One raises an eye to the middle-aged poet, nods, and Candles inclines his head in silent salute.

ON stage, he looks like a middle-aged Irish poet, bespectacled, dressed in the same rumpled suit he teaches in.

As a reporter once wrote of him, "In his loafers, cable-knit sweater and chinos, he looks like a middle-aged poet."

Her will has directed that the income from Patrick's work, estimated at £10,000 a year, should be used to support a middle-aged poet, to be chosen by the estate's trustees.

As a middle-aged poet, Jaime is painfully aware of the passage of time, his misspent youth, and the death that patiently awaits him.

However, the USO and the Division stated that no G.I. would sit for a three-hour costume drama about two middle-aged Victorian poets.

It postulates that there is an army of young women hanging out in downtown coffeehouses who yearn to be nothing more than groupies to middle-aged poets.

Yes and no, the middle-aged poet seems to answer.

In his loafers, cable-knit sweater and chinos, Marv Levy looks like a middle-aged poet.

Among his followers was Tomas Antonio Gonzaga, a middle-aged poet whose verses to his young sweetheart, Marilia de Dirceu, immortalized their love in local lore.