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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BEREAVEMENT Matches Found: 440 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "NOW DIE AWAY, MY TUNEFUL SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: In recent shrouds Subject(s): Jews;mourning; Judaism;bereavement A BALLADE OF THE NIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the earth the deep-descended day Last Line: Sigh in the silence of the midnight hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mourning; Night; Prayer; Silence; Bereavement; Bedtime A BALLADE TO END WITH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is poor villon's final word Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A BOOK OF AIRS: WHEN THOU MUST HOME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground Last Line: Then tell, oh tell, how thou didst murther me. Variant Title(s): A Book Of Airs: Song;among The Shades;conjuration;to Shades Of Underground;vobiscum Est Iope;carmina Ii. 28 (imitated From);elegies 2, 28 Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement A DEAD MOLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong-shouldered mole Subject(s): Animals; Moles; Mourning; Bereavement A DIRGE (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep for the early lost! Last Line: "such hope as she hath left -- ""the pure in heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A GOOD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A good man never dies Last Line: A good man never dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A LAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken Last Line: She hath passed to the world of the holy from this. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A LOST PEARL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know where I lost it Last Line: To my heart the lost heart of my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MONODY ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, SELECTION, by CUTHBERT SHAW Poem Text First Line: I, who, with more than manly strength, have bore Last Line: And in my cup of grief infuse one drop of joy? Variant Title(s): Monody To The Memory Of A Young Lady, Selection Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear to die Last Line: Of nature's child the common fate. Subject(s): Graves; Marriage; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A MOURNING LOVER (IPSE LOQUITUR), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sittest at thy lyre, o lady sweet! Last Line: Powerless to save, though hating to condemn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A PRAYER, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cast prostrate, in mourning Last Line: Wings of thy spirit. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): God; Mourning; Prayer; Religion; Bereavement; Theology A QUIET SOUL, by JOHN OLDHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy soul within such silent pomp did keep Last Line: It hardly now enjoys a greater rest. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A RAMAGE FOR THE STAR MAN, MOURNING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star man, mourning, floats above the stars Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A SECRET GRATITUDE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She cleaned house, and then lay down long Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Boissevain, Eugen (1881-1949); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Man-woman Relationships; Death; Mourning; Male-female Relations; Dead, The; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 32, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From far, from eve and morning Last Line: I take my endless way. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): In Haste Subject(s): Friendship; Mourning; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my heart an air that kills Last Line: And cannot come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With rue my heart is laden Last Line: In fields where roses fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Graves; Mortality; Mourning; Remorse; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SOUTHERN NIGHT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sandy spits, the shore-lock'd lakes Last Line: They were allied. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A TIME TO MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks if sorrow's shadow fell Last Line: For weariness must sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 3. EQUITY, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing how bad he feels, how much he grieves Last Line: For god, who must also grieve cut off from him. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Absence; Mourning; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Bereavement; Theology A.M.D., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see thee, lying straight and low Last Line: Than when we lay together in one bed. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Bereavement AD ASTRA: 165, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we dread the silence of the tomb? Last Line: The soul soars toward the glory whence it came. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AD CINERARIUM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who in this small urn reposes Last Line: If but soundly he reposes! Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement AELLA: THE MINSTREL'S SONG, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sing unto my roundelay Last Line: Thus the damsel spake and died. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel's Roundelay Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passionate sobs of the dear friends that came Last Line: Till silence ruled, with nothingness and night! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept Last Line: To know he still is warm tho' I am cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER SUMMER, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll not weep for summer over Last Line: Steals no dream. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Summer; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTERMATH, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: People thought that you were dead Last Line: That I had died instead of you. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ALCESTIS: BEREAVEMENT, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a kinsman; he Last Line: Death robs their brides. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ALICE MEYNELL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Without surcease of breath Last Line: Of some most heavenly-sweet wind instrument. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AN ARUNDEL TOMB, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, their faces blurred Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Bereavement AN ELEGY OF HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time the world, clad in a mourning robe Last Line: Cut off our thread and left us all in mourning. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read, you that have some tears left yet unspent Last Line: Which best sort with the sorrows we sustain. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "painter, this likeness is too strong" Last Line: And we shall mourn the dead too long Subject(s): Mourning;paintings & Painters; Bereavement AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence AN EPITAPH ON M.H., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this cold monument lies one Last Line: To seek new lechery in death. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning; Bereavement AN EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: And in the little garden die again? Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement AN IZBA SONG, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died Last Line: The lonely window stares out at the thaw and darkness. Variant Title(s): A Cottage Song Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness AN ODE (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At mary's tomb, (sad sacred place! Last Line: And thou sustain'st the orb below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Heaven; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ANAPHORA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Each day with so much ceremony Last Line: Mortal fatigue Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement ARTHUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It was a day of anguish, rimmed with hate Last Line: In the wide land but will respond, amen. Subject(s): Mourning; Prayer; Bereavement AT A GRAVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For never yet, with ritual pomp and splendour Last Line: Then render all the praise to her. