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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: DEAD, THE Matches Found: 5621 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "BENJAMIN DISRAELI, EARL OF BEACONSFIELD", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Disraeli dead! The trappings of late days Last Line: A tear upon the wreath Subject(s): "death;disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881);honor;jews;memory;" "dead, The;judaism; "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; "LINES WRITTEN AFTER A BATTLE, BY AN ASSISTANT SURGEON", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Stiff are the warrior's muscles Last Line: The warrior is dead Subject(s): Death;soldiers; "dead, The; "MAN'S LIFE; AN INSCRIPTION IN OSMINGTON CHURCH, DORSET", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Man is a glas: life is / a water that's weakly Last Line: The water out / finis Subject(s): Death;hourglasses; "dead, The; "SWEET SUFFOLK OWL, SO TRIMLY DIGHT", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "and sings a dirge for dying souls, / 'te whit, te whoo!'" Subject(s): Birds;death;owls; "dead, The; 1914: 5. THE SOLDIER, by RUPERT BROOKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should die, think only this of me Last Line: In hearts at peace, under an english heaven. Variant Title(s): The Soldier Subject(s): Death; England; Environment; Fields; Flowers; Patriotism; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; English; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; First World War 1932, by LINDA PASTAN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw my name in print the other day Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 1940 LASALLE, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did I or didn't I write about lucky burkin? Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Gambling; Death; Wagering; Betting; Dead, The 1967, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In five-score summers! All new eyes Last Line: That thy worm should be my worm, love! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The 1990 SPECIAL, by CHARLES BUKOWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Year-worn Subject(s): Death; Cats; Dead, The 4 TED, by SIMON PETTET Poem Text First Line: O wait a minute, there's something in my eye no Last Line: —and still love—him. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Loss; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The 851, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A flying pigeon hit me on a fall day Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A BABY'S DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little soul scarce fledged for earth Last Line: The song that smiled. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Roundels; Soul; Infants; Dead, The A BABY'S EPITAPH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: April, made me: winter laid me here away asleep Last Line: Here I sleep not: pass, and weep not here upon your child. Subject(s): April; Babies; Death; Epitaphs; Infants; Dead, The A BALLAD IN BLANK VERSE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His father's house looked out across a firth Last Line: Women to love are waiting everywhere.' Subject(s): Aphrodite; Atheism; Christianity; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Parents; Pride; Dead, The; Relatives; Parenthood; Self-esteem; Self-respect A BALLAD OF A COWARD, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpets pealed; the echoes sang Last Line: And happy and amazed fell dead. Subject(s): Cowardice; Death; Family Life; Redemption; War; Dead, The; Relatives A BALLAD OF A WORKMAN, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day beneath polluted skies Last Line: And forge and mould the world anew.' Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Ambition; Death; Hope; Labor & Laborers; Temptation; Dead, The; Optimism; Work; Workers A BALLAD OF AN ARTIST'S WIFE, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet wife, this heavy-hearted age Last Line: "and in her peace forever dwell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hunger; Marriage; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kneel down, fair love, and fill thyself with tears Last Line: Death shall come in with thee. Subject(s): Death; Fantasy; Love; Dead, The A BALLAD OF EUTHANASIA, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In magic books she read at night Last Line: Of death is love and life.' Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Magic; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A BALLAD OF LANCELOT, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By coasts where scalding deserts reek Last Line: The look, the soul of guinevere. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Despair; Fathers & Sons; Grail; Lancelot Du Lac; Love; Loyalty; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Holy Grail; Graal A BALLAD OF PAST MERIDIAN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last [or, one] night returning from my twilight walk Last Line: Of death, of life, those inwound notes are mine. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The A BIRTHDAY PRESENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is this, behind this veil, is it ugly, is it beautiful? Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Birthdays; Dead, The A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 1, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest lesbia, let us live and love Last Line: And crown with love my ever-during night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Dead, The A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came Last Line: And all but me asleep! Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism A BOUTS-RIMES SONNET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I grew half delirious and quite sick Last Line: Creature had love for me, and others spite. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Sickness; Sleep; Dead, The; Illness A BUNCH OF ROSES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses ruddy and roses white Last Line: Bending his head to a bunch of roses. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Hearts; Life; Roses; Dead, The A BURDEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They lie at rest asleep and dead Last Line: Hallelujah, amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): My Old Friends Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares A BUSH LEGEND, by MARIE E. J. PITT Poem Text First Line: Back in the heart of the gippsland hills Last Line: Listens and makes no sign. Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Legends; Dead, The A CAMEO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a graven image of desire Last Line: Upon whose lock was written peradventure. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Idols; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A CAPTIVE DEER, by IDA M. FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: A spirit cowed, that once has faced Last Line: A spirit cowed? Subject(s): Courage; Death; Deer; Freedom; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Liberty A CASUALTY, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That boy I took in the car last night Last Line: "my feet, please wrap 'em -- they're cold . . . They're cold." Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The A CASUALTY LIST, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was always waiting in our mother's eyes Last Line: Anxiety or wonder any more. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; War - Home Front; Dead, The A CATCH (4), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "a fig for care, why should we spare" Last Line: Sir john shall lay our bones in clay / where nobody means to find us Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; A CHILD'S FUTURE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will it please you, my darling, hereafter to be? Last Line: Fear not at all; for a slave, if he fears not, is free. Subject(s): Death; Future; Dead, The A CONSECRATION, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the princes and prelates with periwigged charioteers Last Line: Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Social Classes; Dead, The; Liberty; Caste A COUNSEL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh weep for the glory departed Last Line: And have paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hope; Dead, The; Paradise; Optimism A COUNTRY BURIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ample make this bed Last Line: Interrupt this ground. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A CRY, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Lo, I am weary of all Last Line: There will never be rest for me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A CRY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wanderer in unknown lands, what cheer? Last Line: So thou and I shall triumph over death! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A CUP OF WATER, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you awoke in the night and asked for water Last Line: A cup of water,—and sleep came down on the sight. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The A CURIOUS REMINISCENCE, by ALEXANDER MONTGOMERY (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Of all the bloomin' awful things, the awfullest I've knowed Last Line: An' gallops off like madmen through the rain. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Memory; Practical Jokes; Dead, The; Wine; Pranks A DAY AT CASTROGIOVANNI: 2. PROSERPINE BY LAKE PERGUSA, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lifted on hollow lands and grassy miles Last Line: Dark lover, death, -- was he not beautiful? Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Lakes; Persephone; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds; Proserpine; Proserpina A DAY'S RIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Bold are the mounted robbers who on stolen horses ride Last Line: "of walker's fight with thunderbolt, that ride for life and death" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;horse Racing;hunting; "dead, The;hunters; A DEAD AIRMAN, by MORAY DALTON Poem Text First Line: May's tapestry of green and gold Last Line: Can so view death. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; War; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The A DEAD FRIEND, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It hardly seems that he is dead Last Line: To fall upon his face. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEAD MARCH, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Play me a march low-toned and slow, a march for a silent tread Last Line: Ah, for the face -- the flower of flowers -- that blossoms on earth no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEAD SONG-WRITER, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eutychides is dead, and what is worse Last Line: Is where in hell, now he's in hell, to go. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEAD WOMAN, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, she was beauteous; if the night Last Line: In which she never read! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The A DEAD YEAR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took a year out of my life and story Last Line: "and so dost thou." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hearts; Life; Nations; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The A DEATH, by WILLIAM WRIGHTSON EUSTACE ROSS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Often in times before Last Line: In that murderous dark wood. Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, W. W. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crushed with a burden of woe Last Line: And the angel of mercy stood there. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH AT THE OFFICE, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The news goes desk to desk Subject(s): Death; Office Employees; Dead, The; Clerks A DEATH IN THE BUSH, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hut was built of bark and shrunken slabs Last Line: "on hills that ""slope through darkness up to god." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH OF A FIRST-BORN (JANUARY 14, 1892), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One young life lost, two happy young lives blighted Last Line: Shall rise up of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A DEATH ON EASTER DAY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong spring sun rejoicingly may rise Last Line: Out of the likeness of the shadow of death. Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Light; Dead, The; The Resurrection A DEATH SCENE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O day! He cannot die Last Line: So I knew that he was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): From A D- W- In The N.c. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH SONG, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass Last Line: Ef I 's layin' 'mong de t'ings I 's allus knowed. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The A DEATH SONG, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What cometh here from west to east a-wending? Last Line: But one and all if they would dusk the day. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH-BED, by JAMES ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her suffering ended with the day Last Line: And walked in paradise! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH-BED, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At length the gusts of anguish cease Last Line: But she is more to us. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH-DAY RECALLED, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beeny did not quiver Last Line: Of their former friend? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DEATH-PARTING, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves and rain and the days of the year Last Line: (with a wind blown night and day.) Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DIALOGUE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is a dialogue between Last Line: An overcoat of clay. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The A DIALOGUE UPON DEATH; PHILLIS AND DAMON, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Damon, amidst the blisses, we Last Line: Change thus may whet chaste appetites. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DIALOGUE: 1., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, if thou wilt, fain would I plead with thee Last Line: Death, if thou wilt? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Dead, The A DIALOGUE: 2., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man, what art thou to speak and plead with me? Last Line: Man, what art thou? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Dead, The A DIALOGUE: 3., by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, if thou be or be not, as was said Last Line: Death, if thou be. Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Dead, The A DIRGE, by THOMAS D'URFEY Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep poor youth, sleep, sleep in peace Last Line: The folly of, &c. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DIRGE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal child, lay thee where / earth is gift and giver Last Line: Shall disturb thee never. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials A DIRGE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why were you born when the snow was falling? Last Line: For sweet things dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The A DIRGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell tolls on in my heart Last Line: Death gives thee at last good day. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness A DIRGE (1), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm on the bosom of thy god Last Line: In heaven is now thine own. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Fear; Soul; Dead, The A DIRGE CONCERNING THE LATE ... KING OF THE CANNIBAL ISLANDS, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS CROFFUT Poem Text First Line: And so our royal relative is dead? Last Line: To write of one who loved his fellow men! Alternate Author Name(s): Croffut, W. A. Subject(s): Cannibals; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fame; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Reputation A DIRGE UPON THE DEATH OF THE VALIANT LORD, BERNARD STUART, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hence, hence, profane; soft silence let us have Last Line: Lesse in these marble stones, then in thy story. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DISCORD, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The buds were out on the lilac-trees Last Line: That sweet spring morning, was lying dead. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The A DOG WAS CRYING TONIGHT IN WICKLOW ALSO, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When human beings found out about death Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The A DOG'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A DOUBTFUL CHOICE, by EDWARD DE VERE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Were I a king I might command content Last Line: A kingdom! Or a cottage! Or a grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bulbeck, Lord; Oxford, 17th Earl Of; Vere, Edward De Variant Title(s): The Earle Of Oxenforde To The Reader: 16;a Choice;epigram Subject(s): Death; Life; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes A DREAM OF DEATH, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we sail to-day? Thus said, methought Last Line: And the great sun arose upon the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DREAM OF DEATH, by LUCY WHITE JENNISON Poem Text First Line: I died; they wrapped me in a shroud Last Line: Arise, and love me, helena! Alternate Author Name(s): Innsley, Owen Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares A DREAM OF DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Last Line: And heard the mournful breeze. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DREAM OF DEATH (VARIANT VERSION), by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Last Line: But now lies under boards. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A DYING SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unhappily divided state Last Line: Author of life, and vanquisher of death! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A FAMILY FAVORITE, by LOUIS JONES MAGEE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a cat of local fame Last Line: All pure and beautiful. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Comedy; Death; Epitaphs; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas A FAREWELL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only in my deep heart I love you, sweetest heart Last Line: Until that dawn, dear heart, good-night, good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise A FAREWELL TO HIS MUSE, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The floorboards creak Subject(s): Old Age; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A FEAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I roamed the woods today and seemed to hear Last Line: "you died long since, and all this thing is hell!" Subject(s): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321); Death; Fear; Dead, The A FEVER, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh do not die, for I shall hate / all women so, when thou art gone Last Line: Of thee one hour, than all else ever. Variant Title(s): A Feaver Subject(s): Death; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness A FIG FOR THEE, OH! DEATH, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou king of terrors with thy ghastly eyes Last Line: I still am where I was, a fig for thee. Subject(s): Death; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The A FLOWER PASSAGE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if you were above the ground this year Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The A FORSAKEN GARDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In a coign of the cliff between lowland and highland Last Line: Death lies dead. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean A FRENCH SONG IMITATED, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why thus from the plain does thy shepherdess rove Last Line: When I leave all the plain, you may guess 'tis for one. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A FRIEND KILLED IN THE WAR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night, the fat serpent, slipped among the plants, Last Line: Red at the heart, white petals furling out Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you should lose me Last Line: I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap. Variant Title(s): A Friend's Pleading Words To A Second Person Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Nature; Reunions; Dead, The; Burials 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 FUNERAL THOUGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the stern genius, to whose hollow tramp Last Line: My monument sublime. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Kisses; Love; Thought; Dead, The; Burials; Thinking A GENESIS TEXT FOR LARRY LEVIS, WHO DIED ALONE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It will always happen -- the death of a friend Last Line: But where was that woman and her snake when we needed them? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; Levis, Larry (1946-1996); Memory; Men; Dead, The A GEOLOGICAL NIGHTMARE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lurid volcanoes were guarding the pole Last Line: Where they wait them the dragon and ichthyosaur! Subject(s): Death; Dinosaurs; Fossils; Geology; Nature; Volcanoes; Dead, The A GIRL'S SONGS: 1, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have three rings on my hand Last Line: Pretend I would not fear to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; Jewelry & Jewelers; Dead, The; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces A GLANCE AYONT THE GRAVE, by ANDREW CRAWFURD Poem Text First Line: My boyhood was a pleasant dreim Last Line: An' airts us to our beild in hevin'. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A GOOD MAN, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: He lived a very blameless life Last Line: But none remembered quite his name. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Good; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise 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 GRACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For all the beryl, pearl and chrysoprase Last Line: Gloria tibi domine! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Stones; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks A GRACE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Weary and wishful of the woods, we hear Last Line: Always thyself abideth, calm and strong! Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Fate; Life; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists A GRANDFATHER'S LAST LETTER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elise, I have your valentine with the red shoes. I have Last Line: Where I am going. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Letters; Parents; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Parenthood A GRANNY, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: The cross her withered fingers hold Last Line: Here was thy meek, thy trusting, stainless heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Religion; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Theology A GRAVE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Man looking into the sea Last Line: In which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Variant Title(s): A Graveyard Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sea; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean A HANDFUL OF DUST, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stooped to the silent earth and lifted a handful of her dust Last Line: Who is trying to speak to us? Subject(s): Death; Dust; Past; Dead, The A HIDDEN LIFE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Proudly the youth, sudden with manhood crowned Last Line: Arose and died upon the listener's ear. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Education; Family Life; Farm Life; God; Love; Quiet Life; Dead, The; Relatives; Agriculture; Farmers A HINT TO THE FARMERS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farmers, whose income, day by day Last Line: "the public will find railing!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Kisses; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A HUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was just a prisoner Last Line: Would never know how bravely a son had died. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Germany; Injustice; Prisoners Of War; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Germans; First World War A HUNGER SONG, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some are fed on kingly fare Last Line: Feed me not, love, on crumbs. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Love; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The A KNIGHT-ERRANT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though he lived and died among us Last Line: Raised his eyes to god, and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Truth; Dead, The A LAMENT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the twilight, silent smiled Last Line: Since, dear maiden, dead thou art. Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; Lament; Love; Dead, The A LAMENT, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gentle maids of samos' isle Last Line: The sleep that must be slept by all! Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The A LAMENT FOR PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is there no fading of thy central fire Last Line: It is where it should be -- beside the good and brave! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Lament; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The A LAMENT FOR THE SUMMER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moan, o ye autumn winds! Last Line: And leave us desolate and earth forlorn! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Lament; Seasons; Summer; Wind; Dead, The A LAMENTATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by THOMAS MORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O ye that put your trust and confidence Last Line: My palace builded is, and lo now here I lie. Variant Title(s): A Rueful Lamentation Of The Death Of Queen Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Elizabeth, Queen Consort Of Henry Vii; Mortality; Dead, The A LAST DESIRE, by ROSE M. BURDICK Poem Text First Line: When I am old and gray, and long for rest Last Line: Till death and mercy bear my soul above! Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The A LAST WISH, by CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart has ceased for ever beating out / the dirge of time Last Line: For the weary sleeper chooses but the evergreen and cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Wishes; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A LEAF FROM THE DEVIL'S JEST-BOOK, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the sewing-table chained and bent Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A LEAVE-TAKING, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She will not smile; Last Line: Thus, some day! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Lips; Smiles; Tears; Dead, The A LEGEND OF HELL GATE, 1675, by GIDEON JOHN TUCKER Poem Text First Line: A saucy boat was the annetje block Last Line: When the hell gate tide is out. Subject(s): Death; Legends; New York City - Dutch Period; Sea Voyages; Tragedy; Dead, The A LEGEND OF THE MOON, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightlong I yearned so madly toward the moon Last Line: Of moons and mortals and of olden days. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Earth; Legends; Life; Mankind; Moon; Urban Life; Dead, The; World; Human Race A LETTER FROM OCTAVIA: TO THE LADY MARGARET, COUNTESS OF CUMBERLAND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the meaner sort, whose thoughts are placed Last Line: Being secretary now but to the dead. Subject(s): Cumberland, Margaret Clifford, Countess; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A LITANY, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I remember him falling beside me Last Line: Or lay in the shallow spoon. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The A LITLE BUD, by T. H. DUNN Poem Text First Line: He came one day, in springtime gay Last Line: Beneath the leaves there is no pain. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A LITTLE WHILE, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the smiling and the weeping Last Line: Lord, tarry not, but come. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A LONG DAY, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking all this day she may be dead Last Line: Because I took away her bit of bread. Subject(s): Bread; Death; Farewell; Food & Eating; Hunger; Dead, The; Parting A LOST LETTER, by CLEMENT WILLIAM SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just read this letter, old friend of mine Last Line: "I had lived far better and died in peace!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LOVER FOR DEATH, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh, who will find a lover for death and for her only? Last Line: And all who sleep with her lie curiously still. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A LYKE-WAKE DIRGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "this ae nighte [night], this ae nighte [night]" Last Line: And christ receive thy saule [soul] Variant Title(s): The Cleveland Lyke Wake Dirge Subject(s): Death;judgment Day;wakes; "dead, The;end Of The World;doomsday;fall Of Man; A LYKE-WAKE SONG, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair of face, full of pride Last Line: Nae man kens if ye have been. Subject(s): Death; Pride; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect A MAN GETS OFF WORK EARLY, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And decides to snorkel in a cool mountain lake. Subject(s): Snorkeling; Death; Lakes; Pollution; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds A MAN PROSPECTING, by J. E. LIDDLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man prospecting for the gold Last Line: He weakened, raved, and soon he died. Alternate Author Name(s): Kodak; Liddle, John Edward Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Gold Mines & Miners; Insanity; Pain; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery A MAPLE LEAF, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So bright in death I used to say Last Line: The gold and scarlet of the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The A MARSH MESSAGE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The melancholy marshes brood Last Line: The young fresh soul that was so fair? Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Soul; Swamps; Voices; Dead, The; Ocean; Bogs; Fens; Marshes A MARTYR, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is over the horrible pain Last Line: Shall I joy with her joy in the end? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Martyrs; Sleep; Dead, The; Joy; Delight A MARTYR'S DEATH, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is now elijah's god?' Last Line: And died for them a martyr's death. Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob Subject(s): Death; Elijah; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism A MEDITATION FOR HIS MISTRESS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are a tulip seen today Last Line: As he, the maker of this song. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The A MEMORIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, thicker, deeper, darker growing Last Line: And where thou art must still be home. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A MEMORY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is just the weather, a wet may and blowing Last Line: "god send fine weather to carry home the sheaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Fathers; God; Memory; Piety; Trust; Weather; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers A MEMORY: BANKS OF CALDER AND COUSIN DORA, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Straying, musing, singing, dreaming Last Line: She has passed away! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Brooks; Cousins; Death; Nature; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The A METAPHYSICIAN DREAMS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I had died and that small analyst Last Line: And found himself again where he began. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Soul; Worms; Dead, The; Nightmares A MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often have I said Last Line: The christ–soul of the universe to shine. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Meditation; Night; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime A MIDSUMMER MEMORY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swift april ardors bring the white of may Last Line: Rests, circled by that promise: they shall see! Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Soul; Spring; Arthur, King; Dead, The A MISSION FULFILLED, by CATHARINE R. HEALY Poem Text First Line: Looking with pity at an old dead tree Last Line: Then what else I say could matter at all? Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The A MITHER'S CRY (WRITTEN ON A SISTER'S GRAVE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We played together, she and I Last Line: And her two bairns upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Sisters; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A MOMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The field where my brother died Last Line: The next you're alone in a field. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Fratricide; Murder; Half-brothers; Dead, The 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 MORNING THOUGHT, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What if some morning, when the stars were paling Last Line: "and take my hand and say, ""my name is death""?" Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The A MOTHER'S CHRONOLOGY, by EVELYN MABEL WATSON Poem Text First Line: You measure life by months and days Last Line: With which I grieving deck his grave. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Time; Dead, The A MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by NORMAN MACLEOD (1812-1872) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Sune ye'll lay yer mither doon in her lanely bed and narrow Last Line: O love their god, and be gude bairns, and o love ane anither! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR HER DROWNED SON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "alas, alas thine empty seat, my son!" Last Line: They hold no love for me. I would go hence Subject(s): Children - Lost;death;drowning;lament;mothers & Sons; "dead, The; A MOTHER'S LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF HER BOY-CHILD, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The warm simmer sun in his glory is shinin' Last Line: Or hoo can a mither dae wantin' her bairn? Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The A MOUNTAINGRAVEYARD, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a sleeping-place is here! Last Line: This still-shadowed burial ground. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Love; Mountains; Graveyards; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) A NATURE-LOVER PASSES, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: Bees, go tell the things he treasured Last Line: Bid his loved wild things befriend him! Subject(s): Bees; Death; Insects; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Bugs A NAVVY'S PHILOSOPHY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across life's varied ways we drift Last Line: Beside the master of the hall. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Brotherhood; Death; Labor & Laborers; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Work; Workers A NEOCLASSICIST, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know your moral sources, prig Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Old Age; Dead, The; Nightmares; Male-female Relations A NEREID (2), by ALEKSANDR SERGEYEVICH PUSHKIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among the glaucous waves that kiss gold tauris' beaches Last Line: From her soft hair she wrung the foam in garlands drifting. Alternate Author Name(s): Pushkin, Alexander; Poushkin, Aleksander Sergyevich Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Paradise A NEW MOTHER, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was with my lady when she died Last Line: -- well, I loved my own dear lady best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Love; Marriage; Mothers; Tears; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A NEW-YEAR ODE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice twelve times have the springs of years refilled Last Line: One heart benign, one soul supreme, one conquering name. Subject(s): Death; God; Holidays; Life; New Year; Dead, The A NEWLY DISCOVERED 'HOMERIC' HYMN (FOR JANE HARRISON), by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail and beware the dead who will talk life until you are blue Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A NIGHT-PIECE ON DEATH, by THOMAS PARNELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By the blue taper's trembling light, / no more I waste the wakeful night Last Line: "and mingle with the blaze of day." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A NIGHTINGALE AT FRESNOY, by JESSIE BELL RITTENHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never, they say, were guns so loud Last Line: To sing the song of life! Alternate Author Name(s): Scollard, Clinton, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Nightingales; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A NIGHTMARE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a friend in ghostland Last Line: See a secret I must keep. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): A Coast-nightmare Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sea; Soul; Supernatural; Dead, The; Ocean A PAINTING OF MA-LIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just because you painted it so, ma-lin Last Line: Give wings to the heart! Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Death; Life; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The A PARABLE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stone strikes the body, because Last Line: With him until he dies. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A PASTORAL, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was whit sunday yesterday Last Line: That he was dead, that I must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A PEAL OF BELLS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the bells wantonly Last Line: His death is full, and mine begun. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Bells; Death; Dead, The A PHANTOM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little baby, you have wandered far away Last Line: And will not kiss nor touch me with its hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The A PHONECALL FROM FRANK O'HARA, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was living in san francisco Last Line: Dialing manhattan Variant Title(s): A Phone Call From Frank O'hara Subject(s): Death; O'hara, Frank (1926-1966); Dead, The A PICTURE, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is not gone; - still in our sight Last Line: Where cloud is none, nor change. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A PINDARIC ODE, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave infant of saguntum clear Last Line: Had sowed these fruits, and got the harvest in. Variant Title(s): To The Immortal Memory ... Noble Pair, Sir Lucius Cary And Sir Henry Morrison;the Ode On Cary And Morison Subject(s): Cary, Lucius. 2d Viscount Falkland; Courage; Death; Life; Morison, Sir Henry (1608-1629); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The A PINDARICK, TO THE ATHENIAN SOCIETY, by ELIZABETH SINGER Poem Text First Line: I've toucht each string, each muse I have invok't Last Line: A female breast did ne're before commence. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny A POEM UPON THE DEATH OF OLIVER CROMWELL, THE LORD PROTECTOR, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That providence which had so long the care Last Line: He threats no deluge, yet fore tells a showre. Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; Dead, The A POET'S ELEGY, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests, at last, from worldly care and strife Last Line: "than aught he ever wrote!" Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE LITTLE ANNUITANT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: He has departed by the road, the poor man, summoning up such Last Line: So opportunely comes? Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE TWO CLOWNS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: - synthetic clown-clown, hip hip, whirl! Last Line: That he could not whirl a hurricane. Subject(s): Clowns; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The A PORTFOLIO OF SKETCHES: THE VISIT OF DEATH, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A small, pale hand brushes against the lock, lengthens, and with one Last Line: Of the moon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A POSTSCRIPT, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy latest leaf is shed Last Line: Death seems to make thee dearer! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A PRAYER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me not die o lord, till I have done Last Line: That sings and sighs, then falls to wake no more? Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Prayer; Dead, The A PRAYER, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: .....And today Last Line: His loneliness away. God, grant me this. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Parents; Prayer; Infants; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Parenthood A PRAYER, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On some triumphant morning when the sky Last Line: —o! Life!—shall dare to think of me as dead. Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The A PRAYER FOR BROKEN LITTLE FAMILIES, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, pity broken little families Last Line: Growing, day by day, more closely into oneness with each other. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives A PRAYER IN THE PROSPECT OF DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou unknown almighty cause Last Line: Delighteth to forgive. Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The A PRAYER TO DEATH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god's archangel, tarriest thou so late? Last Line: Exquisite silences, forgotten rest. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Prayer; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A REAL INCIDENT OF THE PERSECUTING TIMES IN SCOTLAND, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She lay within that lonely cot Last Line: He rose, and scotland left for aye. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Persecution; Religion; Scotland; Dead, The; Theology A REASONABLE AFFLICTION (1), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On his death-bed poor lubin lies Last Line: His wife, that he may live.' Variant Title(s): Cause And Effect Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A REBEL, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tie a bandage over his eyes Last Line: We would have no more power left to look on that dead face. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; Dead, The A REFUSAL TO MOURN, by DEREK MAHON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lived in a small farm-house Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A REIVER'S NECK-VERSE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some die singing, and some die swinging Last Line: A twine of a tow for me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A REPLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My poems no longer are 'beautiful' Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A RHYME OF DEATH'S INN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rhyme of good death's inn Last Line: She hath come back no more. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A RHYME OF THE WEST, by FREDERICK WILLIAM OPHEL Poem Text First Line: It was reuben steel that led the way, and his mate was palmer jake Last Line: That the wandering winds might ring at will a requiem for the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Prospect Good; Ophel, F. W. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Friendship; Sacrifices; Dead, The A ROSE WHISPERS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the flower within her garden-close Last Line: Softly -- to die! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes - 'tis decreed my sword no more Last Line: As e'er in battle bar'd my breast. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The A SEA-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cry, I cry Last Line: And my heart that is mad. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean A SEAFOG, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the sea came a chill gray mist Last Line: As it bows to its gracious king. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Grief; Praise; Soul; Dead, The; Haze; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SECRET OF THE SEA, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down at the bottom of the sea Last Line: And the deep sea give up its dead! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Dead, The A SEMINOLE, by FRANCES BALLMAN Poem Text First Line: A seminole died with the sun in the west Last Line: A seminole died. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Seminole Indians; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America A SEQUENCE OF WOMEN: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The girl who was once my mistress Last Line: Focus to this dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Midas; Poetry & Poets; Women; Dead, The A SETTLER'S GRAVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 19. TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The time you won your town the race Last Line: The garland briefer than a girl's. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): A Shropshire Lad: 19 Subject(s): Athletes; Death; Dead, The A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 27, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is my team ploughing [plowing] / that I used to drive Last Line: Never ask me whose. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): The Voice From A Grave Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 SIGH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was nothing but a rose I gave her Last Line: Cannot make it old Subject(s): Death;flowers;roses; "dead, The; A SISTER OF SORROW: 1. UP THE ROAD, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, he walks by the windy gate Last Line: "daughter, I tell you the dead are dead." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A SLUMBER DID MY SPIRIT SEAL, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With rocks, and stones, and trees Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A SNAKE ..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A snake no bigger Last Line: On the open clasp. Variant Title(s): A Snake Subject(s): Animals; Death; Eurydice (nymph); Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers A SOLDIER LISTENS, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was it came to distress you? Last Line: Who from the clamoring dead? Subject(s): Death; Pain; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery A SOLILOQUY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by JAMES FORDYCE Poem Text First Line: Struck with religious awe and solemn dread Last Line: What we must shortly be—and you are now. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A SON WITH A FUTURE, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he was four years old, he stood at the window during a Subject(s): Sons; Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The A SONG, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The other world's not for me -- Last Line: But to come back up: bud and leaf. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The A SONG, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is any one sad in the world, I wonder? Last Line: And what heart sorrows? O no, not mine! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Light; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; World A SONG FOR MURIEL, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one explains me because Last Line: To see how they get it wrong. Subject(s): Death; Women; Women's Rights; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Feminism A SONG FROM SHIRAZ, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The singers of shiraz are feasting afar Last Line: Thy goblet of love, o mohamed ali! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG OF GOUNOD'S, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By a dim seacoast, long ago Last Line: Wedding us there eternally! Subject(s): Death; Hair; Hearts; Sea; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean; Songs A SONG OF ITALY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a windy night of stars that fell Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Italy; Love; Nations; Dead, The; Liberty; Italians A SONG OF LIFE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A song, boys, a song! Last Line: So, boys, a song! Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs A SONG OF THE SANDBAGS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, bill, I'm not a-spooning out no patriotic tosh Last Line: The brotherhood of peace. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONG OF WINTER WEATHER, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It isn't the foe that we fear Last Line: And the mud. Subject(s): Death; War; Winter; World War I; Dead, The; First World War A SONNET, by EVA BERRY HARRIS Poem Text First Line: He is no longer with us; far too soon Last Line: I know full well his love protects us still. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fill with sighs the air whene'er I stand Last Line: But of my grief for laura's death can tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONNET ON THE DEATH OF LAURA (2), by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh death! How has thy utmost malice sped! Last Line: As here thy beauty triumph'd over me. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A SONNET. ON THE DEATH OF SYLVIA, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh death! Without regard to wrong or right Last Line: And give me eyes with which I thee may see. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A STANFORD HYMN, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Against the night, the skies disclose Last Line: In time's advancing truth! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Stanford University; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A STONE'S THROW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, death another pebble far doth fling Last Line: Upon eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A STORY OF THE EVIL EYE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came unto an austrian town Last Line: Death drew his viewless veil for ever. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Superstition; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The A STORY OF THE SEA-SHORE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought the long clear twilights of my home Last Line: For, though he slay me, I will trust in god. Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Christianity; Death; Decay; God; Homecoming; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Seashore; Story-telling; Waiting; Childhood; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Ocean; Beach; Coast; Shore A SUABIAN LEGEND, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God made all things Last Line: So soon: so soon.) Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Dead, The A SUNDAY DRIVE THROUGH EAGLE COUNTRY, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Near no name, colorado Last Line: I knew I'd lost it. Subject(s): Colorado (state); Creative Ability; Death; Deer; Loss; Mahler, Gustav (1860-1911); Metaphor; Poetry & Poets; Pregnancy; Writer's Block; Writing & Writers; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The; Similes A SUNDAY MORNING TRAGEDY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I bore a daughter flower-fair Last Line: But pray god not to pity me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A TABB-LOW, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tabb's dead! And we who always keep Last Line: "tabb's body's grinning at us both." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A TALE OF THE BOGLAND, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis myself that hates the city, and the hurry, and / the din Last Line: For he is on the bogland yet, an' I am far apart. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise A TALE OF THE BUSH, by W. J." "B. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: It was twenty years last autumn since my comrade and I Last Line: Seared upon my heart for ever its dread memory lives on Alternate Author Name(s): "b., W. J.; Subject(s): Death;deserts;food & Eating;murder;pain;suicide;travel;trees; "dead, The;suffering;misery;journeys;trips; A THOUGHT IN TWO MOODS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw it - pink and white - revealed Last Line: Made of the dusty ground!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A THOUGHT OF DEATH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my sick bed I languish Last Line: That lies on th' other side death's rubicon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A THOUGHT ON DEATH, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When life, as opening buds, is sweet Last Line: Tis nature's precious boon to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A THOUSAND SOUNDS OF HAPPINESS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A TIME TO DANCE, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For those had the power Last Line: Our lives they are evergreen. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Hope; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Optimism A TRAGEDY, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Death! / plop / the barges down in the river flop Last Line: Plop. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Tragedy; Dead, The A TRYST WITH DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am footsore and very weary Last Line: And he only can give me rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips A VERDICT, by F. G. Poem Text First Line: Angelo, benjamin, michael and paul Last Line: Nobody minded what icabod said; he was dead. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers A VIEW OF DEATH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: When bending o'er the brink of life Last Line: The bitterness of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The A VISIT TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roman road runs by the wall Last Line: I touch the immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Obituaries; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The A VOICE TO THE DYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Unknown and uncounted the years thou hadst / lain in my bosom Last Line: But never to be parted from her that bids thee come! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Future Life; Mothers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago it was a bird Last Line: Than this dead boy! Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WAR-LULLABY; AUGUST, 1916, by EMILE CAMMAERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire dwindles and the wind moans Last Line: Baby soon will be asleep. ... Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Fear; Marriage; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WATCH IN THE NIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, what of the night? Last Line: Night is over and done. Subject(s): Death; Night; Watchmen; Dead, The; Bedtime A WAY-SIDE GRAVE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our upland journey wound its way Last Line: Was golden glimmering with may. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crosses; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WEEK IN A BOY'S LIFE, by JACQUES BOE Poem Text First Line: Chill was our sky: the swallows all had fled Last Line: Beside his darling's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Jasmin, Jacques Subject(s): Abel; Boys; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Prayer; Dead, The A WHISPER FROM THE GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life points with a radiant hand Last Line: Among the willow trees down there. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN OF PARIS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Retreating towards the marne, his regiment Last Line: While women such as she are at its portal! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; France; Marriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials A WOMAN WRONGED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead and in my grave Last Line: Let me alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WOMAN'S DEATH-WOUND, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It left upon her tender flesh no trace Last Line: "did I deserve to die this bitterest way?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Murder; Women; Dead, The A WOMAN'S WAITING, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the apple-tree blossoms, in may Last Line: O god, o heaven, how long will it be? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Courtship; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The A WORN-OUT PENCIL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Welladay! / here I lay Last Line: With his dead songs by his side. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Pens & Pencils; Dead, The A YAWN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grow so weary; is it death? Last Line: They live and die and so pass by. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Arks; Death; Earth; Sea; Dead, The; World; Ocean A YEAR AFTERWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things are so changed since last we met Last Line: And the same stars and silent sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise A YEAR'S BURDEN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire and wild light of hope and doubt and fear Last Line: Cry wellaway, but well befall the right. Subject(s): Change; Death; Hope; Politics & Government; Dead, The; Optimism A YEAR'S CHANGES, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This nadir: the wet hole Last Line: Or return to draw me back to a home. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Winter; Dead, The A YOUNG MOTHER, by DIOSCORIDES Poem Text First Line: I was polyxene in life Last Line: I was aged eighteen and died. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The A YOUNG THRUSH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What power of will - to follow now Last Line: Am happy to be gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Thrushes; Dead, The A' - 18, by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An unearthing / my valentine Subject(s): Death; Absence; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation A.G., by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quick, get him into his grave Last Line: What could grow from it? Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The 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 A.S.P., by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail was she born; petal by petal fell Last Line: She craved no paradise but only peace. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ABER STATIONS: STATIO QUINTA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shepherd calls Last Line: Back from the mountain wall. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Echo (mythology); Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The ABERCROMBIE'S GRAVE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No drooping willow weeps Last Line: Would dare to lay a desecrating hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Abercrombie, Sir Ralph (1734-1801); Death; Graves; Malta; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ABOUT INFINITY; AFTER H.H., THE 17TH KARMAPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There are stonebreakers in straw hats Last Line: Running in a running stream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; Dead, The; Nightmares ABOVE EVERYTHING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wished for death often Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ABSCHIED SYMPHONY, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I love is dying, which is why Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Women; Dead, The ABSENCE IN SPRING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What boots it me to see this verdure fair Last Line: Her who doth hold my life and death in hers. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Life; Spring; Wind; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The ABU MIDRAN, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When father time swings round his scythe Last Line: May cheer these thirsty bones of mine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ABYSS, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief Last Line: Life death does end and each day dies with sleep. Variant Title(s): "the Terrible Sonnets: 2;""no Worst, There Is More, Pitched Past Pitch Of Grief""; Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief; Religion; Social Protest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ACCEPTANCE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud Last Line: Into the future. Let what will be, be Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The ACCOMMODATION TO DETROIT, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When good people die they become worms in detroit, they day Subject(s): Hamtramck, Michigan; Detroit, Michigan; Death; Dead, The ACHIEVEMENT, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we had sought adventurously, the stars Last Line: —one day in spring. All other days are lost. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The ACROSS THE PAMPAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou remember, oh, dost thou remember Last Line: When we are dead! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spain; Dead, The ACROSS THE RIVER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When for me the silent oar Last Line: Where mine own have gone before! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 131, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O baleful lure, to lead our feet astray! Last Line: Strong in whose strength man may think scorn of fate! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Judgment Day; Religion; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology AD ASTRA: 144, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O let no momentary joy enslave Last Line: Can love and lust in such commingling meet? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Graves; Spirituality; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AD ASTRA: 151, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O would that god had wrought his meaning plain Last Line: The sun by day, the moon and stars by night. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 152, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And still another, 'only minds diseased Last Line: Or the bright soul, its fair and heavenly guest? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 154, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And others, more defiant in their tone Last Line: What answer that can wholly set at ease? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology AD ASTRA: 161, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: An old man's judgment in the hour of death Last Line: And happy peace, the olive branch of heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 163, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man would flinch or find it hard to die Last Line: That all we cherish blooms beyond the grave? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AD ASTRA: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: All things must die, all things must have an end Last Line: And love will guide us thro' death's dark defile. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 21, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And of her grace she bids us worthy be Last Line: And silvern death o'ertakes them all too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 31, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And man-to what achievements doth he move? Last Line: Before the smile of universal peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 40, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Judge from thy heart, how much I long for thee! Last Line: Pillow'd upon the surge of thy soft breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 43, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And oft, at evening, passing thro' the town Last Line: The dainty almoners of dainty fare, Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AD ASTRA: 53, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou star! That shone upon me from a height Last Line: Which else had founder'd in the midnight bare! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness AD ASTRA: 66, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Unto the naked heavens we cry aloud Last Line: Yet at the last thy glorious light have hail'd! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed AD ASTRA: 79, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: To those exalted sons of greece and rome Last Line: They strew'd with palms the path which jesus trod. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AD ASTRA: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And, if their hope and teaching were in vain Last Line: Thro' darkling dawns to their immortal dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed AD ASTRA: 81, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How stem this cry of universal pain Last Line: Shall disobedience merit instant death? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery 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 AD FINEM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years they come and go Last Line: "lady, I love but thee!" Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 ADDRESS TO THE ALABASTER SARCOPHAGUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou alabaster relic! While I hold Last Line: But build a lasting mansion for thy soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Creation; Death; God; Soul; Dead, The ADELIED, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unpraised but of my simple rhymes Last Line: Had kissed her when she died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ADIEUX A MARIE STUART, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Queen, for whose house my fathers fought Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mary, Queen Of Scots (1542-1587); Dead, The; Mary Stuart ADMIRAL DEATH, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys, are ye calling a toast tonight? Last Line: And they sleep with admiral death. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The ADONAIS; AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF JOHN KEATS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep for adonais -- he is dead Last Line: Beacons from the abode where the eternal are. Variant Title(s): Adonais Subject(s): Critics & Criticism; Death; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The 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 ADVICE, by LINDLEY WILLIAMS HUBBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I could endure to have you die Last Line: Do not survive your thirtieth year. Alternate Author Name(s): Hayasi Shuseki Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Old Age; Dead, The 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, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take the cloak from his face, and at first Last Line: Cover the face! Variant Title(s): The Avenger Speaks Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little time for laughter Last Line: And eternity to sleep in. