Before Sleep  

 I was in love with anatomy
the symmetry of my body
poised for flight,
the heights it would take
over parents, lovers, a keen
riding over truth and detail.

I thought growing up would be
this rising from everything
old and earthly,
not these faltering steps out the door
every day, then back again.

A Man Young And Old: VIII. Summer And Spring  

 We sat under an old thorn-tree
And talked away the night,
Told all that had been said or done
Since first we saw the light,
And when we talked of growing up
Knew that we'd halved a soul
And fell the one in t'other's arms
That we might make it whole;
Then peter had a murdering look,
For it seemed that he and she
Had spoken of their childish days
Under that very tree.

O what a bursting out there was,
And what a blossoming,
When we had all the summer-time
And she had all the spring!