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Praise; Dead, The; Bereavement AT HER GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have stay'd too long from your grave Last Line: Where a weed will never grow. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea; Bereavement; Ocean AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement BALLADE: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BEAUTIFUL SAD DAY, by KATHE HEIN Poem Text First Line: You had been dead two nights, and I was wild, desparing Last Line: That lies upon a sharp grave, or one grown dull with years. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BENJAMIN ARTOM, by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: With mournful pomp they bore him to the grave Last Line: He loved them—let them comfort her who mourns him most! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement BEREAVED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me come in where you sit weeping Last Line: Who have no child to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some beloveds, 'neath whose eyelids lay Last Line: Discerns in speechless tears both prayer and praise. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner Last Line: When woe fades away like the mist of the heath. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BLACK SPRING, by INNOKENTI FYODOROVICH ANNENSKY Poet's Biography First Line: A half-holiday for the burial. Of course, they punish Alternate Author Name(s): Annenski, Innokenti Fyodorovich Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BROKEN LINE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the dry bread and water in the prisons of the sky Last Line: The belly of our words is golden tonight and naught any longer is in vain. Subject(s): Boats; Mourning; Prisons & Prisoners; Water; Bereavement; Convicts BY MEMORY INSPIRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "by memory inspired, and love of country fired" Last Line: Here's the memory of the heroes that are gone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions;mourning; Bereavement CARRIE MONRO, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a lady fair Last Line: Loved carrie monro. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement CASHING IN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a glimpse of his frightened face Last Line: I know that the one who pardoned the thief will be merciful to him! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CONSOLATION, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, while the mourner stands beside the bier Last Line: And faith lies slumbering on the breast of love! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Sympathy; Dead, The; Bereavement; Empathy CONSOLATIONS IN BEREAVEMENT, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death was full urgent with thee, sister dear Last Line: Freshen this weary life, while weary life shall be. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement COOTCHIE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cootchie, miss lula's servant, lies in marl Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DAVID, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is young. The father is dead Last Line: The father is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Funerals; Mourning; Dead, The; Burials; Bereavement DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What name of comfort can returne Last Line: Thy love, as thou, was masculine. Subject(s): Love; Masculinity (psychology); Mourning; Bereavement DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like seas breeding into themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement DEAD LOVE (HEARD SUNG BY AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ISLAND OF TIREE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is the grey rock I am Last Line: As canna in wind Subject(s): Aging;gray (color);mourning;women; Grey (color);bereavement DEAREST M -, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In november when the days are short and dim Last Line: Is hazy as he looks out at the apple tree Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement DEATH; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sad day Last Line: Persuade the world to trouble me no more! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement DEEP IN EARTH, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in earth my love is lying Last Line: And I must weep alone. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DEIRDRE'S GREAT LAMENTATION FOR THE SONS OF USNACH, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ochone for the land left lonely Last Line: Let the clods cover me! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DIRGE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Place this bunch of mignonette Last Line: For my love. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DISTANT RAINFALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourning women veiled to the feet Last Line: Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost battle’s beauty Subject(s): Rain; Mourning; Bereavement DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone Last Line: Since more him none shall see. Variant Title(s): A Lamentation Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement DOREEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her curled and rosy beauty Last Line: That it must pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I heard at night your long sighs Last Line: How the tears fell surging over my breast Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);mourning; Bereavement DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died Last Line: I could not see to see. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery E. D. M., by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heart I knew in other days Last Line: And that was all beneath this earthly sun. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pine-tree standeth lonely Last Line: On its ridge of burning stone. Subject(s): Mourning; Pine Trees; Solitude; Trees; Bereavement; Loneliness ELECTRA: NEWS OF ORESTES' DEATH, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not you mark how passionate, how wild Last Line: To live in pain, the light I hate to spinne. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whom I murdered every night but one Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 5. MOURNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They mourn for you / when you rise at midnight Subject(s): Fathers; Mourning; Bereavement ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Transcendent beauty moulders 'midst the earth! Last Line: For pierced by guilt the breathless culprit lies. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ELEGY ON JENNINGS HILL, by MARSHALL SULLAVAN Poem Text First Line: The snow lies deep on jennings hill Last Line: Upon her crest discounts their hours. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness ENDING ALL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art gone from me, psyche, far away Last Line: United by our god! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ENDURANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: He bent above: so still her breath Last Line: To be immortal and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH ON A HARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow Last Line: Must soon partake his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares EPITAPH ON JOHN KNIGHT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest pattern to a failing age Last Line: In death, by friendship, honour, virtue; mourn'd. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER, by KATHERINE DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day Last Line: My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come Alternate Author Name(s): Dyer, Catherine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies, a pretty bud Last Line: The earth that lightly covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement EXULTATE JUBILATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire in that square floodlit by crimson Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement FALSE MOURNING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who wears blacks, and mournes not for the dead Last Line: Do's but deride the party buried. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's bright paradise has come to this Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FATE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudwrack o'er the heaven flies Last Line: We wither 'neath the vampire wing. Subject(s): Fate; Mourning; Destiny; Bereavement FELDMESTEN OR MEASURING THE GRAVES, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hill and glade, the flowers fade Last Line: "when will we weave it threads of song?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jews; Mourning; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Bereavement FELIX RANDAL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Felix randal the farrier, o is he dead then? My duty all ended Last Line: Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Clergy; Death; Mourning; Sickness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness FIRST NIGHT, by HILDA BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Dear god, he's such a little fellow Last Line: Please, god -- it's his first night. Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement FLORENCE VANE, by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved thee long and dearly Last Line: Florence vane! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Last Line: Such as these have lived and died! Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement FOR A DEAD LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more with overflowing light Last Line: Makes time so vicious in his reaping. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Bereavement FOR ONE LATELY BEREFT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Though now you are bereft and ways seem black Last Line: And happiness will come to you again. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose. Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy FOUR SONNETS: 3, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: Poor lucy never laughed much after that Last Line: And then continue knitting, rather badly. Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? What's that further than a word Last Line: This then is all your death. Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Soul; Dead, The; Bereavement FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War GRIEF FOR THE DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O hearts that never cease to yearn! Last Line: "we look behind us for the past, / but lo! 'tis all before!" Variant Title(s): All Before Subject(s): Consolation;death;mourning; "dead, The;bereavement; HECUBA MOURNS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HEIMWEH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: Just look,' said she, 'how blue the sky' Last Line: The other wept for paha sapa) Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement HELEN OF KIRKCONNELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wish I were where helen lies Last Line: "and I am weary of the skies, / for her sake that died for me [or, since my love died for me]" Variant Title(s): Fair Helen Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HELIODORE [DEAD], by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tears for my lady dead Last Line: Gently to rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Lament For Heliodore Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HIDDEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three nuns at owlet-call Last Line: Die by the virgin's knees. Subject(s): Convents; Death; Mourning; Nuns; Dead, The; Bereavement HIS LACHRIMAE OR MIRTH, TURNED TO MOURNING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me no more Last Line: Of those that sit and weep. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 4. ALONE IN DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in death I think my heart will be Last Line: Yet face my immortality of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HUNGERFIELD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If time is only another dimension, then all that dies Last Line: Float on the dawn. - I shall be with you presently Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Mourning; Bereavement IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is what recurs that we believe Last Line: Solemn my love to you, frank Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IF I HAD KNOWN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: If I had known this morning Last Line: To change the words of Subject(s): Lament; Love; Mourning; Bereavement IMMORTAL, by MARY F. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: I miss the dear, loved face so Last Line: "'tis on the breast of god!" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove's call woke me Last Line: The call woke me in the still night Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 11, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm is the morn without a sound Last Line: Which heaves but with the heaving deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Lincolnshire Wolds And Lincolnshire Sea;autumn;the Awakening Of Spring;the Peace Of Sorrow;in Memoriam (3) Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2 Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 43, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If sleep and death be truly one Last Line: Rewaken with the dawning soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Time And Eternity Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 47, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That each, who seems a separate whole Last Line: Farewell! We lose ourselves in light.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Personal Resurrection Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 67, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my bed the moonlight falls Last Line: Thy tablet glimmers in the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM LADY CAROLINE CHARTERIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain-stream may humbly boast Last Line: And we are all in god. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of evening, lissadell Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning; Bereavement IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON (IN MEMORIAM - SIR JOHN SIMEON), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingales warbled without, / within was weeping for thee Last Line: Three dead men have I loved, and thou art last of the three. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catholics; Isle Of Wight; Mourning; Simeon, Sir John; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Bereavement IN TIME OF MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return,' we dare not as we fain Last Line: May, 1885. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips ISRAEL'S LAMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: And art thou dead? And has thy spirit gone Last Line: Would humbly place my modest wayside flower. Subject(s): Israel; Lament; Mourning; Bereavement IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the tear at this moment shed Last Line: From the image he left there in dying! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning; Desertion; Bereavement JUANA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night wind shook the tapestry around an ancient palace room Last Line: But a woman's broken heart was left in its lone despair behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506); Women; Bereavement JULIE-JANE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing; how 'a would sing! Last Line: From her fancy-men. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex; Bereavement KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her last sickness, my mother took my hand in hers Last Line: Prayers with words and lights Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LA VITA NUOVA: 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, always cruel, pity's foe in chief Last Line: May never hope to have her company. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Bereavement LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD], by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking Last Line: The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane Variant Title(s): The Flowers Of The Forest Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Flowers; Love; Mourning; Bereavement LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK], by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that in heill [or, heal] was and glaidness [or, gladness]. Last Line: Timor mortis conturbat me. Variant Title(s): Dunbar's Lament When He Was Sick;the Fear Of Death Confounds Me;timor Mortis Conturbat Me Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Dead, The; Bereavement LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary Last Line: When first you were my bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement LAMENTACION OF A GENTILWOMAN UPON DEATH OF .. WILLIAM GRUFFITH GENT, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A doubtfull, dying, dolefull dame Last Line: For (as I am) a lover will I dye. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LETTER IN AUTUMN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This first october of your death Subject(s): Death; Marital Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE LOOKS ON DEATH, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Tonight I sit alone with my dead love Last Line: In fright that wondrous life should lose itself. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: As tales oft told we bring to end our years Last Line: "death wins! Fate holds us in captivity!" Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LINES SPOKEN BY MRS. BARTLEY AT DRURY LANE THEATRE ON THE FIRST OPENING OF THE HOUSE AFTER THE DEATH, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britons! Although our task is but to show Last Line: To paint -- ye feel it, britons, in your hearts! Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Mourning; Bereavement LINES TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair gardens of celestial peace Last Line: Full blossomed in his fields of cloudless day. Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement LINES, WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT, IN THE PROSPECT OF A BEREAVEMENT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though to the passing world my heart Last Line: Its healing to the self-same god! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LITTLE LIBBIE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more little spirit to heaven has flown Last Line: To welcome home friends once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOSS, by MARGERY DOUD Poem Text First Line: Not with a dull and constant ache Last Line: Suddenly I see only cosmos flowers, blurring waves of color! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOST CHILD, by SUZANNE POPE Poem Text First Line: In the secret garden of my heart Last Line: Until my yearning prayer shall take me to the grave. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOST LOVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes are quickened so with grief Last Line: Without relief seeking lost love. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LOVE AND MADNESS; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the battlements of yonder tower Last Line: "where, lulled to slumber, grief forgets to mourn!" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LUCASTA PAYING HER OBSEQUIES TO THE CHASTE MEMORY OF BOWES BARNE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! What an undisturbed tear Last Line: To dress my sorrow by. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LUCY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: The difference to me! Variant Title(s): "the Lost Love;when Lucy Ceased To Be;song;""she Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways""; Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology MAGNIFICAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he had suckled there, he began Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Food & Eating; Murder; Mourning; Bereavement MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chill november's surly blast Last Line: "that weary-laden mourn!" Subject(s): Mankind; Mourning; Religion; Human Race; Bereavement; Theology MARIA WENTWORTH, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here the precious dust is laid Last Line: Fraile as our flesh, crumble to dust. Variant Title(s): The Inscription On The Tomb;epitaph For Maria Wentworth;the Inscription On The Tomb Of The Lady Mary Wentworth Subject(s): Bedfordshire, England; Mourning; Wentworth, Maria (d. 1632); Bereavement MARY, THE MAID OF THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie tay Last Line: For my lovely mary, the maid o' the tay. Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Mourning; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bereavement MATER DOLOROSA, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Text First Line: Last night I heard the keenin' at patrick connell's wake Last Line: "and pray to god her heart will break, that she may die tonight!" Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement MEARY WEDDED, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The zun can zink, the stars mid rise Last Line: That wer a-woo'd an' wedded. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR, 1918), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight Last Line: What greater glory could a man desire? Subject(s): Mourning; World War I; Bereavement; First World War MILENA JESENSKA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for attending this tribute to love Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement MOODS ON THE MOSELLE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement MOURN FOR THE BRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mourn for the brave Last Line: Upon the battle-plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; Mourning; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Bereavement MOURN NOT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mourner, mourn not vanished light Last Line: Our friend, our father, and our god. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURN NOT THE DEAD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not the dead - shed not a tear Last Line: And traced upon the sable pall! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURNERS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you are sure I'm down in hell Last Line: A poet cannot die. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURNING PABLO NERUDA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water is practical / especially in august Last Line: Gone. Subject(s): Death; Legacies; Mourning; Nature; Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Usefullness; Water; Dead, The; Bereavement MOURNING POEM FOR THE QUEEN OF SUNDAY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord's lost him his mockingbird Subject(s): African Americans; Mourning; Negroes; American Blacks; Bereavement MOURNING WOMEN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight Last Line: But souls ye have none fit for paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Mourning; Women; Bereavement MOURNING WOMEN, by WILSON C. DIBBLE Poem Text First Line: All you who mourn come here quite silently Last Line: Your conquest young, your aid we still implore! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MUNDUS MOROSUS (THE WORLD MOROSE), by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild beasts in the woods complain Last Line: None love us, trust us, welcome us, but thou. Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Mourning; Strikes; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Labor Disputes; Lockouts MY MOURNER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie here very still; and he draws nigh Last Line: Intrusive vigil round my silent home? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement NEVER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not many years, but long enough to see Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement NOT DEAD, BUT GONE BEFORE, by ANTIPHANES Poem Text First Line: Mourning your dearest friends, be wise in grief Last Line: To lodge together for the rest of time. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement NOVEMBER, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Each sapless leaf that lingers here Last Line: These make amends! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; November; Wind; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement O MOTHER I AM NOT REGRETTING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Mothers; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more of mirth and rural joys Last Line: "well-pleas'd I listen to thy lays of love." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Praise; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, BY A LADY, by J. W. Poem Text First Line: Accept, o sacred shade, this artless verse Last Line: Save me from slavish vice, from folly, and from ill. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODES II, 14. HIS AGE, DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, JOHN WICKES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah posthumus! Our yeares hence flye Last Line: Farre more then night bewearied. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): His Age, Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement OLD POSTCARD, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the words to write to you Last Line: Accept your sister, daughter, lover, heloise Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON A MOURNER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, so far as in her lies Last Line: The falsehood of extremes! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Mourning; Liberty; Bereavement ON A PORTRAIT; A WIDOWER MUSES OVER THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEAD WIFE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face, the beautiful face Last Line: These passed from the world with her. Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement ON COWEE RIDGE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John gordon boyd / died on the birthday Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Mourning; God; Dead, The; Bereavement ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is born to suffer Last Line: And now I write -- what thou shalt never see! Subject(s): Mourning; Sisters; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF AMYNTAS; A PASTORAL ELEGY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn Last Line: For like amyntas none is left below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED AND HONORED RELATIVE: A POLYGOT IN PARADISE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Recount the years, my song (a mournful round!) Last Line: Employs the european and the eastern tongues. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and know—whoe'er thou art—the prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dismal and a fearful night Last Line: Where grief and misery can be joyn'd with verse. Subject(s): Grief; Hervey, William; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine Last Line: And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West;on The Death Of Mr.richard West Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; West, Richard (1716-1742); Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes britain mourns, as with electric shock Last Line: For him who does not weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Mourning; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE LATIN GERUNDS, by RICHARD PORSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When dido found aeneas would not come Last Line: She mourn'd in silence, and was di-do-dum(b). Variant Title(s): Dido Subject(s): Mnemonics; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ONE OF THE DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paler, not quite so fair as in her life Last Line: Friends, she but slumbers, wherefore do ye weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement OVERTONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some listening were certain they could hear Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mourning; Music & Musicians; Bereavement PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O now, my true and dearest bride Last Line: My life may now be waning. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement POET'S DUST AND A STAR, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Stript to ash in a white urn Last Line: At the breast of a mother-sky. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Sky; Stars; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement POST-MORTEM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bustle in a house Last Line: Until eternity. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement RAIN ON A GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds spout upon her / their waters amain Last Line: All her life's round. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Rain; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am gone away Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dead Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER WITH A SONG, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Text First Line: When I am gone, stop not the dance, nor cause Last Line: Mourning is more sincere when eyes are dry. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REQUIESCAT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strew on her roses, roses Last Line: The vasty hall of death. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement RETURN, by WINIFRED K. MARICLE Poem Text First Line: An april dusk she may return Last Line: Of one who grieves. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement RHENISH AUTUMN; TO TOUSSAINT LUCA, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the dead are going to play / in the graveyard Last Line: Was the color of the autumn chestnuts Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement ROSE AYLMER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah what avails the sceptered race Last Line: I consecrate to thee. Subject(s): Aylmer, Rose Whitworth (1779-1800); Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stand confronting, the coffin between Last Line: Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.' Variant Title(s): Over The Coffin Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixpence a week,' says the girl to her lover Last Line: She passively nods. And they go that way. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Selfishness; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SECOND SPRING, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: Chinaberry blossoms Last Line: For a tiny grave. Subject(s): Irony; Mourning; Bereavement SHE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss? Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SHED NO TEARS O'ER THAT TOMB, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are all gone into the world of light! Last Line: Where I shall need no glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology SILVER, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: I cannot watch the moonlight Last Line: Silver in mine. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SNOW, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: There has been snow on fresh-turned graves Last Line: The long night through. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Mourning; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SONG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to think the pure ethereal being Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts; Afterlife; Mourning; Bereavement SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG OF THE LITTLE HYPERTROPHIC CHILD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is from a heart sickness / she is dead, the doctor says Last Line: Is it, mother, you I hear? Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Songs SONG. MONTROSS, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not, why sorrow shades my brow Last Line: I'll mourn, I'll mourn away my breath. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONG: 80, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: EARLY DEATH OF THE MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tear turns Last Line: Kingdom is born. Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What weather loves my soul the best? What / day Last Line: Such weather bred my viking forbears bold. Subject(s): April; Mourning; Bereavement SONNET, by MARY TIGHE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past the cruel anguish of suspense Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement SONNET TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. --., by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, if you have a tear to spare Last Line: Rose into uncreated light. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET: 1, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: The new bereaved alone can share this state Last Line: Against a lot unaltered by my curse. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement SONNET: 71, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Last Line: And mock you with me after I am gone. Variant Title(s): "no Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead"";the Triumph Of Death; Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These flowers shall be my offering, living flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SORROW FOR THE DEAD, by LEONIDUS S. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: Other sorrows we try to conceal Last Line: With never a lingering sorrow? Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STATIONED, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the other ones, who soon enough return Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SULLIVAN POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: March 5: first day without a fire Last Line: Moves through our bodies as if we were gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Mourning; Bereavement SUMMER HAS DIED, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a lingering death that the summer died Last Line: And the mourner will mourn nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, farewell earth's bliss! / this world uncertain is Last Line: Lord, have mercy on us. Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): A Lament;in Time Of Pestilence;in Plague Time;a Lament In Times Of Pestilence;lord, Have Mercy On Us;a Litany In Time Of Plague;death's Summons;song Of Ver And His Train Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Plague; Sickness; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness; Impermanence SUPPLICATION, by MARGARET H. BRANDON Poem Text First Line: Persephone, persephone Last Line: She is through remembering. Subject(s): Mourning; Persephone; Bereavement; Proserpine; Proserpina TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!" Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE ACTOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night a mimic death he died Last Line: No teardrop fell from any mourner's eye. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!" Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE AXE FORBIDDEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That belt of pines is dearer to his heart Last Line: And bids the little gate stand forth and mourn! Subject(s): Lumber And Lumbering; Mourning; Bereavement THE BALLAD OF KING HJORWARD'S DEATH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The norns decreed in their high home Last Line: Gather the twilight of the gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath Last Line: Her sins to her savior! Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement THE BURIED FLOWER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of my chamber Last Line: Breaks o'er deathless paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mourning; Night; Bereavement; Bedtime THE CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He often would ask us Last Line: When he had grown old. Subject(s): Choirs; Funerals; Mourning; Burials; Bereavement THE COMFORTERS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came to mourn with me, to comfort me Last Line: To hear your name! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE CREATION, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I know you are gone Subject(s): Mourning; Death; Bereavement; Dead, The THE DEAD ASTRONOMER, by CHARLES W. E. CHAPIN JR. Poem Text First Line: Dead beneath the stars he lay Last Line: In life, in death, may see thy face. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE DEAD SINGER, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Text First Line: Once more a singing soul's most airy Last Line: Like a rare urn with flowers. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE DEAD SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was in the clay Last Line: God comfort them that mourn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement THE DEATH AGONY, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who are watching when my end draws near Last Line: And pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridal garland falls upon the bier Last Line: Until the great hereafter. Mourn in hope! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE DEFEAT OF WINTER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yester morn the frozen snow Last Line: Upon it all shall melt in bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Frost; Memory; Mourning; Snow; Winter; Bereavement THE DESERTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth Last Line: And reach my father's house on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Heaven; Houses, Deserted; Mourning; Paradise; Bereavement THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free! Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Last Line: And renowned be thy grave! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence THE END, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt clouds are piled athwart the sky Last Line: Is mourning for the mighty race. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE EXEQUIES, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Draw near / you lovers that complain Last Line: To love and fate an equal sacrifice. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FEMALE'S LAMENTATIONS; OR THE VILLAGE IN MOURNING, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: Once more I visited the place / where first I drew my breath Last Line: And endless praises sing. Subject(s): Death; Home; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FLOWER, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the other day, to spend my hour Last Line: Thus all the year I mourn. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Happy Are The Dead;the Hidden Flower;i Walked The Other Day Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Mourning; Bereavement THE GATE OF FAME, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Open the portal, let me in Last Line: The key to the gate of fame. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE GENTLE LIFE; IN MEMORIAM, REV. J.V. CLANCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: This privilege was mine,--I knew the man Last Line: Have felt the warmth of his. God loved this man. Subject(s): Gentility; Mourning; Praise; Bereavement THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE GLIMPSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sped through the door Last Line: But she still keeps away! Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Supernatural; Bereavement THE GOLDEN RINGLET, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a little golden tress Last Line: A solitary ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HEART OF A SONG, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun glints the waves with silver Last Line: That we have seen mirrored in the heart of song. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE IMAM BARA: 1, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sombre shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Shadows; Dead, The; Bereavement THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE IRISH MOTHER AT HER CHILD'S GRAVE, by ELLEN FORRESTER Poem Text First Line: My very heart-strings, sure, will burst asunder Last Line: Ochone, ochone! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were lights and sounds of revelling Last Line: "my brother! Oh, my brother! Best and bravest! Thou art gone!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Mourning; Bereavement THE KISS OF GOD, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the great leader's task was done Last Line: It is not hard to die. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love he built me a bonny bower Last Line: I'll chain my heart for evermair Variant Title(s): The Border Widow's Lament;the Bonnie Bower Subject(s): Fidelity;love;mourning;widows & Widowers; Faithfulness;constancy;bereavement THE LITTLE DEAD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little dead man Last Line: And a pencil in the right. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Hands; Hearses; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement THE MOTHER MOURNS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time Last Line: Is heard not again!' Subject(s): Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that wee francesca died Subject(s): Mourning; Death - Children; Bereavement; Death - Babies THE MOURNER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! There are real mourners, - I have seen Last Line: While visions please her, and while woes destroy. Subject(s): Farewell; Mourning; Parting; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When all your bitter grief is gone Last Line: You follow her, and stand reproved. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by MARY ANN H. DODD Poem Text First Line: Thou weepest for a sister! In the bloom Last Line: "and he will send ""the comforter"" to thee." Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER A LA MODE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her last night at a party Last Line: That works in a similar way! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER FOR THE BARMECIDES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen was the house of giafar; and its name Last Line: "speak of thy lords -- they were a princely band!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Women; Bereavement THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When they had made the cradle Last Line: On the wide green earth Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement; THE MOURNERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King death sped forth in his dreaded power Last Line: Laid the mourning child in the parent's grave. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNERS, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low she lies, who blest our eyes Last Line: Ah! Wherefore do we weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNFUL ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every heart with pain is smitten Last Line: Nears the forest mournfully. Subject(s): Hearts; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE MOURNING DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheels o'er the pavement roll'd, and a slight form Last Line: The chasten'd wisdom of attemper'd bliss. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Bereavement THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music, in a heart that's true Last Line: The music o' the dead, john. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Bereavement THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE NITHSDALE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon Last Line: And as for killing the ruffian dragoon he never did repent. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Despair; Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement THE NOBLEST SERVICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all his mourning friends Last Line: He leads us, answering glory's highest call. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD GOWN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen her in gowns the brightest Last Line: "shall I see his face again?" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE PAST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the songs that maids sang in times past Last Line: God, what have you done with their love! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Past; Bereavement THE PATH OF TEARS: 8. THE SECRET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, sweet maids and men with shining tribute Last Line: O love, that I am dead! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Bereavement THE PINK FROCK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my pretty pink frock Last Line: And not so cheated!' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mourning; Bereavement THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PROCESSION OF THE DUMB, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In deep thought-watches with the night, a host Last Line: "and burn anew as lit from god's own light.' " Subject(s): Mourning; Worship; Bereavement THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE SECRET MOURNER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all the others to the church I come Last Line: And they all know—who grieve in secret so! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SHATTERED DREAM, by EVA L. CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Not often do I come to kneel Last Line: And you alone will understand. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: NOVEMBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colin, my deare, when shall it please thee sing Last Line: Now gynnes to mizzle, hye we homeward fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Mourning; November; Bereavement THE SHOSHANAH, by GEORGE E. CHODOWSKY Poem Text First Line: A lily lies broken and bare on a highway Last Line: "in zion to flourish again." Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Mourning; Zionism; Judaism; Bereavement THE SILENT ONE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we break the chancel of the dead? Last Line: Of loves and passions that long time have set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Passion; Dead, The; Bereavement THE SONG OF PASSING, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of this loving and this grieving Last Line: O my mourners. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SONG OF THE MERMAIDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troop home to silent grots and caves Last Line: But we have none! But we have none! Variant Title(s): Chorus Of Sirens;siren Chorus;the Mermaidens' Versper-hymn Subject(s): Mourning; Seals (animals); Silence; Solitude; Bereavement; Loneliness THE SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TREE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think of her when she shall be dead Last Line: Who lost a resting-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Seasons; Trees; Dead, The; Bereavement THE TWAIN, by HERMAN AUGUSTUS HEYDT Poem Text First Line: A mournful dirge, the northwinds sigh Last Line: Two loving, kind and worthy men! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE TWO MONUMENTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banners hung drooping from on high Last Line: Like him to live and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Monuments; Mourning; Bereavement THE UNQUIET GRAVE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the wind doth blow to-day, my love" Last Line: Till god calls you away Subject(s): Fidelity;graves;love;mourning; Faithfulness;constancy;tombs;tombstones;bereavement THE UNVEILING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind stirs the gauze from the stone Last Line: The thing you find so precious is all over town Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Mourning; Relatives; Burials; Bereavement THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WISH, by DONALD HALL Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE WOMAN IN THE RYE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you stand in the dripping rye Last Line: Wrapt in a peace withheld from me!' Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE YOKE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement THEKLA AT HER LOVER'S GRAVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice was in my soul! It called me on Last Line: Be with the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THEN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then when the ample season Last Line: "till the unreturning leaves Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THERE IS NO GOD BUT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the 'name of the merciful' let night begin Last Line: In no one's name but hers I let night begin Subject(s): Death; God; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THIS EVENING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sketched this evening Last Line: In the sadness of swans and the dew. Subject(s): Evening; Mourning; October; Silence; Sunset; Twilight; Bereavement THRENODY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My heart is there Last Line: "there is my treasure, and my heart is there" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THYRSIS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How changed is here each spot man makes or fills Last Line: Our scholar travels yet the loved hill-side. Subject(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861); England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement TITA'S TEARS; A FANTASY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man of ischia - it is thus Last Line: Alas, for tita's tears! Subject(s): Tears; Mourning; Bereavement TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO A BEREAVED FRIEND, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast folded Last Line: Even to heaven, from such a love as thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A DEPARTED SPIRIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bright stars, or from the viewless air Last Line: Answer me, answer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A FRIEND: IN MEMORIAM, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's for you whose name's better omitted - since for Last Line: From the shores = who knows which? Though for now it has no importance Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A LADY WHO HAD LOST A RELATIVE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more to grace the happy hearth Last Line: The comfort, human or divine? Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A MOURNER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep not - you whose hope is dust Last Line: Live and die, but sleep not. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW, by ELIZABETH TOUSEY Poem Text First Line: I wear a quiet garb today Last Line: With love's memorial flower. Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TO G.M.T., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: To love as good as thine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Love; Mourning; Patience; Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962); Dead, The; Bereavement TO HESTER [SAVORY], by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When maidens such as hester die Last Line: A sweet fore-warning? Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): Hester Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO HIS DEAR BROTHER COLONEL F.L. MOURNING DEATH AT CARMARTHEN, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If tears could wash the ill away Last Line: Doth starry influence dissolve. Subject(s): Brothers; Carmarthen, Wales; Mourning; Half-brothers; Bereavement TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life of my life, take not so soone thy flight Last Line: Heavy, to hurt those sacred seeds of thee. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement TO LIZBIE BROWNE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lizbie browne / where are you now? Last Line: Yes, lizbie browne! Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement TO MARY IN HEAVEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lingering star, with lessening ray Last Line: Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: MAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life was once a span; now one of those Last Line: Since through a double mean nought right appears. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE CHAMBER, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Entering your door, I started back; sure this Last Line: That all things mask their better qualities? Subject(s): Houses; Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE EXCUSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor can your sex's easiness excuse Last Line: They're comets in the troubled air appear. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE REASONS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it because he died, or that his years Last Line: To wish him long life, then, had been a curse! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the honey drops of pearly showers Last Line: Heaven put his hand forth, and did glean.' Subject(s): Flowers; Mourning; Roses; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE TEARS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You modern wits, who call this world a star Last Line: Will, at last, see to recompense her pain. Subject(s): Mourning; Tears; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THURSDAY, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I'm resolv'd the crazy universe Last Line: And all, as you, become untimely grey. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO ONE BEREFT, by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN Poem Text First Line: War drums shall never summon him, nor cold Last Line: Such love can not be covered in a grave. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO THE BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were a part of the green country Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears" Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness; TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, too little and too lately known Last Line: But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. Variant Title(s): Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Oldham Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Oldham, John (1653-1683); Dead, The; Bereavement TO THE MOST DISCONSOLATE GREAT BRITAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pale famine fed on thee Last Line: Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune and glory may be lost and won Last Line: Which to his brother's life men wished, and wished them right. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTUOUS THE LADY ELIZABETH, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So parted you as if the world for ever Last Line: To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED KING JAMES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O grief, how divers are thy shapes wherein men languish Last Line: When we were least aware. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED QUEEN ANNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now dead night, and not a light on earth Last Line: Since fate in taking one hath thus disordered all. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Mourning; Bereavement TO THE WORLD, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poor distracted world partly a slave Last Line: In thine expect the hopes were ripe in thee. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew Last Line: His soul has gone aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THESE WAVES OF YOUR GREAT HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You battling with your own heart, speaking the words of peace in vain Last Line: At your feet now mournfully breaking. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Mourning; Childhood; Bereavement TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DEAD COMRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There among the woods, after the battle returning Last Line: And faint in death the lips I love so well. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement TRIOLET IN MINOR, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN Poem Text First Line: Mournful is the autumn rain Last Line: When the ghost of summer grieves. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After death nothing is, and nothing death Last Line: Dreams, whimseys, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mourning; Nothingness; Bereavement; Nihilism; Voids TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness UNCLE ANANIAS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His words were magic and his heart was true Last Line: Did love him faithfully. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement UNCLE JO, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have in memory a little story Last Line: Above his dust,—poor jo, he had no friends! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement UNDER THE CLOUD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cloud we pass Last Line: And our sorrow is glorified. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement UPON THE MUST LAMENTED, MR. J. WARR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wisdome, learning, wit, or worth Last Line: Not one, but many monuments. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement VALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may deep country beckon and ope and Last Line: And let him walk with thee about thy shepherd's business. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement WAR IS KIND: 31, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once I saw thee idly rocking Last Line: And make her mourn with my mourning. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, weep for him, the man of god Last Line: Weep, children of israel, weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise; Judaism; Bereavement WEEPING; FOR DAVE KELLY FROM LONG AGO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six days of clouds since Last Line: I must die before them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement WELCOME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will not banish them as they were lost Last Line: Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHEN DAMON LANGUISH'D, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When damon languish'd at my feet Last Line: Shall waft the spirit there. Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement WHEN MARY DIED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She only died last week and yet Last Line: That budded when she went away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement WHITTIER - AT NEWBURYPORT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, with all good cheer! Last Line: Thus my hail: good cheer! Good cheer! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mourning; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bereavement WREATHS, by CAROLYN HILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Red wreaths / hang in my neighbor's window Last Line: Red for new pain. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement YE WHO MOURN-, by GRACE WILSON EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Ye who mourn Last Line: Weep in anguish ... For the dead living. Subject(s): Lament; Mourning; Soul; Bereavement |
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