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER A DEATH, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a shock Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER A LONG ILLNESS, by SHEROD SANTOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now beneath the aspen trees moonlight blends Subject(s): Home; Death; Dead, The AFTER A MOTHER'S DEATH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me, in my earlier years Last Line: A mother die: I'm silent now. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The AFTER ALL, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, what's the use of striving on? Last Line: And all the rest's just waste—just waste of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Forgetfulness; Desertion; Dead, The AFTER ANY BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Voice of earth: these are my children's voices! Born Last Line: And butchery to sacrifice! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Tears; Voices; Dead, The; World AFTER DEATH, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know just what may hap, when I go Last Line: Is just that simple little creed, to climb the golden stairs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life AFTER DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have thee warm when I am cold Last Line: Shall know that we have found life's best in this. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER DEATH, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If we must part, this parting is the best Last Line: Thank god, thank god, that it was you who died! Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! This delights me more than Last Line: How I do pity them that pity me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones 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 DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The four boards of the coffin lid / heard all the dead man did Last Line: "flesh to feed hell's worm upon." Subject(s): Coffins; Corpses; Curses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The AFTER DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now while my lips are living Last Line: And then you could not hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER IKKYU: 35, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Everywhere I go I study the scars on earth's face Last Line: Gold & copper to buy the horse that died, the woman who left. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER LOOKING INTO CARLYLE'S REMINISCENCES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three men lived yet when this dead man was young Last Line: The tenderest held of all that know not death. Subject(s): Carlyle, Thomas (1795-1881); Death; Dead, The AFTER LOOS; NOUEX LES MINES, MICHELMAS EVE, 1915, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it only yesterday Last Line: Was it only yesterday? Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Soldiers; Dead, The AFTER MUSIC, by JANET RAMSAY Poem Text First Line: Let life and its bewildering music stop Last Line: Or unremembering songs, airs that are weightless. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Silence; Dead, The AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AFTER NINE YEARS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows fallen of years are nine Last Line: Take these of him whose light was thou. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Dead, The AFTER OZ, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Deeper and deeper / asleep Subject(s): Black (color); Death; Rest; Dead, The 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 AFTER SUNSET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Straight from the sun's grave in the deep clear west Last Line: That love's last mortal word was not his last. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; Bedtime AFTER THE ANGELECTOMY, by ALICE FULTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AFTER THE CAMANCHES, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Saddle, saddle, saddle! / mount and gallop away! Last Line: A scalp on either side! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America AFTER THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A seacoast late at night, and a wheel of wind Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The AFTER THE GUEST; FOR MY BROTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The guest departs Last Line: I pray we'll grow old. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Guests; Marriage; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AFTER THE LAST BREATH (J.H. 1813-1904), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no more to be done, or feared, or hoped Last Line: Outshapes but small. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The AFTER-SIGHT, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The room is vibrant with you -- but they say Last Line: This is the soul I loved, and never knew! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The AFTERMATH, by LOUISE BRYANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, they are singing your praises Last Line: Hurl me past stars and moon! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The 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 AFTERWARDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the present has latched its postern behind my tremulous stay Last Line: "he hears it not now, but used to notice such things""?" Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Memory; Time; Dead, The AFTERWARDS, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep: here's your bed ... You'll not come, any more, to ours Last Line: Run away, little comet's-hair-comber! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares AGAIN AT WALDHEIM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How heavy the heart is now, and every heart Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Dead, The AGAINST MY DEATH, by DOROTHY QUICK Poem Text First Line: I want to build a house against my death Last Line: Without some comfort for eath's banishment. Alternate Author Name(s): Mayer, John Adams, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AGAINST MY WILL I TAKE MY LEAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now lords and ladies, blithe and bold" Last Line: For now 't is time to take my leave Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; AGAINST THY KNEES, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against thy knees my pallid brow Last Line: The kingdom they have robbed me of. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Knees; Love; Singing & Singers; Voices; Dead, The AGED HEAD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This is the ice that in the end shall claim Last Line: To plumb abstraction that includes the flesh? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AGERATUM, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: We two sowed this ageratum Last Line: You—have gone! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Old Age; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness AJAX: BEFORE DEATH, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So stands my cut-throat fitliest for its work Last Line: To ghosts in hades shall the rest be said. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AKIBA, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O heart, who art a fable, new and true Last Line: Aye, kissed by god, your feet on crowns have trod. Subject(s): Akiva Ben Joseph, Rabbi (50-135 A.d.); Death; Heaven; Israel; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig good graves. No other spade Last Line: Graves I may dig, but not this one. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALBUM, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mental pictures I have of my parents and grandparents and my childhood are Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The ALBUM, by KAY RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has a life Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 ALDINGTON KNOLL; THE OLD SMUGGLER SPEAKS, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Al'ington knoll it stands up high Last Line: Cater the marsh and crost the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ALEXANDER CRUMMELL - DEAD, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the breast of thy mother Last Line: Rest! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ALEXANDRIAN SONGS: 2, by MIKHAIL ALEXEYEVICH KUZMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying is sweet Last Line: And flutes be heard from afar. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines 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 ALL MAD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is mad as a hare, poor fellow Last Line: We are all of us -- all of us mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insanity; Life; Pain; Thought; Youth; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Suffering; Misery; Thinking ALL SOUL'S DAY, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet with amber light Last Line: Doth courage and assurance bring. Subject(s): All Souls' Day; Death; Soul; Tears; Dead, The ALL SOUL'S EVE, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: The river drags across the plain Last Line: I will not call you back! Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ALL SOULS DAY, by FERDINAND VON SAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild and wan, and chill Last Line: Anticipates his own. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Soul; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALL THINGS FLOW, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: In the month of the great moon Last Line: "crying: ""if life is the having died, what then is death?" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ALL THINGS NOT CONSIDERED, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot stitch the breath Subject(s): Middle East - Conflicts; Death; Arab-israeli Conflict; Dead, The ALL THINGS WILL DIE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clearly the blue river chimes in its flowing Last Line: For all things must die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But shall we take the muse abroad Last Line: Victorious over spite and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Muses; Mythology; Dead, The ALMANZOR & ALMAHIDE, OR THE CONQUEST OF GRANADA: SONG OF ZAMBRA DANCE2, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How unhappy a lover am I Last Line: For the souls to meet closer above. Variant Title(s): Prologues, Epilogues And Songs From The Conquest Of Granada: 7 Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hope; Love - Loss Of; Nymphs; Dead, The; Destiny; Optimism ALONE, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He grows used to the sound of the floor Last Line: That he didn't do. He would like to meet them. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Solitude; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Loneliness ALONE WITH GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the bier I watched his rest divine Last Line: Each, in the stillness, was alone with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ALTERNATIVES, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: You will be part of my death Last Line: But a part shall I. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AMARANTHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet quiet of death, made quieter by the sound Last Line: Robed by his hand in immortality. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mortality; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AMBASSADRESS, by ELMIRA GROGAN Poem Text First Line: One that has not heard a voice in anger Last Line: Haloes around the heads she touches. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The AMEN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone calls duchess, our fawn great dane, back Last Line: Rising from ethel rosenberg's hair. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Hunting; Primitive Man; Rosenberg Case; Dead, The; Hunters; Cavemen; Rosenberg, Ethel; Rosenberg, Julius AMENDS, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were blind, / nor never knew the sweet green glory of the spring Last Line: Than this — your love and sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Blindness; Deafness; Death; God; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The AMONG THOSE KILLED IN THE DAWN RAID WAS A MAN AGED A HUNDRED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the morning was waking over the war Subject(s): War; Old Age; Death; Dead, The AMPHITRYON: PASTORAL DIALOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thyrsis: fair iris and her swain Last Line: And fear not to be poor. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights ; Dead, The; Destiny; Dramatists AMRAN'S WOOING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You ask, o frank! How love is born Last Line: The shekh himself can better tell. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Singing & Singers; Dead, The AMUSING OUR DAUGHTERS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We don't lack people here on the northern coast Last Line: Sending our messages over the mountains and waters. Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Creeley, Robert (b. 1926); Daughters; Death; Guests; Po Chu-yi (772-846); Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Visiting; Feminism AN ADAPTATION OF AN EPISODE IN VIRGIL, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A scald, whose song was ever of the norns Last Line: To the forgetting and forgotten dead.' Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN AFRICAN ELEGY, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the groves of africa from their natural wonder Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN AFTERTHOUGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh lost garden paradise Last Line: And the blessed door made fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Heaven; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise AN ALIEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw in heaven, the hovering wings beneath Last Line: "the friend of all who passed yon portal -- death." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN AMERICAN BEAUTY; FOR ANN LONDON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As you described your mastectomy in calm detail Last Line: Your last wedding day. Subject(s): Biography; Death; Friendship; Surgery; Women; Women's Rights; Biographers; Dead, The; Feminism AN AMULET, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At noon, the cruel blow fell on his heart Last Line: An amulet of ardor and of dew. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Memory; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime AN ANCIENT FEUD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young rack the old Last Line: One all to lose. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fights; Youth; Dead, The AN ANCIENT GREEK, DYING, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come nearer, charon / I cannot step so far, into your boat Last Line: Ere death sets us afloat. Subject(s): Charon; Death; Farewell; Styx (river); Dead, The; Parting AN ANGLER'S SOLILOQUY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Bright fish, weak victim of my wiles Last Line: Our hearts of guile beware. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares AN ANSWER TO VARIOUS BARDS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I've waited mighty patient while they all came rolling in Last Line: And then return to sydney and vermilionize the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Camping; Death; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Camps; Summer Camps; Dead, The AN APOSTOLIC MAN, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: O brothers, is the moment past? Last Line: "love one another, and farewell." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise AN APRIL VIOLET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "under the larch, with its tassels wet" Last Line: Only an april violet Subject(s): Death;flowers;violets; "dead, The; AN EAGLE FOLDS HIS WINGS, by SIEG HALBERG Poem Text First Line: Like a mighty eagle he soared Last Line: For at last the eagle was folding his wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The AN ECHO, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: He deemed it dead,-the sound of that which flew Last Line: He stood on life's sere slopes,—they met again. Subject(s): Death; Echoes; Dead, The AN ECLOGUE, TO THE MEMORY OF DR WILLIAM WILKE, LATE PROFESSOR, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blaw saft, my reed, and kindly to my mane Last Line: Fam'd as the urn that hads the mantuan swain. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The; Nightmares AN ECOLOGY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drop in the evening like dew Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ELEGIE ON THE DEATH OF MRS. ANNE WHITFIELD, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shee's dead, and like the hower that stole her hence Last Line: But not like this, a living monument. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ELEGIE ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD CLERKE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was decreed by stedfast destinie Last Line: Where winged angels his sad requiems sing. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ELEGY, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is death so great a gamester, that he throws Last Line: Shall send the peaceful dove to call thee forth. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ELEGY FOR DAN, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN ELEGY ON MR. THOMAS GOUGE: MR. MEAD, MR. BATES, AND MR. GOUGE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven was impatient of our crimes Last Line: Then took a dismal aim, and brought great gouge to dust. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Heaven; Prophecy & Prophets; Vengeance; Dead, The; Paradise AN ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF DOBBIN, THE BUTTERWOMAN'S HORSE, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: The death of faithful dobbin I deplore Last Line: Dame jolt's brown horse, old dobbin, is no more. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters AN ELEGY ON THE LADY JANE PAWLET, MARCHIONESS OF WINTON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What gentle ghost, besprent with april dew Last Line: And, sure of heaven, rides triumphing in. Subject(s): Death; Pawlett, Lady Jane (d. 1631); Dead, The AN ELEGY UPON THE DEATH OF MRS. BEHN; THE INCOMPARABLE APHRA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "summon the earth (the fair astrea's gone,)" Last Line: Nor would endure the world when he had lost his throne Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);death;earth;heaven;tears;" "dead, The;world;paradise; AN EMIGRANT, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is she asleep, asleep Last Line: Rest she adream, adream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Immigrants; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration AN END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, strong as death, is dead Last Line: In the long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN END OF TRAVEL, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let now your soul in this substantial world Last Line: Vailima. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The AN ENGLISHMAN TO A GERMAN AVIATOR, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, we are enemies-and deadly ones Last Line: There is no room within our hearts for hate. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death; Enemies; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AN EPISTLE FROM CORINTH, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Paul of tarsus, I have enquired of jesus Last Line: An upward gaze. . . . Subject(s): Corinth, Greece; Death; Jesus Christ; Dead, The AN EPISTLE TO DR. GUIBBONS, A CELEBRATED PHYSICIAN, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To trace all-wondrous nature's latent ways Last Line: Should be himself detain'd amidst us too. Subject(s): Death; Healing; Letters; Nature; Physicians; Praise; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors AN EPITAPH, by BEN JACOB Poem Text First Line: Here lies nachshon, man of great renown Last Line: Now he is gone, he gets a stone instead. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism AN EPITAPH, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us not think of our departed dead Last Line: Where all may taste a more immortal bread. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AN EPITAPH, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was too delicate to give or take Last Line: Death asked of her to make no compromise! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The AN EPITAPH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here a gentle poet lies Last Line: Hush thy laughter, whisper low. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The AN EPITAPH UPON A VIRGIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here a solemne fast we keepe Last Line: Cowslips for her covering. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN EPITAPH UPON HUSBAND AND WIFE WHO DIED AND WERE BURIED, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To these, whom death again did wed Last Line: Whose day shall never die in night. Variant Title(s): Epitaph Upon A Young Married Couple Dead And Buryed Together Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN ERRAND, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept, and where her lonely flower-knots gleam Last Line: "breathes memory of our love that shall not die." Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The AN ESCAPE, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A swift dark dream from the outer lands Last Line: I wonder what he died of. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Escapes; Dead, The; Fugitives AN ESSAY ON DEATH AND A PRISON, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A prison is in all things like a grave Last Line: Two prisons quits, the body and the jail. Subject(s): Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts AN EVENING TRAIN, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whistles past hacked-down fields of corn Last Line: From boulevard Subject(s): Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains AN EX-SERVICEMAN MAKES A VOW, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: War is a way the statesmen play Last Line: Our world may have peace! Amen. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; God; Murder; Prayer; Social Protest; Soldiers; Veterans; War; Dead, The AN EXCURSION STEAMER SUNK IN THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on july the 14th day Last Line: And enjoy yourselves heartily during the holiday time. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The AN IDEALIST, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I left him very ill Last Line: He fares farther on. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Idealism; Life; Soul; Dead, The AN IDIOT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm on'y thist a' idiot Last Line: Ain't thumbs and fingers funny things? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity AN IDYLL OF PIPECLAY PONDS, by TOM FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Talk of the beauties of wedded life Last Line: That had its finale at skillicorn's dance. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives AN IMPROBABLE DELIRIUM, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An improbable delirium brings me Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN INCIDENT OF THE WEST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: More annoyed than for many a week before Last Line: For the faults of the dead in the canyon Subject(s): Accidents;canyons;death;tragedy;war; "dead, The; AN INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother had 14 children Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Dead, The; Burials; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AN INFORMAL EPITAPH IN MEMORY OF A YOUNG POET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who so loved all grey religious things Last Line: And long and long for your return alone! Subject(s): Criticism & Critics; Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The AN INQUIRY; A PHANTASY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said to it: 'we grasp not what you meant Last Line: "in crowning death as king!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AN INTERIOR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because you cannot sit with me Last Line: Which brings death -- not escape. Subject(s): Books; Death; Pine Trees; Trees; Voices; Reading; Dead, The AN IRISH AIRMAN FORESEES HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know that I shall meet my fate Last Line: In balance with this life, this death. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Freedom; Soldiers; War; World War I; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Liberty; First World War AN ITALIAN SONNET-SEQUENCE: 10, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death the revealer cast his portals wide Last Line: Whereon she passed within death's bright abode. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Awake faire muse, for I intend Last Line: No king shall owne my verses for his tombe. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death; Drayton, Michael (1563-1631); Poetry & Poets; Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599); Dead, The 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 ODE (6), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say, dearest villiers, poor departed friend Last Line: And equal rites perform to that which once was thee. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AN ODE OF BATTLES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ages past / the slow ice sledges bore Last Line: Throbbed with freedom's answered prayer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); Grief; Santiago, Battle Of (1898); Soldiers; Spanish-american War (1898); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of; Sorrow; Sadness AN ODE TO ENDYMION PORTER, UPON HIS BROTHER'S DEATH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not all thy flushing suns are set Last Line: Invites fresh grapes to fill his presse with wine. Subject(s): Death; Porter, Endymion (1587-1649); Dead, The AN ODE WRITTEN ON A GROTTO NEAR FARNHAM IN SURRY, CALL'D LUDLOW'S CAVE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close in this deep retreat Last Line: "change it for a darker grave." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Nymphs; Rest; Virtue; Dead, The AN OLD SAW NEWLY RENDERED, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although nor wise nor deep in thought Last Line: Then toot your horn and row your own canoe. Subject(s): Canoes & Canoeing; Death; Pride; Proverbs; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Maxims; Adages AN OLD SONG, by SOLOMON BLOOMGARDEN Poem Text First Line: In the blossom-land japan Last Line: "and one who sings her child to sleep." Alternate Author Name(s): Yehoash Subject(s): Death; Fights; Dead, The AN OLD TALE OF THREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, bonnie darling, lift your dark eyes dreaming! Last Line: Ah, hell of my heart! Ye are dust to me—and dust with dust may woo! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Love; Reunions; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy AN OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AN OLD WOMAN'S VISION, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No better day to come Last Line: Like a sucking stone going down... Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Reunions; Dead, The AN OPEN BOAT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is that whimpering there in the darkness? Last Line: To fret the bare seas at the breaking of day. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Faces; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean AN UNTIMELY THOUGHT, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder what day of the week Last Line: I wonder what month of the year. Subject(s): Time; Death; Dead, The AN UNTOLD STORY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dark falls, and as a single star Last Line: For twice dead he who dies this second death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The AN UNWRITTEN TRAGEDY, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ho, ye that thirst beside the running stream! Last Line: And pluck a feather out and write such things? Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tragedy; Dead, The ANACREON, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length thy golden hours have winged Last Line: Which thou, with all thy soul, didst give her! Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Anacreon (582-485 B.c.); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ANACREONTIC ON THE DEATH OF SIR HARRY BELLENDINE, by CHARLES SACKVILLE (1637-1706) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of bacchus, come and join Last Line: Of honest harry bellendine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorset, 6th Earl Of; Middlesex, 1st Earl Of Subject(s): Bellendine, Sir Harry (d. 1761); Death; Dead, The ANACREONTIKE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Born I was to be old Last Line: There's no carousing. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANARCHY, by ANN YEARSLEY Poem Text First Line: Furies! Why sleep amid the carnage? -- rise Last Line: "world! Give my monsters way!—death! Keep thy steady chace!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cromartie, Ann Subject(s): Anarchism And Anarchists; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The AND AFTER--WHAT?, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Twas omar said--and it was strangely true-- Last Line: The shrouding blackness does not finish all? Variant Title(s): And After-what? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise AND ONE IS TWO?, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who calls? I cannot say Last Line: And live in the house -- one will build! Subject(s): Death; Rhyme; Dead, The AND SO TODAY, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so to-day-they lay him away Last Line: Under a sky of promises. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The AND THE COCK CREW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: I hate them all!' said old gaspard Last Line: And turning, looked on old gaspard. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Hospitals; Sickness; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Illness; First World War ANDREE REXROTH (DIED OCTOBER, 1940), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now once more gray mottled buckeye branches Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ANDREE REXROTH: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sorrow is so wide Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years have gone. It is spring Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ANDREW RYKMAN'S PRAYER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Andrew rykman's dead and gone Last Line: Make his prayer our own? Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Religion; Dead, The; Theology ANECDOTE SYMPHONIOUS, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: I gaze at the too beautiful body of you laid down Last Line: Laid down, so rest ... Rest.... Subject(s): Death; Graves; Worms; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ANGELA BURDETT-COUTTS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long with us, now she leaves us; she has rest Last Line: The daylight gift of god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ANGELS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the old days god sent his angels oft Last Line: God bless you all, our angels unaware! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise ANGRY EARTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry earth, give me thy fury Last Line: Angry earth, to outface death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ANIMA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You came to me in feeble health, the hectic on your cheek Last Line: I have not loved you for your face—I've loved you for your soul! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Illness ANIMA ANCEPS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Till death have broken Last Line: Under the earth. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The ANIMULA VAGA (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit from the grave Last Line: To life so near! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANIMULA VAGULA, BLANDULA, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, my pleasant soul and witty Last Line: Nor jests wilt thou afford me more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ANNABEL LEE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It was many and many a year ago, / in the kingdom of the sea Last Line: In her tomb by the side of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ANNIVERSARIES OF WAR: HULEIKAT -- THE THIRD POEM ABOUT DICKY, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In these hills, even the towers of oil wells Last Line: Was once an open palm and fingers Subject(s): Death; Middle East - Conflicts; Dead, The; Arab-israeli Conflict ANNIVERSARIES: CLAREMONT AVENUE, FROM 1945, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on a bench at one hundred and fifteenth Last Line: No place to go. Subject(s): Chinese Language; Death; Grief; Memory; Roosevelt, Franklin Delano (1882-1945); Teaching & Teachers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Educators; Professors; Feminism ANNIVERSARY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There were so many to pray for, o dear grey head Last Line: All night long you grieved with me until the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Dreams; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness ANNO 1829, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me a wide and noble field Last Line: With trembling haste some region far. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Dead, The ANNO 1829, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I crave an ampler, worthier sphere Last Line: The next they leave it leagues behind. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Dead, The ANOTHER CAPTIVE STAR...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must blood of murders and of wars regale Last Line: Which drowns in blood each age's history! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Earth; War; Dead, The; World ANOTHER CHANCE; A DRAMATIC LYRIC, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, give me back my life again Last Line: One prayer -- have mercy on a dreamer's soul -- god, this is death! Subject(s): Death; God; Rebirth; Dead, The ANOTHER DARK LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not, because I wonder where you fled Last Line: That yours are cloven as no beech's are. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Truth; Dead, The ANOTHER RUNIC ODE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At length appears the wish'd-for night Last Line: I smile in the embrace of death! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; War; Dead, The ANOTHER SPRING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the gold mouth of a flower Subject(s): Spring; Death; Dead, The ANOTHER WAY, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay in silence, dead. A woman came Last Line: I had more pleasure in the other dream. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANS STILL IT COMES, by THOMAS LUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a downhill brakes-burned freight train Subject(s): Transience; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The ANTE MORTEM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is likely enough that lions and scorpions Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing! Last Line: Present me to thy blissfull throne. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The; Nightmares ANTHEMES FOR THE CATHEDRAL OF EXCETER: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave o my soul this baser world below Last Line: Allelujahs to heavens king. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heaven; Life; Soul; Trees; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Paradise ANTHONY CONSIDINE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the wastes of the west countrie Last Line: Anthony considine. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Dead, The ANTHONY O DALY, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since your limbs were laid out Last Line: There is nothing but grief! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ANTICIPATED STRANGER, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The bruise will stop by later Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ANTIGONE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buried voice bespake antigone Last Line: She woke, they led her forth, and all was still. Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Dead, The ANTONY AND [OR, TO] CLEOPATRA, by WILLIAM HAINES LYTLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying, egypt, dying Last Line: Cleopatra -- rome -- farewell! Subject(s): Antony, Marc (83-30 B.c.); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Marcus Antonius; Anthony, Mark; Dead, The ANY SOUL TO ANY BODY, by COSMO MONKHOUSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So we must part, my body, you and I Last Line: Can scarcely tell what I shall do without you. Alternate Author Name(s): Monkhouse, William Cosmo Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Soul; Dead, The APACHE PLUME; 2. REDUCTIONS AND ENLARGEMENTS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chippewa designer dies from pancreatic cancer Last Line: See the string pulse and stretch into curved light. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Dead, The APART, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stood on either side the gate Last Line: Walk hand in hand the path of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fear; Trees; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The APEROTOS EROS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strong as death, and cruel as the grave Last Line: Strong as death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Roundels; Dead, The APOLOGIA VITAE, by MILICENT LAUBENHEIMER Poem Text First Line: Breathe not again, sweet breath, lest her delicate heart Last Line: Of thorns, that was my rightful heritage. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Pain; Roses; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery APOSTACY, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This last denial of my faith Last Line: His name her latest word. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Faith; Christianity; Death; Belief; Creed; Dead, The APPARITIONS ARE NOT SINGULAR OCCURRENCES, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I rode the zebra past your door Subject(s): Death; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How slowly time is crawling on Last Line: To place on record in the morning. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The; Optimism APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once saw I many a blooming flower Last Line: To steep in lethe's blissful night. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The true sphynx's form's the same as Last Line: Earth would fall from its foundation. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Egypt; Riddles; Sphinx; Dead, The; World APPULDURCOMBE PARK, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a woman, sick for passion Subject(s): Passion; Desire; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Disappointment; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Male-female Relations APRES, by ARTHUR JOSEPH MUNBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down, down, ellen, my little one Last Line: Oft as I look on the face of her child. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The APRES MOI LE DELUGE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "now I am dead, be earth devoured of hell" Last Line: I reck it notl withg me the world is well Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; APRIL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose we are standing together a minute Subject(s): Prayer; Death; Dead, The APRIL - AND DYING, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Green blood fresh pulsing through the trees Last Line: For me is death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The APRIL 18, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The slime of all my yesterdays Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The APRIL TWENTY-THIRD, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Death sallied forth upon this fateful day Last Line: "and shakespeare bowed: ""you are don quixote still." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Cervantes, Miguel De (1547-1616); Death; Dramatists; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Writing & Writers; Cervantes Saavedra, Miguel De; Dead, The AQUILEIA, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ropes, the ropes! Apollo send us ropes Last Line: Another day beheld the giant slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Apollo; Death; Hair; Mothers; Mythology - Classical; Rome, Italy; Soldiers; Dead, The ARABIAN NIGHTS: DATES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We grow to the sound of the wind Last Line: Shall hear us murmur ever above his sleep Subject(s): Date Trees;death; "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "once he will miss, twice he will miss" Last Line: But all's one level plain he hunts for flowers Subject(s): Death;flowers; "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: INSCRIPTIONS AT THE CITY OF BRASS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Enter and learn the story of the rulers Last Line: And now inhabit a palace Subject(s): "courts & Courtiers;death;legends, Arabic;materialism;" "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: PSALM OF BATTLE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God is praise and glory Last Line: Beside an eternal river of scented honey Subject(s): Death;fights;victory; "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: THE WAZIR DANDAN FOR PRINCE SHARKAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Wise to have gone so early to reward Last Line: Pressed from god's vine Subject(s): Death;lament; "dead, The; ARABIAN NIGHTS: TUMADIR AL-KHANSA FOR HER BROTHER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Weep! Weep! Weep! / these tears are for my brother Last Line: "while you have tears, o daughters of the solomides, / weep! Weep! Weep!" Subject(s): "brothers;death;grief;legends, Arabic;" "half-brothers;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; ARETEMIAS, by ANTIPATER OF SIDON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sure I see it all now as it was Last Line: "and this one I bring with me to the dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Antipatros Of Sidon Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ARION, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arion, whose melodic soul Last Line: Like a pierced eagle fell. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Greece; Harps; Musical Instruments; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Greeks; Lyres ARKHANGEL'SK, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The yellow goat in winter sunlight Last Line: Bullets rippling like moles under the plaster. Subject(s): Death; Goats; Lent; Prisoners Of War; Russia - Stalin Era; Stalin, Joseph (1879-1953); Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: Armistice day! When a new sun rose Last Line: And the wars are ended—for those who died! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birds stayed not their singing Last Line: A deeper breath than passion knew. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The ARMISTICE DAY; A PHANTASY, by JOHN J. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: The half-light of a raw november day Last Line: Shall echo, with a mighty voice ... Dismiss! Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ARMSTRONG'S GOOD NIGHT, by THOMAS ARMSTRONG Poem Text First Line: This night is my departing night Last Line: Good night! And joy be with you all! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ARRANGEMENT IN BLACK AND GOLD, NEW ORLEANS, 1821, by WALTER MCCLELLAN Poem Text First Line: The lovely portuguese is dead Last Line: Finds here alive, and shines upon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ARRANGEMENTS WITH EARTH FOR THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet earth, he ran and changed his shoes to go Last Line: The change of tone, the human hope gone gray Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World ARROW BREAKNG APART, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While lovers sleep, I dig my nails into the earth Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ART, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he died, or when he was thinking of dying Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Dead, The ARTHUR AND HELEN HALLAM; IN MEMORIAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A brother and a sister, - these two friends Last Line: But that they linger still so far behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Hallam, Helen; Dead, The ARTHURIAN SONGS: 4. GUENEVERE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God rest the lady guenevere Last Line: And for her soul pray we. Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love Affairs; Prayer; Dead, The ARTIST, by BEN JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Death peered in a time or two Last Line: Death ... My patron! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AS THE DEAD PREY UPON US, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The ASCENSION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body lay on the bier of death Last Line: "but say, from vienna or munich instead." Subject(s): Ascension Day; Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology ASLEEP, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under his helmet, up against his pack Last Line: Than we who must awake, and waking, say alas! Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The ASLEEP, ASLEEP; MARTYDOM OF SAINT STEPHEN, by LUCY ANN BENNETT Poem Text First Line: Asleep! Asleep! Men talk of 'sleep' Last Line: From hearts with silence breaking. Subject(s): Death; Stephen, Saint (d. 36 A.d.); Dead, The ASTRAEA, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I avail no more, o men! With you Last Line: To kiss (ah, with what sorrow!) all my dead. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Farewell; Kisses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Parting ASYLUM, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A house ringed round with trees and in the / trees Last Line: Asylum from the thought and fear of death. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Houses; Dead, The AT A BURIAL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of all light and darkness Last Line: Lord of all life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Burials; Theology AT A GRAVE, by ROBERT LEE CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamings are ever in my heart Last Line: On a saviour's tranquil breast. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares 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 A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT A TOMB, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep-ah, ah, who dares to waken me Last Line: In the grey twilight falling. Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Graves; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT BOSWORTH FIELD, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cry 'tudor'...And this ancient dust will swarm Last Line: Deep in their rugged hills beneath the rain? Subject(s): Death; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen AT CASTLE WOOD, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day is done -- the winter sun Last Line: Unwept for let the body go Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AT CROWN HILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave him here in the fresh greening grasses and trees Last Line: It is midnight to us -- it is morning to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Love; Tears; Trees; Dead, The AT EIGHTY YEARS, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: At eighty years the sun of life hangs low Last Line: Then death to hallow all, at eighty years. Subject(s): Death; Life; Old Age; Dead, The AT END OF PAIN; TO PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy darkened life is over. Thou hast found Last Line: The long-lost mother's welcome to her boy! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Marston, Philip Bourke (1850-1887); Dead, The AT EVENTIDE; C. N. - DIED APRIL, 1857, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What spirit is it that doth pervade Last Line: A friend's hand from the land of souls. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AT HALF-MAST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Fly the flag at half-mast Last Line: Till the day breaks again. Subject(s): Death; Flags - United States; Military; Social Protest; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; American Flag AT HALF-MAST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You didn't know billy, did you? Well, bill was one of the boys Last Line: "you'll find me, boys, where my handkerchief is flyin' at half-mast." Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Worry; Dead, The AT HIS WINTRY TENT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only master of his art was he Last Line: "old friend, good night -- for there is no good-by." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Friendship; Life; Tents; Dead, The AT HOME IN HEAVEN, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forever with the lord! Last Line: And life eternal gain. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise AT LAKE DESOLATION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is about to come up and the regiments lie Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Dead, The AT LAST, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my day of life the night is falling Last Line: The life for which I long. Variant Title(s): To Paths Unknown Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology AT LENGTH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her final summer was it, / and yet we guessed it not Last Line: So leisurely were we! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AT NIGHT'S HIGH NOON, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the heavy sod she lies Last Line: She shines on me with her cold, bright eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AT POMPEII, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: At pompeii I heard a woman laugh Last Line: Oh horrible! I heard a woman laugh. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Pompeii, Italy; Dead, The AT SUNSET, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your death must be loved this much. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness AT THE CENOTAPH, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are the living so much use Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The AT THE DEATH OF A MONGOLIAN PEASANT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The trees turned around as if to quarrel with him Last Line: And some simple wretchedness unto bliss. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Mongols And Mongolia; Peasantry; Salvation; Dead, The AT THE FUNERAL, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her sacred body bear: the tenement Last Line: And gave new readings to the title, queen. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The AT THE GRAVE OF HEINE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South-heart of song / in winter drest Last Line: Through whose high morn the bird sings on. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE GRAVE OF ONE FORGOTTEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a churchyard old and still Last Line: Life is worth. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE LAST, by RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE Poem Text First Line: In the hour of death, after this life's whim Last Line: But the glory of the lord is all in all. Variant Title(s): Dominus Illuminatio Mea;faith Of Closed Doors Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed AT THE LAST, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She cometh no more Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Ocean AT THE PLAY, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in a theatre the amused sense Last Line: Death takes the lights, and we go home to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise AT THE PORTAL, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw death at the portal -- face to face Last Line: There ... At the gate! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AT THE TOMB OF SENANCOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sevres before a tomb I stood and read Last Line: We know he made us not to live in vain. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AT THE TOP OF THE ROAD, by CHARLES BUXTON GOING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But, lord,' she said, 'my shoulders still are strong -- ' Last Line: "lord of the land, but men have named me death." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The AT THE VILLA OF THE EMPEROR FREDERICK III AT SAN REMO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: San remo's palms in beauty stand / beside the storied sea Last Line: The long waves ebb and flow. Subject(s): Death; Germany; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Germans AT THE WHEEL, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: She holds my lost illusions in her hands Last Line: Untouched she turns the wheel. She has not heard. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Soul; Wheels; Dead, The; Belief; Creed AT THY GRAVE, by JOHN FULLERTON Poem Text First Line: At thy grass-grown grave I kneel Last Line: Where and when now will we meet? Subject(s): Death; Longing; Dead, The AT TRINITY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: Where wall street's head from full broadway Last Line: Where peace sole reigneth. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; New York City; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple AT TWILIGHT, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: A gentle peaceful gray Last Line: That knows of neither church nor soul. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise AT TWILIGHT (ON THE WAY TO GOLCONDA), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weary, I sought kind death among the rills Last Line: And hope that conquers immemorial hate. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue ATHEISM: ANNIHILATION, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doubt, cypress crowned, upon a ruined arch Last Line: And silence claims again her region cold and drear. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; World ATHEISM: REASON, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infinite speaks in our silent hearts Last Line: Who, though divorced from good, bow to the lord of hosts. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Atheism; Death; Reason; Soul; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals ATONEMENT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a lonely garden on the hill Last Line: O let my death atone! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Shadows; Dead, The ATQUE IN PERPETUUM A.W., by LOUIS ZUKOFSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alias to a wand the height lowered Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 14, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Violet-colour'd mountain summits Last Line: "girofflino, girofflette!" Subject(s): Death; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 15, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rocky blocks of size gigantic Last Line: Looking like a sickly spider. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 17, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a street there runs a valley Last Line: Tell you in the following chapters. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 18, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And it was the time of full moon Last Line: Cracking whips and shouts and halloing Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Beauty; Death; Arthur, King; Dead, The ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the vale of ronceval Last Line: "talentless; a character!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 25, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three-and-thirty aged women Last Line: "must in actual life first die!" Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the cavern, by his young ones Last Line: Rights of man that he is born to. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The ATTEMPTING TO ANSWER DAVID IGNATOW'S QUESTION, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are beautiful to the mother as we go Last Line: Sleeping bodies are not alone. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Ignatow, David (1914-1997); Rebirth; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Destiny AUF WIEDERSEHEN, SELECTION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It were a double grief, if the true-hearted Last Line: Until we meet again! Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The AUGUST, 1865, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Flowers for thy grave! And first I bear Last Line: Take comfort, for thou too shalt die.' Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AUNT MARY, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aunt mary died of eating twelve red peppers Last Line: I pray the tear she taught me of us all Subject(s): Death; Aunts; Gluttony; Dead, The AUSTRALIA'S HERO, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No! They didn't raise no statue - no - nor fix no big brass plate Last Line: Attempt to carry a life-line to the shore. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Australia; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Knights & Knighthood; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines AUTUMN, by FRIEDRICH ADOLF AXEL DETLEV VON LILIENCRON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A flock of crows high from the northland flies Last Line: While the old man unto our lady prays. Alternate Author Name(s): Liliencron, Detlev Von Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Peace; Dead, The AUTUMN, by OU YANGXIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night, when dreaming over ancient books Last Line: The only answer to my song of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AUTUMN, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to mention Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Fall; Dead, The AUTUMN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay william, nay, not so; the changeful year Last Line: God, always, everywhere, and all in all. Subject(s): Autumn; Comfort; Death; God; Nature - Religious Aspects; Presence; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The 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 AUTUMN TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than spring, sweeter than spring Last Line: Where death is a-dream on azure wings. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dreams; Fear; Life; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares AUTUMN'S SPLENDOURS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Don't miss the autumn's splendours' Last Line: Of hopes that summer sold. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The AUTUMNAL, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-night the tumult of the autumn wind Last Line: A little while, o leaves, and we shall know! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Earth; Seasons; Wind; Fall; Dead, The; World AUTUMNAL, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not long before she died my mother told me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The AVOWAL, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As two men smoking, though one be a youth Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AWAKE! (TO MOHAMED ALI JINNAH), by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waken, o mother! Thy children implore thee Last Line: Hearken! O queen and o goddess, we hail thee! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Memory; Mythology; Worship; Dead, The AWAKENING, by WASHINGTON GLADDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the borders of the silent land Last Line: And heaven to thee is all a sweet surprise. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AWAKENING, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they that sleep, o blossoms, yearn Last Line: And see us with your eyes? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The AWAY! (1), by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day's enamour'd of the night Last Line: Away from me and sorrow! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BABYLON, by RALPH HODGSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you could bring her glories back! Last Line: Will take her to itself again. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise BABYLONIAN SORROWS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm summon'd by death. I'd fain, my love Last Line: Ere I myself from this earth can pass. Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Grief; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BACK FROM KINLOCHLEVEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waterworks are finished and the boys have / jacked the shovel Last Line: But at any rate you'll know them by their curses when in town. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Desolation; Drinks & Drinking; Labor & Laborers; Quarrels; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Wine; Work; Workers; Arguments; Disagreements BAIN'S CATS AND RATS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Quiet, and almost bashful, and seldom looking Last Line: And then he'd glance, half-scared, into the wings Subject(s): Circus; Death; Dead, The BAL MASQUE: 1915, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabres sing, the deep-bass guns resound Last Line: "till up from hell a voice commands: ""come home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fights; War; Dead, The BALDUR THE BEAUTIFUL: THE DEATH OF BALDUR, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long aeons past, ere yet was count of time Last Line: The Æsir's shout still thundered down the dark. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Heaven; Judgment Day; Mythology; Odin (norse God); Dead, The; Paradise; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man BALLAD, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I with death have gone on quest Last Line: Though I who sang forgotten be. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BALLAD, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back to the river so lately pass'd o'er Last Line: In a single grave repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802); Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BALLAD, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the heel came off my shoe Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BALLAD OF DEATH AND THE LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fair lady, lay your costly robes aside" Last Line: "die in the lord, and ever blessed are!" Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; BALLAD OF FLORENTIN, by GEORGES DUHAMEL Poem Text First Line: He fought the fight for twenty days Last Line: And silently, not to wake her up. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE DROVER, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the stony ridges / across the rolling plain Last Line: All sounding eerily. Subject(s): Death; Drovers; Floods; Homecoming; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE LORDS OF OLD TIME, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What more? Where is the third calixt Last Line: Even with the good knight charlemain. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE NEW MONKLAND MARTYR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dochter peggy sat on the kiln Last Line: The farm o' staun his hame. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Martyrs; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And children with deep eyes grow up and stray Last Line: Like heavy honey from the honeycomb. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And deep-eyed children cannot long be children Last Line: Like heavy honey out of hollow combs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BALLAD OF TWO SEAS, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore, thy woe these many years Last Line: "I trust to know her grace." Subject(s): Death; Hermits; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Pirates; Regret; Sea; Sin; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Piracy; Buccaneers; Ocean BALLADE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The pretty maid she died, she died, in love-bed as she lay Last Line: And they went off a-field to work, as they do every day. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials BALLADE DE MARGUERITE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am weary of lying within the chase Last Line: "o mother, hath one grave room for two?" Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; BALLADE OF A DEAD LADY, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All old fair things are in their places Last Line: Ah! Where have they hidden those great eyes? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Nature; Spring; Youth; Dead, The BALLADE OF A SHIP, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down by the flash of the restless water Subject(s): Shipwrecks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine BALLADE OF DEAD LADIES, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, tell me now in what strange air Last Line: "nay, but where is the last year's snow?" Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Variant Title(s): Ballade Of The Ladies Of Time Pas Subject(s): Death; Snow; Women; Dead, The BALLADE OF THE ABSENT GUEST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends whom to-night once more I greet Last Line: I drink -- in tears -- the absent guest. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine BALLADE: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To make an end of all this strife Last Line: This end to make. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 29, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deem as ye list. Upon good cause Last Line: Likewise to think it is not. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BALLADE: 31, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! My dear, the word thou spakest Last Line: Alas, my dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Optimism BALLADE: 32, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Being as none is, I do complain Last Line: With 'pity' for 'patience' and 'conscience' for 'wrong'. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Horrible of hue, hideous to behold Last Line: My heart for sorrow yet feel I quake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean BALLADE: 36, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where my heavy sighs to hide Last Line: Whose death it is out of thy sight to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pain; Sickness; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Illness BALLADE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lover: it burneth yet, alas, my heart's desire Last Line: Thus hearts be won by love, request, and moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Desire; Grief; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: LAMENT OF THE LITTLE WHITE HORSE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The little horse 'mid winter's height, ah, what a gallant heart he Last Line: Is dead without seeing the sunny skies either behind or before. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Lament; Dead, The BALLADS AND CANTILENAS: OPHELIA, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: To the sad wind of the woods, something the night doth croon Last Line: "a rush? 'tis she, poor mime, who culls eternal dream." Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The BALLADS OF THE NIGHT: THE RESPONSES OF DAWN AND NIGHT, by PAUL FORT Poem Text Last Line: -- the ivory horn of death. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Night; Sunrise; Dead, The; Bedtime BALLADS OF THE STORM: CRADLE SONG FOR THE DYING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Do not believe in death. See how the sunlight streams through space Last Line: Begins. Subject(s): Death; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Songs BALLDE DES PENDUS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wide the forest bows are spread Last Line: This is king louis' orchard close! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BANKSIDE; HOME OF EDMUND QUINCY, DEDHAM, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I christened you in happier days, before Last Line: Nor public office a tramps' boosing-ken. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Houses; Quincy, Edmund (1808-1877); Dead, The BARBIE DOLL, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This girlchild was born as usual Subject(s): Death; Sexism; Dead, The BARE FEET, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The vulnerable, bare feet of old men Last Line: Is bearable but filling it brings tears. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hospitals; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The BARNSLEY COLLIERY EXPLOSION, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far, far below - oh! Far below Last Line: Avert the dangers of the mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The BARONESS DE ROTHSCHILD, by EMILY MARION HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Though life may fade, love never dies Last Line: Who loved her god; whose god is love. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Immortality; Jews; Love; Dead, The; Judaism BARTER, by GENEVIEVE PARRIS Poem Text First Line: Would you trip the light fantastic Last Line: I would. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BARZILLAI THE GILEADITE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Son of jesse!- let me go Last Line: Close by her blessed side, make ye my sepulchre. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BATTLE, by CHARLES BADGER CLARK JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you mind that old fight in the rattles Last Line: The bill must go to mother and the girls! Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Badger Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Guns; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLE ARDOUR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Unto what heaven wends this wild ecstasy Last Line: His foemen are his brothers in the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The BATTLEFIELDS, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the battlefields of birth Last Line: Mothers, maddened mothers, curse you, germany! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Germans BAYARD TAYLOR, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Can one so strong in hope, so rich in bloom Last Line: With aims as pure strive faithful to the end. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Taylor, Bayard (1825-1878); Dead, The; Parting BE STILL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, bring me wild pinks from the valleys Last Line: Be still, oh, be still! She is dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BE WITH US, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: We raise, o lord, the massy pile Last Line: And peace eternal fill the heart. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology BEAR, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear died standing up Last Line: To give up again this human shape. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Bears; Death; Dead, The BEARER'S SONG, by MIU HSI Poem Text First Line: When I was alive, I wandered in the streets of the capital Last Line: And none born can escape this thing. Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; Dead, The BEAUMONT-HAMEL; CAPTURED, NOVEMBER 16, 1916, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men at beaumont Last Line: Forward evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Army - Scotland; Death; Military; Scotland; Soldiers; Dead, The BEAUTIFUL DEATH, by STEPHEN PHILLIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why dreadest thou the calm process of death Last Line: Industrious, happy, sweet, delicious, dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BEAUTIFUL DEATH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O painter, paint me autumn woods when now Last Line: And all the flowers close wrapped and hidden lay. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The BEAUTY IN DEATH, by A. M. WATTS Poem Text First Line: We see a beauty in the dying leaves Last Line: A life with words and deeds of love aglow. Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Death; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The BECALMED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bar is crossed; but death - the pilot - stands Last Line: As when upon the treacherous shoals of sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BEFORE A CRUCIFIX, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, down between the dusty trees Last Line: Hide thyself, strive not, be no more. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; God; Jesus Christ; Trees; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The BEFORE HE SEEKS A FAIRER ONE, by CULLY DRAKE KIRKHAM Poem Text First Line: Oh, death spare me, who loves the sun Last Line: Before he flees my touch some winter night! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BEFORE THE BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, thou never art Last Line: Have they hurt thee? Subject(s): Buddhism; Death; Memory; Statues; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The BEFORE THE TIME OF MOWING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in long seedling grass the meadows lie Last Line: Such is her descant. Nay, but thou art pale! Subject(s): Beauty; Comfort; Death; Love; Nature; Dead, The BEHIND TIME, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: More coal, bill,' he said, and he held his watch to the / light of the glowing Last Line: Feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BELIEF, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: In six gold weeks of summer Last Line: Believing that flowers are eternal. Subject(s): Death; Imagination; Dead, The; Fancy BELLS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Anklet-bells! Frail anklet-bells! Last Line: And peace for suffering hearts that die! Subject(s): Bells; Death; Melodies; Praise; Prayer; Dead, The BELSHAZZAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The midnight hour was coming on Last Line: Was slain by his servants, -- a ghastly sight. Subject(s): Babylon; Belshazzar; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The BELTANE (FIRE OF GOD), by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Red flares the pile with the flames mounting higher Last Line: God of the fire rides forth at the dawn! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fire; War; Dead, The BENEATH THE JUNIPER, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Ah lord, in vain did I aspire Last Line: Cleft floods, and chariots of fire! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BENEDICTION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest in death and life beyond man's guessing Last Line: Blest. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BENIGN NEGLECT/WEST POINT, MISSISSIPPI, 1970, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose you were dreaming about your family Last Line: Good-bye, johnny. Subject(s): Death; Murder; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs BENIGNANT DEATH, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thanking god for life and light Last Line: If we could not die! Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology 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 BERCEUSE, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mummy at rest in the blue coffin of the forests Last Line: See the cities beneath them glitterring like the gold of the goths Subject(s): Airplane Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Travel; Air Crashes; Aeronautics - Accidents; Airplane Collisions; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BERCK - PLAGE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the sea, then, this great abeyance. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BERKLEY CHURCHYARD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still are all the dead Last Line: Our gift of love for men. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Marble; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BERTHA IN THE LANE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Put the broidery-frame away Last Line: I aspire while I expire. Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Women; Dead, The BESIDE THE BARS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grandmother's knitting has lost its charm Last Line: For the two who linger beside the bars. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Grandparents; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers BETH MARIE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Impatiently she drew her breath Last Line: Who only seemed a rose. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BETRAYED, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is false, o death, she is fair! Last Line: And keep out her face -- her face! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BETTER SO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fast asleep, mine own familiar friend Last Line: "of rest, and good the sleep I took"" --?" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Pain; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery BETWEEN LIVES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should I not forget you Last Line: I have not learned, yet.) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BETWEEN THE GATES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the gates of birth and death Last Line: "are ministers of love." Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The BEYOND HARM, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A week after my father died Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Death; Dead, The BEYOND RECALL, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when death and I Last Line: As life -- and you -- have proved to me! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BEYOND THE HORIZON, by ROBERT FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When men go down to the sea in ships Last Line: "to beckon and cry, ""all hail!" Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The BIANCA: 7. PRESAGES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The piteousness of passing things Last Line: Death, spare this whitest flesh that lives! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BIANCA: 9. WINE OF CIRCE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Circe, the wine of circe! Sorceress, I Last Line: Life dies into the ecstacy of death. Subject(s): Circe; Death; Dead, The BILL'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm gatherin' flowers by the wayside to lay on the grave of bill Last Line: When 'e stares through the bleedin' clods and sees the blossoms of jim and me? Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War BILL'S LENGTH, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On to bill's length,' said my mate to me Last Line: "we must signal to bill as we journey down." Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Brothers; Death; Railroads; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Railways; Trains BILLY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Returning to the beginning Last Line: And descend the hill balanced in their weight. Subject(s): Children; Death; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The BIOGRAPHY, by ANNA LOVELACE GORSUCH Poem Text First Line: I've always heard / the good die young Last Line: You came to me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death, twin-sister and twin-brother Last Line: Birth and death. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by THOMAS WADE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the soul within the body held Last Line: And all that in its prison-house befell. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTH AND DEATH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in another's pangs I hither came Last Line: How like to death thou art! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BIRTHDAY POEM FOR A CHILDLESS MAN, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the birthday of your death Last Line: You make a birthday of my death. Subject(s): Birth; Childlessness; Death; Women; Women's Rights; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Feminism BITTERNESS OF DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, stern, cold man Last Line: Is this what's become of you? Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): A Woman And Her Dead Husband;a Man Who Died Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BLACK DEATH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He gave her neither rest nor peace Last Line: "the grave knows neither low nor high!" Subject(s): Class Struggle; Death; Fairy Tales; Love; Dead, The BLACK MAGIC, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three friends of mine who know my heart Last Line: Between the whorls of smoking myrrh. Subject(s): Death; Magic; Dead, The BLACK POSTCARDS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The calendar full, future unknown Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BLACK ROSES, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: His hard-horn eyes Last Line: This is a place of wonder. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares BLACKBIRDS, by CLARA EXLINE BOCKOVEN Poem Text First Line: The giant that lives in the hill Last Line: With the sounds of a spring that is dead! Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Wings; Dead, The BLASPHEMY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O fairy form, o flower-like face Last Line: The dead, the dead must be. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hearts; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Ocean BLESSED EVENT (THERE WERE ALSO SOME CASUALTIES), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: In labour when / the raid began Last Line: Her soul instead. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Birth; Death; War; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The BLOOD ON THE WHEEL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bless her dear little heart!' said my mate, and he pointed out to me Last Line: "the wheel!" Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Railroads; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Railways; Trains BLOOD SOUP, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw father alive he was using Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Soup; Dead, The BLUES FOR JIMMY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it were evening on a dead man's watch Last Line: Locked on my wrist to remember us by Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Second World War BLUES FOR WARREN, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beasts in the schoolroom, whose transparent faces Last Line: Are beached the spring-tide flowers of our hopes Subject(s): Communism; Death; North Sea; Politics & Government; Socialism; Soldiers; War; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War BOATING-SONG, by ALBERT M. FREEMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, life is fair when the eyes are bright Last Line: Then merrily heave, ye ho! Subject(s): Boats; Death; Life; Dead, The BODY AND SOUL, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor soul doth to the body say Last Line: Greet him from me a thousand times. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny BOLLESWOOD, by FRANCES BARBER Poem Text First Line: Now is bolleswood buried deep Last Line: All is silent, all is still. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods BOLT FROM THE BLUE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: 1. Bolt from the blue Last Line: And debris—is aftermath. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Pain; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Suffering; Misery BONEHEAD BILL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder 'oo and wot e' was Last Line: The cove I croaked last night. Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The BOOK OF VISIONS: ETERNITY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: One does not need to credit death. The human heart to rest is fain Last Line: One does not need to credit death. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hearts; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life BOOK OF VISIONS: THE LITTLE LIGHTS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Starred nights, white days and days of blue, each chasing each with Last Line: Shall close my eyes on earth to the dancing of the little lights. Subject(s): Death; France; Stars; Dead, The BOOK OF VISIONS: THE RETURN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ivy has covered all the wall. How many hours, how many tears, since Last Line: Earth! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The BOOK OF VISIONS: THE SADNESS OF PAN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The rapturous lark has thrown to calm, unechoing skies, his trill's Last Line: And suddenly pan hurled to that still sphere above the final cry of love! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness BORDER-LAND, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you are always by my side Last Line: And the loving live, and the living love! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BORDERLANDS; FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by SUJI KWOCK KIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush my eyes, bitter grapes Alternate Author Name(s): Kim, Sue Kwock Subject(s): Death; Korea; Korean War, 1950-1953; Soldiers; Dead, The BORN OF THE SPIRIT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She called me a moment before Last Line: Born of the spirit.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Dead, The BORROWED THOUGHTS: 3. FROM 'ALICE', by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, dear, our love is slain Last Line: Between us evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery BOTHWELL: PART 1, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold - cold! The wind howls fierce without Last Line: That rise to madden me! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 2, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is bright, the day is warm Last Line: Above the kirk-of-field. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 3, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That gaoler hath a savage look Last Line: The felon now for evermore!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 4, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is a woman's weakest mood? Last Line: Wilt thou do this?' 'your hand -- I will!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Prisons & Prisoners; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Convicts; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 5, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascension morn! I hear the bells Last Line: The sword that darnley wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Ascension Day; Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOTHWELL: PART 6, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O that I were a mountaineer Last Line: Come, death; and I will welcome thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Bothwell, Scotland; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Convicts BOY BRITTAN [FEBRUARY 8, 1862], by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Boy brittan - only a lad a fair-haired boy - sixteen Last Line: "my darling, thou shalt rest!" Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fort Henry, Battle Of (1862); Sailing & Sailors; United States - History; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails BRANDENBURGH HARVEST SONG, by FRIEDRICH HEINRICH KARL DE LA MOTTE FOUQUE Poem Text First Line: The corn in golden light Last Line: She is no more! Alternate Author Name(s): La Motte Fouque Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Dead, The BRAVADO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am put to bed by death Last Line: Senselessness to any thrust. Subject(s): Death; Dirt; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BREAK, BREAK, BREAK, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Break, break, break, / on thy cold gray stones, o sea! Last Line: Will never come back to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nostalgia; Sea; Transience; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean; Impermanence BREATHLESS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some like the mountains some like the seashore Last Line: And no dreams to frighten me anymore Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The BRIDAL SERENADE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, thou sittest alone above Last Line: I'll bless thee dying at the door. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives BROKEN HEARTS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog creeps into my shadowed form Last Line: It never knew its master was a king. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The BROKEN OFF, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: In the spring-time of youth didst thou bless me Last Line: I leave thee for death. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Pride; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect BROKEN WINGS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gray-headed poets, whom the full years bless Last Line: Immortal lays. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fate; Poetry & Poets; Youth; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny BROODING, by JAN SVATOPLUK MACHAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A few more years, and they will drag my bones Last Line: And cast the livid skull away from sight! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BROTHER GENE, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: He differed from the others; they were kind Last Line: And how we miss him since he went away. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Longing; Nostalgia; Half-brothers; Dead, The BULLIER, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Pals of an hour, lovers' content, pocket-book and sentiment Last Line: Sentiments that stir the pulsing youth of france. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Dead, The; Joy; Delight BURD HELEN, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan maid, what is your woe? Last Line: "in love's dark way." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL INSURANCE, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It came each month from omaha Last Line: Grandmomma took her picture off the wall Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Books & Reading; Dead, The BURIAL OF MOSES, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nebo's lonely mountain Last Line: Of him he loved so well. Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology BURIAL RITES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL RITES, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Everyone comes back here to die Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The BURIED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleepest where the lilies fade Last Line: The snow upon thy bosom. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Soul; Dead, The BURIED CITIES; FATHER CHARLES, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No paler monk than father charles, and none so gaunt or lean Last Line: With thirty buried cities upon his reverend pate. Subject(s): Aging; Cities; Clergy; Death; Monks; Urban Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The BURIED LOVE, by MARY MORRIS DUANE Poem Text First Line: Now, though my love seem buried past recall Last Line: Wrapped in the garments of new life arise. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The BURIED TODAY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buried to-day. / when the soft green buds are bursting out Last Line: Trust him, and go your way. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials BURNING OF THE EXETER THEATRE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1887, which many people will long remember Last Line: Because whatever is given towards a good cause they will it regain. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fire; Dead, The BURNS ON HIS DEATH-BED, by WILLIAM MCDOWALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon will life's weary whirl be done Last Line: Twill scatter far the clouds frae me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The BY AN INDIAN GRAVE, by MILDRED PLEW MEIGS MERRYMAN Poem Text First Line: Sleep on, dead seminole - your bones are chalk Last Line: And we two dream together, seminole. Alternate Author Name(s): Meigs, Mildred Plew Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Native Americans; Dead, The; Nightmares; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BY FIRE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I pass an abandoned, half-wrecked building Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The BY SMALL AND SMALL: MIDNIGHT TO FOUR A.M, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For eleven years I have regretted it Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The BY THE NORTH SEA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sea, wind and sun, with light and sound and breath Last Line: My song to the sea. Subject(s): Death; North Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Storms; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips BY THE SALPETRIERE, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a poor old woman on the bench Last Line: And fled, with great strides, like a man possess'd. Subject(s): Old Age; Death; Dead, The BY TWILIGHT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we dream that desire of the distance above us Last Line: If we dream. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Evening; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sunset; Twilight BYGONES, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or ever a lick of art was done Last Line: And you were a sky-blue square. Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Longing; Dead, The CAELICA: 87, by FULKE GREVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenas man's life, the light of human lust Last Line: That while he lived never thought of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, 1st Baron; Brooke, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CAESAR AND CHRIST, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: Proud caesar came in strength of steel Last Line: And he lives. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Evil; Good; Jesus Christ; War; Dead, The CALAMITY IN LONDON; FAMILY OF TEN BURNED TO DEATH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1897, and on the night of christmas day Last Line: Every night before to your beds ye retire. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fire; Firefighters; Tragedy; Dead, The CALIFORNIAN, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It began like this: a radio Subject(s): Summer; Drought; Death; Songs; Dead, The CALL HIM HIGH SHELLEY NOW, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a frigid man whom men deplore Last Line: Call him high shelley now and praise his wake. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean CALL INTO DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I lost you, my darling, the sky has come near Last Line: Where you are lost, what rest, my love, what rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Elegy Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CALLING ME, by RUBY ALORA PEAPLON Poem Text First Line: Mama, dear, I'm going to leave you Last Line: Kiss me as I fall asleep. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery CALVARY, by JOHN ROTHSCHILD Poem Text First Line: Acres of crosses - wooden crosses - bleak Last Line: Of folded arms in the menacing hour? Subject(s): Calvary; Crosses; Crucifixion; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 3. HIS GRAVE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Back to the rock-ribbed mountains of vermont Last Line: His manhood, wearied, found its loved retreat. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CAMADEVA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun, the moon, the mystic planets seven Last Line: When camadeva came. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Earth; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; World; Joy; Delight CANADA'S THERMOPYLAE, by ANNIE BETHUNE MACDOUGALD Poem Text First Line: Though his head was bowed to the caesar'a toll Last Line: Canada's thermopylae. Subject(s): Death; Monuments; War; Dead, The CANCIONEROS: 2, by CRISTOBAL DE CASTILLEJO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day, some day Last Line: Shalt thou find rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CANTO 16, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And before hell mouth; dry plain Subject(s): World War I; Heroism; Death; First World War; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The CANYON GORGE ARROYO, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many other codices Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Earth; Grandparents; Tradition; Dead, The; World; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers CANZONE: 17. HE BESEECHES DEATH FOR THE LIFE OF BEATRICE, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, since I find not one with whom to grieve Last Line: Shall keep the blessed spirit that I praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Italian Renaissance; Dead, The CANZONE: OF HIS DEAD LADY, by GIACOMINO PUGLIESI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, why hast thou made life so hard to bear Last Line: Be thine. Even so Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise CAP'N STORM-ALONG, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are buffeting out in the bitter grey weather Last Line: Your old cap'n storm-along's lord of us all. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean CAPTIVE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer comes, the summer dies Last Line: One rapture of the wilderness! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Longing; Summer; Dead, The CARNAGE: 3. LOUVAIN, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serene in beauty's olden lineage Last Line: Where the dead hail him william of louvain! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Louvain, Belgium; Silence; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War CARPE DIEM, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a time for all things, sweet! Last Line: And mourn lost blisses. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Flowers; Kisses; Lips; Roses; Worship; Cathedrals; Dead, The CARRYING THE FIRE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He felt fevered, even in the wind Subject(s): Illness; Death; Dead, The CASA WAPPY; THE CHILD'S PET-NAME, CHOSEN BY HIMSELF, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And hast thou sought thy heavenly home Last Line: Casa wappy! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness CASEAR BORGIA, SON OF POPE ALEXANDER THE SIXTH: PROLOGUE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The unhappy man, who once has trail'd a pen Last Line: The pope says grace, but 'tis the devil gives thanks. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Poetry & Poets; Theater & Theaters; War; Dead, The; Stage Life 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 CASUALTIES: 27. THE CASUALTIES, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The casualties are not only those who are dead Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Loss; War Injuries; Dead, The CASUALTY, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He would drink by himself / and raise a weathered thumb Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Forges; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The CATHERINE TO GREGORY, THE POPE, by MARY KATE BLAND Poem Text First Line: Most holy christ on earth, I catherine Last Line: To die. Thy blessing, father -- rise and come! Subject(s): Death; Humility; Jesus Christ; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy CAVALIER SONG: 1642, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: If this be my last hour with thee Last Line: Without thee, I lose all. Subject(s): Cavaliers; Courage; Death; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CAVENDER'S HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into that house where no man went, he went Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The CENSORSHIP, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love cautions, 'adults only!' while below Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CENTENARY POEM, RECITED AT BURNS' CENTENARY FESTIVAL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, bard beloved! As pilgrims to thy shrine Last Line: To fame's bright zenith nearer, higher rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Death; Fame; Honor; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Reputation CHALSE A KILLEY; TO CHALSE IN HEAVEN, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you are gone, dear chalse Last Line: Chalse, poor chalse! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Gell, Charles (chalse Y Killey) (d. 1870); Dead, The CHAMBER OF NO LIGHT, by GARNET HAMRICK Poem Text First Line: When dust sinks back to dust Last Line: That pass into earth's nothingness. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CHAMPS D?ÇÖHONNEUR, by ERNEST HEMINGWAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soldiers never do die well; Last Line: Choking through the whole attack Subject(s): World War I; Soldiers; Death; Dead, The CHANGE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, when after spirited debate Last Line: Then, in the deathless days before she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CHANGE IN RECURRENCE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood at the gate of the cot Last Line: And tap-tapped the shell hard on a stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The CHANNEL FIRING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That night your great guns, unawares Last Line: And camelot, and starlit stonehenge. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Social Protest; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CHANSON AU TABAC, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Exotic from that west Last Line: While fancy, from a fragrant clime re-chases care and smart! Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking CHANT DU MARIN, by JEAN REBOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! Unfathom'd in its depth, unbounded in its flow Last Line: Restore them not till doomsday shall awake and claim the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Reboul De Nimes, Jean Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CHARADE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! What a glorious city! -- behold Last Line: But the warfare is over: there's peace in my third! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The; Destiny CHARLES B. DREUX, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, louisiana, weep thy gallant dead! Last Line: Forever bright! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Dreux, Charles (1832-1861); Louisiana; Soldiers; U.s. - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The CHARLES GEORGE GORDON, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not kilimanjaro towering to the sun Last Line: Ah, deathless is the glory, is the shame! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Kilimanjaro, Mount (africa); Dead, The CHARLES H. PHILIPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend! There is no way Last Line: Thy high reward in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness CHARLES II OF SPAIN TO APPROACHING DEATH, by EUGENE JACOB LEE-HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Make way, my lords! For death now once Last Line: The king is dying. Bid the great bells ring. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of Spain (1661-1700); Death; Dead, The CHARLIE HOWARD'S DESCENT, by MARK DOTY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the bridge and the river Subject(s): Diving & Divers; Death; Dead, The CHARLOTTE CORDAY, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The furies born of night and tumult mar Last Line: And know this well that time shall praise thy deed. Subject(s): Death; France; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines CHARON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In my cottage near the styx Last Line: Charon, cerberus, and co. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Charon; Death; Ferry Boats; Styx (river); Dead, The CHARTLESS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I never saw a moor Last Line: As if the chart were given. Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Heaven; Religion; Sky; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Theology CHASTE FLORIMEL, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No - I'll endure ten thousand deaths Last Line: Dear sir, and make me yours for ever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Truth; Dead, The CHATELARD, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A long day spent at chatelard for sketching Last Line: And stopp'd the loving ere the sketch was done. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The CHICKAMAUGA, by MARY EVELYN DAVID Poem Text First Line: The sharp, clear crack of rifles, and the deep Last Line: By the river of death! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, Mollie E.; Davis, Mollie E. Moore Subject(s): American Civil War; Chickamauga, Battle Of (1863); Death; United States - History; Dead, The CHIGWELL REVISITED, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deputed by the tuneful nine Last Line: And wormwood at the bottom. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Time; Dead, The; Destiny CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ocean's waves to the hollow caves murmur Last Line: A veil to be by eternity but ne'er by time with-drawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Churchyards; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise CHILDE HAROLD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow and weary, moves a dreary Last Line: Gainst the bark the waves dash high. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The CHILDHOOD, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The infant sang; the mother, life near over Last Line: The slender branches for its load too frail. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The CHILDREN OF LIR, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We woke from our sleep in the bosom where Last Line: Our spirits through love and through longing made one in the infinite lir. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Death; Future Life; Happiness; Mythology - Celtic; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Joy; Delight CHIMALPOA; A MONODRAMA - FOUNDED ON AN EVENT IN THE MEXICAN HISTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Subjects! Friends! Children! I may call you my children Last Line: Perform your office! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Duty; History; Mexico; Public Worship; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Historians; Church Attendance CHIVALRY AND SLAVERY, SELECTION, by JOHN BURKE Poem Text First Line: It chanced that in a southern state Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Cruelty; Death; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Slavery; United States - History; Dead, The; Antislavery Movement - United States; Serfs CHOICE OF DEATH, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Might I, without offending, choose Last Line: There should they place my tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CHORIAMBICS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, what ailed thee to leave life that was Last Line: Sweet was love to thee once; now in thine eyes sweeter than love is sleep. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The CHORICOS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient songs / pass deathward mournfully Last Line: Along the blue pine-woods Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CHORUS, FR. MEDEA, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the ways of death to weary feet Last Line: Their hand is put away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CHRIST LOVE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Greater love hath no man than this Last Line: Christ died for his enemies, not his friends. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Theology CHRISTINE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Most quaintly touching, in her Last Line: "than yet I am to you. So ist good night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Germany; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness CHRISTMAS TREE, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This seablue fir that rode the mountain storm Subject(s): Christmas; Past; Children; Death; Stars; Nativity, The; Childhood; Dead, The CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the dead I knelt for prayer Last Line: "he smiled: ""abide in me." Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Religion; Dead, The; Theology CINYRAS AND MYRRHA, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor him alone produc'd the fruitful queen Last Line: And, with her pains, reveng'd his mother's fires. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Life; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The CLANN CARTIE, by EGAN O'RAHILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is withered and my health is gone Last Line: I'd ram thy lamentation down thy neck. Alternate Author Name(s): O'reilly, Egan; AodhagÁn Ó Rathaille Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish CLARIMONDE, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With elbow buried in the downy pillow Last Line: Thou owest to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness CLAUDE MATTHEWS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfastly from his childhood's Last Line: By this divine promotion of his death. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Tears; Youth; Dead, The; Destiny CLEAPATRA TO THE ASP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lie thou where life hath lain Last Line: My heart is laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Dead, The CLEOPATRA AND CHARMIAN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dying, yes, charmian, dying Last Line: And lock up the back kitchen door. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Cleopatra's Needle (obelisks); Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Death; Dead, The CLERK SAUNDERS (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Clerk saunders and may margaret / walked ower yon garden green Last Line: Ne'er love him as ye did me Subject(s): Death;love; "dead, The; CLERKE RICHARD AND MAID MARGARET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two lovers who loved each other Last Line: Green o'er the spot where love did perish. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Hate; Love; Dead, The CLOSING CEREMONIES FOR THE BICENTENNIAL (AFTER VIETNAM), by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a long fall, that particular Last Line: Outside of our reach, unwinding. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Death; Leaves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The CLOUDS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds as I see them, rising Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Clouds; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations CLOWNS' DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother fools from everywhere Last Line: Let us use it soberly. Subject(s): Clowns; Death; Humorists; Jesters; Life; Love; Sin; Dead, The COATS, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him leaving the hospital Last Line: For irremediable cold Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COCOTTE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a girl's sixteen, and as poor as she's pretty Last Line: They're bringing my blind boy in at the gate. Subject(s): Death; Girls; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War CODICIL, by HARRY GRISWOLD DWIGHT Poem Text First Line: And when I die call in, too, if you will Last Line: An epitaph of wonder for my grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COINS AND COFFINS UNDER MY BED, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three children dancing around an orange tree Last Line: And the sun catching it, as it swings Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COLD AND QUIET, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold, my dear, -- cold and quiet Last Line: Love, now the children slumber, I come out to thee. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Lilies; Love; Silence; Dead, The COLE'S ISLAND, by CHARLES OLSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I met death - he was a sportsman - on cole's Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COLERIDGE AT CHAMOUNY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would I knew what ever happy stone Last Line: Dims the proud glory of its heavenward flight. Subject(s): Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834); Death; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The COLLOQUY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I died for beauty, but was scarce Last Line: And covered up our names. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Truth; Dead, The COLOR OF WATER, by MARJORIE MEEKER Poem Text First Line: You will be the color of water Last Line: One day to the sun, and died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COLUMBUS AT SEVILLE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear son, diego, I am old and deaf Last Line: The date, 1571 Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Explorers; Spain; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers COME AND GONE, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The silent moonbeams on the drifted snow Last Line: Dug edwin's grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COME AWAY, DEATH, by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Willy nilly, he comes or goes, with the clown's logic Last Line: On the outmoded page of the apocalypse. Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COME TO HARM, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were driving from one state to another, Last Line: There will be laughter Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The COME TO THE STONE ..., by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The child saw the bombers skate like stones across the field Last Line: Come to the stone and tell me why I died Subject(s): Air Warfare; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The COME, DEATH - MY LADY IS DEAD, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: For dedy liif, my livy deth I wite Last Line: O! Woful wretche! O! Wretche, lesse ones thy speche! Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COME, HONEST BOYS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ye who have nothing to conceal Last Line: In summer, under some green tree? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine COME, PEACE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: If in your hour of clapping bells Last Line: Be other than dread annunciation? Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The COME, WALK WITH ME, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COMING, by BARBARA MILLER MACANDREW Poem Text First Line: It may be in the evening Last Line: "and he will come." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise COMING AND GOING, by GRACE STEELE HYDE TRINE Poem Text First Line: They stood rejoicing at his birth Last Line: The tired old man smiled. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Old Age; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The COMING DOWN IN OHIO, by DAVE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My uniform hung air force blue, way uncool Subject(s): Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Basketball; Death; Dead, The COMMUNION, by HILDEGARDE FLANNER Poem Text First Line: I have spoken with the dead Last Line: I pass, for I have talked with death! Subject(s): Death; Eucharist; Dead, The; Communion COMPENSATIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not with a flash that rends the blue Last Line: And ask no more in death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Love; Moon; Dead, The; Nightmares COMPLAINT OF FORGETTING THE DEAD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen / whose mothers are dead Last Line: They go. ... Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CONCORD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reconciled by death's mild hand, that giving Last Line: Reconciled. Subject(s): Death; Love; Roundels; Dead, The CONDOLENCE, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They hurried here, as soon as you had died Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONFESSION, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came to earth with faith and trust Last Line: "and god serenely answered -- ""it is mine." Subject(s): Death; Earth; Faith; Love; Peace; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed CONFESSIONS, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is he buzzing in my ears? Last Line: But then, how it was sweet! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONJUGI CARISSIMAE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Marble fragment, freed at last Last Line: "conjugi carissimae." Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Past; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives CONQUERING RIVERS, by ALAN CREIGHTON Poem Text First Line: Death is conquered Last Line: To the sea of life! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONQUISTADOR: PROLOGUE, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the way goes on in the worn earth Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The CONSECRATED GROUND, by KATE L. DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: She does not sleep in consecrated ground Last Line: To sleep alone. Subject(s): Boredom; Death; Ignorance; Ennui; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity CONSEQUENCES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Outside it's been snowing Last Line: A russian romance! Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The CONSIDER, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now green comes springing o'er the heath Last Line: "none striving, constraining none, and thinking not on death." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The CONSIDERATIONS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, o lord, on me thy judgments lie Last Line: Thou that art the god of love. Subject(s): Death; God; Light; Love; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime 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 CONSOLATION, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It binds my spirit like a spell Last Line: Is not withheld from me. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy CONSTANCY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows that companion me Last Line: Walk in immortal fields of earth. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The CONTENTS OF A MINUTE, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The woman across the hall Last Line: Blows in from left field Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONTRA MORTEM: THE GREAT DEATH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh if a thousand old folk looked askance Last Line: That was what they called their questing was their lack Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONTRADICTIONS, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now, even, I cannot think it true Last Line: And yet my thought rejects the word. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CONVICTION, by N. R. A. BECKER Poem Text First Line: He is not dead, this friend Last Line: He is not dead. Subject(s): Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts COOL TOMBS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CORIKOS, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient songs Last Line: Comes gently upon us Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CORINNA'S GOING A-MAYING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Get up! Get up for shame! The blooming morn Last Line: Come, my corinna, come, let's go a-maying. Variant Title(s): Going A-maying;may-day Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Courtship; Death; Holidays; May (month); New Year; Spring; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness; CORONATION, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the king's gate the subtle noon Last Line: Slave in his father's stead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The CORTEGE FOR ROSENBLOOM, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, the wry rosenbloom is dead Last Line: Rosenbloom is dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CORYBANTIAST, by MARY BRENNAN CLAPP Poem Text First Line: Who, thinking on death, decides Last Line: Too long the idle night! Subject(s): Death; Festivals; Future Life; Rites & Ceremonies; Dead, The; Fairs; Pageants; Retribution; Eternity; After Life COSTANZA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She knelt in prayer. A stream of sunset fell Last Line: His last faint breath just waved her floating hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Women; Dead, The COTTAGE MUSK, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Or in caprice or through neglect Last Line: You'll find it nowhere. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Herbs; Dead, The COULD I FORGET!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Ah! Could my wakening spirit but forget Last Line: My love now dead, but once so wholly mine! Subject(s): Death; Forget-me-nots; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise COULD THEY BUT KNOW (NOVEMBER, 1918), by WILL CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Could they but know -- the countless heroes dead Last Line: And vision give our holy dead to-day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Military; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; First World War COUNTING THE BEATS, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, love, and I Last Line: Wakeful they lie. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea COUNTRY FUNERAL, by AMY LEE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This is the greatest day you ever knew Last Line: You have known fame at last -- among the dead. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Funerals; Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Burials COUSIN BELL; AN INCIDENT IN REAL LIFE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dark fir-wud hings ower the burn Last Line: The brithers' hearts for sister bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness COWPER'S CONSOLATION, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew what mortals know when tried Last Line: God took his own! Subject(s): Consolation; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The CREATED CLAY, by VIRGIL BROWNE Poem Text First Line: I stood today on a mound of clay Last Line: The breath of god. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Soul; Dead, The CRESCENT MOON, by ELLA C. MACOMB Poem Text First Line: The crescent moon hangs low in the azure sky Last Line: To bring to all eternal peace. . . Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; Sky; Dead, The; Bedtime CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sunset and evening star Last Line: When I have crossed the bar. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails CRUELTY, by STEPHEN ORLEN Poem Text First Line: Because we were all sweaty Alternate Author Name(s): Orlen, Steve Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Cruelty; Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Impotence; Dead, The CURTAINS, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Putting up new curtains, Subject(s): Landlord & Tenants; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness CYCLES, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: This hyacinth is some dead poet's dust Last Line: Death beckons—whither?—what?—no words betray. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The CYNOTAPHIUM (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When some dear human friend to death doth bow Last Line: I laid thy sightless head full gently there. Variant Title(s): The Tear Of Friendship Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The CYNOTAPHIUM (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot think thine all is buried here Last Line: How much on such dark ground a gleaming thread can do! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HER MOTHER'S DECEASE, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: April is past, then do not shed Last Line: But feels eternal sleep. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON HIS LOVE AFTER DEATH, by FRANCIS KYNASTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let lovers that like honey-flies Last Line: Lives, though not in thine eyes, yet in my heart. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The CYRIL TOURNEUR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A sea that heaves with horror of the night Last Line: And over all these one star -- chastity. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Sea; Soul; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean DAILY DYING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not in a moment drops the rose Last Line: Wide they will open for you and me! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Nature; Summer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENADOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 1, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Long ere ruthless civil war laid waste Last Line: They idolized with fond, indulgent care. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 10, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: When the chieftain deep into the forest shade Last Line: And on his mangled bosom died. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 2, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Sounds of trumpet, drum, and shrilling fife Last Line: His lifeless flesh. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 3, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Upon the balmy breeze of that same morning Last Line: * * * Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 4, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: At early dawn the wounded federal Last Line: Of both the rescued and the rescuer. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 5, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: One bright morn as the lovers near the cot Last Line: Them in a loathsome dungeon south. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 6, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Down beside her senseless mother daisy Last Line: Death freed reuben from his clanking chains. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 7, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Soon upon the breeze she heard the tramp Last Line: Were lost, in the gloom of night enshrouded deeply. Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DAISY SWAIN, THE FLOWER OF SHENANDOAH; A TALE OF THE REBELLION: 9, by JOHN M. DAGNALL Poem Text First Line: Not till their victims charr'd remains exhaled Last Line: "but never from your wicked conscience.[""]" Subject(s): American Civil War; Beauty; Death; Love; Soldiers; United States - History; Women; Dead, The DALLAS: HIS DIRGE, by DIANA JAMES Poem Text First Line: Dallas is dead Last Line: No loveliness while dallas is alive. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The DAMON & PYTHIAS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he got into bed Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The DAMON THE MOWER, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark how the mower damon sung Last Line: For death thou art a mower too. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Dead, The DANCE OF DEATH (AIR RAID AT NORWICH), by CAMILLA DOYLE Poem Text First Line: The electric lights begin Last Line: And now begin the drums. Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The DANGER, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With what a childish and short sighted sense Last Line: Lies hid the pebble for the fatal sling. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Advice; Death; Wind; Dead, The DAPHNAIDA, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What ever man he be, whose heavie mynd Last Line: But what of him became I cannot weene. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DARK ROSALEEN, by TOMAS COSTELLO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O my dark rosaleen Last Line: My dark rosaleen! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Ireland; Love - Loss Of; O'donnell, Hugh Roe (1572-1602); Patriotism; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Irish; Red Hugh, Lord Of Tyrconnel DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Last night I saw thee gliding to my bed Last Line: "mother, and wife, and sister,—one in three!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death - Mothers; Sleep; Women; Dead, The 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 DAWN, by DANIEL MACINTYRE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of death Last Line: The hour of dawn is the hour of life! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Dawn; Death; War; World War I; Weapons; Ammunition; Sunrise; Dead, The; First World War DAWN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blow out the candles, my little one Last Line: O I am cold, -- cold. Subject(s): Candles; Dawn; Death; Rivers; Sunrise; Dead, The DAWN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young light trembles through the waking sky Last Line: To smile away the hours and long to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sunrise; Dead, The DAWN BEHIND NIGHT, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lips! Bold, frenzied utterance, shape to the thoughts that prompted by hate Last Line: That will find us and free us and take us where its portals are opened wide. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The DAYLIGHT IS DYING, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The daylight is dying Last Line: You some echo of song. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Evening; Singing & Singers; Stars; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight DAYS OF 1986, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was believed by his peers to be an important poet Last Line: And rejoice at the inner voice, so lofty and pure. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism DE AEGYPTO, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the wet bank shines Last Line: If I die not in my own land. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Flowers; Hearts; Moon; Violets; Dead, The DE COENATIONE MICAE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look round. You see a little supper room Last Line: Bid you be merry and remember death. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Dead, The DE PROFUNDIS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face which, duly as the sun Last Line: Smiling -- so I! Thy days go on! Subject(s): Barrett, Edward (d. 1840); Consolation; Death; Drowning; Dead, The DE PROFUNDIS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: My soul! / can this as truth abide Last Line: We only die. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DE PROFUNDIS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: You must be troubled, asthore Last Line: Go back and sleep, my dear! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3, SELECTION, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No single thing abides; but all things flow Last Line: How beautiful thy feet are on the hills! Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The DE RERUM NATURA: BOOK 3. AGAINST THE FEAR OF DEATH, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has this bugbear death to frighten man Last Line: As he who dy'd a thousand years ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Variant Title(s): Translations From Lucretius De Rerum Natura: From The Latter Part Of Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Lucretius (99-55 B.c.); Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The DEAD, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who did you say, my lady?' drawled the earl Last Line: "the music makes me giddy. Take me home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Saint Lucia (caribbean Island); Yellow Fever; Dead, The DEAD, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A knock is at her door, but she is weak Last Line: She keeps her last, long liaison with death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In merioneth, over the sad moor Last Line: A spirit cries be strong! And cries be still! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I hearken at your grave Last Line: By that road. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The DEAD ANIMALS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Granted then, that the punishment Last Line: I'll trade this one in for another story Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD AT ELEVEN, by JOHN E. REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Make no threne! Last Line: Soldans surround him. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials DEAD BEFORE DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Changed and cold, how changed and very cold Last Line: So cold and lost for ever evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD DEER, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Amid pale green milkweed, wild clover Last Line: Cruel luxuriance. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deer; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence DEAD FOUNTAINS, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: Moonstains on a leaf-strewn cloister walk Last Line: That cast upward hollow echoes of the stars. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 IN SIGHT OF FAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Dead! Dead! Last Line: Will see it and be reconciled. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Reputation; Paradise DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEAD LOVE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are face to face, and between us here Last Line: Aye, up till the death-blind eyes are hid! Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The DEAD LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead love, by treason slain, lies stark Last Line: Dead love. Subject(s): Death; Love; Roundels; Dead, The DEAD LOVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of all that's cold in arctic skies Last Line: Nor dead as love that once had birth. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DEAD MAN'S COTTAGE, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loft with a ruckle of twisted rafters where the blue sky shows through ... Last Line: Stay. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War DEAD MAN'S MORRICE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came a crowder to the mermaid inn Last Line: And look in vain. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Forests; Ghosts; Lips; May (month); Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Woods; Bedtime DEAD MEN, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stoop and pluck the tansy's gold Last Line: Or whose great ship, or long-gone rose? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD MEN'S HOLIDAY; AFTER SHIPKA, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who dares to say the dead men were not glad Last Line: "and better this than fighting in the sun." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD OR ALIVE IN BELGIUM, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody you think is dead is alive Subject(s): Life; Death; Belgium; Dead, The DEAD OUT-OF-DOORS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High from the ground, and blown upon by air Last Line: "to cry, ""o grave, where is thy victory!" Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEAD POET, by JOSEPHINE PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: We thought of him as filling an armchair Last Line: Who now held knowledge of our going hence. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEAD SELVES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many of my selves are dead? Last Line: Since all my other selves are dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The DEAD VIOLETS, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They took them from the woodland glade Last Line: And she is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Violets; Dead, The DEAD, MY LORDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Last Line: Dead, my lords and gentlemen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Praise; Dead, The DEAD-HORSE GATE, by RODERIC JOSEPH QUINN Poem Text First Line: The track that ran through hunthaway Last Line: Along the lachlan-side. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Drought; Horses; Legends; Dead, The DEAR LITTLE LADY WITH SNOW WHITE HAIR, by PAULINE KUNDERD MANLY Poem Text Last Line: I hope to see you again over there. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Retirement; Seamstresses; Dead, The; Work; Workers DEAR THINGS AND QUEER THINGS, by LOUISA COOKE DON-CARLOS Poem Text First Line: The world's so full of dear things Last Line: How can I leave them all? Subject(s): Death; Pleasure; Dead, The DEAR TOM THIS BROWN JUG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dear tom, this brown jug which now foams with good ale" Last Line: So here's to my lovely sweet kate of the vale Subject(s): Bottles;death;drinks & Drinking;friendship; "dead, The; 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, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all gods death alone Last Line: We know not what he saith. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a stranger in the land Last Line: I have no friend save god! Subject(s): Death;religion; "dead, The;theology; DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Then shall he lie in the earth Last Line: Or the flute's gay melodies Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o death, rock me asleep" Last Line: There is no rememdy Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; DEATH, by MALTBIE DAVENPORT BABCOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why be afraid of death, as though your life were breath? Last Line: And work, nor care to rest, and find the last the best. Variant Title(s): Emancipation Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology DEATH, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Haul up the anchor, captain old, o death, for it is time Last Line: And hail the unknown dark to find a shore beyond the deep! Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub DEATH, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! That struck when I was most confiding Last Line: That from which it sprung -- eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little hour of envied joy is past Last Line: Enough of loveless life, shut to the door. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The destroyer cometh; his footstep is light Last Line: Are the curtains which shroud joy's deadliest foe. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Beauty'll be no fairer than Last Line: Fits their skulls for bells, not crowns. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by DOROTHY DREISBACH Poem Text First Line: Death took the orange out of the sunshine Last Line: The scar of the wound will always be there. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Storm and strife and stress Last Line: Day rides the hills of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sunk eyes, cold lips, chaps fall'n, cheeks pale and wan Last Line: Will cause the mind betimes to loathe her cage. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing Last Line: Making our pillows either down, or dust. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by MARY HOVEY Poem Text First Line: Some day I too will seem asleep Last Line: Who loved my tired eyes. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not loneliness of soul Last Line: The silver cords of love and life. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from eden's land we stray Last Line: Men have named this wonder death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by ELIZA KEARY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a low bed within a narrow room Last Line: Of triumph shall my troubled life fulfill. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by BILL KNOTT Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Going to sleep, I cross my hands on my chest Last Line: It will look as though I am flying into myself. Alternate Author Name(s): Saint Geraud; Knott, William Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my friends, that we are growing old Last Line: The mother of our youth!—she maketh speed. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DEATH, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have made light of death Last Line: None may be there to see. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Death; Humility; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Dead, The; Loneliness DEATH, by CHARLES HENRY MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are prisoners in the world of things Last Line: And breaks, dreading the freedom that it brings! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by BESSIE M. MARR Poem Text First Line: The fallen giants of the forest vast Last Line: For deeds reflect the life beyond death's gate. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Opening that we cannot find Last Line: Unpiercèd still by light or sound! Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by EDITH BLAND NESBIT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again: / no child shall stir the inmost heart of her Last Line: Not see that cold clay hole. Alternate Author Name(s): Nesbit, E.; Bland, Mrs. Hubert Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by BETH M. OLSON Poem Text First Line: There was a time I shrank from him Last Line: I'll turn and take him by the hand. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This starry world, and I in it Last Line: As it is now, at this moment. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DEATH, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We toil and take our rest - we laugh and weep Last Line: Dreams of strange regions, passing mortal taint. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fates (mythology); Life; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares DEATH, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death calls my dog by the wrong name. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, I am dying! And to feel the Last Line: Soh, bless me! I am dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Death! Is it thou whom bravest souls do fear Last Line: Reviving, creeping to calamity. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Rest; Tragedy; Dead, The; Declaration Day DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grave-worm revels now Last Line: It is the second birth. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Grief; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the shadows of sadness Last Line: "into our home -- ""sweet home""." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They die - the dead return not - misery Last Line: These tombs, -- alone remain. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fate! Fortune! Chance! Whose blindness, hostility or kindness Last Line: Death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Fate; Fortune; Pain; Dead, The; Destiny; Suffering; Misery DEATH, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slow creatures, slow Last Line: In the sun! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are as maidens one and all Last Line: A quiet household life. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DEATH, by CHARLES WESLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, lovely appearance of death! Last Line: My flesh be consigned to the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor dread nor hope attend Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH & CO., by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two, of course there are two. Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Babies; Dead, The; Infants DEATH (1), by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall walk down the road Last Line: Between the cold waves of his hair, as he tip-toes on. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I passed him daily, but his eyes Last Line: Is fixed upon my countenance. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So sweet to tired mortality the night Last Line: Within its shadow lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH (IN MEMORIAM MAGGIE MEAGHER), by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, I know this world is kin Last Line: And with our hearts—behold them there! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH - ETERNITY'S REALM, by LOUISE L. PANNULLO Poem Text First Line: Peacefully yonder a million souls did sleep Last Line: "do I exempt from my field—where eternity I do sow." Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace; Rest; Skulls; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH AND BIRTH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death and birth should dwell not near together Last Line: Death and birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Roundels; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The DEATH AND BURIAL OF LORD TENNYSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone Last Line: And his name in gold letters written thereon! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Memory; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DEATH AND DAPHNE, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death went upon a solemn day Last Line: And leaves my lady in the suds. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND DOCTOR HORNBOOK; A TRUE STORY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some books are lies frae end to end Last Line: And sae did death. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors DEATH AND ENTRANCES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On almost the incendiary eve Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND FAME, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation DEATH AND FAME, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have planted a flower on the peak Last Line: And fame is where they are. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation DEATH AND ITS ANTIDOTE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The strongest hearts grow fearful at the name Last Line: Not vague, but true, not fearful, but most bold! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND LIFE, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death! When all my tasks are done Last Line: Before love's unveiled face. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND LIFE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: He is dead Last Line: I smile, and they think me brave—or a hypocrite. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DEATH AND LIFE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death stroked my hair and whispered tenderly Last Line: "of song or service for my country's need?" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND RESURRECTION, by GEORGE CROLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth to earth, and dust to dust! Last Line: "earth to earth, and dust to dust!" Variant Title(s): A Dirge Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DEATH AND THE FOOL, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold, the distant hills stand clothed with light Last Line: Close beside them a figure which closely resembles that of claudio.] Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND THE LADY; THEIR BARGAIN TOLD AGAIN, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death to the lady said Last Line: Death said to the lady. Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AND THE MONK, by ARTHUR E. BAKER Poem Text First Line: Dead to a world that never saw my face Last Line: "would god that death would free me from this death!" Subject(s): Death; Monks; Yale University; Dead, The DEATH AND THE PLAYER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched the players playing on their stage Last Line: But once in many days! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Indifference; Murder; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The DEATH AND THE WARRIOR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, warrior, arm! And wear thy plume Last Line: "o death! -- and not to thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The DEATH AND THE YOUTH, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, the flowers are in my path Last Line: "I'm ready now to die!" Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AS THE FOOL, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: In the high turret chamber sat the sage Last Line: So had the sage death-bell and passing-prayer. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AS THE TEACHER OF LOVE-LORE, by FRANK T. MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Twas in mid autumn, and the woods Last Line: Learning from death that love can never die. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The DEATH AT A GREAT DISTANCE, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ripe, floating caps Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AT DAYBREAK, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shall go out when the light comes in Last Line: And how is a soul to see? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH AT MORNING, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died when dawn was sweeping o'er the Last Line: "I cannot bear the brightness of thy face!" Subject(s): Death; Morning; Dead, The DEATH AT PLAY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He blows through the keyhole to waver my candle Last Line: And make me believe he intends to come in. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The DEATH AT WORK, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chevy engine hangs by a chain Last Line: With everyone afraid and trying not to be Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers DEATH BEARING, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun wakens staining her pillow Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH CAME AT ME, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a motorcycle Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH CAME WITH THE MORNING, by KATHRYN DUDLEY Poem Text First Line: I lay last night and watched for death Last Line: And looking up, I saw that death was robed in blue! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH COMES TO AN ALLEY CAT, by MARY C. SLEVIN Poem Text First Line: All sickened, sad, revolted - angry, too Last Line: Above the little cat. Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Dead, The DEATH ENDS ALL WOE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is the bound of things, where'er we go Last Line: Fate gives a meeting. Death's the end of woe. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IMPORTUNED, by HOMER EUGENE MCMASTER Poem Text First Line: I implore thee, death, give one more day Last Line: Dwell where life and I may still be one. Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Dead, The DEATH IN A BALL-ROOM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh many, many thus have died, alas Last Line: Shall tread fair measures still to seraph angels' strain. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IN LEAMINGTON, by JOHN BETJEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She died in the upstairs bedroom Subject(s): Death; Health Resorts; Dead, The; Spas DEATH IN LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: He always said he would retire Last Line: He found he had already died Subject(s): Carpe Diem;death; "dead, The; DEATH IN THE FLOWER, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a fair tree, the almond-tree: there spring Last Line: Tis death! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Almond Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The DEATH IN THE HOME, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When those we love die Last Line: Good with long talks. Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The DEATH IN WINTER, by EDITH JOHNSTON Poem Text First Line: I stood between the light and dark today Last Line: And knew how quietly a heart could break. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IN YOUTH, by JUANA INES DE LA CRUZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I noted once a fair castilian rose Last Line: "tis fairer fortune to die young than old." Alternate Author Name(s): Ramirez, Juana De Asbaje Y; Cruz, Juana Ines De La; Juana Ines De La Cruz Subject(s): Death; Love; Youth; Dead, The DEATH IN YOUTH, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy lips grow cold against the lips of death Last Line: While death prepares the spiritual day. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The DEATH IS DEAD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And did you know our old friend Last Line: The kind old sockets grew forever dim. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fantasy; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The DEATH IS NOT AS NATURAL AS YOU FAGS SEEM TO THINK, by AMIRI BARAKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hunt Alternate Author Name(s): Jones, Leroi Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH IS..., by BENJAMIN ROSENBAUM Poem Text First Line: I shall not weep though I may never hear Last Line: Death is a slipping up white stairs to light. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH MOOD, by EVALYN SCHAFFLE Poem Text First Line: Since I must die I ask that death may be Last Line: Fearing what may be seen beyond the rim! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH NEWS, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking at night on asphalt campus Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Dead, The DEATH OF A NATURALIST, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY; AT THE RETREAT FOR THE INSANE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Youth glows upon her blossom'd cheek Last Line: Weep not as others weep. Subject(s): Death; Psychiatric Hospitals; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Mad Houses; Insane Asylums DEATH OF A YOUNG WIFE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why is the green earth broken? Yon tall grass Last Line: A deathless union with the parted bride. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF GORMLAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Gormlaith, wife of niall glundu Last Line: "niall of ulster whispered, ""come." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF TENNYSON, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mourn, all ye nations, mourn! For he is dead Last Line: Who knew the tree, and gather'd of its fruit! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DEATH OF THE DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My pictures blacken in their frames Last Line: Away he bore. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The DEATH OF THE EMIGRANT, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way is long,' the father said Last Line: "the fatherless are mine." Subject(s): Death; Immigrants; Dead, The; Emigrant; Emigration; Immigration DEATH OF THE PRINCE IMPERIAL, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Waileth a woman, 'o my god!' Last Line: "o my god!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH OF THE WIDOW'S SON, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He languish'd by the way-side, and fell down Last Line: Time's crumbling shore, from vast eternity Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH PIECE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Invention sleeps within a skull Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH SCENE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying, still slowly dying Last Line: Went up on the heavenly side. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH SNIPS PROUD MEN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is stronger than all the governments because the governments are men Last Line: Long sleep, child; what have you had anyhow better than sleep? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH STANDS ABOVE ME, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death stands above me, whispering low Last Line: Is, there is not a word of fear. Variant Title(s): No Word For Fear;on His Own Death;death;no Fear Of Death;on Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH THE HIGHWAYMAN, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: He nurses there among his crags Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH THE LEVELLER, by ANYTE Poem Text First Line: In life this man was manes, and a slave Last Line: He's peer of great darius in the grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anytes Subject(s): Darius I, King Of Persia; Death; Dead, The DEATH THE LEVELLER, by MENANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you with your true self would be acquainted Last Line: Look to the graves -- and make your own acquaintance. Variant Title(s): Here Are Sands, Ignoble Things Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH THE LEVELLER, FR. THE CONTENTION OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by JAMES SHIRLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glories of our blood and state / are shadows, not substantial things Last Line: Smell sweet, and blossom in their dust. Variant Title(s): Calchas's Song;death The Conqueror;earth's Victories;of Death;the King Of Kings;song: No Armour Against Fate;blood And State;a Dirge Subject(s): Courage; Death; Holidays; New Year; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The DEATH THE PAINTER, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snub-nosed, bone-fingered, deft with engraving tools Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH WATCHES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spring spreads one green lap of flowers Last Line: And pale the star-lights follow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH WISHES, by JANE FRANCESCA WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Might I pass as the evening ray Last Line: "but the poor human heart, ere it die -- must be broken!" Alternate Author Name(s): Speranza; Elgee, Jane Francesca; Wilde, William Robert Wills, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH WORK, by DONALD HALL Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S ALCHEMY, by WILLIAM SIDNEY WALKER Poem Text First Line: They say that thou wert lovely on thy bier Last Line: Strange comfort, whereon after-thought may feed? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S CHILL BETWEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chide not: let me breathe a little Last Line: For he is not come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S DIGNITY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a common man. His horny hands Last Line: The strange and sudden dignity of death. Variant Title(s): Mortis Dignitas Subject(s): Death; Faces; Life; Tears; Dead, The DEATH'S GUERDON, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Secure in death he keeps the hearts he had Last Line: To one the husband of her youth. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S RAMBLE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day the dreary old king of death Last Line: To wait for the final trump! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH'S THE CLASSIC LOOK, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death's the classic look, it goes Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH, JUDGMENT, HEAVEN, HELL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The functioning total then Last Line: The tangent creeping ultre herculis columnas Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH-BED OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On his bed the king was lying Last Line: The warriors of the world! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Alexander The Great (356-323 B.c.); Death; Dead, The DEATH-CHANT FOR THE SULTAN MAHMOUD, by BARTHOLOMEW SIMMONS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Raise the song to the mighty, whose glory Last Line: But thy praise shall not perish, lost mahmoud the last! Subject(s): Death; Mahmud Ii, Ottoman Sultan (1785-1839); Dead, The DEATH-GRAPPLE, by LAURA BELL EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Man and the pitiless waters Last Line: How long shall the carnage be? Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean DEATH: A SONNET, by WILLIAM WALSH (1663-1707) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has this bugbear death that's worth our care? Last Line: Tis nothing, celia, but the losing thee. Variant Title(s): Sonnet On Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATH; MATER NOSTRA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the kiss of motherhood. Why fear Last Line: Come, gather godhead from my nearer eyes. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH; PINDARIC ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At a melancholic season Last Line: There is no refuge, but the friendly grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 DEATHBEDS, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ancients were talkative on theirs Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEATHLESS, by MARGARET RAPELJE DODGE Poem Text First Line: So still to die? Forever be at rest? Last Line: And beautify the world. -- and this is best! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEBORARH YORK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: All along this fair 'foreside' Last Line: Deborah york, a queen art thou. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Saints; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise DECEMBER SNOW, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow a stainless veil doth cast Last Line: To beauty passing all that life has known. Subject(s): Death; December; Memory; Snow; Dead, The DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY--1899, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the cemetery to-day Last Line: "neath the old ""red, white and blue." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The DEDICATION, by RALPH GUSTAFSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They shall not die in vain,' we said Last Line: And died, a silent writing down. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEDICATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years are many, the changes more Last Line: Bear home her signal across the sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Sea; Time; Dead, The; English; Ocean DEDICATIONS FROM BASHERT, by IRENA KLEPFISZ Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: These words are dedicated to those who died Alternate Author Name(s): Klepfitz, Irena Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEEP IN THE FOREST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Deep in the forest there is a pond Last Line: "our brothers, even the birds and deer, / who always float down to us / with alarmed and startled ey Variant Title(s): After The Anonymous Swedish; Seventeenth Century Subject(s): Death;forests;lakes;water; "dead, The;woods;pools;ponds; DEEP IN THE QUIET WOOD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you bowed down in heart? Last Line: And holy harmonies. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Silence; Dead, The DEFIANCE TO CUPID, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in this grave Subject(s): Graves; Death; Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The DEFIANT OF DEATH, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so strong it dares defy Last Line: That love has sought to lighten our distress. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The DEFINITION, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: A sudden closing of the eyes Last Line: It's called by someone, passing, by another, death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Silence; Dead, The DEIRDRE IS DEAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps, the grey wind weeps Last Line: Dust on her breast, dust on her eyes, the grey wind weeps! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brigid Of Ireland, Saint (453-523); Death; Deirdre; Drowning; Grief; Wind; Bridget, Saint; Brigit Of Kildare, Saint; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DELICE, by ZELLA MURIEL WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It stands out like a flower of pale gold Last Line: There's one flower of pale gold .... Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DELIVERED, by A. ANDERS GRAFSTROM Poem Text First Line: The night was chilly -- home gunnar sped Last Line: The deliverer came—it was death! Subject(s): Death; Family Life; God; Hunger; Poverty; Salvation; Dead, The; Relatives DEO GRATIAS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The gates of death yawned wide, my love Last Line: To have thee evermore. Subject(s): Death; God; Love - Loss Of; Prayer; Dead, The DEPARTED, by GRAYCE FERBITZ KNUDSON Poem Text First Line: They came to honor her (too late for praise Last Line: A talisman against defeat and fears. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEPARTED FRIENDS, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead friends live and always will; Last Line: Still live the friends of long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DEPARTURE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Now let me sleep, and that which sleeps in me awake Last Line: That teach despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DESDICHADA, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For that you never acknowledged me, I acknowledge Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The DESERT MOTHER, by BERTA HART NANCE Poem Text First Line: Her husband had been gone for weeks Last Line: That gave her strength to go away. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Mothers; Strength; Dead, The DESIDERIUM, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Face in the tomb, that lies so still Last Line: Gazing forever in immortal eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness DESIGN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dimpled spider, fat and white Last Line: If design govern in a thing so small. Subject(s): Death; Fate; God; Insects; Men; Nature; Spiders; Dead, The; Destiny; Bugs DESOLATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest bleak and lonely Last Line: Come and sing above my tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Birds; Death; Desolation; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DESPERATO'S BANQUET, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, heavy souls, oppressed with the weight Last Line: Sigh, and sigh out; groan once, and groan no more. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The DESPONDENCY; A REVERIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of an august day Last Line: Omens of desolation and despair. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The DETAIL WAITING FOR A TRAIN, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The main floor of penn station, early Subject(s): Pennsylvania Station, New York City; Death; Dead, The DIAL-THOUGHTS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of thee at daybreak still Last Line: But in thy breath from heaven above. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Loss; Love; Marriage; Memory; Thought; Sunrise; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking DIDN'T WE JIM?, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, sir; we lived home till our mother died Last Line: Didn't she, jim? Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Bible; Death - Mothers; Dead, The DIMANCHE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail sabbath-day! Of all the seven the best! Last Line: Thine own right arm, omnipotent to save! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean DION OF TARSUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dion of tarsus, here I lie, who sixty years have seen" Last Line: "I was not ever wed, and would my father had not been!" Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; DIRE: 1. A DEAD KING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go down to hell. This end is good to see Last Line: Here is no room for thee; go down to hell.' Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Hell; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 11. THE MODERATES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She stood before her traitors bound and bare Last Line: February, 1870. Subject(s): Betrayal; Death; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 12. INTERCESSION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, a little more, and then the worm Last Line: Paris, september, 1869. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Nations; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares DIRE: 13. THE SAVIOR OF SOCIETY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O son of man, but of what man who knows? Last Line: December, 1869. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Nations; Salvation; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The DIRE: 14. MENTANA: SECOND ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the dead body of hope, the spotless lamb Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Hope; Nations; Dead, The; Optimism DIRE: 15. MENTANA: THIRD ANNIVERSARY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Such prayers last year were put up for thy sake Last Line: Satiate the immitigable hours in hell? Subject(s): Death; Hope; Nations; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism DIRE: 16. THE DESCENT INTO HELL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night and death, to whom we grudged him then Last Line: That we have lived to say, the dog is dead. Subject(s): Death; Hell; Jesus Christ; Nations; Dead, The DIRE: 2. A YEAR AFTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If blood throbs yet in this that was thy face Last Line: Thy mouth to a snake's whose slime outlives the sting, Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Nations; Cadavers; Dead, The DIRE: 3. PETER'S PENCE FROM PERUGIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Iscariot, thou grey-grown beast of blood Last Line: With dusty shame, when thou art damned and dead. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Judas Iscariot (d. 30 A.d.); Nations; Dead, The DIRGE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pure spirit! O where art thou now Last Line: When I too am at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her couch of evening rest Last Line: And whose sweets are sweetly dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DIRGE, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never the nightingale, / o my dear Last Line: My dear, my dear. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DIRGE, by KENNETH FEARING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: 1-2-3 was the number he played but today the number came 3-2-1; Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Death; Depressions, Economic; Gambling; Modern Man; Dead, The; Dead, The; Recessions; Wagering; Betting DIRGE, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death alone / has sympathy for weariness Last Line: Or comparison. Subject(s): Death; Dirigibles; Universe; Dead, The DIRGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What longer need hath she of loveliness Last Line: And flowering springs that mock her empty years? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The DIRGE AND HYMENAL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Woe! This is death's hour Last Line: Woe! Woe! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Happiness; Marriage; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DIRGE AT SEA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep! We give thee to the wave Last Line: Sleep! Oh, sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean DIRGE FOR A JOKER, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always in the middle of a kiss Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Dead, The DIRGE FOR A LIVING POET, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Shall the mind of bard -- historian -- sage Last Line: Restore, restore, o god! Our poet's wandering mind! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Muses; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Voices; Dead, The DIRGE FOR A YOUNG GIRL, by JAMES THOMAS FIELDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath the sod, low lying Last Line: Life and love! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DIRGE FOR A YOUNG MAIDEN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hushed be sighing, near the string Last Line: The maiden's dying! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DIRGE FOR ASHBY, by JOSEPHINE JUNKIN PRESTON Poem Text First Line: Heard ye that thrilling word Last Line: Ashby is dead! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The DIRGE OF THE MOOLA OF KOTAL, by GEORGE THOMAS LANIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, unhappy land' ill-fated spot Last Line: Let him disclose it! Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DIRGE WITHOUT MUSIC, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Social Protest; Dead, The DIRGE WITHOUT TEARS, by HERBERT J. LIPSITZ Poem Text First Line: Grass will not wither when you have left me Last Line: Little enough need for wringing of aged hands. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The DISCIPLINE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the crypt at the foot of the stairs Last Line: That vanished from time to time! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DISCORD, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hurdy-gurdy sings in the morning Last Line: And cherry blossoms crowding to hide the dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The DISDAIN, by AGNES MACCARTHY HICKEY Poem Text First Line: Since you are made of such superior clay Last Line: And nonchalantly creep the other way. Subject(s): Death; Disdain; Dead, The; Scorn DISTICHS, by ROBERT REDFIELD JR. Poem Text First Line: Behind the hills the moon has sheathed his Last Line: And ride the horses of delight across the buried years. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DISTRESSED HAIKU, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In a week or ten days Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The DIVIDED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a word that you may never speak Last Line: But oh, the years, the long years we must live! Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 14. THE TRIUMPH OF CHRIST, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And lo! Forthwith there rose up round about Last Line: That held me in so sweet imprisonment. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 31. THE SAINTS IN GLORY, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In fashion, as a snow-white rose, lay then Last Line: All paradise surveyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise DIVINA COMMEDIA: PARADISO. CANTO 7. SIN AND REDEMPTION, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I have heard Last Line: "humbled himself to put on mortal flesh." Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 11. PRAYER OF PENITENTS, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou almighty father! Who dost make Last Line: "but for their sakes who after us remain." Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 16. MAN'S FREE WILL, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye, who live / do so each cause refer to heaven above Last Line: "seek in yourselves the cause, and find it there." Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINA COMMEDIA: PURGATORIO. CANTO 27. FIRE OF PURIFICATION, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now was the sun so stationed, as when first Last Line: The beams were shrouded of the sunking sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Purgatory; Dead, The DIVINE VISITATION, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The heavens lay hold on us: the starry rays Last Line: After the chase in burning exultation. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise DOC SIFERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the doctors I could cite you to in this-'ere town Last Line: He's jes' a great, big, brainy man -- that's where the trouble lays! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors DOCTOR -., by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A rabbi told me: on the day allowed Last Line: I tell it, as the rabbi told it me. Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Hell; Physicians; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The; Doctors DOCTORS AND NURSES, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A life for saving of life! Last Line: And, living or dying, are blest! Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness DOG'S DEATH, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She must have been kicked unseen or brushed by a car Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: ARCHIBALD LOWELL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Archibald lowell, owner of the times Last Line: And brings them to the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; News; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: AT FAIRBANKS, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, look here! Here's the times. You see this picture Last Line: Within the banner: to be brave, nor flinch. Subject(s): Death; News; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: DOMESDAY BOOK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take any life you choose and study it Last Line: And of her birth: -- . . . Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Loss; Soul; Reading; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. BURKE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've heard of potters' wheels and potters' hands Last Line: This story to the coroner. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Doctors; Theology DOMESDAY BOOK: DR. TRACE TO THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell you, coroner, the cause / of death of elenor murray, not until Last Line: The mother of this man in tokio. Subject(s): Autopsies; Death; Hearts; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: FINDING OF THE BODY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray, daughter of henry murray Last Line: And know her better, knowing merival. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Fate; Hunting; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Hunters DOMESDAY BOOK: GOTTLIEB GERALD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I knew her, why of course. And you want me? Last Line: This talk of lilli alm and ludwig haibt: Subject(s): Death; Hate; Home; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs DOMESDAY BOOK: GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's brother married the mother Last Line: A secret long concealed: -- Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Marriage; Passion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY BAKER, AT NEW YORK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One partner may consult another -- james Last Line: And chase came to the coroner and spoke: Subject(s): Death; Letters; New York City; Undertakers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple DOMESDAY BOOK: HENRY MURRAY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Henry murray, father of elenor murray Last Line: The while she spoke: Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Marriage; Youth; Dead, The; Relatives; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: IRMA LEESE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray landing in new york Last Line: Before the jury. Here is what she wrote: -- Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: JANE FISHER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane fisher says to susan hamilton / that coroner has no excuse to bring Last Line: His talk with lawyer baker in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Law & Lawyers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Attorneys DOMESDAY BOOK: JOHN SCOFIELD, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You see I worked for arthur fouche, he said Last Line: Spoke to them in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: LOVERIDGE CHASE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the secret of the death of elenor Last Line: Of elenor murray and their days at nice: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's wife was by the sea Last Line: To the coroner and the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Dead, The; Burials DOMESDAY BOOK: REV. PERCY FERGUSON, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rev. Percy ferguson, patrician / vicar of christ, companion of the strong Last Line: The coroner and jury sat and heard: -- Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Life; Love; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOMESDAY BOOK: THE CORONER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merival, of a mother fair and good Last Line: Tells merival this story: Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Undertakers; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't they come to me to find the cause Last Line: She talks with susan hamilton like this: Subject(s): Death; Letters; Nations; War; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: THE JURY DELIBERATES, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The jurymen are seated here and there Last Line: Your names, and I'll return it to the clerk. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Life; United States; Dead, The; America DOMESDAY BOOK: THE MAJOR AND ELENOR MURRAY, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Elenor murray and petain, the major Last Line: "I have a sorrow, too, as deep as yours." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: THE VERDICT, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An inquisition taken for the people Last Line: To look on arielle, who had written him. Subject(s): Death; Justice; Dead, The DOMESDAY BOOK: WIDOW FORTELKA, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marie fortelka, widow, mother of josef Last Line: To swim to shore! He couldn't walk the waves! Subject(s): Death; Life; News; Soul; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The DOMESTIC SCENES, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was nearly daylight when she gave birth to the child, Subject(s): Family Life; Stillbirth; Marriage; Death; Fights; Murder; Poisons & Poisoning; Relatives; Death - Childbirth; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The DOMESTICITY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it knowledge, is it knowledge only and fear Last Line: Having no house to inhabit but this of our dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DON QUIXOTE, by HANNELORE JOSEPH Poem Text First Line: So you died sane, oh jester of the universe Last Line: Of all humanity -- we're all in vain. Subject(s): Death; Don Quixote; Insanity; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness DON RAMIRO, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Donna clara! Donna clara! Last Line: "this day's noontide died ramiro." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Life; Dead, The DON SEBASTIAN, ACT 3: TO ACCOUNT RENDERED, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father's, mother's, brother's deaths I pardon Last Line: And beg of heaven to charge the bill on me. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Forgiveness; Murder; Parents; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Clemency; Parenthood DONALD EVANS, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I shall never hear from his own lips Last Line: With the consummate silence of a stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DOOMSDAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can raise one ghost, why I will raise Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Judgment Day; Longing; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man DORCAS, by BESSIE CLARK RANDLE Poem Text First Line: A little head of curly gold - brown hair Last Line: When tears are wiped away. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DORICHA, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So now the very bones of you are gone Last Line: Again to naucratis and to the nile. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The DOROTHEA TANNING'S COUSINS, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came to him in dreams, as he to her Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The DOUBLE ELEGY, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever city or country road Last Line: Of ohio and michigan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DOUGLAS, DOUGLAS, TENDER AND TRUE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could ye come back to me, douglas, douglas Last Line: Douglas, douglas, tender and true! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): Too Late Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DOWN IN WALHALLALAH, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I put flowers on leeda's grave Last Line: Down in walhallalah. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life DOWN ON THE DEAD END, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've toiled at the end of creation, stripped to the trousers and shirt Last Line: And perhaps in the ultimate scramble I'll corner a shakedown above. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Gambling; Dead, The; Wagering; Betting DOWN THE RIVER, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark, the sound of it drawing nearer Last Line: Down the river that bears him, dead. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Sheep; Travel; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips DR. GEORGE M. GOULD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He loved the bloom of the good, green earth Last Line: The matchless, brave light-bringer! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Gould, George Milbry (1848-1922); Praise; Dead, The DRAWING NEARER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are we daily drawing nearer Last Line: Drawing nearer thee! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DREAM FANTASY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of dream Last Line: Lie hush'd the valleys of dream? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Moon; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology DREAM MEADOWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Girt with great garths of shadow Last Line: Beneath those silent skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Pain; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Suffering; Misery DREAMING OF YUAN CHEN, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night you came and took my hand and we wandered together in my dream Last Line: Among the shadows of the terrace of night did you know them or not? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMINGS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bog blossom's golden pistil Last Line: One who has ne'er forgotten, one who can ne'er forget. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMLAND, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke from dreams of rare delight Last Line: And reawaken . . . Nevermore. Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares DREAMS OF THE DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in still night-dreams a departed face Last Line: Thy power when linked, in this, with thy strong brother -- death! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DREARY SONG, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When ragged is the country and tawdry is / the town Last Line: "but nobody is listening—let's die and disappear." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Queen Anne's Lace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness DRIVEN, by RUSSELL BECKWITH Poem Text First Line: Where is she going, the woman with her cry Last Line: The lost beloved name -- she walks tonight. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The DRIVING INTO LARAMIE, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out here sheer force of sky bearing down Last Line: That god is impressed above all by defiance Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Oregon; Religion; Dead, The; Theology DROWNED, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: Dead hair dripping from her head Last Line: Also dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The DRUM, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear in mind / that death is a drum Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The DRUMNOTES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Days of the dead men, danny Last Line: Drum on your remembering heart. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DUALITY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never pass a human house Last Line: Awake, as in its sleep? Subject(s): Death; Duplicity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DUE TO BEING OPPOSITE, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What seemed a litter was a family Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Birth; Life; Dead, The; Graveyards; Child Birth; Midwifery DULL DEVOTION, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Me thought heavn calld me, when I heard ye bell Last Line: And so in heavn aforehand dwell. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise DUMB IN JUNE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, the thought hurts at my heart Last Line: Dumb in june! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Hearts; June; Life; Singing & Singers; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; World; Songs DUNCAN WEIR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back on the wrong line, that was all Last Line: Came back on the wrong line and kill'd our mate. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK Poem Text First Line: They looked at death Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away." Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War DUO, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman in the garden Last Line: Shall find a mother there! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Angels; Death; Prayer; Dead, The DURAND OF BLONDEN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tow'rds the lofty walls of balbi, lo! Durand of blonden hies Last Line: "ever calling, ""blanca! Blanca!"" through the desert halls of heaven." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Sleep; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise 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 DUST, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only my dust is never laid Last Line: And then unmakes again the world the dance has made. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Dust; Dead, The DUST, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard them in their sadness say Last Line: And haunted by all mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Earth; God; Humanity; Mankind; Dead, The; World; Human Race DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones 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 DYING, by LARRY EIGNER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DYING, by RODEN BERKELEY WRIOTHESLEY NOEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting on the shore Last Line: After noise, tranquillity. Variant Title(s): The Old Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The DYING, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing to be said about it, and everything Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DYING, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why this ridiculous happiness? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The DYING SPEECH OF AN OLD PHILOSOPHER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I strove with none, for none was worth my strife Last Line: It sinks, and I am ready to depart. Variant Title(s): Fire Of Life;the Dying Fire;the End;epigram;finis;introduction To The Last Fruit Off Old Tree;envoi;on His Seventy-fifth Birthday;farewell;on Himself Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Old Age; Dead, The DYING-SHALL MAN LIVE AGAIN?, by ALBERT FRANK HOFFMANN Poem Text First Line: In dying, will the parting breath Last Line: "who dies to self, forever lives." Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism 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 E.W.T.: ON THE DEATH OF HIS BETTY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And she is gone, whom, dream or truth Last Line: And death draws nigh, a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EARLY DEATH, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She pass'd away like morning dew Last Line: But holy death is kinder? Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology EARTH TO EARTH, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His hands with earthly work are done Last Line: Dear earth, upon thy bosom! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EARTH: THE PASSING OF A DANCER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is made of mist and silver, and her Last Line: And the floor of heaven darkens, and the sound of feet is stilled. Variant Title(s): Earth: The Passing Of A Danger Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Earth; Dead, The; World EARTHEN URN, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O when I hear a hill-far drum I'll know Last Line: Into the earth, into the cradling mud. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The EAST COKER, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, whence his forbears sprang, a man is laid Last Line: And christmas song respond, and easter song. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Crime & Criminals; Death; Eliot, Thomas Stearns (1888-1965); Rest; Somerset, England; Dead, The; Eliot, T. S. EASTER MORNING, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fasts are done; the aves said Last Line: Comes up the easter morning! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection EBB AND FLOW, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said earth in the darkness wailing Last Line: So life ebbs and flows forever, pulsing with the heart of god!' Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Dead, The ECCE PUER, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Of the dark past Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ECCE VACCUO, by A. F. EHRENBURG Poem Text First Line: Behold a madman bound for hell Last Line: The secret ages left untold. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Dead, The 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 ECHOES OF JOY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Only a song of joy Last Line: Wind-blown over the heather. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Joy; Delight ECHOES: 29, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child / curious and innocent Last Line: Of the old nurse, death. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The ECHOES: 35. MARGARITAE SORORI, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A late lark twitters from the quiet skies Last Line: The sundown splendid and serene, death. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): The Happy Passing;i. M. Margaritae Sororis;so Be My Passing;some Late Lark Singing;in Memoriam Margaritae Sororis;margaritae Sorori Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology ECHOES: 5, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a reaper Last Line: The now and the ever, Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The ECHOES: 9, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Madam life's a piece in bloom Last Line: And your little job is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Variant Title(s): To W.r. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ECSTACY, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: I could never be properly dead Last Line: The songs that I sing for the earth. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EDEN INCUNABULUM, by BRIAN TEARE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So his luciferous kiss, ecliptic : me Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Relationships; Death; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Dead, The EDEN ROCK, by CHARLES STANLEY CAUSLEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are waiting for me somewhere beyond eden rock Alternate Author Name(s): Causley, Charles Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Picnics; Dead, The; Barbecues EDGAR WILSON NYE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The saddest silence falls when Last Line: Calling your love back to us laughingly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Silence; Winter; Dead, The EDITH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Time, that doth take what none would give Last Line: I shall be satisfied. Subject(s): Absence; Consolation; Death; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EDUCATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had lived many years when first I met Last Line: But oh, to feel the youth my age could hold! Subject(s): Death; Education; Experience; Grief; Knowledge; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EDWIN AND PAULINUS: THE CONVERSION OF NORTHUMBRIA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The black-haired gaunt paulinus Last Line: "when our brief days are ovber, / that we shall live again" Subject(s): Death;immortality; "dead, The; EDWIN BUCKINGHAM, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spare him one little week, almighty power Last Line: And scatter fragrance round his ocean-tomb. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EGYPT, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still is egypt, as a corpse's breast Last Line: Into another golden day! Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Dead, The EIGHT O'CLOCK, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood, and heard the steeple Last Line: Its strength, and struck. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EIGHTEEN DAYS WITHOUT YOU: DECEMBER 2ND, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I slept last night Subject(s): Sleep; Dreams; Mothers; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The EIGHTY YEARS OLD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The world is left behind him quite Last Line: Else we had lost him utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Old Age; Spiritual Life; Dead, The EITHER, by GLYN MAXWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A northern hill aghast with weather Subject(s): Death; Disappointment; Absence; Dead, The; Separation; Isolation ELECTRA ON AZALEA PATH, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you died I went into the dirt Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Graveyards; Dead, The ELEGIAC SONNET: 49. ... WRITTEN IN A CHURCH-YARD, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou! Who sleep'st where hazle-bands entwine Last Line: Thy form and virtues from the silent grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGIAC SONNET: 54. THE SLEEPING WOODMAN, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye copses wild, where april bids arise Last Line: And death receive me to his long repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGIAC SONNET: 74. THE WINTER NIGHT, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care Last Line: I shall be laid, and feel that loss no more! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 ELEGIAC STANZAS, SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN BY JULIA, ON DEATH OF BROTHER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though sorrow long has worn my heart Last Line: The heart is almost broken too! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The ELEGIAC VERSES ON THE DEATH OF LORD PALMERSTON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A loftier muse, in higher strains, may sing Last Line: Still vibrates strong for him, revered of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; England; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English ELEGIE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death be not proud, thy hand gave not this blow Last Line: The grave no conquest gets, death hath no sting. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The ELEGIE ON MISTRESS BOULSTRED, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death I recant, and say, unsaid by me Last Line: Because the chain is broke, though no link lost. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still shall unthinking man substantial deem Last Line: In silence shed the sympathetic tear. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with the busy crowds, that all the day Last Line: When death awakes us to immortal life. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Wander, my troubled soul, sigh 'mid the night thy pain Last Line: And 'mid the starry spheres the almighty power adore. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY, by ALAN DUGAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know but will not tell Last Line: Father, hello and goodbye Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The ELEGY, by FLORENCE HAMILTON Poem Text First Line: Never again in your arms shall I lie Last Line: Bury me deep. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The laundry-basket lid is still there Last Line: Entirely Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy ELEGY, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark gathering clouds involve the threatening skies Last Line: And bear the injured to eternal sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The ELEGY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad nymphs of u l, u have much to cry for Last Line: They lately brought fresh bricks the walls to 10 (heighten.) Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Hair; Memory; Tears; Dead, The ELEGY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Auvergne, auvergne, o wild and woful land Last Line: Burton -- a name that lives till fame be dead. Subject(s): Blindness; Death; England; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; English ELEGY BEFORE DEATH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There will be rose and rhododendron Last Line: Only the grace from simple stone! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR A DEAD SOLDIER, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A white sheet on the tail-gate of a truck Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War ELEGY FOR A DISTANT RELATIVE, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This rubble of stained glass Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR A LITTLE GIRL BURNED BENEATH OAK TREES, by RAYMOND JOSEPH KRESENSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If slender feet would care to go Last Line: Nor keep her feet still. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Oak Trees; Dead, The ELEGY FOR ARNOLD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in my living room, I let waves of the music Last Line: Of a love come into its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Liberty Bell; Loss; Dead, The ELEGY FOR JANE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I remember the neckcurls, limp and damp as tendrils Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Labor & Laborers; Youth; Dead, The; Work; Workers ELEGY FOR JANE KENYON, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jane is big Subject(s): Kenyon, Jane (1947-1995); Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR MY BROTHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll walk awhile, maybe as high as the tree line Last Line: And watch the door now being closed behind you... Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Half-brothers; Dead, The; Parting ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, WHO IS NOT DEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day I’ll lift the telephone Last Line: And waving, shouting, welcome back Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The ELEGY FOR MY HUSBAND, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was there is no longer there: Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ELEGY FOR THE PRINCE, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add Last Line: Which, being his, can therefore never die. Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY ON A DEAD MERMAID WASHED ASHORE AT PLYMOUTH ROCK, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pallidly sleeping, the ocean's mysterious daughter Last Line: Only a fable like all of our strange and beautiful dreams. Subject(s): Death; Mermaids & Mermen; Dead, The ELEGY ON A LADY, WHOM GRIEF FOR THE DEATH OF HER BETHROTHED KILLED, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Assemble, all ye maidens, at the door Last Line: Rejoice, for thou art near to thy possession. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The 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 ON JOHN HOGG, LATE PORTER TO THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what's ado? The deil be licket Last Line: Baith ear' and late. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Praise; Dead, The ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, SELECTION, by JAMES MARRIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah fleeting joys! How soon those hopes were o'er Last Line: And with thy beauties strives to mix her fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Marriott, Sir Jame Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY ON THE LATE MISS BURNET, OF MONBODDO, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life ne'er exulted in so rich a prize Last Line: So, from it ravish'd, leaves it bleak and bare. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY ON THYRZA, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And thou art dead, as young and fair Last Line: Than aught, except its living years. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY ON TOY PIANO, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You don't need a pony Last Line: About this, even diamonds do not lie Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ELEGY TO THE MEMORY OF AN UNFORTUNATE LADY, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What beckoning ghost, along the moonlight shade Last Line: The muse forgot, and thou belov'd no more! Variant Title(s): Verses To The Memory Of An Unfortunate Lady;elegy To The Death Of An Unfortunate Lady Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ELEGY TO THE PULLEY OF SUPERIOR OBLIQUE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The three girls in a donkey cart Last Line: Of death is instant, contrived. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Girls; Lament; Warsaw Ghetto; World War Ii - Atrocities; Dead, The ELEGY WHILE PRUNING ROSES, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've weeded thier beds, put down manure and bark dust Subject(s): Roses; Gardens & Gardening; Death; Dead, The 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 ELEGY, FOR ALUN LEWIS, by JOHN BERRYMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little attention we paid to each other alive Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, John, Jr. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEGY: IN COHERENT LIGHT, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The ELEGY; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not only doesn't the ohio Last Line: In rags, half in radiance. Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Grief; Hudson River; Nature; Ohio River; Plane Trees; Rivers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Sycamores ELEGY; TO ROBERT ROSS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your dextrous wit will haunt us long Last Line: O heart of hearts! ... O friend of friends! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELEONORA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: How many years have passed away Last Line: Eleonora. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise ELEONORA; A PANEGYRICAL POEM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when some great and gracious monarch dies Last Line: For thou shalt make it live, because it sings of thee. Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Soul; Dead, The ELEONORA; ELEGY ON THE COUNTESS OF ABINGDON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No single virtue we could most commend Last Line: Clothed all in white, the livery of the day. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ELIJAH WREN, by EDWIN CARLILE LITSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A roughneck hick from buzzard's branch in the cumber Last Line: Went up, like the prophet did of old, in a chariot of flame! Alternate Author Name(s): Litsey, E. Carl Edwin Carlile Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The ELIZABETH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white stone glimmers through the firs Last Line: And there thou art, elizabeth! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! / the first may-morning whispereth Last Line: Elizabeth! Elizabeth! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Names; Dead, The 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 ELLEN MIDDLETON, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Raise me; undraw the curtain; that is well Last Line: Whose faith was hidden and whose love was vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Faith; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed ELSINORE IN THE LATE ANCIENT AUTUMN, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear a dead march. A thin wrist is mincing roses Last Line: They buried me. Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Secrets; Shakespeare - Hamlet; Dead, The EMBLEMS, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where sweet ferns blow, where hemlock shadows lie Last Line: The living trees are emblems of our dead! Subject(s): Death; Plants; Trees; Dead, The; Planting; Planters EMERSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say? In quietude Last Line: Our silence, best applause. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Grief; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EMMA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He stands as firm as a tree stem Last Line: After life comes death at last. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Pity; Dead, The EMPEDOCLES ON ETNA; A DRAMATIC POEM, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mules, I think, will not be here this hour Last Line: The stars in their calm. Subject(s): Apollo; Courage; Death; Mythology - Classical; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The EN PASSANT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I should have glanced and passed him, naturally Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The ENCOUNTER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen to what strange places Last Line: And time moved on again, and we were parted. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ENCOUNTERING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my father it happened driving Subject(s): Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Death; Dead, The END OF DAYS, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Almost always with cats, the end Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I too could face death and never shrink Last Line: Thousands taste the full cup; who drains the lees? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery 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 ENGLAND'S PASSING BELL, by THOMAS GILBERT (1613-1694) Poem Text First Line: I am no prophet, no, nor prophet's son Last Line: And let her ruins be under thine hand. Subject(s): Bells; Death; London Fire (1666); Dead, The; Great Fire Of 1666 ENGRAVEN ON A COLUMN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: View not this spire by measure given Last Line: While deathless charity remains. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Faith; Heaven; Hope; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Optimism ENOUGH, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all my words were said Last Line: And be forgotten too. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ENSIGN WORTH BAGLEY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not in the way he'd hoped for Last Line: She mourns his loss with tears. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Nations; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ENVOI: DEATH (1), by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Death! - shalt not thou reveal all things unseen Last Line: My lost love, found,—and found for evermore. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ENVOI: DEATH (2), by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: Yes: this is the great crown of life, to know Last Line: What touched my forehead?—ah, the spray, the spray! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ENVY, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was the first always. Fortune Last Line: Death loved him the best. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Envy; Dead, The ENVY: 2, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What can death send me Last Line: As you bent? Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Dead, The ENVY: 4, by HILDA DOOLITTLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So the goddess has slain me Last Line: Your chance of death. Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Dead, The EPICEDE (JAMES LORIMER GRAHAM, DIED 1876), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life may give for love to death Last Line: Light, and song, and sleep at last. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPICEDIUM, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Death stalks on velvet, catlike feet Last Line: So greatly now—since we are dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIDEMIC, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another death! Some great one has died Last Line: He does not tell. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "naught, I hear thee say" Last Line: Yet a little clay / will fill it bye-and-bye Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; EPIGRAM ON BISHOP ATTERBURY, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meek francis lies here, friend: without stop or stay Last Line: On a simple surmise that the owner is dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM ON JOHN TOOTH, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lieth in sooth Last Line: From us drew away. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 12, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in thy sight my life doth whole depend Last Line: I with thy sight, thou also with my smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 18. THE ENEMY OF LIFE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enemy of life, decayer of all kind Last Line: And drove the first dart deeper more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): The Enemy Of Life Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Life; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 28, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accused though I be without desert Last Line: Except thou mind to put thy friend to pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Trust; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain ye, mine eyes. Accompany my heart Last Line: His flamed heat shall sometime make ye warm. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 40, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love is like unto th'eternal fire Last Line: By whom hell may be felt or death assail! Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hell; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EPIGRAM: 45, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dido am I, the founder first of carthage Last Line: And now with lies my shame she doth report. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Carthage; Death; Fortune; Love; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Venus, in sport, to please therewith her dear Last Line: I, I for you am weapon fit and trim.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is not dead that sometime hath a fall Last Line: Doeth ryse again and greater wode doeth bind. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 60. From The City Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Sun; Wind; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 8, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In doubtful breast whilst motherly pity Last Line: To another must I make sepulture.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 80 Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The EPIGRAM: 9. THE GOOD LIVE FOR EVER, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saon, the acanthian, son of dicon, lies Last Line: Here, fast asleep; say not the good man dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM: OF DEATH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He that fears death, or mourns it in the just Last Line: Shows of the resurrection little trust. Variant Title(s): Of Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPIGRAM: SPIRIT OF PLATO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Eagle! Why soarest thou above that tomb? Last Line: Ascending heaven; athens doth inherit / his corpse below Variant Title(s): Plato's Tomb Subject(s): Birds;death;eagles;plato (428-348 B.c.);soul; "dead, The; EPILOGUE, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Children of dust, astray among the suns Last Line: To mix our dust with dust of slaves and kings. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Judgment Day; Life; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man EPILOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poets pour us wine Last Line: Henceforward with nettle-broth! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPILOGUE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well, when all is said and done Last Line: "only traced upon the foam." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The EPILOGUE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the wave-ridge and the strand Last Line: The sole sun of a worldless sea. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Travel; Sunrise; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips EPILOGUE FOR A MASQUE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little time they lived again, and lo! Last Line: Shall shape our pilgrimage into a rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Masks; Time; Dead, The EPILOGUE TO MITHRIDATES, KING OF PONTIUS, BY MR. N. LEE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You've seen a pair of faithful lovers die Last Line: And women fight, like swizzers, for their pay. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Dramatists EPISTLE TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE TEMPLE, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, upon casting an attentive look Last Line: The bishop, and us all! I am, sir,—yours. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Gentlemen; Heaven; Life; Spiritual Life; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Paradise EPISTLE TO BE LEFT IN THE EARTH, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is colder now Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPISTLE TO HENRY WRIOTHESLEY, EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who hath never warred with misery Last Line: God sets to act the hard'st and constant'st parts. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Fortune; Wriothesley, Henry. Earl Of Southampton; Dead, The; Reputation EPISTOLA AD DAKYNS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dakyns, when I am dead Last Line: Three places, dakyns. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Avon (river), England; Death; Rivers; Dead, The EPITAPH, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These, who desired to live, went out to death Last Line: They could not know -- the splendour of their dying. Variant Title(s): Inscription Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH, by LASCELLES ABERCROMBIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, you shall notice me: I am the man Last Line: Perfection: I am nothing, I am dead. Variant Title(s): Inscription Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Here lies the flesh that tried Last Line: Twill greet the sun a flower. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the dust a spirit sank like dew Last Line: And stormy joy and an ecstatic pain. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You who died fighting Last Line: The rose is your joy. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Westminster Abbey; Graveyards; Dead, The; Declaration Day EPITAPH, by MARJORIE ALLEN SEIFFERT Poem Text First Line: Here lies a lady Last Line: The sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Cypher, Angela; Hay, Elijah Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing one for the giantess Subject(s): Women; Death; Dead, The EPITAPH, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies john hughes and sarah drew Last Line: For pope has wrote upon their tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Lightning; Man-woman Relationships; Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Male-female Relations; Feminism EPITAPH (ON A COMMONPLACE PERSON WHO DIED IN BED), by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the end of him, here he lies Last Line: This is the end of him, here he lies. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH IN BALLADE FORM, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O brother men that live when we have end Last Line: But praye godde to absolve us of our doome. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; God; Prayer; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The EPITAPH ON A LADY, WHO HAD LABOURED UNDER A CANCER, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, these dear remains contain'd a mind Last Line: His debt to worth, to excellence, and you! Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; God; Religion; Women; Dead, The; Theology EPITAPH ON A MADMAN'S GRAVE, by MORRIS GILBERT Poem Text First Line: The time had come to kill himself, he said Last Line: The way he used to do when he was five. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH ON COLONEL GARDINER, WHO WAS SLAIN IN BATTLE OF PRESTON PANS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While fainter merit asks the powers of verse Last Line: And surely his a glorious road to god. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The EPITAPH ON ELIZABETH, L.H., by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wouldst thou hear what man can say Last Line: Than that it lived at all. Farewell. Subject(s): Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634); Death; Hatton, Lady Elizabeth (mrs Edward Coke); Dead, The EPITAPH ON MISS GEE, WHO DIED OCTOBER 25, 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous, nor known to pride, to friends sincere Last Line: Was once the good, the wise, the beautiful, the gay. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. SIBLEY OF STUDHAM, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies an honest man! Without pretence Last Line: Where, spite of anstis, rots the garter'd knave. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MR. THOMAS STRONG, WHO DIED ON 26 DECEMBER 1736, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In action prudent, and in word sincere Last Line: Thy friends shall answer, weeping, 'here lies strong.' Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Honor; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MRS. ERSKINE, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Plain, as her native dignity of mind Last Line: And brief, alas! As thy brief span below. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MRS. JANE CLARKE; DIED 1757, AGED 31, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where this silent marble weeps Last Line: With life, with memory, and with love. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON MRS. MASON, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die Last Line: And bids the pure in heart behold their god. Subject(s): Death; Mason, William (1724-1797); Dead, The EPITAPH ON P.P. CLERK OF THE PARISH, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O reader, if that thou canst read Last Line: That never spareth none. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON ROBERT CLAVERING, M.B., by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Come, who know the childless parent's sigh Last Line: Kiss'd the stern mandate, bow'd his head, and died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH ON THE EARL OF STRAFFORD, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies wise and valiant dust Last Line: Speechless still, and never cry. Variant Title(s): Gravestones Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Wentworth, Thomas. Earl Of Strafford; Dead, The EPITAPH ON THE REV. SAMUEL CLARK, WHO DIED AT THE AGE OF 42, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What! Though such various worth is seldom known Last Line: The man, the friend, the preacher, and the saint. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Epitaphs; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The EPITAPH UPON A MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies [lyes], in bed of spice Last Line: Lightly, lightly ore the dead. Variant Title(s): Upon A Maid Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EPITAPH: 1, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you die? - I died of everything Last Line: Slew me in turn—and last of all came death. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 11, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life did not stint Last Line: This thirst of mine. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 15, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad wind shifts and stirs Last Line: Yet no wind grieves. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH: 16, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His life was like white steel. A mind Last Line: Trusty watch about his sleep. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 18, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now her golden self is gone Last Line: Such radiance forth—and dead yet lives. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 19, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Humbly I lived but very proudly died Last Line: He left, but folded me beneath his wings. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 20, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A handful of wild thyme, a breath, a song Last Line: And then to die.—what better could I do? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 21, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity me, pray Last Line: Now I am dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Prayer; Dead, The EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 23, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Break not my silence, trouble not my sleep Last Line: None knows—nor what death tells me now I'm dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The EPITAPH: 24, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is finished which was all delight Last Line: Rainbows of foam and bubbles of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom Last Line: I waked—then slept with summer and her flowers. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 29, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall be said of me? He lived a span Last Line: Then died.—no more?—what more of any man? Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EPITAPH: 3, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My burial place Last Line: Through the long dark. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Graves; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 30, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Year out year in, I took my daily pleasure Last Line: Death (whom I scarce believed in) sprang on me. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 33, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died so long ago Last Line: Thus I sleep well. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 5, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mastered life and did bestride him well Last Line: But death's another matter. Here I fell. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: 6, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Neither of earth nor heaven here she lies Last Line: Poor troubled ashes, gentle and unwise. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise EPITAPH: 7, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely I lived and died: - let no footfall Last Line: Disturb me now—for that were worse than all! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness EPITAPH: 9, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For long my feet Last Line: My feet for wings. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: FOR A VIRGIN LADY, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For forty years I shunned the lust Last Line: I let him have his way. Subject(s): Lust; Death; Dead, The EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): Grandparents; African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EPITAPH: FOR MY GRANDMOTHER, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This lovely flower fell to seed Last Line: That she would grow again. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Flowers; Grandparents; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers EPITAPH: GORDON OF KHARTOUM, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of men he would have raised to light he fell Last Line: The man of england circled by the sands. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: J. C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fountain of our sweetest, quick to spring Last Line: To gladden blue forgets him; near he hides. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: JAMES CHRISTOPHER WILSON, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou our beloved and light of earth hast crossed Last Line: Through love to kindle in our souls the more. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Light; Dead, The EPITAPH: LADY C. M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To them that knew her, there is vital flame Last Line: So strong a spirit is not of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPH: M.M., by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who call her mother and who calls her wife Last Line: Look on her grave and see not death but life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives EPITAPH: ON HIMSELF, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reader, approach my urn--thou need'st not fear Last Line: Alas! The young, the gay is now no more! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The EPITAPH: THE EMPEROR FREDERICK OF OUR TIME, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With alfred and st. Louis he doth win Last Line: The ever-flowering common heart for home. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: THE BEGINNER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the first hour of my first day Last Line: Stand up to watch it well.) Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood EPITHALAMIUM, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O orange were her underclothes Subject(s): Wedding Song; Death; Epithalamium; Dead, The ERAT HORA, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you, whatever comes.' and then she turned Last Line: Than to have watched that hour as it passed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ERECHTHEUS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of life and death and all men's days Last Line: And friendship and fame of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Plays & Playwrights; Tragedy; Dead, The EREIOTATOS, by NORMAN CABOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven's hierarchies defend me! Ill-conditioned powers Last Line: My mind was gone; my heart was full of you! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ERIC'S DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shon'st thou but to pass away Last Line: Flowers we strew above thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Soldiers; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ERIC'S FUNERAL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired? Yes, a little, I believe. I'm not so very / strong Last Line: But are like unto the angels in god's house, which is heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials ERNEST DOWSON, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the limpid pool at twilight Last Line: Then, my soul s sovereign deity, Subject(s): Death; Dowson, Ernest (1867-1900); Dead, The ESCAPE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But I was dead, an hour or more Last Line: O life! O sun! Subject(s): Death; Escapes; World War I; Dead, The; Fugitives; First World War ESCAPE, by JANIE SMITH RHYNE Poem Text First Line: When death had ogled me for hours Last Line: A hoyden such as I! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ESPANA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There were tears in andalusia Last Line: Beware lest worse befall! Subject(s): Andalusia, Spain; Death; Funerals; Grief; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ESTATE SALE: THE SCRABBLE GAME OF A DEAD WOMAN, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crowd of strangers flies over your life Last Line: To stand on. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Wings; Graveyards; Dead, The ESTELLE'S TESTIMONY, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They said I was 'promiscuous' Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Love - Age Differences; Death; Old Age; Dead, The ESTHER: 19, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know the story of my birth, the name Subject(s): Birth; Family Life; Fthers; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Relatives; Dead, The ESTRANGEMENT, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I shall be dead, and pride Last Line: Above—where daisies nod? Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The ETERNITY, by FRANCES STOCKWELL LOVELL Poem Text First Line: Some day the stars will all be gone Last Line: And close it after, evermore. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ETHEREAL SNOBS, by ANN WOODBURY HAFEN Poem Text First Line: Today might be the final day Last Line: And me dwells with the worms. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EULALEE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eulalee, sweet eulalee Last Line: "I look and hear—""I love you yet!" Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EURIPIDES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To him the fate we bear was like a sea Last Line: That builded on the sea, loved his name most. Subject(s): Death; Euripides (484-406 B.c.); Hearts; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Sin; Dead, The; Ocean EUTHANASIA, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shining and ponderous goblet Last Line: My glimmering goblet: the sun. Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Variant Title(s): Bright Death Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Dead, The EUTHANASIA, by WILLIS GAYLORD CLARK Poem Text First Line: Methinks, when on the languid eye Last Line: Where streams of living waters run! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise EUTHANASIA, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of a world of pain Last Line: Ah, the pain again -- it will never be! Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Memory; Pain; Rain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery EUTHANASIA, by EDWARD WINSHIP Poem Text First Line: Beyond the far horizon, many - hilled Last Line: As weary winter lays him down to die? Subject(s): Death; Euthanasia; Life; Old Age; Winter; Dead, The EUTHANATOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth of our ways and woes Last Line: Could death's self quench or blind, love's self were dead. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EVAN TOM, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old evan tom the sexton Last Line: Marching them up the stairs. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Wales; Dead, The; Burials; Welshmen; Welshwomen EVANESCENT, by MARVIN BARRETT Poem Text First Line: To die with the incontrovertible memory of something that will happen is Last Line: The center that is I ... Was me. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The EVANESCENT, by E. ARNTON MACDOUGALL Poem Text First Line: She will go no more on the bright waters Last Line: They will not give her back to us. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EVANGENE BAKER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pore afflicted evangene Last Line: Will smooth down her wings tomorry! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Forests; Dead, The; Woods EVANISHINGS, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darling, how long before this breath will cease? Last Line: And thus our darling triumphed over death. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EVELYN, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? Evelyn, darling Last Line: All our love and all our woes. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The EVEN AS A CHILD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even as a child to whom sad Last Line: Even as a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Grief; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness EVEN UNTO DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To think one thought a hundred hundred ways Last Line: These are the signs of love -- love even to death. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faith; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Suffering; Misery EVENING, by ELLEN M. DODSON Poem Text First Line: Come love, let's wander to the woodland / west Last Line: E'en at life's close, I'm thrilled by that strange power. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The EVENING, AFTER A STORM ON THE RISTIGOUCHE RIVER; A MOOD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The air is cool; a mist hangs low Last Line: "as eloquent of truth to thee." Subject(s): Death; Nature; Rivers; Dead, The EVENTIDE, by MARY AGNE Poem Text First Line: Hark! What is this I hear? Last Line: Leaving behind a lump of clay. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise EVERYBODY WHO IS DEAD, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a man knows another man Subject(s): Death; Barbers; Dead, The EVERYTHING, by FANNY HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite nesting Last Line: Red moon at 3 am Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EVERYTHING; FOR MY MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is this all life is then Last Line: Everything were under water. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness EVIL GRIGRI, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Evil grigri / taste acid in the word sybaritic Last Line: Say mango-river, eucalpytus-scented fang. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EX LIBRIS, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an old book at even as I read Last Line: Interpret not the messenger aright. Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The EX-VOTO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When their last hour shall rise Last Line: Me too, my mother. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; World; Ocean EXAMINATION AT THE WOMB-DOOR, by EDWARD JAMES HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who owns these scrawny little feet? Death Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EXECUTION OF ALICE HOLT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful case of murder Last Line: On chester's fatal tree Subject(s): Capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;death;murder; "hanging;executions;death Penalty;dead, The; EXEGESIS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was born on a day / that god was sick Last Line: That I masticate... Yet they don't know Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sickness; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Illness EXILE FROM GOD, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to lay my body down Last Line: Exile from god. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EXILES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exiles are we from our very birth Last Line: Where the lost gods of our people are! Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Home; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The EXIT, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Easily to the old Last Line: In the churchyard grieve. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The EXORCISM, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She who one day was my guest Last Line: Kiss me, blue-eyed comedy! Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Dead, The EXPECTATION OF DEATH, by LUCILIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far happier are the dead, methinks, than they Last Line: Who look for death, and fear it every day. Alternate Author Name(s): Lucillius; Carus Titus Lucilius Variant Title(s): Anticipation;on Invalids Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first time, when at night I went about Last Line: Such things the heart can bear and yet not break. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The EXPERIENCE, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like crusoe with the bootless gold we stand Last Line: "not so,"" death answered, ""they shall purchase sleep." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EXPERIMENT V, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere a door to day is opening, and she Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EXPIATION, by ANGELO DE LUCA Poem Text First Line: O life, now that I am no longer mournful Last Line: To weep the weary torments of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 55, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Alone in my blood I hold the whole of poesy. Death lingers far aloof Last Line: Shall I sing, undone, of one with faith so frail? Subject(s): Blood; Death; Dead, The 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 EYES FASTENED WITH PINS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much death works Subject(s): Death; Dead, The F.B.C.; CHANCELLORSVILLE, MAY 3, 1863, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was our noblest, he was our bravest & best Last Line: Still our bravest and best! Subject(s): American Civil War; Courage; Death; Heroism; Honor; Soldiers; United States - History; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines F.R.H.'S THANKS, WITH 'SONGS OF GRACE AND GLORY' TO CLARA OVERTON, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet flowers of spring Last Line: In heaven above. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grace; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise FABLE: DEATH AND THE RAKE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When pleasures court the human heart Last Line: And cleaves the hoary dotard's heart. Subject(s): Death; Fables; Dead, The; Allegories FABLES: 1ST SER. 47. THE COURT OF DEATH, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, on a solemn night of state Last Line: Who finds employment for you all. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FACE TO FACE WITH REALITY, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: What did you see out there, my lad Last Line: And we thank him for his grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Reality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology FAERIE, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the edge of midnight Last Line: And has this chanced to me? Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Passion; Dead, The FAIR MARGARET AND SWEET WILLIAM (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: As it fell out on a long summer's day Last Line: Or they had now been there Subject(s): Death;love; "dead, The; FAIRIES' SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: North and south and east and west Last Line: Seeking still some work to do. Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Life; Singing & Singers; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Elves FALSTAFF'S SONG, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where's he that died o' wednesday? Last Line: A thousand years ago. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FAMILIAR EPISTLE TO A LITTLE BOY, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I must own, my dear sonny, 'tis likely but few Last Line: —look me up in the year nineteen-hundred-and-one. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers & Sons; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise FAMILY TREE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many leaves Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The FANTASY IN PURPLE, by JAMES LANGSTON HUGHES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beat the drums of tragedy for me Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Langston Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The FAR FROM THE LAND, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kippure' we heard him matter. He was dying Last Line: To his mountain or his heaven. So he died. Subject(s): Death; Dublin, Ireland; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FARE WELL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I lie where shades of darkness Last Line: In other days. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Dead, The FAREWELL TO EARTH, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Farewell! Farewell! Last Line: Until then—farewell! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death; Farewell; Heaven; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Dead, The; Parting; Paradise FAREWELL TO FARGO: SELLING THE HOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Olivia is dying. Bring your best black dress Last Line: Its spring and slams. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Property; Dead, The; Relatives; Possessions FAREWELL TO MISS E. B., by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Farewell, and whenever calm solitude's hour Last Line: And beam on when the voice of the trumpet hath past. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FARMER AND SAILOR, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shipwrecked I, a farmer he Last Line: Death keeps open house below. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FASHIONS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fashion on fashion on fashion Last Line: They'll keep till you need 'em. Who'll buy? Variant Title(s): Fashions Are Changing In The Sphere Subject(s): Death; Fashion; God; Dead, The FATE, by ROBERT DESNOS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've wished for your death and nothing can keep it from coming prematurely Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FATE, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not how I know Last Line: Oh, be nigh! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Dead, The; Destiny FATHER AND LOVER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If underneath the water Last Line: Anymore? Nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Peter Grump Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The FATHER AND SON, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On these occasions, the feelings surprise, Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Coming Of Age; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The FATHERS, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Scattered, aslant Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The FEARFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SCOTLAND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A dreadful and heartrending sight Last Line: Of dark eternity Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;disasters;scotland; "dead, The; FEATHERSTONHAUGH, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brookong station lay half-asleep Last Line: To trouble the peace of featherstonhaugh. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters FEATS OF DEATH, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I have passed o'er the earth in the darkness of night Last Line: O'er the newly-raised turf, and the rudely-carved stone. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones FEEL ME, by MAY SWENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The 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 OPPORTUNITATE MORTIS, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exile or caesar? Death hath solved thy doubt Last Line: And glitter on the lonely peak of power. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 FIAMMETTA: SONNET. OF HIS LAST SIGHT OF FIAMMETTA, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round her red garland and her golden hair Last Line: I dwell, who fain would be where she is gone. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FICHTE'S GRAVE; DOROTHEENSTADT CEMEMTERY, BERLIN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a pilgrim at his journey's end Last Line: The power to cleanse, illumine, and inspire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Graves; Heaven; Rest; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FINAL MEETING; FOR JAMES WRIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old friend, I dressed in my very best Last Line: Banked in the gutters with old snow. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Poetry & Poets; Women; Women's Rights; Wright, James (1927-1980); Dead, The; Parting; Feminism FINALE, by THOMAS CASEY Poem Text First Line: Forth I wander, forth I must Last Line: I have died as mortals do. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FINIS, by WINIFRED HARPER Poem Text First Line: Death walked in on silent feet Last Line: Dead -- you possess my soul! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FINIS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I looked death calmly in the face Last Line: Heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FINIS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The end at last! The journey is completed Last Line: Sweet revelation of the book of life. Subject(s): Death; Finality; Dead, The FINIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On softly stepping feet Last Line: And she will no further seek. Subject(s): Clouds; Dawn; Death; Kisses; Worms; Sunrise; Dead, The FINIS, by MARJORIE MUIR WORTHINGTON Poem Text First Line: Gods upon your mountain-tops Last Line: Do you laugh now to see it dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Muir, Marjorie Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FINITUDE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One ruby, amid a diamond spray of stars Last Line: And be forgot. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Sleep; Dead, The FIRE AND ICE, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say the world will end in fire, / some say in ice Last Line: And would suffice. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fire; Hate; Ice; Judgment Day; Men; Time; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man FIRST AND LAST, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the borderlands of being Last Line: The white sweet rose of age. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The FIRST DEATH IN NOVA SCOTIA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold, cold parlor / my mother laid out arthur Subject(s): Death; Nova Scotia; Dead, The FIRST LOVE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was sunday morning, I had the new york Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Death; Dead, The FIRST NIGHT, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stump. A post. An effigy not made / as yet. A toe. A toe in the icy waters Last Line: I pray the lord my soul to take / timor mortis conturbat me Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FIRST OR LAST?; A WIFE TO HER HUSBAND, by MARGARET VELEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life ebbs from me - I must die Last Line: Is it the first kiss -- or the last? Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love FIRST SPRING FLOWERS, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: I am watching for the early buds to wake Last Line: It, too, may reach him, where he sleeping lies. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The FIVE CRITICISMS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old pantaloon, lean-witted, dour and rich Last Line: And we're the lonely dreamers after all. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Criticism & Critics; Death; Dreams; England; Hate; Pride; Soul; Youth; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Self-esteem; Self-respect FLAGELLANTS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soul is bleeding in thy sight Last Line: O love supreme, o love supreme!) Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The FLEETING TO THE SPIRIT-LAND, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And I am dying - life and strength are gone Last Line: Who strikes the harp with silver strings so gently?—— Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise FLESHLY ANSWERED, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doomed beauties, my companions, my familiars, Subject(s): Life; Death; Human Body; Dead, The FLOWER OF DEATH, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou come? What hast Last Line: Made bright with the moon s light, Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FLOWERETS, by ACHILLE PAYSANT Poem Text First Line: Think not I could forget your graces fallen asleep Last Line: His tomb. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Night; Youth; Dead, The; Bedtime FOG, by ELIZABETH JANE LITTLE Poem Text First Line: An old man died Last Line: Unless the fog comes. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Dead, The; Haze FOG, by MARGARET R. SHERWOOD Poem Text First Line: An everywhere of mist Last Line: The soul of all sea things! Subject(s): Death; Sea Gulls; Dead, The FOLDED HANDS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale, withered hands that more than four- / score years Last Line: So dwells the mother in the best of lands. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise FOOL'S BURIAL, by HILDEGARDE FILLMORE Poem Text First Line: If you had waited, foolish love, to die Last Line: To lie all naked in a beggar's grave? Subject(s): Death; Fools; Love; Sacrifices; Dead, The; Idiots FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 3. SOLDANELLA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hermit: / what wilt thou with me, maiden? Little wins Last Line: That snow environed blossom, woman's love. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Hermits; Plays & Playwrights ; Soul; Spring; Dead, The; Woods; Dramatists FOOTSTEPS OF PROSERPINE: 4. SAINT VERONICA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Veronica, speedwell, eyelet of the hedge Last Line: Life conquer death, and love at last prevail. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Saints; Tears; Dead, The FOR A BRIDE WHO DIED ON HER WEDDING DAY, by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That morn which saw me made a bride Last Line: Supply'd the epithalamie. Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Upon A Maid That Dyed The Day She Was Marryed Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives FOR A CLOSING PAGE, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life, like a page unpenned Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FOR A COMING EXTINCTION, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gray whale / now that we are sending you to the end Last Line: That it is we who are important Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Environment; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation 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 A MERCY RECEIVED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god who spared me what I feared Last Line: To do, and make me love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Mercy; Dead, The FOR A MISSING IN ACTION, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hazed with heat and harvest dust Last Line: As the leaf-man rises and stumbles to them. Subject(s): Death; Peasantry; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The FOR A PORTRAIT OF FELICE ORSINI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steadfast as sorrow, fiery sad, and sweet Last Line: Men hail him patriot and tyrannicide. Subject(s): Death; Portraits; Dead, The FOR A TALL HEADSTONE, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, it was I who never listened Last Line: That looking-glass Subject(s): Headstones; Death; Self; Dead, The FOR A WOMAN DEAD AT THIRTY: 2, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In memory / you / go through that Last Line: Opened into the third / star-darkness Variant Title(s): For A Woman Dead At Thirty (2) Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The FOR ADVENT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sweet sound of distant waters Last Line: Rise at the last trumpet call. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Grief; Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness FOR ANNIE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank heaven! The crisis - / the danger is past Last Line: Of the eyes of my annie. Variant Title(s): Convalescence Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The FOR CHARLIE'S SAKE, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER Poem Text First Line: The night is late, the house is still Last Line: And saved us twice, for charlie's sake. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The FOR ELIZABETH BLEECKER AVERELL, D. 20 JUNE 1957, by MARIE PONSOT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abrupt as that blessing gesture you always made Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The FOR FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA, by DOROTHY LIVESAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When veins congeal Last Line: The unassailed, the token! Subject(s): Death; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Nature; Dead, The FOR FRAN, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She packs the flower beds with leaves Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The FOR JAMES MERRILL: AN ADIEU, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The daily press keeps up-to-date obits Last Line: Scored in in sweetly noted higher keys Subject(s): Merrill, James (1926-1995); Death; Dead, The FOR JAN, WITH LOVE, by DAVID LEE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: John he comes to my house Last Line: Because john's red sow that fucker she died Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farm Life; Pigs; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Boars; Hogs FOR LIFE AND DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'nought to be done,' - eh?" Last Line: But still he died to save his bitterest foe Subject(s): Death;murder; "dead, The; FOR LITTLE CHO SAN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow on the bamboo, sigh and fall Last Line: Bare are the branches, all around!) Subject(s): Death; Grief; Snow; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FOR MY FATHER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over and over again I dream a dream Last Line: In the quiet evening I am finding you. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dreams; Fathers; Homecoming; Dead, The; Nightmares FOR MY FATHER, DEAD AT FIFTY-SIX, ON MY FIFTY-SIXTH BIRTHDAY, by STANLEY PLUMLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watched you humble a man in a fight once Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Childhood Memories; Dead, The FOR MY OWN TOMBSTONE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To me 'twas given to die; to thee 'tis given Last Line: Mark! How impartial is the will of heaven! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Paradise FOR ONE WHO DIED YOUNG (TO PAULINE), by VIRGINIA RUSS Poem Text First Line: When I see how the strong and fine grow old Last Line: Is worth perhaps early descent to night. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FOR RANDALL JARRELL, 1914-1965, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead are eating little yellow peas Last Line: Into this world or some other. And between. Subject(s): Creative Ability; Death; Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Wisdom; Inspiration; Creativity; Dead, The FOR REX BRASHER, PAINTER OF BIRDS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This shortened day of wind-flickered yellow-oranges and golds Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FOR RICHARD SPENDER, by MARY DOREEN SPENDER Poem Text First Line: Gone in an instant Last Line: And what, beyond our sight, its secret orbit shows. Subject(s): Death; Generals; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War FOR SAPPHO / AFTER SAPPHO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And you sang eloquently Last Line: For this moment only Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Feminism FOR STOICS, by THOMAS DEL VECCHIO Poem Text First Line: No monument shall mark Last Line: But the flesh knows. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dust; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The FOR TED, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is 0200 hrs july 8, 1983 Last Line: To make me laugh so hard I almost shit my pants Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Drinks & Drinking; Funerals; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The; Wine; Burials FOR THE 500TH DEAD PALESTINIAN, IBTISAM BOZIEH, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little sister ibtisam Last Line: Will not forget your face. Subject(s): Children; Death; Girls; Palestine; Childhood; Dead, The FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY DEATH, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every year without knowing it I have passed the day Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FOR THEM THAT DIED IN BATTLE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How blossomy must be the halls of death Last Line: And honor's music on them like sunrise. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Tears; Youth; Dead, The FOR THOSE GROWING OLD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: O you who through inexorable years Last Line: That when the body dies, is beauty born! Subject(s): Aging; Beauty; Bodies; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FOR WE ARE A PART, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful days slip by Last Line: Revisits us once more. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Optimism FOR YOU, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For you, I could forget the gay Last Line: "what could I not forget for you?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The FOREST LAWN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like an amusement park, the cemetery grounds Last Line: Is death and reproduction. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Imitation; Graveyards; Dead, The FOREVER, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those we love truly never die Last Line: The anchor of a love is death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FOREWORD TO 'SONGS OF THE INNER LIFE: IDEAS AND IMAGES', by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, all alone Last Line: Nor call my dream a hope. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FORGOTTEN, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead shalt thou lie; and nought Last Line: No friendly shade thy shade shall company! Variant Title(s): Sapphic Fragment Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FORGOTTEN, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the great pine tree we rest Last Line: None other than elizabeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FORT TRYON, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again there's a golden haze Last Line: Rides alone in a peaceful sky! Subject(s): Death; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Dead, The FOUND FROZEN, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died, as many travellers have died Last Line: But I, who loved her first, and last, and best, -- I knew. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Cold; Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The FOUR FOR THEODORE ROETHKE: 3. THE DANCE, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All history was troubled by a dream Subject(s): Death; Dancing & Dancers; Dead, The FOUR PORTRAITS OF FIRE, by LORNA DEE CERVANTES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I find a strange knowledge of wind Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FOUR SONGS OF FOUR SEASONS: 4. AUTUMN IN CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year lies fallen and faded Last Line: Broke, breaking with the sea. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; England; Sea; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; English; Ocean FOUR SONNETS: 1, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: A hundred years ago the church bells spoke Last Line: An old man died and a young child was born. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The FOUR SONNETS: 2, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: They said that jimmy was the handsomest lad Last Line: She dimly understood that jim was killed. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The FRAGMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The candle's tallow Last Line: It will faint and expire Subject(s): Churches;death;prayer; "cathedrals;dead, The; FRAGMENT ON DEATH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: And paris be it or helen dying Last Line: Yes; or pass quick into the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Dead, The FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MAN'S GUARD AGAINST DEATH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luckless man Last Line: As a sunbeam with motes. Subject(s): Death; Humanity; Mortality; Time; Dead, The 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 FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MURDERER'S HAUNTED COUCH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So buckled tight in scaly resolution Last Line: I will no more. Subject(s): Conscience; Curses; Death; Dreams; Ghosts; Murder; Punishment; Revenge; Sleep; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SACRIFICE SELF-COMPENSATED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True I have had much comfort gazing on thee Last Line: That greater happiness will thence arise. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Hope; Love; Sacrifices; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Optimism FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: SORROW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow! Hast thou seen sorrow asleep Last Line: Off her warm neck. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around. Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness FRANCISCA DOLOROSA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Fore-doomed the horror of the age to bear Last Line: A resurrexit in a requiem chant. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; San Francisco Earthquake And Fire (1906); Smoke; Dead, The FRANK GARDINER HE IS CAUGHT AT LAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And well may he say he cursed the day / he met old mother brown Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;heroism; "dead, The;heroes;heroines; FRATER AVE ATQUE VALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Row us out from desenzano, to your sirmione row Last Line: Sweet catullus's all-but-island, olive-silvery sirmio! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Garda, Lake, Italy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips FRED PERRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At last, dear fred, our task is done Last Line: Whose name was alfred perry. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Honor; Memory; Monuments; Dead, The FREDERIC, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As these sheets came in from the printer Last Line: When I heard little frederic was dead. Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Dead, The FREDERIC DAVID MOCATTA, by JAMES MEW Poem Text First Line: Of what avail in low estate to weep Last Line: And wake! With god's own likeness, satisfied! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Judaism FREEMASONRY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As through the dreary wilderness Last Line: Which will unite them there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Freemasons; Heaven; Immortality; Memory; Presence; Dead, The; Masonic Societies; Paradise FRESCO: DEPARTURE FOR AN IMPERIALIST WAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They stand there weeping in the stained daylight Last Line: Weeping, their arms embrace the only country they love Subject(s): Antiwar Movements; Death; Imperialism; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Anti-war Protests; Dead, The FRIAR BACON: THE DEAD WIFE SOON FORGOTTEN, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, serlsby, is thy wife so / lately dead? Last Line: ('friar bacon,' xiii., p. 70.) Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 FRIENDS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They're creeping on the stairs outside Last Line: And less when I am dying. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our friends in the courts of peace we keep Last Line: Through death is ours forever. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The FRIENDS BEYOND, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: William dewy, tranter reuben, farmer ledlow late at plough Last Line: And the squire, and lady susan, murmur mildly to me now. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The FRIENDS: PROEM, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone / I do not understand Last Line: And he was gone. Variant Title(s): Battle: The Going;the Going Subject(s): Brooke, Rupert (1887-1915); Death; Poetry & Poets; Soldiers' Writings; Dead, The FROM A DAYBOOK, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The musk of the cemetery Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The FROM SAPPHO, by SAPPHO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou liest dead, -- lie on: of thee Last Line: Shall find in thee a lover lost. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Death; Love - Erotic; Love; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The FROM THE GERMAN OF UHLAND, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three students once tarried over the rhine Last Line: And will love thee, yes, forever and aye! Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The FROM THE HEADBOARD OF A GRAVE IN PARAGUAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A troth, and a grief, and a blessing Last Line: And the rainy-day -- she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness FROM THE HILLS OF DREAM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the silent stream Last Line: On the hills of dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares FROM THE PARIS COMMUNE TO THE KRONSTADT REBELLION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember now there were others before this Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Revolutions; Social Protest; Dead, The FROM THE YOUTH OF ALL NATIONS, by H. C. HARWOOD Poem Text First Line: Think not, my elders, to rejoice Last Line: And swift usurping dynasties. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War FROM VIOLENCE TO PEACE, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twenty-eight shotgun pellets Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Death; Chicanos; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The; Mexican Americans FROST, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to a call in the late september night Last Line: Was there none to answer when your sweet souls cried? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The FROST, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Earth bows herself before the frost to-night Last Line: And sighs for spring and supplicates the dawn. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The FUGUE FOR A DROWNED GIRL, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It is the time of evening that promises miracles to anyone Last Line: Might be willow sticks. Fish swim into her hair. One by one the lights in her nails go out Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Rivers; Suicide; Dead, The FULL, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grave by grave and cross by cross, / here are row upon row Last Line: All the rows are now full. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The FULL MOON, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: I / am the still, white moon Last Line: Soon you will reach it—soon! Subject(s): Death; Moon; Night; White (color); Dead, The; Bedtime FULL-SAILED, by JEANNETTE AUGUSTUS MARKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, full-sailed like thought, a great ship Last Line: When a great ship rides battling down to death. Subject(s): Death; Ships & Shipping; Wellesley College; Dead, The FUNERAL, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of funerals, the saddest Last Line: And gods: the resurrector. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL HYMN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When life's gay courage fails at last Last Line: And the great, blue folds of sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL MASS: REQUIEM, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sit on the bed there Last Line: "as with vestments of silver?" Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FUNK, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When your marrer bone seems 'oller Last Line: There ain't no bloomin' funk, funk, funk. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 GATHER ROSE-BUDS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While this green month is fleeting Last Line: All joys expire. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hair; Life; Roses; Time; Dead, The GATHERING THE BONES TOGETHER; FOR PETER ORR, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When all the rooms of the house Last Line: That arches toward the other shore. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Family Life; Fathers & Sons; Fratricide; Hunting; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Relatives; Hunters GEBIR: 1, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing the fates of gebir. He had dwelt Last Line: His brother's love, and sigh'd upon his own. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 2, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The gadite men the royal charge obey Last Line: And tell the halcyons when spring first returns. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 3, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O for the spirit of that matchless man Last Line: And bent toward them his bewilder'd way. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 4, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king's lone road, his visit, his return Last Line: "king of the western world, be with you peace." Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 5, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once a fair city, courted then by kings Last Line: "take this,"" she cried, ""and gebir is no more." Variant Title(s): Masar Subject(s): Cities; Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Urban Life; Dead, The GEBIR: 6, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to aurora borne by dappled steeds Last Line: Atlas and calpe close across the sea. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEBIR: 7, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mortal first by adverse fate assail'd Last Line: His eyes grew stiff, he struggled, and expired. Subject(s): Death; Egypt; Giants; Nymphs; Dead, The GEHENNA, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When locked in marble death's embrace Last Line: At last—at last? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The GENERAL LEW WALLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, death, thou mightiest of all Last Line: Above the pagan throne. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Flags; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The GENERAL ROBERTS IN AFGHANISTAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1878, and the winter had set in Last Line: He spread death and desolation all along. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Great Britain - Norman Conquest; Grief; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness GENEVIEVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Genevieve was all to me Last Line: To a love not dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GENTLEMAN GEORGE, by W. A. HORN Poem Text First Line: Gentleman george in his youthful days was the pride of the eighth hussars Last Line: The slash of a whip on a skeleton hip, as the hoof-strokes echo away. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Soldiers; Dead, The GENTLEMAN JIM, by DANIEL O'CONNELL (1849-1899) Poem Text First Line: In the diamond shaft worked gentleman jim Last Line: In the glory that hallows the martyr's grave. Subject(s): Death; Diamonds; Graves; Martyrs; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones GEO-BESTIARY: 24, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A whiff of that dead bird along the trail Last Line: Still wondering above all else what kind of beast am I? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Dead, The GEO-BESTIARY: 26, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In montana the badger looks at me in fear Last Line: His thicket, his secret room in his powerful claws. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Badgers; Death; Dead, The GEOLOGY, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What matter if my life be passed Last Line: They'll find the lime that made my bones. Subject(s): Death; Decay; Geology; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence GEORGE A. CARR, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O playmate of the far-away Last Line: We played beneath the apple trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Farewell; Friendship; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Parting GEORGE ELIOT, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! Is she dead? / and all that light extinguished! Last Line: Mingled of honey and hyssop, on thy grave! Subject(s): Death; Eliot, George (1819-1880); Dead, The; Evans, Mary Ann GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GEORGE ROLLESTON, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead art thou? No more dead than was the maid Last Line: Or in thy loving change! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Praise; Rolleston, George (1829-1882); Dead, The GEORGE VERNON COLEBROKE; IN MEMORIAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou too art gone, and yet I hardly know Last Line: Of the same texture as an angel's love. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GEORGE WYNDHAM: JUNE 8TH, 1913, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Soldier, poet, courtier, / he was these and more than these Last Line: The white road thou travellest by. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Travel; Wyndham, George. 3d Earl Of Egremont; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips GERANIUM, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful evelyn hope is dead Last Line: You will wake, and remember, and understand Variant Title(s): Evelyn Hope Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 27, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When summer's pleasant days have come Last Line: Thou hadst better mind thy behaviour! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Germany; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Summer; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Germans GHAZAL, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Read slowly: the plot will unfold in real time Subject(s): Death; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence GHAZALS: 10, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Praise me at durkheim fair where I've never been, hurling Last Line: And vanessa redgrave in my calvinist fantasies. Don't go away. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fantasy; Memory; Rape; Dead, The GHAZALS: 12, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Says borges in ficciones, 'I'm in hell. I'm dead,' and the dark Last Line: Slapping the warm water on which the sun ripples and churns. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Imaginary Conversations; Dead, The; Wine GHAZALS: 13, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is thin and watery; fish in the air Last Line: Him to death. Within minutes death can come by bees. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Medicine; Night; Sex; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Bedtime GHAZALS: 15, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did this sheep die? The legs are thin, stomach hugely Last Line: Metaphor for the generally felt hidden-behind-bushes sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Grief; Sheep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness GHAZALS: 19, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We were much saddened by bill knott's death Last Line: Behind them to feed on the disturbed insects. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The GHAZALS: 21, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sings from the bottom of a well but she can hear him up Last Line: Drags the dead horse away to hollow swelling growls. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Imaginary Conversations; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs GHAZALS: 32, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All those girls dead in the war from misplaced or aimed Last Line: And that nurse threw a tumor at you from the hospital window. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness GHAZALS: 39, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you laid out all the limbs from the civil war hospital Last Line: Of components beneath the senators' heads. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The GHAZALS: 43, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ghazal in fear there might not be another Last Line: Smell from here as dead men might after war. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The GHAZALS: 9, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said the grizzly sat eating the sheep and when the bullet Last Line: Day crowds so that they'll indignantly topple my gravestone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Hunting; Dead, The; Hunters GHOST FLOWERS, by ALTA SMITH BOYD Poem Text First Line: Oh, do you see them, the ghost flowers Last Line: Dancing the dance of death? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The GHOST-BEREFT; A SCENE FROM BOGLAND IN WAR-TIME, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I thought by now for sure the sun was down Last Line: A shadowy form begins to move up the path from the river. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The GHOSTS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are ghosts in the room Last Line: In each shadowy corner there lurketh a ghost. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Happiness; Hope; Life; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Optimism GHOSTS (THREE YEARS AFTER THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN), by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night bomber pilot, just a fraction drunk Last Line: "they say, they say they do. ..." Subject(s): Air Warfare; Bombs; Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War GHOSTS OF THE NEW WORLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are no ghosts, you say Last Line: Calls to the slumbering host. Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Death; Dreams; Earth; Explorers; Ghosts; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Supernatural; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers GHOSTS OF THE PAST, by SARAH RUTH COLEMAN Poem Text First Line: Meadows and streams Last Line: "of ""never more!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Shadows; Supernatural; Dead, The GIFTS, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a child, a heartstruck neighbor died Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Gifts & Giving; Dead, The GIRGENTI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many here have struggled, fought the fight! Last Line: Defeated always -- but how splendidly! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mythology; Dead, The GIVE ME FLOWERS NOW, by NETTA LINDSEY Poem Text First Line: Why must you wait to bring flowers to me Last Line: Nor a costly monument placed at my head. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Sympathy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Empathy GIVE ME REST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Only one moment unfettered by care Last Line: Give me rest Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; GIVE YOUR WISH LIGHT, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By day and night dream about happy death, Last Line: As if sweet death were a whore? You are too proud Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares GLADNESS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My ole man named silas: he Last Line: O gladness! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; God; Happiness; Slavery; Childhood; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Serfs GLENFINLAS; OR LORD RONALD'S CORONACH, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O hone a rie'! O hone a rie'! / the pride of albin's line is o'er Last Line: We ne'er shall see lord ronald more! Subject(s): Death; Fillan, Saint (d. 649); Glenfinlas (forest), Scotland; Hunting; Oran, Saint; Dead, The; Hunters GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 4. EARLY LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a maid with tawny hair Last Line: A ten-year-old lamenting for his dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Passion; Voices; Dead, The GO ASK THE DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier, past full retreat, is marching out of the grave Last Line: You have climbed to the moon on a ladder of dead men's bones! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The GO DOWN DEATH; A FUNERAL SERMON, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, weep not Last Line: She's resting in the bosom of jesus. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology GOD'S ACRE, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like that ancient saxon phrase which calls Last Line: This is the place where human harvests grow! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The GOD'S ANSWER TO A GRIEVING MOTHER, by HARRIET PARKER CAMDEN Poem Text First Line: Dear lonely mother - heart, - I heard your prayer Last Line: I have been lonely too. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Heaven; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise GOD'S CHALLENGERS; A SOLDIERS' HOSPITAL, by MARION PERHAM GALE Poem Text First Line: Today, I have seen / mute ghosts of men Last Line: What did we do it for? Subject(s): Death; God; Soldiers; Tragedy; War; War Injuries; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GOD'S HEROES, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Once, at a battle's close, a soldier met Last Line: Their names are syllabled on earth no more. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Martyrs; Soldiers; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines GOD'S WORLD AND MINE, by GRACE SUE NIES Poem Text First Line: They tell me heaven lies afar Last Line: Love, my love, came! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise GODSPEED!, by JANE BELFIELD Poem Text First Line: Body o' mine - and must I lay thee low? Last Line: "godspeed!" Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Farewell; Soul; Dead, The; Parting GOING AND COMING, by EDWARD A. JENKS Poem Text First Line: Going - the great round sun Last Line: Chorus! Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The GOING HOME; OR DEATH IN THE THEBAID, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The ancient river glimmered in its bed Last Line: Nor her cheek flush, to find herself at home. Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Dead, The GOING NORTH, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the soft south where, leaping like a / leopard Last Line: Death nears with tongue and gestures imbecile. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love; Seasons; Time; Dead, The GOLD HAIR; A STORY OF PORNIC, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the beautiful girl, too white Last Line: The corruption of man's heart. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Greed; Christianity; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity GONE, by MARY WALLACE KIRK Poem Text First Line: You are much more vivid Last Line: Oh, there's empty space! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The GONE, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, with her sparkling beauty Last Line: Where there is eternal day! Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The GONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Another hand is beckoning us Last Line: The well-beloved of ours. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GOOD FRIDAY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friday is a heavenly day Last Line: Died—and forgave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Easter; Forgiveness; Good Friday; Holidays; Holy Week; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Clemency GOOD NEWS, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hobbled, the halt the-hasten-to-blame-it-on-childhood Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Dead, The GOOD NIGHT, by LAUREAME M. ROYER Poem Text First Line: Good night, mother Last Line: "good night, mother." Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The GOOD NIGHT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear earth, I am going away to-night Last Line: And I rise from my slumber to put it on. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Dead, The; World GOOD-NIGHT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You linger when you say good-night Last Line: Or only on the day of days?' Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Fear; Judgment Day; Dead, The; Parting; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man GOOD-NIGHT MOTHER, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good-night, mother. Thou dost sleep Last Line: Thine the slumber; mine, the night. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sleep; Dead, The; Parting GRACE DARLING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, o star of all our seas, from not an alien hand Last Line: While the sea that spared thee girds and glorifies the land. Subject(s): Death; Grace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean GRANDEUR, by WINIFRED MARY LETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor mary byrne is dead Last Line: To respect you -- now you're dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GRANDPA'S CHRISTMAS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his great cushioned chair by the fender Last Line: "with grandma, this year." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Grandparents; Past; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANNIE MIRK: A HAMILTON GRANNIE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As she lay on her bed, frail, dowie, an' dune Last Line: Bless a' his sair labours, protect an' provide! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Mothers & Sons; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers GRANT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What shall we say of the soldier Last Line: And the driving rain of a nation's tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heroism; Soldiers; Swords; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines GRASS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pile the bodies high at austerlitz and waterloo Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grass; War; Graveyards; Dead, The GRAVE MATTERS, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: W'en dis ole man comes ter die Last Line: S gwine ter please me might'ly. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GRAVEYARD AT HURD'S GULCH, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His grave is strewn with litter again Last Line: Just before the terrible hunger returns. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Loss; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The GRAY; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREAT DAYS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Vanish, every idle thought! Last Line: Giant hearts shall rule these days. Subject(s): Death; Graves; World War I; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GREAT STAR FLYER, by RAE ROBINS Poem Text First Line: Here lies one who took her chances Last Line: Lived a sportsman to the end. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The GREATER GRANDEUR, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half a year after war's end, roosevelt and hitler dead, stalin tired Last Line: And not appropriate for events on this scale watched from this level; admiration is all Subject(s): World War Ii; Death; Statesmen; Second World War; Dead, The GREATER THAN VICTORY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Quickly the war-smoke lessens-out through the clearing skies Last Line: "but the greatest thing of all is this: ""no more of our boys shall die!" Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Victory; World War I; Dead, The; First World War GREENWOOD CEMETERY, by CRAMMOND KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: How calm they sleep beneath the shade Last Line: And heavenly light! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The GREY PASTURES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grey gloaming where the white moth flies Last Line: Mayhap I may thrill again at the touch of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Despair; Kisses; Life; Longing; Nostalgia; Dead, The GRIEF, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An ancient enemy have I Last Line: To conquer mine old enemy! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Enemies; Grief; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GRIEF CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by SHERMAN ALEXIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a blue telephone Last Line: And haul us, prey and praying, into dust Subject(s): Grief; Fathers; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The 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; GROUND SENSE, by RODNEY JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I have loved many women Subject(s): Death; Fields; Nature; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee. Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight GUARDIAN, by PEPITA CROUNSE Poem Text First Line: Within this valley of eternal sleep Last Line: Where spirit enters immortality. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief; Immortality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness GUEST, by JEAN RASEY Poem Text First Line: I shall remember when the early gloom Last Line: Will you, my gracious friend, make it your home? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GUIDARELLO GUIDARELLI; RAVENNA WARRIOR (1502), by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Share our grief when mine is dumb. Subject(s): Death; Lombardo, Tullio (1455-1532); Ravenna, Italy; Sculpture & Sculptors; Soldiers; Dead, The GUIDO AND MARINA; A DRAMATIC SKETCH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clasp me again! My soul is very sad Last Line: Just whispering. He is dead? -- o god! He's dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The GUNWALES OF ICE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I come to watch you pass by Subject(s): Absence; Death; Presence; Ships & Shipping; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The GUSTAV GOTTHEIL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God healed him while he slept Last Line: Chant kaddish at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Spiritual Healing; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Faith-cure HABEAS CORPUS, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My body, eh? Friend death, how now? Last Line: There must be somewhere work to do. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HADRIAN'S DEATH-SONG, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, rudderless, unbraced Last Line: Dumb to thy wonted jest. Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HAFIZ, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wine, wine, sweet wine Last Line: "to zara's arms." Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Hafez (1326-1390); Dead, The; Wine; Hafiz (1326-139) HAGAR, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said hagar: nay, I can not see him die Last Line: And mused on abraham and ishmael! Subject(s): Death; Hagar; Ishmael (bible); Memory; Dead, The HALT AND PARLEY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Good toll-gate keeper, kindle a light! Last Line: Poor clod—while you've parried and parleyed out there. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HANG UP HIS HARP; HE'LL WAKE NO MORE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His young bride stood beside his bed Last Line: "he sleeps the sleep of death." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HAPPINESS, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One morning in the month of may Last Line: "if virtue guides thee here!" Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Happiness; Love; Nature; Virtue; Dead, The; Joy; Delight HAPPY THOUGHT FOR SOME STRUGGLING NATION, by MORRIE RYSKIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though the privates may never return Last Line: Need we burden the lord with our prayers? Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sacrifices; Dead, The HARD EASTER, NORTHWEST MONTANA, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shadows from the spruce woods slouch down the hill Last Line: Open underground. Subject(s): Death; Montana; Mountains; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) HARLIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fold the little waxen hands Last Line: At the city's golden gates. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Tears; Dead, The; Paradise HARMODIUS AND ARISTOGEITON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The blade I bear / a myrtle spray shall wear Last Line: Dealt death to tyranny / and liberated our athenian land Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; HARVARD DECLARES WAR, by BRENT DOW ALLINSON Poem Text First Line: Hang out the flags!' the college president said Last Line: Thy hallowed ivied walls with strands of sable crepe! Subject(s): Death; Harvard University; Soldiers; War; World War I; World War Ii; Dead, The; First World War; Second World War HARVEST, by DANA BURNET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a schooner came ashore this fall Last Line: That one might bring his soul to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean HARVEST, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She heard the summons -- and she needs must go Last Line: Untouched by winter, still remembering spring! Subject(s): Death; Harvest; Dead, The HASTEN, CLASP MAIDEN LIFE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hasten, clasp maiden life round her / white waist Last Line: The bony and the lipless kiss of death! Subject(s): Death; Virginity; Women; Dead, The; Vestals HATE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Peace - will you buy it with blood and tears? Last Line: Black hatred. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Peace; War; Dead, The HAUNTED, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: How restless are the dead whose silent feet will stray Last Line: Hide in the chilly tomb and answer not at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The HAUTE POLITIQUE, by GRANVILLE TRACE Poem Text First Line: Driven to achievement by youth and love Last Line: Two bodies drift. Alternate Author Name(s): Chen Wei Lu Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HAVE PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The goblets all are broken Last Line: Are very near us. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Patience; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HAWARDEN, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When comes the lighted day for men to read Last Line: Among us who celestial tasks has done. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Dead, The HE AND SHE, by EUGENE FITCH WARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead you'll find it hard Last Line: Like you? Alternate Author Name(s): Ironquill Subject(s): Death; Desire; Women; Dead, The HE GOADS HIMSELF, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was it I that hoped to rattle Last Line: Storm -- not escape. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Martyrs; Dead, The HE IMAGINED THE GORGEOUS PATTERN OF THE NEW SKIN AND SETTLED FOR AMERI, by PRIMUS ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quiet which is my wife endures Last Line: Into the sunset of our bleeding children. Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Social Problems; Dead, The; Serfs HE RULETH NOT THROUGH HE RAIGNE OVER REALMES, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wilt mighty be, flee from the rage Last Line: Thy wretched life, ne do thy death profet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ballade: 6 Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Moon; Dead, The HE TOOK TIME TO DIE, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old fellow who never had time Last Line: He found time to die. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The HE UNDERSTANDS THE GREAT CRUELTY OF DEATH, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My flowery and green age was passing away, and I feeling a chill in the fires Last Line: Pike in his hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): Sonnets To Laura In Death: 47 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He marched away with a blithe young score of him Last Line: Borne with the hell called war! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Loss; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War HE WENT: THE MORNING TWINKLED DIM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: Then I remembered he was dead Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; HEADLINES, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: A thousand men are dead in syria Last Line: As the others run. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Dead, The HEART-DEATHS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hearts oft die bitter deaths before Last Line: And eyes must watch and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HEART-SICK, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: O, tears, I know not what you mean Last Line: Ye bitter, scalding, tear-wrung tears. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Love - Complaints; Mothers; Dead, The HEARTH SONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before the hearth I dream of many things Last Line: Singing of summer, chanting soft of june. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fireplaces; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Songs HEARTS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A trinket made like a heart, dear Last Line: Over all the buried past! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Parting HEAVEN, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My brother is crouched at the edge Last Line: Even when she was right, she was wrong Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: O heaven, how glorious thou art Last Line: Thy holiness my heart? Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN, by NANCY WOODBURY PRIEST Poem Text First Line: Beyond these chilling winds and gloomy skies Last Line: Into those pastures vernal! Alternate Author Name(s): Wafield, Nancy Amelia Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is heaven? 'tis a country Last Line: Lord! Admit me, or I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise HEAVEN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a land of pure delight Last Line: Should fright us from the shore. Variant Title(s): The Heavenly Canaan;the Heavenly Land;a Prospect Of Heaven Makes Death Easy Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Theology HEAVENLY BLISS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Trouble o'erwhelms us in the world Last Line: And taste a ray of heavenly bliss Subject(s): Death;duplicity;happiness;heaven;sin; "dead, The;deceit;joy;delight;paradise; HEAVY FOLIO, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mathematics of intimate questions Subject(s): Love; Money; Death; Dead, The HEIGHTS AND DEPTHS, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He walked in glory on the hills Last Line: For our rude huts, before he died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HELEN IN THE WOOD, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I left the yew-tree shadow, thrown Last Line: "o love, how deep! How broad! How high!" Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HELEN KELLER, by ZONA GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first I heard the voice of helen keller Last Line: Concerning the god in man. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Voices; Dead, The HELIUM, by MARY RUEFLE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are helium. You make everything rise Subject(s): Gas; Death; Colors; Dead, The HELL, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's probably like the excitement of your first cigarette Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Hell; Religion; Spirituality; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology HELL A LA MODE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Zero hour! / advance! Last Line: The silence of wreckage and ruin and death! Subject(s): Death; Hell; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HELL'S RESURRECTION, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The saffron-colored stars of hell Last Line: As it had flamed of yore! Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hell; Sin; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub HENRY HARDIMAN, AGED 55, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction sore long time he bore Last Line: And ease him of his pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Pain; Physicians; Soul; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery; Doctors HENRY THE HERMIT, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little island where he dwelt Last Line: The lamp that stream'd a long unsteady light. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Death; Hermits; Islands; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness HENRY W. GRADY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: True-hearted friend of all Last Line: With the white splendor of thy prophecies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HER DEATH AND AFTER, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a death-bed summons, and forth I went Last Line: If only she could know! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HER DILEMMA; IN CHURCH, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The two were silent in a sunless church Last Line: Where nature such dilemmas could devise. Subject(s): Death; Kindness; Dead, The HER EYES TWIN POOLS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes, twin pools of mystic light Last Line: A man might plunge, and lose his soul. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations HER GHOST; IN MEMORY OF CICELY NARNEY MARSTON, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her gentle ghost is with me everywhere! Last Line: Who loved thee not enough that other year. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Marston, Cicely Narney; Dead, The HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme! Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation HER LAST POEM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth with its dark and dreadful ills Last Line: O death, where is thy sting! Variant Title(s): A Dying Hymn;her Last Verses Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HER OWN, by MAYME C. WYANT Poem Text First Line: Faded not, nor fading, pictures bright Last Line: Angel arms can draw her children near. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The HER PILOT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death seemed afraid to wake her Last Line: To find her voyage done. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HERCULES FURENS: THOU SHALL NOT DIE, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enough / on you, who sit like one most miserable Last Line: Hellas forbids you foolishly to die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HERE AM I, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The world has shared my joy and pain Last Line: Soft be my answer – 'here am I.' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HERE IS MUSIC: RESPICIT ARTIFEX (CHANT ROYAL), by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Forbears of mine, who brought your meed of blood Last Line: And have lived all your unliv'd lives in mine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HERE IS MUSIC: SECOND-LIEUTENANT E.T.; IN MEMORRIAM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Sunlight and shimmering haze Last Line: Whose bouquet works like wine. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Fights; Honor; Patriotism; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War HERE LIES A LADY, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies a lady of beauty and high degree Last Line: After six little spaces of chill, and six of burning. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The HERE LIES PIERROT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moon's ashine; by many a lane Last Line: The moon's ashine; here lies pierrot. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Moon; Nightingales; Dead, The HEREDITY (2), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I died at sea; and homeward bound Last Line: That make the lineal current one. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HERITAGE, by LAURA HELENA BROWER Poem Text First Line: I see the gallows - o my son! My child! Last Line: Not guilty, but the blighted fruit of war! Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Death; Guilt; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The HERITAGE, by AMY CROCKER LEIGHTON Poem Text First Line: We are a cordon-rope of love Last Line: To mount the universal stair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Love; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The HERITAGE, by JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if that men should cease from war Last Line: When you were born. Alternate Author Name(s): Marks, Lionel S., Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Dead, The HERMOTIMUS, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber? Last Line: Not in sleep, but death, their mistress lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The HERO AND LEANDER: LEANDER'S DEATH, by GRAMMATICUS MUSAEUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time was night, when most the violent breathing winds Last Line: And the joy of love together in life's last separation. Subject(s): Death; Hero And Leander; Dead, The HEROES, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little blue fox has been it break apart from / the riven floe Last Line: Who know the way to die. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Heroism; Dead, The; Paradise; Heroes; Heroines HEROIC ATTITUDES, by CHARLES MARTIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has always feared the awakening dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HEROIC STANZAS, CONSECRATED TO MEMORY OF OLIVER [CROMWELL], by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now 'tis time; for their officious haste Last Line: Where piety and valour jointly go. Variant Title(s): Heroic Stanzas Consecrated To The Glorious Memory Of His Most Serene Subject(s): Cromwell, Oliver (1599-1658); Death; England; Freedom; Politics & Government; Praise; Dead, The; English; Liberty HESIOD, 1908, by ALEXANDER WILLIAM MAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death at the headlands, hesiod, long ago Last Line: And strong orion and the hyades. Subject(s): Death; Hesiod (9th Century B.c.); Dead, The HI, HAUNTING, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back then it seemed he had more to say Last Line: The dreadful great Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The HIALMAR'S HEART, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A clear night, icy wind, and blood-streams staining Last Line: "my seat where the high gods are in the sun." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Ravens; War; Dead, The HIC JACET, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So love is dead that has been quick so long! Last Line: And yet, had love been love, he had not died. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The 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 HIDE AND SEEK, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Night, of nights that were and are / tenderest, best! Last Line: For a while! Subject(s): Death; Guilt; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime HIDING, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I know she's gone for good. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIGHLAND MARY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks, and braes, and streams around Last Line: Shall live my highland mary. Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The HILL MAN'S BURIAL, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Over the wind-blown snow, drifting drearily Last Line: The long black box to the grave in the hollow. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Graves; Horses; Snow; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HIMALAYA, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Branches: wings: we sheltered in thick fir trees. Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The HIPPOLYTUS: HIS DEATH, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor wretch with what calamity art thou joined Last Line: Make speed and with the mantles cover my face. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIS CHARGE TO JULIA AT HIS DEATH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest of thousands, now the time drawes neere Last Line: Unto thy everlasting residence. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIS CHILDREN THREE; TO -- AT TWO YEARS OLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful boy with the wistful eyes Last Line: He watches over his children three! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The HIS DEATHS, by HANIEL (CLARK) LONG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bore the brunt of it so long Last Line: Amazed that I can live so much. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIS FOOTSTEP, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy will come no more Last Line: Like an old tune. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Feet; Footprints; Homecoming; Loss; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS HEART WAS YOUNG; IN MEMORIAM, JAMES B. HAWKINS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: He was not old, although the fruited years Last Line: He lives, and still his spirit walks with me. Subject(s): Death; Life; Truth; Wisdom; Dead, The HIS LAMENT, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How is it she lies here Last Line: Could pearl a piece of dust. Subject(s): Death; Eurydice (nymph); Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The HIS LAST STAGE, by JOHN PHILIP BURKE Poem Text First Line: With steps that were limping and slow Last Line: The only ones there for his sake. Alternate Author Name(s): B., J. P. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Dead, The HIS MEDITATION UPON DEATH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend Last Line: I rise triumphant in my funerall. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HIS MOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! My wayward boy - my own Last Line: Will you face us there? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mothers; Dead, The HIS MOTHER SPEAKS!, by BLANCHE OLIN TWISS Poem Text First Line: He died in france! Last Line: Thank god -- he fought them all, and fighting died! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War HIS OWN EPITAPH, by MATHURIN REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lived a life was fancy free Last Line: I alwayes kept him out of mind. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight HIS OWN EPITAPH, by PAUL SCARRON Poem Text First Line: He who underground doth slumber Last Line: Felt sound slumber overtake him. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HIS OWNE EPITAPH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe Last Line: Eternal rest on him bestowe. Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HIS SMELL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the last days of my father's life Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Smells; Dead, The; Odors; Aromas; Fragrances HIS SON, by CALLIMACHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But twelve short years you lived, my son Last Line: (g. B. Grundy) Alternate Author Name(s): Kallimachos Subject(s): Death; Sons; Dead, The HIS WORST ENEMY, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who had a sword to swing Last Line: Through his other self! Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Suicide; Dead, The HIS YOUTH, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dying? I am not dying. Are you mad? Last Line: Hushed his wild words. Well, has he found his youth? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Youth; Dead, The; Illness HISTORIC GROUND, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No song lends these calm vales a deathless name Last Line: This place obscure is true historic ground! Subject(s): Death; History; War; Dead, The; Historians HITLER YOUTH (PANZER DIVISION), by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: I fell. Nobody picked me up Last Line: But yet I would have liked to live! Subject(s): Death; Hitler, Adolf (1889-1945); Soldiers; War; Dead, The HOLY DAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It was in the queensland drought Last Line: And holy dan was drowned Subject(s): Animals;death;drought;horses;piety; "dead, The; HOLY SONNET: 1, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast made me, and shall thy work decay? Last Line: And thou like adamant draw mine iron heart. Variant Title(s): "god;holy Sonnet: 174;holy Sonnets: 13;from Divine Meditations: Sonnet I;""thou Hast Made Me, And Shall Thy Work Decay?""; Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 10, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die. Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee""; Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology HOLY SONNET: 17, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since she whom I loved hath paid her last debt Last Line: Lest the world, flesh, yea devil put thee out. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 6, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is my play's last scene, here heavens appoint Last Line: For thus I leave the world, the flesh, and devil. Variant Title(s): "holy Sonnets: 3;""this Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint""; Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood. Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow""; Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence HOMAGE TO QUINTUS SEPTIMIUS FLORENTIS CHRISTIANUS, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sad and great evil is the expectation of death Last Line: For after death there comes no other calamity. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOME-SICKNESS, by JUSTINUS KERNER Poem Text First Line: There calleth me ever a marvelous horn Last Line: I go to my rest! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOMELESS, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay upon my mother's breast Last Line: So early thy poor child forsaken? Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The HOMESICKNESS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dwell in a region of valleys fair Last Line: And die in the land where I was young. Subject(s): Death; Homesickness; Life; Youth; Dead, The HOMUNCULUS IN PENUMBRA, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look down my limbs and moving breast Last Line: "until dissemination is complete." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HONG KONG CHOW, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Hong kong chow is dead, his loving heart hath ceased / to beat Last Line: In loved paownyc he doth sleep, at rest forevermore. Subject(s): Absence; Animals; Death; Dogs; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The HONORS: 2. THE ANSWER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one who, journeying, checks the rein in haste Last Line: My work, my work -- farewell! Subject(s): Death; Flutes; God; Honor; Labor & Laborers; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Work; Workers HOOFS IN THE DARK, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wake in the night, and my heart says, 'hark!' Last Line: Out in the dark; out there in the dark. -- Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOPE, by JESSIE HUBBARD PRUETT Poem Text First Line: When friends shall lay me gently down Last Line: Your faces dear, and mine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOPE FOR THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Ye holy ministers of love Last Line: To nobler toils pass on! Pass on! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOPE IN GRIEF, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me not that death of grief Last Line: And surely will uprise the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hope; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism HOPEFULLY WAITING, by ANSON DAVIES FITZ RANDOLPH Poem Text First Line: Not as you meant, o learned man, and good! Last Line: To take my hand, and lead me safely home. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise HOPING AGAINST HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he would come today, today, today Last Line: But sleep on all the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism HORACE: SONG AT THE END OF ACT 5, by PIERRE CORNEILLE Poem Text First Line: How frailty makes us to our wrong Last Line: From human cruelties. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HORSE (2), by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What if it were our privilege Last Line: Around, under the ground? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Horses; Dead, The; Nightmares HOSPITAL, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Benign big blond machine beyond all price, Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The HOSPITALS ARE TO DIE IN, by JANICE MIRIKITANI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They finally Last Line: It's cheaper that way. Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Dead, The HOUR OF GOLD, by MURRAY C. KIRK Poem Text First Line: O, not when purple curtains of the sky Last Line: Shall glow one hour of gold to light the closing way. Subject(s): Death; Gold; Life; Sky; Dead, The HOUSE WITH THE MARBLE STEPS, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He built the house to show his neighbors Last Line: Above a flight of marble steps where grass is growing. Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The HOW GILBERT DIED, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never a stone at the sleeper's head Last Line: Can tell you how gilbert died. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HOW HANK DIED, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, the shadows are gatherin' Last Line: His white hand dropped. That's how hank died. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOW HARRY KILLED THE SNAKE, by CECIL JAMES KELLY Poem Text First Line: You've heard the tales of droving Last Line: When harry killed the snake. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers HOW IT HAPPENED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got to thinkin' of her - both her parunts dead and gone Last Line: So I got to thinkin' of her -- and -- it happened thataway. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): So I Got To Thinkin' Of Her Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Thought; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Thinking HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise HOW LANCELOT CAME TO THE NUNNERY IN SEARCH OF THE QUEEN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three days on gawain's tomb sir lancelot wept Last Line: "and cried, ""alas! Ah, who may trust this world!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HOW LITTLE OF OUR LIFE; AFTER READING OF THE EARTHQUAKES IN SPAIN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How little of our life this earth must hold Last Line: And go to gain the nobler heritage. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Dead, The HOW PEOPLE DISAPPEAR, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: If this world were mine, the stereo Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, nay, sweet england, do not grieve Last Line: Only thy joy could share. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The HOW WILL IT BE?, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How will it be when one of us alone Last Line: Dear god, how can this same fair world move on? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HOWARD SHAW, ARCHITECT; DIED MAY 6, 1926, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember? We, the city, shall remember Last Line: The features of a building or a man. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Buildings & Builders; Death; Memory; Shaw, Howard Van Doren (1869-1926); Dead, The HUFFMAN'S PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GRAVES OF THE UNKNOWN AT LITTLE BIGHORN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Taken a year after, in '77 Last Line: Turning silver in the wind. Subject(s): Death; Little Bighorn, Battle Of; War; Dead, The HUGH STUART BOYD: HIS DEATH, 1848, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved friend, who living many years Last Line: To join the dead found faithful to the end? Subject(s): Boyd, Hugh Stuart (1781-1848); Death; Dead, The HUGHIE THE GRAEME, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gude lord scroope's to the hunting gane Subject(s): Animals;death;horses; "dead, The; HUMAN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weighed down by grief, o'erborne by deep despair Last Line: Upon the westering sunlight, black as jet. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness HUMMINGBIRD, by ELAINE TERRANOVA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What with foresight and dancing, Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Dead, The HUSH!, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oh, hush thee, earth! Fold thou thy weary palms! Last Line: Will such deep peace thine inmost being fill? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HUSH!, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I can scarcely hear,' she murmured, 'for my heart beats low and fast' Last Line: Peace to the quiet dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HUSHING SONG, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh / my bonny wee lass Last Line: Here on my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs HUSKS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: They will not stay Last Line: The fruit ye leave! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Earth; Faith; Past; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed HYMN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, as returns this solemn day Last Line: And your reward is sure. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Prayer; Death; Dead, The HYMN, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Less the shadow Subject(s): God; Death; Relationships; Dead, The HYMN OF THE LOST SPIRITS OF THE DEAD, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pilgrims of life are we! Last Line: Ye are doomed and damned for ever! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Despair; Guilt; Soul; Dead, The HYMN TO COLOUR, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With life and death I walked when love appeared Last Line: And saw the dawn glow through. Subject(s): Colors; Death; Life; Love; Dead, The HYMN TO DEATH, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Could I hope the wise and pure in heart Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HYMN TO DEATH, by WILLIAM HERBERT (1778-1847) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou, o relentless visitant Last Line: After his likeness, and be satisfied. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The HYMN TO GOD MY GOD, IN MY SICKNESS, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since I am coming to that holy room Last Line: Therefore that he may raise the lord throws down. Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Death; Geography; God; Sickness; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Illness HYMN: FIFTH SUNDAY AFTER EASTER, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life nor death shall us dissever Last Line: Comfort ere we die! Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Dead, The HYPOCRITE AUTEUR, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our epoch takes a voluptuous satisfaction Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The I AM HELD BY MY FEAR OF DEATH, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The I AM HERE, by KATHRINE BALDWIN Poem Text First Line: Dead? No, not dead, not away! Last Line: I am here! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Presence; Supernatural; Dead, The I AM MAD BY TURNS, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I close my eyes Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I ANONYMOUS, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not believe tithonus wished to go Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The I ASK, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My happy lime is gold with flowers Last Line: And, wanton, draw forgetful breath? Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I CHAFE AT DARKNESS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chafe at darkness in the night Last Line: Waving seem. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime I DO NOT KNOW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know if they return -- the dead Last Line: Some one stood there ... And whispered ... By my bed! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life Last Line: This is my dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones I HAD FORGOTTEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had forgotten she was dead, though once I had loved her Last Line: Shall I never age? Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares I HARDLY DREAM OF ANYONE WHO IS STILL ALIVE, by PETER DAVISON Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Red auerbach fumed into my sleep last night Subject(s): Dreams; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The I HAVE A MESSAGE UNTO THEE (WRITTEN IN SICKNESS), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green sprout the grasses Last Line: "but ripe eternity." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Love; Seasons; Dead, The I KILLED A FLY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: I lay my body down beside the fly Subject(s): Flies; Death; Dead, The I SEE AROUND ME TOMBSTONES GREY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The I SHALL BE GAY, by MAY MCKEE Poem Text First Line: So sure and slow Last Line: I—died—today ... Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight I SHALL KNOW REST, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Rest, rest Last Line: Then, then comes the rest I seek! Subject(s): Death; Rest; Sleep; Dead, The I SHALL NOT CARE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead and over me bright april Last Line: Than you are now. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Revenge; Dead, The I WANT TO DIE WHILE YOU LOVE ME, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Last Line: Grow dim or cease to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The I WILL NOT SAVE THE WORLD, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I like to cross Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The I WILL SET OUT TO-MORROW, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will set out to-morrow when the dawn-light whitens all the land Last Line: Then will I lay this holly-spray and heather on thy bier. Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Waiting; Dead, The I WOULD NOT LIVE ALWAY, by WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not live alway - live alway below! Last Line: Alleluia -- amen -- evermore with the lord! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I WOULD OUTRUN DEATH, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: I look on death with her dark sculpt face Last Line: To the goal toward which I've set my face. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I WUD KNOT DYE IN WINTUR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wud knot dye in wintur Last Line: I wud knot dye at all Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; I'M A-WEARY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm a-weary with care, I'm a-weary with care Last Line: Like the sea-waves around yon lone rock on the shore. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue I, WHO AM SOON TO DIE, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES Poem Text First Line: I, who am soon to die, salute you death Last Line: Death, I salute you: I am not afraid. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The I-BRASIL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's sorrow on the wind, my grief, theres' sorrow on the wind Last Line: Far away, far away. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Grief; Old Age; Peace; Singing & Singers; Wind; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness I.M. HANNES HOLLO, 1959-1999, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fought the hungry ghosts here on earth Last Line: The end rolls up too soon always too soon Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ICHABOD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A panting messenger of woe and dread Last Line: She lost the ark, but found the living god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Israel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IDA STRAUS, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wonder at, we praise your life Last Line: How small are we; how great are you! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Love; Praise; Dead, The; Judaism IDEAL, by PADRAIC PEARSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Naked, I saw thee Last Line: To the death that I shall meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Pearse, P. H.; Pearse, Patrick Henry Variant Title(s): To His Ideal Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IDOLATRY, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: There is a day that ends all life for me Last Line: My human end, and yet not mortally. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 IDYLL 3. FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye dorian woods and waves lament aloud Last Line: Bion the [sweetest singer] is no more. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Dead, The IDYLL 3. LAMENT FOR BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O forest dells and streams! O dorian tide! Last Line: I too would seek the dead, and sing thee free! Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Dead, The IDYLL 3. THE EPITAPH OF BION, A LOVING HERDSMAN, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye mountain valleys, pitifully groan! Last Line: Could I charm dis with songs, I too would sing for thee. Variant Title(s): Lament For Bion Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Cyclops; Death; Epitaphs; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IF BUT A WORD, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: If but a word of mine could give you joy Last Line: And eyes half-veiled have told me you are mine. Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise IF DEATH IS KIND, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps if death is kind, and there can be returning Last Line: We shall be happy, for the dead are free. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IF GOD WON'T TAKE ME WHY WON'T THE DEVIL?'; GREAT-GREAT-AUNT LEONORA, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stroke your hands to make you smile Last Line: Casting you back. Subject(s): Aging; Aunts; Death; Dead, The IF I HAD WORDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had words, if I had words / at least to vent my misery Last Line: Or if I died I could but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The IF I SHOULD DIE TONIGHT, by ARABELLA EUGENIA SMITH Poem Text First Line: If I should die tonight / my friends would look upon my face Last Line: The tenderness for which I long tonight. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Belle E. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IF I SHOULD WAKE, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should wake, on some soft, silent night Last Line: Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IF I WERE DEAD, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I were dead, my friends would come to-day Last Line: I would come back to you, back from the tomb! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IF LIFE BE BITTER, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If life be bitter and if death be sweet Last Line: Dim shadow-hordes, the mongols of the night. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The IF MY HAND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If my hand believes Last Line: Each death affirmative Subject(s): Human Behavior; Death; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Dead, The IF ONE WERE TO KEEP...., by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If one were to keep for many years and days Last Line: That I would call for death -- with a great cry! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Autumn; Birds; Death; Kisses; Sea; Seasons; Women; Fall; Dead, The; Ocean IF THERE'S A GOD..., by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If there's a god of amphetamine, he's also the god of wrecked Last Line: "laughing at all who stumble. Put out your tongue and receive it." Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Medicine; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy IF WE MUST DIE, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Last Line: Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): African Americans; Courage; Death; Honor; Social Protest; World War I; Negroes; American Blacks; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; First World War IF!, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suppose 'twere done! Last Line: Of lingering smile on satan's face! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; Devil; Satire (as Poetic Genre); War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub IGNORANCE OF DEATH, by WILLIAM EMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then there is this civilising love of death, by which Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IL IMMATURO; EPITAPH, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brave youth, whose too too hasty fate Last Line: And this cold stone had ne'er said, here he lies. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The ILICET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an end of joy and sorrow Last Line: The poppied sleep, the end of all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Judgment Day; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ILLUSIONS, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A good that never satisfies the mind Last Line: Till wisest death make us our errors know. Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William Variant Title(s): The End Of Life;human Frailty Subject(s): Death; Hallucinations & Illusions; Dead, The IMAGES OF OUR DREAMS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The wooded hill slopes down even unto the Last Line: Ah for our dreams that rise and perish evermore! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Eyes; Dead, The; Nightmares IMMORTAL, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Because your hand Last Line: Because you died? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IMMORTAL SAILS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, in a breath, we'll burst those gates of gold Last Line: While eyes meet eyes, and look their last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The; Paradise IMMORTALITY, by M. EDWARD ROSENZWEIG Poem Text First Line: Soft falls the snow, -like a silent veil Last Line: And my footprints are lost, as soft falls the snow. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise IMMORTALITY, by MARY WINTER WERE Poem Text First Line: Now you are dead, though summer brings Last Line: To mingle with the living grass. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The 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 IMPOSSIBLE TO TELL, by ROBERT PINSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Slow dulcimer, gavotte and bow, in autumn, Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Wit & Humor; Race Awareness; Grief; Jews; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism IMPRESSIONS, by BERNICE SMITH HAGMAN Poem Text First Line: Tattered eucalyptus trees Last Line: Arbutus springs from snowy bed! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails IMPROVISATIONS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the lonely halls of the night Last Line: And here's to the goddess show Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Dead, The IMPULSIVE DIALOGUE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poet. Will you, like other men Last Line: For final wages. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN A CERTAIN PLACE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found love in a certain place Last Line: Oh should I know him then? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A vacuum cleaner held over my head Last Line: With my satellite heart, brain, bones and blood Subject(s): Dreams; Vacuum Cleaners; Death; Nightmares; Dead, The IN A DREAM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At fifty I approach myself Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN A GRAVEYARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here rests in god' 'tis all we read Last Line: Step softly here -- 'he rests in god' Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; IN A NORTHERN COUNTRY, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday in a northern country Subject(s): Aunts; Death; Dead, The IN A SNOW STORM, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The evanescent wonder of the snow Last Line: For out of death comes life; -- the twain are one! Subject(s): Death; Life; Snow; Dead, The IN AFTER DAYS; RONDEAU, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In after days when grasses high Last Line: In after days! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN AN ANATOMY LABORATORY, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: Over our bench in the dissecting-room Last Line: "alive or dead." Subject(s): Beauty; Corpses; Death; Science; Cadavers; Dead, The; Scientists IN ARLINGTON, by EDNA MEAD Poem Text First Line: Does he lie gladly in the earth of home Last Line: Of honor and its wearer yesterday. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The IN AUTUMN, by FRANCIS JAMMES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You see in autumn on the telegraph wires Last Line: Tries, falters and, before it flees, comes back. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Faith; Grief; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness IN BATTLE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death's nobility again Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: You are dead Last Line: And you are dead. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise IN DALMATIA, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A brotherhood of bleached, air-scourged peaks Last Line: Pauses to gaze adown, and, smiling, dives. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Youth; Dead, The; Ocean IN DEATH, by MARY EMILY NEELEY BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still the room is! But a while ago Last Line: Could the world know, the world would cease to be. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN EXILE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An angel with a flaming sword Last Line: Whose form is life, whose shadow death! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Angels; Death; Exiles; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN FRANCE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it well with henri and jean and paul? Last Line: "well with them all—they are all with god!" Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; France; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The; Death - Babies IN FULLER MEASURE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dying so young, how much he missed!' they said Last Line: "fame void of strife, and wisdom free from pain." Subject(s): Death; Fame; Grief; Dead, The; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness IN FUTURO, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: E'en now, from mountain or from plain Last Line: My heart shall mingle with the clod. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Future; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN GREY DAYS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Measures of oil for others Last Line: Death, will be mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Pain; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Suffering; Misery IN HAITI: 5. HOPITAL ALBERT SCHWEITZER; DESCHAPELLES, HAITI, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pass the old beggar who sits Last Line: Of haiti under my small straw hat. Subject(s): Death; Haiti; Mothers; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness IN HARBOR, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think it over, over Last Line: The heavenly harbor at last! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN HARBOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodnight and goodbye to the life whose signs denote us Last Line: Outside? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN KERRY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the thrushes by the shore and sea Last Line: Had built this stack of thigh-bones, jaws and shins. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN MANCHESTER SQUARE (IN MEMORIAM T.H.), by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The paralytic man has dropped in death Last Line: His stature, since he died! Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Half-mast the flag by sweet st. Mary's shore Last Line: God's loveliest angel sits beside me here. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This warmish night of the thaw Last Line: And vanish into the mist Subject(s): Death; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven rest thee Last Line: Heaven keep thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Gone from the earth, forever and forever! Last Line: And trace his name upon the hearts of men. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Memory; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORIAM, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never shall forget that night Last Line: Combing out your hair. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O friend who passed away while flowers died Last Line: And hovers near when I am most alone. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gates of time swing to: our wisest head Last Line: With the eternal anywhere at home. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her gentle spirit passed with peace Last Line: The anguish of the poor. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Wilson, Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Heart of mine! The way is long Last Line: Look down and bless my heart to-night. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He laughed at life's sunset gates Last Line: To the sunrise of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM (DAVID J. RYAN, C. S. A.), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping Last Line: Flashed above my brother's tomb. Subject(s): American Civil War; Brothers; Death; U.s. - History; Half-brothers; Dead, The 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.: 14, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If one should bring me this report Last Line: I should not feel it to be strange. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Of One Dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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.: 5, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sometimes hold it half a sin Last Line: Is given in outline and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Grief Unspeakable Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 51, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do we indeed desire the dead Last Line: To make allowance for us all. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 73, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many worlds, so much to do Last Line: Of force that would have forged a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Death In Life's Prime Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 77, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hope is here for modern rhyme Last Line: To utter love more sweet than praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tribute Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 9, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair ship, that from the italian shore Last Line: More than my brothers are to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Dead, In A Foreign Land Subject(s): Death; Gays & Lesbians; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 94, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pure at heart and sound in head Last Line: And hear the household jar within. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Spiritual Communions;spiritual Companionship Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The 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 MEMORIAM W.M. & E.B.J., by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mad are we all, maids, men, young fools alike and old Last Line: At least like these to love, even though mad fools we weep. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, A.H., by MAURICE BARING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind had blown away the rain Last Line: Among the very brave, the very true. Variant Title(s): Udite, Si Dolgono Mesti Fringuelli Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Herbert, Auberon Thomas (1876-1916); Memory; Patriotism; World War I; Dead, The; Lucas, 8th Baron; Dingwall, 11th Baron; First World War IN MEMORIAM, JOHN BURROUGHS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His little friends, the birds, will miss him sore Last Line: Some meadow-lark seek out the comrade's face? Subject(s): Absence; Birds; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM, NINTH OF AB, by BEN AVROM Poem Text First Line: And all is lost! Thy valiant sons are dead Last Line: And in thy glory, make our glory rise! Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Slavery; Dead, The; Judaism; Serfs IN MEMORIAM. G. M. M., by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His letter lies before me here Last Line: O friend, whom I shall see no more! Subject(s): Death; Letters; Love; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: A.F (OB. OCT. 12, 1879), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright skies, bright sea Last Line: Has blessed our children -- it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Manx Gaelic (language); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: CHARLES ELIOT NORTON, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why comes the wandered poet back Last Line: So may you live, so be your memory fair. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Norton, Charles Eliot (1827-1908); Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: FATHER KEELER, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet christ! Let him live, ah! We need his life Last Line: Forever, forever, forever more. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: PAUL BRIDSON, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take him, o braddan, for he loved thee well Last Line: Take him, o braddan, take him! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: PRIVATE D. SUTHERLAND, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you were david's father Last Line: But I was your officer. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Fathers & Sons; Leadership; Military; Soldiers; Sons; War; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM: T.S.K, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O rare and radiant life, whose mission here Last Line: To the full sunshine of eternal love! Subject(s): Death; Good; Heaven; Life; Praise; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORIAM; TO REV. DR. B. FELSENTHAL, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far up the path that leads back nevermore Last Line: Have writ his name with the undying dead. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Memory; Dead, The IN MEMORY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the shining parapets Last Line: Your duty you did to the end. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soul; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF A CHILD-POET, L.L., by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a song the great musician made Last Line: Lo, there his barque, white on the glittering sea! Subject(s): Children; Death; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Dead, The; Songs IN MEMORY OF A. E. C., by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My world is peopled not alone Last Line: Come friends who were and friends who are. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN MEMORY OF AGOSTINO ISOLA, OF CAMBRIDGE, WHO DIED 1797, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Awake, o gratitude! Nor let the tears Last Line: "ere we shall look upon thy like again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF ANTON WEBERN, DEAD SEPTEMBER 15, 1945, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tinged leaves lie Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Webern, Anton (1883-1945); Death; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF AURELIO SAFFI, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wider world of men that is not ours Last Line: April 1890. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Optimism IN MEMORY OF BARRY CORNWALL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of death, where the singers whose names are deathless Last Line: Though the dead to our dead bid welcome, and we farewell. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Procter, Bryan Waller (1787-1874); Dead, The; Cornwall, Barry [pseud.] IN MEMORY OF JANE FRASER; AN ATTEMPTED REPARATION, by GEOFFREY HILL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When snow like sheep lay in the fold Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology IN MEMORY OF JOHN FAIRFAX, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because this man fulfilled his days Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF JOHN WILLIAM INCHBOLD, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell: how should not such as thou fare well Last Line: Bid thee, beloved in life and death, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that we're almost settled in our house Last Line: Of that late death took all my heart for speech. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Gregory, Lady Isabella (1852-1932); Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Dead, The IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 1. GWALCHAI, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the oft-renewed request Last Line: Tis only here thou sing'st no more. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF TWO FRIENDS: 2. T. LL. T., by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good friend, whose heart, whose muse refined Last Line: This votive wreath of musing song. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN MEMORY OF WILLIAM HUGHES, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was in the month of june Last Line: To my sad and sorrow-stricken heart down here. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN MID-OCEAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across this sea I sail, and do not know Last Line: The everlasting mystery to explore. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Sea Voyages; Dead, The IN MORTEM VENERABILIS ANDREAE PROUT CARMEN, by FRANCIS SYLVESTER MAHONY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet upland! Where, like hermit old, in peace sojourd'd Last Line: Not so the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Prout, Father Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Morality; Rest; Tragedy; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Ethics IN NEXT YEAR'S SUMMER TIME, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: I'm home. Yes. And safe. I should give Last Line: And I want to go back to that place! Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Friendship; Grief; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War IN PACE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, with mockery of praise Last Line: Come thou not nigh when I am lying dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN PACE, by ARTHUR REED ROPES Poem Text First Line: When you are dead some day, my dear Last Line: That will not spring again. Alternate Author Name(s): Roos, Adrian Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN RESPECTFUL MEMORY OF MR. YARKER: MENTEM MORTALIA TANGUNT, by JOHN CLOSE Poem Text First Line: And have we lost another friend? Last Line: Hark to the tolling bell! Alternate Author Name(s): Poet Close Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The IN RETROSPECT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We regret the sunsets and the flowers are ignored Last Line: For me, and I praise death, his doing too Subject(s): Regret; Death; Dead, The IN SALUTATION TO THE ETERNAL PEACE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men say the world is full of fear and hate Last Line: O intimate essence of eternity! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Peace; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life IN SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Abreast and ahead of the sea is a crag's front cloven asunder Last Line: Abreast and ahead? Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean IN SEPULCRETIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not then enough that men who give Last Line: Not shakespeare's grave would scare them off with rhymes. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness IN SICKNESS (1714), by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis true -- then why should I repine / to see my life so fast decline? Last Line: When known, will save a double sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Health; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness IN STATE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the martins or katydids? Last Line: To know that she loves me now! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love; Cadavers; Dead, The IN STATE, by BYRON FORCEYTHE WILLSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O keeper of the sacred key Last Line: All the land and sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Willson, Forceythe Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The IN THE 25TH YEAR OF MY MOTHER'S DEATH, by JUDY JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the land shifts at day's end Last Line: Exactly like a woman beyond any words Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The IN THE DEAD-LETTER OFFICE, by R. STEWART Poem Text First Line: Come, rip the mail-bags open, chaps, and sort the stuff away Last Line: "you'll maybe murmur with a sigh, ""the perth dead mail is in." Subject(s): Death; Gold Mines & Miners; Postal Service; Dead, The; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen IN THE DEATH CHAMBER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still upon the vacant wall Last Line: With our midnight reveries? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE GREAT FLUX, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two gulls, a gray and a brown, veterans both Last Line: May fold them from all food and flight forever. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Life; Sea; Dead, The; Seagulls; Ocean IN THE HILL-COUNTRY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this massy keep Last Line: Saw where his great soul slept. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Disappeared Persons; Wales; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE HOSPITAL, by MARY WOOLSEY HOWLAND Poem Text First Line: I lay me down to sleep Last Line: Lead after him. Variant Title(s): Rest;requiescam Subject(s): Death; Hospitals; Patriotism; Dead, The IN THE HOSPITAL, NEAR THE END, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly my father lifted up his nightie, I Variant Title(s): The Lifting Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Dead, The IN THE HOUR OF DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "in the hour of death, after this life's whim" Last Line: But the glory of the lord is all in all Subject(s): Death;immortality; "dead, The; IN THE LIBRARY OF POETS' RECORDINGS, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead speakers / we can hear Last Line: Can not be retrieved Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The IN THE MARSHES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We do not know in the marsh Last Line: And the waters grey with fear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Swamps; Wales; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bogs; Fens; Marshes; Welshmen; Welshwomen IN THE MEADOWS, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie in the summer meadows Last Line: But death is in the world! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fields; Life; Summer; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas IN THE MEMORY OF ANDREE REXROTH, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is a question of mutual being Last Line: It is held by a very old very endurable / meaning Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The IN THE MIDNIGHT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A splash on the dusky water Last Line: Crossing the great divide! Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The IN THE NIGHT, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are spirit presences Last Line: And sense the mist rising. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism IN THE NIGHT, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, when I sit and write Last Line: May hear, if he lists aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime IN THE NIGHT THE SOUND WOKE US, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Death; Dead, The IN THE OLD STONE AGE: SPREADING THE ALARM, by JACK MELONE Poem Text First Line: Distracted, he would flee to spread Last Line: Among the tribes of vale and hill! Subject(s): Death; Murder; Wilderness; Dead, The IN THE RANKS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His death-blow struck him there in the ranks Last Line: Dead -- would you know? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE ROOM, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun was down, and twilight grey Last Line: Of births and deaths and bridal nights. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Beds; Death; Life; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 10, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last autumn we were four, and travelled far Last Line: Without apparent reason more or less. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 17, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O god, it is a terrible thing to die Last Line: Some revelation of the apocalypse! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 18, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wise in his day that heathen emperor Last Line: A sweet removal, on my mother's breast. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 19, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: October's gold is dim, - the forests rot Last Line: Corruption. Drop, stark night, upon my death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 2, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whom the gods love die young.' the thought is old Last Line: Hymn, o ye mourners! Hail immortal youth auroral! Variant Title(s): I Die, Being Young Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 2, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If it must be; if it must be, o god! Last Line: The law of life in patience till the day. Variant Title(s): I Die, Being Young Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: 29, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And thus proceeds the mode of human life Last Line: In the dread bosom of the infinity? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IN THE SHADOWS: MY EPITAPH, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Below lies one whose name was traced in sand Last Line: In eden every flower is blown: amen. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise IN THE STONE JUG, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old days are gone Last Line: Too shall come in with me out of the rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Sin; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The IN THE TWILIGHT, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not bed-time yet! The night-winds blow Last Line: Good-night! And not good-by! Variant Title(s): Before The Curfew Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The IN TIME OF FAMINE, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has no heart,' they said, and turned away Last Line: "to hear her brave sad laughter in the air." Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Famine; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares 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 IN TRINITY CHURCHYARD AT SUNSET, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR. Poem Text First Line: How still they sleep within the city moil Last Line: Have known so long god's gift of peace, most blest! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Trinity Churchyard (new York); Dead, The INCIDENT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid-october, massachusetts. We drive Subject(s): Lobsters; Death; Food & Eating; Dead, The INDESTRUCTIBLE, by HENRY STANLEY HASKINS Poem Text First Line: Is that you, death? Hello, old skate! Last Line: Whatever you do, you've come too late! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The INDIAN GIVER, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life, you have taken all you ever gave me Last Line: You cannot take away your gift of death! Subject(s): Death; Life; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIANS, by NANETTE NICHOLS COBB Poem Text First Line: Hear the beating of the tom - tom Last Line: Death does not restrict their bounds. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIFFERENCE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me! Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INFERENTIAL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although I saw before me there the face Last Line: "the rest of us were not so far ahead." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The INGRATITUDE, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bearing walt whitman in mind Last Line: "not at home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The INNOCENCE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year Last Line: White rose must die all in the youth and beauty of the year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Innocence; Roses; Dead, The INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid myself down as a woman Subject(s): War; Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two neighbours talk the other night Last Line: As when in health to drive it there by art? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Health; Sickness; Small Pox; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Illness INSCRIPTION FOR A CITY'S GATE OF WARRIORS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fear not the shadow! Open, lofty gate Last Line: Stains of clear blood from sandals steeped in red. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Kisses; Lips; War; Urban Life; Dead, The INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVESTONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not dead, I have only become inhuman Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT AT TAUNTON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They perish'd here whom jefferies doom'd to death Last Line: La hogue, the purple ocean dash'd the dead! Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Innocence; Jeffries, Richard (1848-1887); Persecution; Revolutions; Dead, The INSCRIPTION ON MELROSE ABBEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The earth goes on the earth glittering in gold Last Line: The earth says to the earth - all this is ours Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; INSCRIPTION ON MONUMENT OF DOROTHY, LADY HUBERT AT LANGLEY, by ANNE KING Poem Text First Line: Reader upon this field of marble see Last Line: Being both the dead's, and living's monument. Subject(s): Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The 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 INSCRIPTIONS: 4, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O youths and virgins: o declining eld Last Line: "which his own genius only could acquire." Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Monuments; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists INSIDE MY HEAD, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my head a common room, Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The INSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A small boy in shock with a blue popsicle Last Line: Where the foot is first firmly planted... Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness INSTEAD, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is a good word Subject(s): Death; Dead, The INSTEAD OF TEARS (IN MEMORIAM OF H.M.S. COSSACK), SELECTION, by MARIE CARMICHAEL STOPES Poem Text First Line: Our grief for you, poignant and personal Last Line: You stepped through matter, sweep our spirits on! Subject(s): Death; Warships; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War INSTRUCTIONS TO A MEDIUM, TO BE TRANSMITTED TO THE SHADE OF W.B. YEATS, by DANIEL GERARD HOFFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were wrong about the way it happens Subject(s): Death; Mediums; Poetry & Poets; Supernatural; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Spiritualists INTERIM, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jewel the sword and grave the shield Last Line: Having learned life's shibboleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Death; Swords; Trumpets; Dead, The INTERVIEW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do you believe that actors are dumb? Writers? Last Line: Are there things you would say to one sex but not to the other? Subject(s): Death; Ignorance; Privacy; Torture; Dead, The; Dullness; Stupdity INTO DEATH BRAVELY, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Winter/throws his great white shield Subject(s): Winter; Death; Dead, The INTO THE SILENCE (A DEATH IN THE WEST HIGHLANDS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ungather'd lie the peats upon the moss Last Line: "he lies, and waits the lord in darkness grim." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Silence; Dead, The; Ocean INTO THE SUNSET, by SAMUEL HALL YOUNG Poem Text First Line: Let me die, working Last Line: Let me die, laughing! Alternate Author Name(s): Young, S. Hall Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology INVINCIBLE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O fate, betwixt the grinding-stones of pain Last Line: Save bitter buds of doom. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery INVISIBLE IN THE TORN OUT INTERIORS, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man looked at us across his little dish Subject(s): Homecoming; Death; Dead, The INVOCATION, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirits! Intelligences! Passions! Dreams! Last Line: Who would not give his life for such a death? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Muses; Praise; Dead, The; Nightmares INVOCATION AND INTERRUPTION [IN MEMORIAM TED HUGHES], by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gigantic iron hawk Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life INVOCATION OF THE DAWN, by KALIDASA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look to this day! Last Line: Look well, therefore, to this day! Variant Title(s): Salutation To The Dawn Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life Change Events; Sunrise; Dead, The INVOKES DEATH, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, terror of the wise, and valiant, come Last Line: This favour owe I to my monument. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The IOTIS DYING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two hours before the dawning Last Line: "and sheep-bells gaily jingling, as the white flock moves along" Subject(s): Death;enemies;stars; "dead, The; IRIS, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a train inside this iris Subject(s): Iris (flower); Death; Dead, The IS HE DEAD?, by FRANCIS CARCO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is he living, is he dead? Last Line: Whom the wind sped? Subject(s): Death; Life; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking ISAAC M. WISE, by WALTER HURT Poem Text First Line: He came into the camp of creed Last Line: To lay upon his hallowed tomb. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Honor; Jews; Memory; Wise, Isaac Mayer (1819-1900); Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Judaism ISIDORA (SEE MATURIN'S 'MELMOTH'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, whom I have loved too well Last Line: Paradise, will he be there? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise ISLA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Isla, isla, heart of my heart, it is you alone I am loving Last Line: And I to my kingdom come, my king, my mouth to thy mouth! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Absence; Death; Desire; Kisses; Love; Reunions; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The IT CAN NOT BE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be that this poor life shall end us! Last Line: Because god lives! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IT'S GOT TO BE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When it's got to be,' - like I always say Last Line: "as I say ""good-by! -- good-by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Dead, The J.D.R., by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friends that are, and friends that were Last Line: He loved me -- and is gone! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Russell, James Dutton; Schoolmates; Dead, The JACK AND JOAN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Interred beneath this marble stone Last Line: And so they lived; and so they died. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Children; Death; Epitaphs; Fear; Life; Love; Childhood; Dead, The JACK ROSE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With crafty brooding life turned to jack rose Subject(s): Drugs & Drug Use; Hate; Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency JACOB, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sons, and ye the children of my sons Last Line: Yet is my heart therewith not satisfied. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Jacob (bible); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The JAKE DAUBERT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: No finer player ever flashed the spikes Last Line: And waved him outward through the unknown gate! Subject(s): Athletes; Baseball; Daubert, Jake (1884-1924); Death; Sports; Dead, The JAKE MANN, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sending here jake mann's obituary Subject(s): Death; Alcohol And Alcoholics; Law & Lawyers; Dead, The; Attorneys JANE REED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could forget,' she said, 'forget, and begin again' Last Line: "and she sadly said, at last, ""but what will become of john?" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Dead, The JANET WAKING, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beautifully janet slept Subject(s): Death; Hens; Dead, The JANIE THOMAS, by JILL SPARGUR Poem Text First Line: Janie thomas always shared Last Line: And show us her harp and her wings. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Kindness; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise JASON LEE, by WILLIAM STEWARD GORDON Poem Text First Line: A cry from the gloom of the western wilds! Last Line: The stalwart jason lee. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Pioneers; Trail Of Tears (1838-39); West (u.s.); Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Native Americans - Removal; Southwest; Pacific States JASON WITH ME AT THE ZOO, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JASPER, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jasper saw a silver crescent declining Last Line: "let the songs I knew speed warm to your utterance." Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials JEAN DESPREZ, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, ye whose hearts are resonant, and ring to war's romance Last Line: Then jean desprez reached out and shot . . . The prussian major dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War JENNIE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You have sent me from her tomb Last Line: "and my love exceedeth thine!" Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The JEUNE FILLE ET JEUNE FLEUR, by FRANCOIS AUGUSTE RENE DE CHATEAUBRIAND Poem Text First Line: The bier descends, the spotless roses too Last Line: O fair young girl and flower! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JFK FOR A DAY: THE TOUR, by VIRGIL SUAREZ Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For $25 bucks, you can sit in the back Subject(s): Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Memory; Dead, The JIM, by GEORGE VERE HOBART Poem Text First Line: I hear the drum roll, rub-a-dub, dub Last Line: If jim — poor jim — marched, too! Subject(s): Courage; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War Bonds; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness JIM CAREW, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Born of a thoroughbred english race Last Line: I am, or -- no, I was -- jim carew.' Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness JIM DALLEY, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So you knew dalley that used to drive Last Line: Dalley lay over the levers dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Labor & Laborers; Railroads; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Railways; Trains JIM'S KIDS, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jim was a fisherman, up on the hill Last Line: And so he died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JIM'S WHIP, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, there it hangs upon the wall Last Line: And thinking of me still. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Whips; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives JIM'S WHISTLE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, the railway wasn't a fitting place Last Line: Were with me, and I were talking to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Deafness; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains JINNY THE JUST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Released from the noise of the butcher and baker Last Line: And make thy concern by reflection his own. Subject(s): Death; Virtue; Dead, The JOAN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Joan, when the twilight shadows fall Last Line: And your dear eyes shall be my guiding star. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes." Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My darling's silent pet Last Line: She never envies him. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead? This peerless man of men Last Line: Loosed in endless liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness JOHN BROWN'S BODY: THE DEATH OF STONEWALL JACKSON, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slow time wore. They had to tell him at last Last Line: “let us cross the river,” he said, “and rest under the shade of the trees” Subject(s): Death; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); Dead, The JOHN CLARE, by TALVIKKI ANSEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spondee; name Subject(s): Clare, John (1793-1864); Death; Life; Love; Dead, The JOHN CLARK RIDPATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To the lorn ones who loved him Last Line: We met him smiling, we shall meet again. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; Tears; Dead, The JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All generous hearts lament the leader killed Last Line: The promise of his spirit be fulfilled. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Assassination; Dallas, Texas; Death; Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (1917-1963); Lament; Presidents, United States; Dead, The JOHN JONES: 1. AT THE PIANO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love me and leave me; what love bids retrieve me? Can june's first grasp may? Last Line: Love me and save me, take me or waive me; death takes one so soon! Subject(s): Death; Love; Time; Dead, The JOHN L. HAS GONE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: The years fly swiftly, and we know the dawn Last Line: Of graying age—for sullivan has gone! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Sullivan, John L. (1858-1918); Dead, The; Boston Strong Boy JOHN MAYNARD, by HORATIO ALGER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on lake erie's broad expanse Last Line: A nobler funeral pyre! Subject(s): Ships & Shipping; Heroism; Death; Fires; Heroes; Heroines; Dead, The JOHN OF BELGRADE, by LEONARD DOUGHTY Poem Text First Line: Out of the rout of the gay bon-ton Last Line: Be at rest: I shall always love you, john. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JOHN OF TOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John of tours is back with peace Last Line: "aye, and still you have room to spare, / for you must shut the baby there" Subject(s): Death;graves;love - Marital;peace; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;wedded Love;marriage - Love; JOHN SEVERIN WALGREN, 1874-1962, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trees die of thirst or cold Last Line: She moves us to terror. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Aging; Death; Epitaphs; Loss; Nature; Dead, The JOHN WALSH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A strange life - strangely passed! Last Line: " 'tis but the dross he throws away." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness JONES'S SELECTION, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You hear a lot of new-chum talk Last Line: The land don't get on yous. Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert Subject(s): Death; Environment; Punishment; Dead, The; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation JOSEF ISRAELS, by ELIAS LIEBERMAN Poem Text First Line: When the fisher-folk of the netherland coast Last Line: Who count the leaden years. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jews; Solitude; Dead, The; Anglers; Judaism; Loneliness JOSEPH'S LAMENT, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boy, my boy, and art thou dead? Last Line: My murdered boy! ... Woe, woe is me! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Murder; Trees; Dead, The JOSH BILLINGS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jolly-hearted old josh billings Last Line: That he answers not again? Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Nature; Wisdom; Childhood; Dead, The JOURNEY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I have walked so far with you Last Line: I wander still. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JOURNEY TO THE PLACE OF THE GHOSTS, by JAY WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death knocks all night at my door. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Mythology; Dead, The JOURNEY'S END, by MADELINE YEAGER Poem Text First Line: When I am dead / see that folks omit Last Line: With beauty I shall walk. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Roses; Dead, The; Burials JOURNEYMEN, by LOUISE TOWNSEND NICHOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love is a reaper, too, like death Last Line: And in whose hire? Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The JOY MAY KILL, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Too much good luck no less than misery Last Line: (john addington symonds) Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The JULY 9TH, 1872, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between two pillared clouds of gold Last Line: For a face they loved has passed away. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The JUNE TWENTY, THREE DAYS AFTER, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a boy and a man would die Subject(s): Death; Hell; Dead, The KALI THE MOTHER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All voices: o terrible and tender and divine! Last Line: Kali! Maheshwari! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The KATHE KOLLWITZ, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Held between wars Subject(s): Women; Germany; Wars; Death; Children; Art & Artists; Germans; Dead, The; Childhood KAYAKING AT NIGHT ON TOMALES BAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kayak on the black water Last Line: Thousand years to arrive. Subject(s): Death; Kayaks; Dead, The KAZOO, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas Last Line: Sleep in love, naughty tuner of cicadas! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KEEP IT DARK, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Lest you deem these lines belated Last Line: Just to alter things and keep it to ourselves. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise KEEPSAKE, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her dress of tulle was patterned with pale roses Last Line: And it was like a song that wanes away. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness KILLED IN ACTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father lived his three-score years, my son Last Line: Who shall declare which gift conveyed the greater heritage? Subject(s): Death; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KIN, by MICHAEL S. HARPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When news cane that yiour mother'd Last Line: As your own birthmark of his scream Subject(s): Family Life; Death – Mothers; Relatives; Dead, The KINCHINJUNGA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O white priest of eternity, around Last Line: On any shrine is left to tell life's sting. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Future Life; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Hills; Downs (great Britain) KINDLY DEATH, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death touched her, not decay Last Line: And closed her eyes a while. Subject(s): Death; Love; Relationships; Rest; Silence; Dead, The KING DEATH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King death has a high and lonely seat Last Line: Than the tyrant king with his skeleton arm. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KING DEATH, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King death was a rare old fellow Last Line: Hurrah for the coal-black wine! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KING'S BRIDGE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dew falls fast and the night is dark Last Line: And so doth death! Subject(s): Bridges; Death; Dead, The KINSHIP, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In summer time, with high imaginings Last Line: Oh would we not have paradise to-day? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The KINSMAN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where ceaseless spring her garland twines Last Line: And god's dear love be over all! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KISS AND BLOW, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: He takes that woman with his kiss Last Line: How kind and cruel, how clever is death! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KISSES AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mistress, kiss me, clasp me, hold me close! Last Line: Life's day -- so brief, alas! -- excels the night. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Lips; Love; Dead, The KITCHENER, K. G., by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: My lord, congratulations on the gain Last Line: And all good wishes from a humble scribe. Subject(s): Death; Kitchener, Horatio, 1st Earl (1850-1916); Memory; Prayer; Dead, The KNIGHTS-ERRANT, by MARY CATHERINE (20TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: Death is no foeman, we were born together Last Line: Love, thou wilt break my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): M., S. M. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The KNOWLEDGE, by THOMAS CURTIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: They list for me the things I can not know Last Line: What death shall mean, some sunny morn shall see. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Knowledge; Life; Dead, The; Belief; Creed KNOWLEDGE AFTER DEATH, by HENRY CHARLES BEECHING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is death so bitter? Can it shut us fast Last Line: And we being they are still ourselves made whole. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The KOSMOS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Life; Death; God; Truth; Dead, The KRISTIN'S SONG, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor, my dear Subject(s): Disappointment; Death; Dead, The L'ENVOI-TO MY PICK AND SHOVEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the last, long shift will be laboured, and the Last Line: When the last long shift will be laboured and the lying time will be burst. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Shovels; Dead, The; Work; Workers LA FETE DES MORTS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace to the dead; though the skies are chill Last Line: But pardon the dreamers in the dust! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The LA FEUILLE, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: Out of autumn you came Last Line: A dead leaf on the floor. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LA MORT D'AMOUR, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When was it that love died? We were so fond Last Line: That those who would keep love must dwell apart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Love; Arthur, King; Dead, The LA MORT D'ARTHUR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly, as one who bears a mortal hurt Last Line: The magic stamp of mechi's silver steel. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Arthur, King; Dead, The LA PUCELLE DE VERCHERES, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Name of heaven! 'no woman, 'you say, 'may be Last Line: But to test our own was madeleine's soul lent us from heaven an hour. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Religion; United States - Colonial Period; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Theology LA SAISIAZ, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dared and done: at last I stand upon the summit dear and true Last Line: Memory evoked from slumber! Least part this: then what the whole? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 LACE SHROUD, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I promise that in death Last Line: The map of my white trip. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LADY ALICE WAS SITTING IN HER BOWER-WINDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Subject(s): Death;love - Loss Of;man-woman Relationships; "dead, The;male-female Relations; LADY HAMILTON, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Round sizergh's antique, massy walls Last Line: In solemn dirges o'er her tomb. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Hamilton, Lady Emma (1765-1815); Supernatural; Youth; Dead, The LADY ISABELLA (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady isabella, / thou art gone away Last Line: We too may pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Tears; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise LAMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How she would have loved Last Line: In her yew-arched bed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAMENT, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: O yesterday her hands were white Last Line: The music of her voice is gone. Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The LAMENT, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sting of bees took away my father Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The LAMENT DROLATIQUE, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Death overtook her Last Line: Than ever. ... Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The LAMENT FOR GLASGERION, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovely body of the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Solitude; Aging; Dead, The; Loneliness 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 LARABELLE: CANTO SECOND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smiling peace, revolving years had told Last Line: Is our young hero -- worthy johny green. Subject(s): Death; Nations; Peace; War; Dead, The LARABELLE; CANTO THIRD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blow that lays the soldier on the plain Last Line: No trace is found of worthy johny green. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 1, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On curtained eyes, and bosoms warm with rest Last Line: Not shameful straw-death of the sick and old. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 2., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lars lived, because the life within his frame Last Line: The same sweet words; and so the twain were one. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The LARS; A PASTORAL OF NORWAY: BOOK 3., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love's history, as life's, is ended not Last Line: Break up the night, and make it beautiful. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Norway; Dead, The LAST DAYS , by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was reasonable / to expect. So he wrote. The next day Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST GIFT, by FREDRICA KAY Poem Text First Line: They have laid me here on this windy hill Last Line: Thru the long grass overhead. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LAST LINES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look out I see the fair Last Line: Their supple thighs towards the sleek ocean. Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Self; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness LAST LINES OF THOMAS INGOLDSBY, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I laye a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge, a-thynkynge Last Line: Here is rest!' Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST PARADE, by NORA E. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: Boatman, look to your oars Last Line: All has been done, and said. Subject(s): Death; Parades; Dead, The LAST POEM, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They have put my bed beside the unpainted screen Last Line: I lie back on my pillows and sleep with my face to the south. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dead, The LAST PRELUDE, by SARA TEASDALE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this shall be the last time Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST REVELATION, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Within this strange tenebrous shell Last Line: And deep-sequestered soul of him. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The LAST RITES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10 Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials LAST THINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no one to do it for me Last Line: And know contentment too! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting LAST VERSES, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, bristolia's dingy piles of brick Last Line: And this last act of wretchedness forgive. Subject(s): Bristol, England; Death; Dead, The LAST VERSES, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I beneath the cold red earth am sleeping Last Line: Sad one, depart! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Variant Title(s): Lines Given To A Friend Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST WEEK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the new - chum went to the backblock run Last Line: I drank it all up last week! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The LAST WORDS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I, living, drew thee from the vale" Last Line: Alone the hill of calvary Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; LAST WORDS, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAST WORDS OF A SEVENTH-RATE POET, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bill, I feel far from quite right -- if not further: already the pill Last Line: Jam satis. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self-criticism; Dead, The LATE SPRING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE; FOR CLARE ROSSINI, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fish hit water nymphs, breaking surface Last Line: That our deaths will not be the last. Subject(s): Antinuclear Movement; Death; Nuclear War; Survival; Nuclear Freeze; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb LATE VISIT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: The words were lost and then the voices failed Last Line: And grateful draw the sod about the shoulder. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Spiritual Life; Supernatural; Dead, The LATIMER AND RIDLEY, BURNED AT THE STAKE IN OXFORD, 1555, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis good to sing of champions old Last Line: The word of god, be ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Freedom; Heresy; Religious Discrimination; Singing & Singers; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Liberty; Heretics; Religious Conflict; Songs LAUGHTER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wrought of joy and innocence Last Line: "his ""oil of gladness"" flows." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAURA; IN MEMORIAM, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hateful death!' my angry spirit cries Last Line: "it cannot, sure, be very hard to die." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAUREATE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death met a little child who cried Last Line: No foolish tear be spilled upon it! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LAUS VENERIS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep or waking is it? For her neck Last Line: Explicit laus veneris. Subject(s): Death; God; Kisses; Love - Nature Of; Dead, The LAVENDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How prone we are to hide and hoard Last Line: Roll down our cheeks as we behold / our faded lavender Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; LAWRENCE AND LUDLOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Relics of the fallen brave! Last Line: "noble is the hero's name, / glory claims it as her own!" Subject(s): "death;heroism;lawrence, James (1781-1813);memory;soldiers;trinity Churchyard (new York);" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; LAZARUS, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: He may stumble stiffly -- being obviously dead -- Last Line: To pierce whatever coffins he may wear. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Lazarus; Worms; Dead, The LE ROI EST MORT. VIVE LE ROI!, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why wait for arthur? He too long has slept Last Line: "who shouts, ""the king is dead. Long live the king!" Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Arthur, King; Dead, The LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind. Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The LEAVES IN THE YARD, by JOHN DANIEL PARSON Poem Text First Line: Go gather leaves and heap them into / pyres! Last Line: Buried, like leaves, in leaves of wilderness. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Nature; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The LEAVES, SHADOWS, AND DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen all things pass and all men go Last Line: Grey shadows in the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gray (color); Green (color); Leaves; Shadows; Dead, The; Nightmares; Grey (color) LEE FORE BRACE, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was ten men hauling on the lee fore brace Last Line: That night in the wild horn sea! Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The LEE O. HARRIS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O say not he is dead Last Line: And say: he lives, we know. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Love; Patriotism; Dead, The LEFT IN LIFE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have thee know the tears I weep Last Line: That thou shalt never know. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The LEGAL MURDER, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away with legal murder! Must the man Last Line: This legal murder — crime of crimes to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Justice; Murder; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 1. THE MAGIC GLASS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas fair and bright the first of may Last Line: When fate shall weave thy destiny. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 10. NORTHERN CHIEF, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Cold winter laid him down to rest Last Line: "I'll even say farewell to-night." Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 16. THE MAIDEN'S PRAYER, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: It was a beauteous, heavenly night Last Line: When walter draws to win lenare. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 17. THE RESCUE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: At midnight's holy hour - a time Last Line: They thought on their unburied dead. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 18. THE NUPTIALS, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twelve hours passed -- the grave had closed Last Line: But wind as one through time forever. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 2. THE PICKET, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Twas night; on old potomac's shore Last Line: And then resumed his weary pace. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 3. THE BATTLE, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: The cannon's roar booms on the air Last Line: But deeper still in darkness go. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENARE: A STORY OF THE SOUTHERN REVOLUTION: 5. RECOGNITION - APPEAL, by MARY HUNT MCCALEB ODOM Poem Text First Line: Whiling the summer hours away Last Line: But strength is given as we need. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Love; Plays & Playwrights; U.s. - History; Women; Confederacy; Dead, The LENTEN FLOWERS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Primrose, anemone, bluebell, moss Last Line: All must die that enter here! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Trees; Dead, The LEO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I made a journey o'er the sea Last Line: That we shall meet again? Subject(s): Death; Past; Sea; Silence; Travel; Dead, The; Ocean; Journeys; Trips LEOPOLD OF BELGIUM, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Khalifs and khans have we beheld, who trod Last Line: Trumpet his name, and flood his deeds with day. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Earth; Time; Dead, The; World LEOPOLD ZUNZ, by J. F. Poem Text First Line: To thee o'er whose fresh-closed tomb Last Line: Nor soon nor yet will bid a last farewell. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism LES CASQUETS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the depth of the waters that lighten and darken Last Line: The love of the heart of the sea. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LES MORTS VONT VITE, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Les morts vont vite! Ay, for a little space Last Line: Les morts vont vite! Subject(s): Death; Illness; Dead, The LES NOYADES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever a man of the sons of men Last Line: To burn for ever in burning hell Subject(s): Death; France; Judgments; Love; Dead, The LEST WE FORGET, by LOIS M. EISH Poem Text First Line: When death shall curtain them about Last Line: There's no forgiveness after death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Forgiveness; Funerals; Dead, The; Clemency; Burials LET ME GO DOWN TO DUST, by LEW SARETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me go down to dust and dreams Last Line: Gives its worn body back to earth again. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dust; Night; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime LET THEM GO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams Last Line: Let the love die! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Night; Vision; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime 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 LETTER TO THE FRONT: 2, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even during war, moments of delicate peace Subject(s): War; Death; Dead, The LETTER WITH NO ADDRESS, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Your daffodils rose up Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LETTERS FOR THE DEAD, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The air darkened toward morning Subject(s): Family Life; Travel; Death; Conduct Of Life; Relatives; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 1; TO D.G., by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This matted and glossy photo of yesenin Last Line: Years before the articulate noose. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Memory; Russia; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians LETTERS TO YESENIN: 23, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to bother you with some recent nonsense; a classmate dropped Last Line: Ropes. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Poetry & Poets; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 25, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An afterthought to my previous note; we must closely watch any self-pity Last Line: Those others. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Memory; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 27, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I won my wings! I got all a's! We bought fresh fruit! The toilet Last Line: Before those final minutes you didn't find out something new. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 29, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're nearing the end of this homage that often resembles a Last Line: Single green month to go from the closest to so far from death. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 30, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last and I'm shrinking from the coldness of your spirit: that Last Line: With faithfully until they cast you out. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Imaginary Conversations; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LETTERS TO YESENIN: 7, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death thou comest when I had thee least in mind said everyman Last Line: Who turns out to be a mermaid. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Vision; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The LEVIATHAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leviathanic natures, / huge-browed, vast-spined Last Line: Of time and night. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Skulls; Dead, The; Ocean LIE STILL, SLEEP BECALMED, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound Subject(s): Sea; Death; Conduct Of Life; Ocean; Dead, The LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Oh! Let the soul its slumber break Last Line: "alas! Before it bids us wake, / ye disappear!" Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIFE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! I know not what thou art Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The LIFE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Alas poor life, no more will I Last Line: From this intestine warre, & I shall live. Subject(s): Beauty; Contrariness; Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a thronged throughfare that wound afar Last Line: Footsore, at nightfall limping to death's door. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes LIFE, by EMILY OREDSON Poem Text First Line: Eternal strife is on Last Line: Finds a sublimer goal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are born; we laugh; we weep Last Line: "endure and -- die?" Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LIFE, by BRUCE HOLLAND ROGERS Poem Text First Line: They found him asleep in the oaken shade Last Line: What mother's child had come home to rest. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What is the life of man? Last Line: A spirit's joy which death can never kill Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rented once a house of clay Last Line: For it was christened death, by time. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: If death should come with his cold hasty kiss Last Line: That it shall be as wonderful as life. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by ERNEST HOWARD CROSBY Poem Text First Line: So he died for his faith. That is fine Last Line: Never mind how he died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Death preys on life Last Line: That we might live. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by RICHARD WATSON GILDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What, then, is life, - what death? Last Line: Death but the pause between. Subject(s): Death; Life; Music & Musicians; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We come into the noisy world Last Line: The distant purposes of god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ports of death are sins; of life, good deeds Last Line: For good men but see death, the wicked taste it. Variant Title(s): Of Life And Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid of death?-a quiet sleep Last Line: And shall be blest. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Pity; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is life, father? Last Line: "and god is over all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by MILTON SAWYER ROSE Poem Text First Line: Life has been unkind Last Line: Created by the futility of death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH: 1, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O solemn portal, veiled in mist and cloud Last Line: That must be somehow best that comes to all. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Or endless sleep 'twill be, - and that is rest Last Line: Into the unknown, air on golden wing. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Future Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 3, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death be final, what is life, with all Last Line: A few more inches to a coral-reef. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND DEATH: 4, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If at one door stands life to cheat our trust Last Line: Of thunder falls. There is no life beyond? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LIFE AND DEATH: 8, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for a rapture unalloyed I ask Last Line: To aid the larger life that may survive. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE AND HOPE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poet, seer, philosopher, or friend Last Line: Far off events beyond the gates of death. Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Optimism LIFE AND I, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life and I are lovers, straying Last Line: And plight troth with death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Flowers; Life; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed LIFE IN DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He should have followed who goes forth before us Last Line: August 2, 1891. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE IN DEATH AND DEATH IN LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the dread day that calls thee hence Last Line: Crowns it eternal and divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The 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 OR DEATH, by EDMUND BOLTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doth life survive the touch of death? Last Line: And doubt before the light shall fly. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIFE OUT OF DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I've said all I would, mother Last Line: "heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LIFE PASSES ON, by MARIANNE CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Why bind me now - 'I am that which I am' Last Line: Through shining open gateways we embark. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LIFE RECONCILING TO DEATH, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When first with morning step we roam Last Line: Or pulse's beat. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The LIFE [AND DEATH], by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life! I know not what thou art Last Line: Bid me good morning. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology LIFE'S FALLACY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: All seeming hollow, all thy joys are naught! Last Line: With griefs thou weavest alone in heart. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sickness; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness LIFE'S ROSES, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you are very old, by the hearth's glare Last Line: And pluck life's roses, oh! To-day, to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Praise; Roses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The 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 LIGHT [AND LOVE], by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night has a thousand eyes / and the day but one Last Line: When its love is done. Variant Title(s): Night;the Night Has A Thousand Eyes Subject(s): Death; Love; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence LIKE A CHILD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Playing there in the sun, chasing the butterflies Last Line: Like a child. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The LILIES, by EDNA DE LYNN Poem Text First Line: White lily, lovely flower! Last Line: One a banner of life! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Lilies; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs LIMBO, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The preacher waited. So here Subject(s): Abortions; Death; Christianity; Dead, The LINES, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I die but when the grave shall press Last Line: Where blissful ages never die Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cold earth slept below Last Line: Might visit thee at will. Subject(s): Death; Shelley, Harriet Westbrook; Dead, The LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin Last Line: The grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LINES COMPOSED FOR A MEMORIAL OF ASHLEY COWPER, ESQ, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Endued will that could engage Last Line: Love shall be satisfied, and veil the rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES FOR AN INTERMENT, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is fifteen years you have lain in the meadow Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; War; Dead, The LINES FROM CATULLUS, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun may set and rise Last Line: One everlasting night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Variant Title(s): The History Of The World: Translation Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES IN A SOVIET GARDEN, by WEET DICKINSON Poem Text First Line: Sun on the land, where perfumes call Last Line: God, what a day to be quite dead in! Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Dead, The LINES IN PRAISE OF PROFESSOR BLACKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people's hearts are now full of sorrow Last Line: Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Honor; Memory; Praise; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials LINES ON A DEAD GIRL, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close the dim eyes, for expression hath left them Last Line: Saying, 'amen' to her summons to rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES ON A FRIEND WHO DIED OF A FRENZY FEVER ... CALUMINOUS REPORTS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edmund! Thy grave with aching eye I scan Last Line: And fain would sleep, though pillowed on a clod! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES ON MOISHE NADIR-REDIVIVUS, by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halleluja! / I sing to you my beloved friend Last Line: Halleluja! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Memory; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF CHARLES LAMB, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, and once only, have I seen thy face Last Line: I'd spring to earlier at the gate of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Lamb, Charles (1775-1834); Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD JOHN TRELAWNY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last high star of the years whose thunder Last Line: Shelley, trelawny rejoins thee here Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF M.S.C., by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that we must part -- day after day Last Line: With thee rise up and bless the morning light. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF MOISHE NADIR (COMPOSED BY HIS VERY SELF), by MOISHE NADIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the memory of moishe nadir Last Line: A wreath of verse. ... Subject(s): Death; Memory; Self; Dead, The LINES ON THE DEATH OF MY MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother! O my mother! When thy spirit heavenward fled Last Line: Oh joy, we soon shall meet! Till then, my mother, fare thee well! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Dead, The LINES SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF MR. JOHN WHITELAW, DIED DECEMBER 3, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once dear companion of my early youth Last Line: Peace to thy ashes, peace; dear friend, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise LINES TO A LADY, by DJUNA BARNES Poem Text First Line: Lay her under the rusty grass Last Line: Within the grain. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LINES TO AN ONSETTLED YOUNG MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O what is life at last,' says Last Line: Hit's jes' the thing yer lookin' fer! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LINES UNDER A SUN-DIAL IN THE CHURCH-YARD AT THORNEY, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mark well my shade, and seriously attend Last Line: And know, each fleeting hour may be thy last. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The LINES UPON THE DEATH OF CHARLEY DU BIGNON, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years of manhood had not tinged Last Line: The laurel wreath of fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN BY A DEATH-BED, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, now the longing is o'erpast Last Line: But 'tis not what our youth desires. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LINES WRITTEN IN A BOWER, by MARY LEADBEATER Poem Text First Line: Dear, lovely bow'r, to-morrow morn Last Line: Though leaving earth for heav'n. Alternate Author Name(s): Shackleton, Mary Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting LINNA, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The church was heavy with the deep sweet scent of / roses Last Line: Amen. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Household Employees; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids LIPPO, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now we must part, my lippo. Even so Last Line: And cast it down. -- thou art as other men. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Hearts; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LISTENING, by MATA TRUE Poem Text First Line: My ear was tuned to listen for your step Last Line: Of this drear, aching void where lay my heart. Subject(s): Death; Night; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Bedtime LITTLE ELEGY, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Withouten you Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The LITTLE JUDE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Po' little jude, why doan' yo' know Last Line: Fo'get dat day. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Infants; Dead, The LITTLE MARJORIE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is little marjorie?' Last Line: "where is little marjorie?" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Death; Robins; Dead, The LITTLE NORA, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far off upon a western shore Last Line: Sweet words to make them glad? Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Childhood; Dead, The LITTLEWIT AND LOFTUS, by PAMELIA VINING YULE Poem Text First Line: John littlewit, friends, was a credulous man Last Line: And I'm wise although knowing no more! Subject(s): Death; Faith; God; Good; Humility; Men; Science; Wisdom; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Scientists LIVING, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: We can only live once; and death's terrors Last Line: We shall live in the hearts of our friends Subject(s): Death;life; "dead, The; LIVING, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How passionately I will my life away Last Line: To hurl myself into the changeless grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The LIVING AMONG THE DEAD, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: First there were those who died Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The LOCATIONS, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the end you are tired of those places Last Line: Beyond, a green continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Desire; Love; Memory; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips LOFTY LANE, by EDWIN GERARD Poem Text First Line: Buckle the spur and belt again Last Line: Before you halt at the lines again! Alternate Author Name(s): Gerardy Subject(s): Death; Grief; Scouting & Scouts; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LONELINESS (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walk beside a lonely lake Last Line: Thou comest now no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness LONG JIM, by R. HOLT Poem Text First Line: We'd made a lively start away when 'mulga' had cut-out Last Line: "it's time, I think,"" said mayne, ""for us to clear." Alternate Author Name(s): 6 X 8 Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Death; Escapes; Fights; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The; Fugitives LONGFELLOW, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across the sea the swift sad message darts Last Line: Of aspiration human and divine. Subject(s): Death; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Poetry & Poets; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean LONGFELLOW (2), by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentlest kinsman of humanity Last Line: Of common human need of kindliness. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882); Love; Dead, The LONGINGS (BURNS MODEL LODGING-HOUSE), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is clatter on the pavement, there is hurry / in the street Last Line: My father's homely cottage in kilcar. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Fire; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise LOOKING DEATH IN THE FACE, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, in thy face, old fellow! Now's the time Last Line: Help me to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LORD ROBERTS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nestor of happy warriors, blest was he Last Line: Shall come hereafter for comparison. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Roberts, Frederick Sleigh (1832-1914); Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Paradise; Dictators LORD TENNYSON, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER Poem Text First Line: Immortal bard, whose voice is stilled in death Last Line: Although he sleeps in peace. ... Can never die. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron LORNA, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Pure as the air that breathes the moorland o'er Last Line: I love you too, I love you too. Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Paradise LOSS, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world gathers itself away from her Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOSS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life may moult many feathers, yet delight Last Line: Till the thinned feathers end our eager flight. Subject(s): Death; Life; Loss; Dead, The LOSS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead here in florence! Yes, she died Last Line: The mask fell off then. Yes, she died. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOSSES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not dying: everybody died Subject(s): Death; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War LOST, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: When christ is lost, man's pentecost Last Line: And death's eternity. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Dead, The LOST LILIES, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Show you her picture? Here it lies! Last Line: In the resurrection of life shall wake. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love will live while the pale stars glow, while the / world shall last Last Line: The soul will seek in the great afar the endless love. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LOVE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Ere I lose myself in the vastness and drowse Last Line: To go down to the side of the people who weep in the shadow of death. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why live? I never really thought Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Falure; Dead, The LOVE AFTER DEATH, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an earthly glimmer in the tomb Last Line: And how that broke, and how it came to this. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, if the mute and shrouded dead Last Line: The very bitterness of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by MARGARET WADE CAMPBELL DELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Alas! That men must see Last Line: Nor know great death is kind! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by GEORGIANA GODDARD KING Poem Text First Line: Love and death is all of poets' singing Last Line: Love and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: While I was pondering lazily Last Line: "I struck your love this morning dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life LOVE AND DEATH, by ROSA MULHOLLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wild autumn weather, when the rain Last Line: That conquered death. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, Lady Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free Last Line: Or save thee from the swift decrees of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE AND DEATH, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watcher, whose eyes are fever bright Last Line: For death's vast mystery grows clear. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our bark's on the water; come down, come down Last Line: In the sea they have found a common grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean LOVE AND DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shadow lies upon the earth Last Line: Can this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND DEATH, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we, too, rise forgetful from our sleep Last Line: Fare forth alone to front eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE AND LIFE, by WINFRED ERNEST GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, love and death go ever hand in hand Last Line: For love and life go ever hand in hand. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LOVE IN DEATH, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: How do we live? How do we draw our breath Last Line: Shall our dust be blown among them after we die? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE IN DEATH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear heart! What a little time it is since francis and I used to walk Last Line: But what is that footstep upon the stair? Oh, my darling at last, at last! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE IN PATAGONIA; TO CARL VAN VECHTEN, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: Forgetting her mauve vows the fania fled Last Line: And then I danced along the boulevard! Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Sin; Dead, The LOVE IS DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard one cry out strongly, 'love is dead!' Last Line: Nay! Let him rest with death, the lord of all. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE IS DEAD, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: A form across my threshold lies Last Line: The only way love ever dies. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery LOVE IS STRONG, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A viewless thing is the wind Last Line: For she conquers shame and death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Samson; Shame; Wind; Dead, The LOVE NEVER DIES, by MONICA WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: Love never dies - she sometimes slips away Last Line: Beyond our thinking and without our ken. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Dead, The LOVE NOW, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You will love me the day I lie dying Last Line: At the coldness of death? Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The LOVE TRIUMPHANT: SONG OF JEALOUSIE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What state of life can be so blest Last Line: Thou tyrant of the mind! Variant Title(s): Jealousy, The Tyrant Of The Mind Subject(s): Death; Jealousy; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The; Songs; Dictators LOVE WITHOUT WINGS: SONG 8, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death of things that are, eternity Last Line: Are singing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE'S ADVENT, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing the world's loud workshop, lo, within Last Line: "the world from woe!"" -- alas, how vain the dream!" Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares LOVE'S BELIEF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I believe if I should die Last Line: When life falls from us like a withered husk Subject(s): Death;love; "dead, The; LOVE'S BURIAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us clear a little space Last Line: We will walk a separate way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Love; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE IDEAL, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: At noon when every dame had sought her bed Last Line: Boom'd for one dead, down from the spired chapelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The LOVE'S MASQUERADES: LOVE, THE INTIMIDATOR, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: Beside a fountain's spurting trumpeter Last Line: And bade them broider at her winding-sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE'S NAME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love hath a name of death Last Line: And fade away. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE'S RETROSPECT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew that he was dying; for the leaves Last Line: The more than all by wealth unwidowed cast. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LOVE, DEATH, AND ART, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, give me love! Give me the silent bliss Last Line: While I can make these sweet to me in song. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Love; Dead, The LOVE-LORN, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In her cage by my window swings a bird Last Line: The strain of the singer, her mate, that died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE: AN ELEGY, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Too much my heart of beauty's power hath known Last Line: And lose, with pride, the lover in the man. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Dead, The; Parting LUCIFER'S FEAST; A EUROPEAN NIGHTMARE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To celebrate the ascent of man, one gorgeous night Last Line: In friendship for a moment! ... Subject(s): Death; Devil; War; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub LUCK, by DARE STARK Poem Text First Line: Let there live aye a lad's laugh in the throat of you Last Line: Let death be a step betwix you and the god of you! Subject(s): Death; Life; Luck; Dead, The LUCY (1), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I travelled among unknown men Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed. Variant Title(s): "i Travelled Among Unknown Men""; Subject(s): Death; England; Travel; Dead, The; English; Journeys; Trips 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 LUCY HOOPER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They tell me, lucy, thou art dead Last Line: Seem sacred to thy memory. Subject(s): Death; Hooper, Lucy (1817-1841); Dead, The LUKE HAVERGAL, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the western gate, luke havergal Last Line: Luke havergal. Variant Title(s): Luke Subject(s): Death; Fidelity; Longing; Dead, The; Faithfulness; Constancy LUTHER A. TODD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gifted, and loved and praised Last Line: And, smiling, cease thy moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Kansas; Life; Obituaries; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LUX EST UMBRA DEI, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, death, thou art a shadow! Even as light Last Line: What shade can shroud us from god's deathless day? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LUX IN TENEBRIS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night what things will stalk abroad Last Line: Will spread a rainbow wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Supernatural; Dead, The 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 LYNCH-LAW, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The deed he had done was a terrible one Last Line: At eve, and cut it down. Subject(s): Collective Behavior; Country Life; Death; Lynching; Violence; Mobs; Crowds; Dead, The LYNDA HULL, by ELIZABETH ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet lynda hull, whom I did not know well Last Line: Leaving this bitch of a world for the next Subject(s): Death; Hull, Lynda (1954-1994); Dead, The LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 34, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the tomb, my mistress fair Last Line: Still clasp'd in embraces enthralling. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy face, so lovely and serene Last Line: That from thine eyes is wont to pour. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Faces; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW: 4, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My dear love died last night Last Line: Unrobed let her go to her grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The LYRIQUE (A MADONNA LUCCIOLA), by JOSEPH KLING Poem Text First Line: Warmth / and softness / of summer Last Line: As a wind-swept quarry. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The M * * *, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, and all will soon forget Last Line: I wait for you in bliss. Subject(s): Death; Survival; Dead, The M. ON HER THIRTHIETH BIRTHDAY, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I think I could be a yogi Subject(s): Coming Of Age; Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MACHREE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, we laughed among the goolden gorse Last Line: Machree—machree! Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness MAD JACK'S COCKATOO, by WILLIAN RYLAND Poem Text First Line: There's a man that went out in the floodtime and drought Last Line: Was his track-mate—the old cockatoo. Alternate Author Name(s): Bushie Bill Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Dead, The; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness MADAME METTE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Says bender to peter over their wine Last Line: And lost my true dog also Subject(s): Churches;death;drinks & Drinking;singing & Singers; "cathedrals;dead, The; MADONNA IN FLANDERS, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drunk as the glamor of disgrace Last Line: Hell's joke is heaven's epitaph. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Paradise; Virgin Mary MADRIGAL, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take my heart, lady, take my heart Last Line: And live but through my dying. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The MAGIC, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves Last Line: By my so potent art. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MAGUS MUIR, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gently ye fall, ye summer showers Last Line: My soul might saved be! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Murder; Night; Soul; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime MAHABHARATA: BOOK 17. THE GREAT JOURNEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "to narayen, lord of lords, be glory given" Last Line: "where they have gone, there will I surely go" Subject(s): Death;heaven;hinduism;india;religion; "dead, The;paradise;theology; MAID OF RED AND WHITE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Married to a maiden Last Line: Close the shutters tight. Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids MAKING A FIST, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For the first time, on the road north of tampico Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Dead, The MAMA'S PROMISE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no answer to the blank inequity Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MAMMON MARRIAGE, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The croak of a raven hoar! Last Line: On the dead-sea-shore. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Marriage; Ravens; Skulls; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAMMON'S PLEA: A TALE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many seeming weak acts by contrivance are done Last Line: "may'r, aldermen, burgesses, town-clerk, and all." Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Devil; Greed; Law & Lawyers; Story-telling; Wills; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Avarice; Cupidity MAN, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Affliction one day, as she harked to the roar Last Line: "and his spirit to jove who bestowed it." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Goddesses & Gods; Life; Mankind; Mythology; Dead, The; World; Human Race MAN IN STREAM, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You stand in the brook, mud smearing Subject(s): Rivers; Beavers; Death; Dead, The MANS DYING-PLACE UNCERTAIN, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man knowes where first he ships himselfe; but he Last Line: Never can tell, where shall his landing be. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARATHON, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stern marathon! The mountains view thee yet Last Line: For those who perished there—but not in vain! Subject(s): Death; Greece; Marathon, Greece; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Greeks MARCH, by BERTHA RAFFETTO Poem Text First Line: In mullioned pools of wildwood bowers Last Line: Are clutched in earth's cold fingers. Subject(s): Death; March (month); Sleep; Winter; Dead, The MARE AND NEWBORN FOAL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When you die Subject(s): Horses; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The MARENGO, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sump rise the marigolds. Subject(s): Death; Swamps; Dead, The; Bogs; Fens; Marshes MARGARET BENEATH THE WAVES, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not weep at night, for then in dreams Last Line: And let me sleep with her the last sleep of the blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean MARGARET'S SONG, FR. FAUST, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thule lived a monarch old Last Line: One drop again till death! Subject(s): Cups; Death; Gifts & Giving; Dead, The MARGARET, D. 1985, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At the back of the church Variant Title(s): Her Lost Book, Part 1: Margaret, D. 1985 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARGE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look, friend, you got troubles? Like it's Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Old Age; Dead, The MARIANSON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ah! Marianson, my beauteous dame" Subject(s): Anger;death;jealousy;marriage;unfaithfulness; "dead, The;weddings;husbands;wives;infidelity;adultery;inconstancy; MARION LEE, by BERNARD ESPINASSE Poem Text First Line: To 'the wanderer's rest at the foot of the rise Last Line: And they say 'tis the ghost of poor marion lee. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Deception; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters MARIPOSA, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Butterflies are white and blue Last Line: Death comes in a day or two. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Butterflies; Carpe Diem; Death; Insects; Dead, The; Bugs MARTA OF MILRONE, by HERMAN GEORGE SCHEFFAUER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I shot him where the rio flows Last Line: O marta of milrone! Subject(s): Animals; Cowboys; Death; Horses; Man-woman Relationships; Marriage; Mexico; Ranch Life; Revenge; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Southwest; Pacific States MARTHA BLAKE AT FIFTY-ONE, by AUSTIN CLARKE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Early, each morning, martha blake Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARTIAL - XII, LII, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is your own lover, kenneth, marie Subject(s): Death; Love; Lust; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations MARTIAL 1.101, by DAVID FERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He, who had been the one to whom I had Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARTYRS TO THE MAN, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Innocent thought, romantic dream, and happy, unsuspicious love Last Line: Forth from their gate he strode where fate made straight the road. Subject(s): Innocence; Death; Dead, The MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The house is changed where mary lived Last Line: But dwells with us to-day. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MARY - A REMINISCENCE (1), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died in june, while yet the woodbine sprays Last Line: How faintly worn! Though trodden week by week. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARY - A REMINISCENCE (2), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And when I seek the chamber where she dwelt Last Line: All this how often had I seen and heard! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARY OF CROFTON, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! A lovely jewel was mary of crofton Last Line: As we pass down the old waggon way. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARY'S DREAM, by JOHN LOWE Poem Text First Line: The moon had climbed the highest hill Last Line: "sweet mary, weep no more for me!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MARY'S GHOST, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the middle of the night, / to sleep young william tried Last Line: Of my anatomie. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The MARY, THE MAID OF THE INN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is yonder poor maniac, whose wildly fixed eyes Last Line: Of poor mary the maid of the inn. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hotels; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Male-female Relations 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 MASSA'S IN DE COLD GROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Round de meadows am a ringing Last Line: "down in de corn fields, etc" Subject(s): African Americans;death;slavery;tears; "negroes;american Blacks;dead, The;serfs; MATANZA TO WELCOME SPRING, by JIMMY SANTIAGO BACA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spread eagle sheep legs wide Subject(s): Spring; Sheep; Death; Birth; Dead, The; Child Birth; Midwifery 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 MATEY (CAMBRIN, MAY 1915), by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not comin' back tonight, matey Last Line: But gawd! It went through me 'eart. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Grief; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War MATTER, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a live man Last Line: Than it is to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The MATTER AND SPIRIT, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the world chaos Last Line: Win it from god. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The MAURINE: PART 6, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a week of bustle and of hurry Last Line: Should yield me golden fruit for all my toil. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Soul; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares MAVRONE, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From arranmore the weary miles I've come Last Line: Aroon, machree, aboo! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Dead, The MAXIMS FOR THE OLD HOUSE: THE CHAMBER, by ANNA HEMPSTEAD BRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How intimate and yet how strange! Last Line: It shall not seem more sad to die. Subject(s): Death; Houses; Dead, The MAY (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet life is dead / not so Last Line: And blossoms where I tread. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; May (month); Dead, The MAY 26 1969: THE GRIEVANCE, by RICHARD HOWARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No one dies. That is all we can say for certain Last Line: Which lies beyond our tears. We are not reduced Alternate Author Name(s): Howard, Joseph Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MCCARTHY'S BREW: A GULF COUNTRY YARN, by GEORGE ESSEX EVANS Poem Text First Line: The teams of black mccarthy crawled adown the norman road Last Line: Gulf whisky kills at twenty yards, but this stuff kills at sight! Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Trucks & Trucking; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Teamsters; Truckers; Freight MEDITATIONS IN A CEMETERY, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, / grandiosely hackneyed subject Subject(s): Death; Cemeteries; Dead, The; Graveyards MEDITERRANEAN, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: - when she disappeared on the path ahead of me Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MEDLEY; A KASHMERI SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The poppy grows on the roof-top Last Line: And peace in the hands of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MEEK CANDIDATES FOR GRAVE SPACE, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In shrouds distinct, on palls apart Last Line: To bid corruption start. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MEETIN'S SONG, by EMORY C. PHARR Poem Text First Line: Black and white Last Line: De promise' lan'. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MEETING (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said goodbye in hope Last Line: But it is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism MEETING ABOVE, by WILLIAM LEGGETT Poem Text First Line: If you bright stars which gem the night Last Line: While ages roll their cycles round. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise MEETING THE DEAD, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If we've loved them, it's what we want, and sometimes Last Line: The orderly gardens and homes of the living Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Peace; Dead, The; Relatives MEG'S CURSE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun rode high in a cloudless sky Last Line: And die for the sake of the man. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Obsessions; Dead, The MELANIE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood on yonder rocky brow Last Line: Peace to the broken-hearted dead! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sisters; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MELODIOUS THE MORNING..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Melodious the morning when the mist Last Line: A love they now have nought of -- but the art! Subject(s): Death; Love; Morning; Dead, The MELVILLE AND COGHILL (THE PLACE OF THE LITTLE HAND), by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, with their eyes to the foe Last Line: Back to their lonely grave! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MEMENTO MORI, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, could I but once more have gazed into Last Line: Oh, could I but once more into thine eyes have gazed! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMORABILIA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A million years ago and men were not Last Line: As on the night I walked alone by the sea's edge. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Night; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MEMORIAL, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Little you were and bright as a tulip-yellow Subject(s): War; Death; Children; Dead, The; Childhood MEMORIAL DAY, by FLORIA DORIA Poem Text First Line: The dead immortal! They are the ones whom we honor today Last Line: To the ashes of our mourned and lost immortal youths! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Dead, The; Declaration Day MEMORIAL DAY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Again it is memorial day Last Line: On decoration day. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Holidays; Memorial Day; Soldiers; Veterans; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Declaration Day MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 1. EPITAPH, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heap not on this mound Last Line: With the dust upon her eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 2. PRAYER TO PERSEPHONE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be to her, persephone Last Line: "it is not so dreadful here." Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Persephone; Vassar College; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 3. CHORUS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give away her gowns Last Line: From the closet floor. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 4. DIRGE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boys and girls that held her dear Last Line: All you loved of her lies here. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 5. ELEGY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bury your big eyes Last Line: Beats the golden bird no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Vassar College; Dead, The; Burials MEMORIAL TO D.C.: PROLOGUE, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, loveliest throat of all sweet throats Last Line: I write you little elegies! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Vassar College; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF THEOPHILE GAUTIER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, what hast thou to do with me? So saith Last Line: Leave thy sweet light to rise upon the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Love - Loss Of; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BELL SCOTT, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A life more bright than the sun's face, owed Last Line: Alive above us who strive below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Soul; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 1. YA MAHBUB!, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these the streets that I used to know Last Line: And the dreams I cherished ... When you were king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Memory; Dead, The MEMORIAL VERSES: 2. GOKHALE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heroic heart! Lost hope of all our days! Last Line: Upbuild the temple of her unity. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; India; Memory; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines MEMORIAL VERSES: 3. IN SALUTATION TO MY FATHER'S SPIRIT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, farewell, o brave and tender sage Last Line: Lost in the rapture of the cosmic soul. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise MEMORIALS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death sets a thing significant / the eye had hurried by Last Line: Too costly for repairs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MEMORY, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A woman I used to know well died Last Line: How could you have let this happen to you? Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Marriage; Memory; Past; Time; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MEMORY, by ARTHUR NEWBERRY CHOYCE Poem Text First Line: I know a lone spot on the arras road Last Line: If I could bear to walk that road again. Alternate Author Name(s): Choyce, A. Newberry Subject(s): Death; Memory; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MEMORY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: There are who deem that virtue's prize Last Line: What can ye do but weep? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sea; Time; Dead, The; Ocean MEMORY AND HOPE, by ALPHONSE MARIE LOUIS DE PRAT LAMARTINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rebehold you, o beloved death Last Line: About the hearth-stone of eternity? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Time; Dead, The MEMORY'S SONG, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The earth cast off her snowy shrouds Last Line: But spring is hard to bear now he is dead. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The MERCEDES, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O loveliest lily, severed from the stem Last Line: But love has borne her to the upper sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The METAMORPHOSES: BOOK 13. THE SPEECHES OF AJAX AND ULYSSES, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The chiefs were set; the soldiers crown'd the field Last Line: But those express the grief, and these the name. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Mythology; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Translating & Interpreting; Troy; War; Dead, The METAMORPHOSES: OF THE PYTHAGOREAN PHILOSOPHY, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A king is sought to guide the growing state Last Line: And all the muses o'er his acts preside. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Philosophy & Philosophers; Rome, Italy; Translating & Interpreting; Dead, The METEMPSYCHOSIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two months old, already Last Line: Pass faces long past and dead Subject(s): Babies; Death; Faces; Infants; Dead, The MICHAEL ANGELO: THE DEAD CHRIST, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death,why is it I cannot portray Last Line: So near to death, and yet so far from god! Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564); Dead, The MICHAEL OAKTREE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under an arch of glorious leaves I passed Last Line: The sacrament and sabbath of the sea. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Night; Sea; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean MID-TERM BREAK, by SEAMUS HEANEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat all morning in the college sick bay Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MIDNIGHT AT THE FARM, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: A distant sheep-dog barks: beyond the bank Last Line: Flung him, that gave and took, her blasphemies. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers MIDNIGHT THOUGHT (ON THE DEATH OF MRS. E.H. & HER DAUGHTER), by ELIZABETH THOMAS Poem Text First Line: Oh sacred time! How soon thou'rt gone! Last Line: Tis want of sense makes superfluity. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Time; Dead, The MIDSUMMER EVE, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let silence with her long pale hands ravish the / violin Last Line: Oh! Elfin hands to-night. Subject(s): Death; Divorce; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love MIDWAY, by BENITA ADAMS HERRICK Poem Text First Line: Midway on life's course I pause Last Line: Or shall I life's mystery know? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MIDWINTER WALK IN CENTRAL PARK, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What heather is parading along the park in a Last Line: Underbrush. Subject(s): Central Park, New York City; Death; Nature; Seasons; Winter; Dead, The MIGRATION, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This year marie drives back and forth Last Line: Like the holy ghost that it is Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Adoption; Dead, The 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 MILES WEATHERHILL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh give attention, you pretty maidens" Last Line: "may we meet in heaven, my sweet sarah bell" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;grief;love;murder; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; MILKING TIME, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a drip of honeysuckle in the deep green lane Last Line: "ow bill! A rottin' frenchy. Whew! 'e ain't 'arf prime." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MILL ACCIDENT, by KATHRYN BLACKBURN PECK Poem Text First Line: Bright burns the pain against his breast and throat Last Line: "he hears his comrades murmur, ""hell! He's done." Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Windmills; Dead, The MINED, by JOEL T. ROGERS Poem Text First Line: Wearily, wearily, crawled the ship Last Line: As a woman shakes her hair. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Fights; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MINOR MISHAP, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Think of my death Last Line: At a table set, whose meats he cannot reach. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Dead, The MISALLIANCE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am troubled tonight with a curious pain Last Line: And my body's reply of passion. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Passion; Soul; Dead, The MISS KILMANSEGG AND HER PRECIOUS LEG: HER DEATH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a stern and startling thing to think Last Line: Because her own leg had killed her!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MISSING THE DEAD, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I miss the old scrawl on the viaduct Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Parker, Charlie (bird) (1920-1955); Parents; Death; Parenthood; Dead, The MIST FORMS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sheets of night-mist travel a long valley Last Line: A riddle here no man tells, no woman. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MO-LENNAV-A-CHREE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eilidh, eilidh, eilidh, dear to me, dear and sweet Last Line: Mo-lennav-a-chree! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Closing Doors Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Loss; Memory; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MOGG MEGONE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who stands on that cliff, like a figure of stone Last Line: Ruth boniton is dead! Subject(s): Death; Missions & Missionaries; Native Americans - Wars; New England; Norridgewock, Maine; Penobscot Bay, Maine; Rale, Sebastien (1654-1724); Saco (river), New Hampshire And Maine; U.s. - Colonial Period; Waterfalls; Dead, The MOMENT, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old sting. Dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MOMENTOS, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arranging long-locked drawers and shelves Last Line: In some more cheerful room. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Memory; Time; Grief; Marriage; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The MON-DA-MIN; OR, THE ROMANCE OF MAIZE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long ere the shores of green america Last Line: From whose abundance all the world may feed. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Legends; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers MONEENEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: This is the tale of one who lived and suffered years ago Last Line: And a native boy who gave his life when safety was in sight Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;heroes;heroines; MONICA PEVERIL TURNBULL, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more wild march, her mantle shaken Last Line: "for new buds' swelling." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; March (month); Soul; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares MONOLOGUE FROM A MATTRESS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can that be you, la mouche? Wait till I lift Last Line: Mouche -- mathilde! . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Love; Regret; Religion; Revolutions; Sickness; Poetry & Poets; German Literature; Heine, Heinrich (1797-1856); Dead, The; Theology; Illness MONUMENTAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to rant and rave, and Last Line: Silent sea, a three-foot slab of slippery elm is plenty good enough for me. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Monuments; Stones; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks MOODS, by AMICUS [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O pensive passenger! Do not deny Last Line: This narrow spot the vernal maiden's doom Alternate Author Name(s): Amicus Subject(s): Cold;death;graves;grief; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;sorrow;sadness; MOONRISE ON THE ANTARCTIC, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge white icebergs silently Last Line: Voyaging onward without sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Antarctica; Death; Moon; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The MOORISH BRIDAL SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The citron-groves their fruit and flowers were strewing Last Line: Weep for the young, the beautiful, -- the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Moors (people); Wedding Song; Dead, The; Epithalamium MORAG OF THE GLEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morag of the glen was fey Last Line: Morag is white as the driven snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Marriage; Murder; Mysticism; Women; Dead, The; Irish; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MORAL RUINS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asia's rock-hollowed fanes, first-born of time Last Line: One father -- worshipped with one voice -- above! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Ruins; Soul; Time; Dead, The MORE STRONG THAN TIME, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since I have set my lips to your full cup, my sweet Last Line: My soul more love than you can make my soul forget. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The MORGAN, by EDWARD HARRINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When morgan crossed the murray to peechelba and doom Last Line: "should heed the boobook's warning: ""go back, go back, go back!" Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Prudence; Dead, The; Fugitives; Caution MORNING OR MIDNIGHT, THE SAME HOUR, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MORPHINE, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Their single purpose was to ease her dying Last Line: Her face lost all its definition. No one moved Subject(s): Death; Painkillers; Dead, The MORS ET VITA, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: A church-yard -- aye, but spring has shaken down Last Line: Upon that mystery which men call death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MORS LEONIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When o'er the aged lion steals Last Line: Yet hast thou perished like a king! Subject(s): Animals; Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Death; Earth; Lions; Sleep; Dead, The; World MORTAL GRAIN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When from the narrow cage Last Line: Its duplicate, awake, remembering pain. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The MORTALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I lain down at night Last Line: Remained afraid to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Mortality; Sleep; Dead, The MORTALITY, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Last Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Subject(s): Death; Humility; Mortality; Dead, The MORTIMER, by CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And as a traveler goes, alert to spy Last Line: And as a traveler -- goes. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips MORTMAIN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grey and ghostly cypresses Last Line: She had a lovely face. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Lips; Sin; Trees; Dead, The MORTUARY PARLORS, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The smooth, unobtrusive walls say 'hush!' in a voice of honey and meal Last Line: And death, the obsequious gentleman, comes rubbing black gloves and talking Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The MORVA (TO THE MEMORY OF COLONEL OWEN VAUGHAN - OWEN RHOSCOMYL), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the moon by morva Last Line: And the world's great songs be made. Subject(s): Adventure And Adventurers; Death; Memory; Rest; Soldiers; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen MOSES, by N. N. Poem Text First Line: Thrones that stood and realms that flourished Last Line: As his birthright's sacred fountain? Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO, by I. SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: He stood on nebo's lofty crest Last Line: He sleeps, his sepulchre unknown. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Graves; Jews; Moses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism MOTETS: 4, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far away, yet I was with you when your father Subject(s): Absence; Fathers; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The MOTHER, by TED KOOSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid april already, and the wild plums Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The MOTHER, by ETHEL RICHARDSON STILLWELL Poem Text First Line: Your love was daffodils in spring Last Line: I have my joy of him. Subject(s): Children; Death; Gratitude; Love; Mothers; Childhood; Dead, The MOTHER (MARGERY CARRUTH, 1896-1981), by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother, now at last I must speak to you. The hour, so late but even so has come Variant Title(s): The Event Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mothers; Dead, The MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE Poem Text First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain! Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MOTHER GARDENS' ROUND, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year was river-throated, with the stare of legend Subject(s): Gardebs & Gardening; Death; Dead, The MOTHER NIGHT, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eternities before the first-born day Last Line: Into the quiet bosom of the night. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Rest; Dead, The MOTTO, FR. ARIOSTO, by WALTER SCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the land where the clouds love to rest Last Line: And the lake her lone bosom expands to the sky. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Farewell; Rest; Sky; Dead, The; Parting MOUNT VERNON, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still stands the mansion; still before it sweeps Last Line: Beloved he died, at peace with god and man. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The MOUNTAIN VALLEY, by MALCOLM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lost in this mountain valley, we have struggled Last Line: Staring down at our cornfields covetously. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The 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 MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas my brother! The cry of the mourners of old Last Line: Alas my brother! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Roundels; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MR. EDWARDS AND THE SPIDER, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the spiders marching through the air Subject(s): Calvinists; Death; Edwards, Jonathan (1703-1758); God; Insects; Sin; Spiders; Dead, The; Bugs MR. WHAT'S-HIS-NAME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They called him mr. What's-his-name Last Line: I'll ask for mr. What's-his-name. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Men; Cadavers; Dead, The MRS. BENJAMIN HARRISON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now utter calm and rest Last Line: God's will her will. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MRS. DENISON; IN MEMORIAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis right for her to sleep between Last Line: And took, how much! With her away. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MULVANEY AND ANOTHER, by JOHN A. MOROSO Poem Text First Line: Mary ann swabbed down the stairs Last Line: Of him who had loved mary ann. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The MUSIC, by ALICE (HENDERSON) CORBIN Poem Text First Line: The old songs / die Last Line: Are all that is left of sarasate. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs MUSIC ON WATER, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where does remembrance weep when we forget? Last Line: Watches the time, and thinks it wondrous slow. Subject(s): Death; Mars (god); Music & Musicians; Water; Dead, The MY AIN COUNTRIE, by MARY LEE DEMAREST Poem Text First Line: I'm far frae my hame, an' I'm weary aftenwhiles Last Line: That we a' may gang in gladness to our ain countree. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology MY BAY'NIT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first I left blighty they gave me a bay'nit Last Line: Part of me outfit every time. Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY BELIEF, by KATE M. CHIDESTER Poem Text First Line: From that deep sleep that men call death Last Line: Escaped from sin and care and time. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed MY BIRDEEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bonnie birdeen Last Line: My passion, my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Loss; Love; Pain; Passion; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery MY BLINDNESS, by HERMAN J. D. CARTER Poem Text First Line: Oh blackened knight, murderer of my day Last Line: Without a cause, until I'm claimed by death? Subject(s): Black (color); Blindness; Death; Eyes; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The MY BROTHER, by JOHN MOULTRIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My boyish days are nearly gone Last Line: When shall I find its like again? Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The MY BROTHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead! And he has died so young Last Line: Those we grieve for love us yet! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Life; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness MY DEAD, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give back the soul of youth once more! Last Line: I shall behold my dead again? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Past; Youth; Dead, The MY DEATH AS A GIRL I KNEW, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was in a story Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Girls; Trees; Dead, The MY DIRGE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the bell toll! Another soul Last Line: So far from home to die! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Sickness; Soul; Dead, The; Parting; Illness MY EARTHLY LOVE, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No dim and dreamy ghost I sing Last Line: And only feed on bitter breath. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness MY ENEMY, by ALICE WILLIAMS BROTHERTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My foe was dark, and stern, and grim Last Line: "adieu, dear death -- one kiss! We part." Subject(s): Enemies; Death; Dead, The MY FIRST WOMERN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my first womern Last Line: Was a year ago -- Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Spring; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MY FIRST-BORN, by JESSIE D. M. MORTON Poem Text First Line: She came to my soul like a sunbeam of bliss Last Line: The tears that are shed when alone. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Love; Infants; Dead, The MY FOE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gurr! You cochon! Stand and fight! Last Line: Blood-guilty in sight of god. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Murder; Religion; War; World War I; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Theology; First World War MY GARDEN OF BLIGHTED HOPES, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: I sowed in the hours of life's morning Last Line: In my garden of blighted hopes. Subject(s): Death; Failure; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Optimism MY GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little corner with its crib Last Line: A little kiss -- my girl is gone Subject(s): Courage;death;girls;graves; "valor;bravery;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; MY GRAVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when I die, I must be buried, let Last Line: And too deep silence would distress me, dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MY HAND TREMBLES, by FRANCIS PICABIA Poem Text First Line: The bells are singing to wake the dead Last Line: Like birds of the fields. Subject(s): Dadaism; Death; Fear; Dead, The MY HEAVEN, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love the fresh, sweet charm of vernal skies in may Last Line: -- more frightful unto me than the midnight of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Heaven; May (month); Nature; Seasons; Time; Dead, The; Paradise MY JOB, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've got a little job on 'and, the time is drawin' nigh Last Line: It's seven sharp. Good-bye, old pals! . . . A decent job in dyin'. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY LAI, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An embassy's tall gate off a dirt road Last Line: Of their lives by what death holds apart. Subject(s): Death; Massacres; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The MY LITTLE SISTER, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little sister had everything Last Line: Death at twenty. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Youth; Dead, The MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY LOVE, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Dearest, there is no one above thee that Last Line: Unto the rich-crown jeweled seat of paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Paradise; Suffering; Misery MY MAGGIE'S NO MORE, by JOHN BROWN (1810-1882) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twittering, twittering over the meadow Last Line: For despair rends my heart, since my maggie's no more. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Dead, The MY MATE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've been sittin' starin,' starin' at 'is muddy pair of boots Last Line: To sorter be a farther to 'is kid. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War MY MATE BILL, by G. H. GIBSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That's his saddle across the tie-beam, an' them's his spurs up there Last Line: As'll make them toney seraphs sit back on their thrones an' stare! Alternate Author Name(s): Ironbark; Gibson, George Herbert Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise MY MESSMATE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear thee, brother death Last Line: And to the past is known. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Self; Dead, The MY MOTHER, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The twilight falls on mother's life Last Line: I'd be distraught,—for mother. Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The MY MOTHER LEFT ME, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: 24 pairs of unmatched white gloves Last Line: She left me. Subject(s): Death; Gloves; Legacies; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Mittens; Muffs MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rabbi doesn't say she was sly and peevish, Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The MY PHOTOGRAPH, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister sunshine smiled on me Last Line: "of radiance from above." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Photography & Photographers; Dead, The MY SAINT, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, long the weary vigils since you left me Last Line: Entice my spirit, -- take me hence with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The MY SKELETON, MY RIVAL, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton Last Line: And I its friend, shielding it from harm Subject(s): Skeletons; Identity; Death; Dead, The MY SONG, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To understand the song I sing Last Line: You'll understand my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness MY TEMPLE, by NICOLAI MAKSIMOVICH VILENKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who rears a temple, rears two monuments Last Line: And in their vanguard death, who shall prevail. Alternate Author Name(s): Minsky, N.; Minsky, Nicolai Maksimovich Subject(s): Churches; Death; Temples; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Mosques MY WHITE-CAPPED NURSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Day by day, with unconscious grace Last Line: And I inhale the fragrance there. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Paradise MYSTERIES, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bound to the earth in its headlong flight Last Line: What does it mean to live and die? Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Soul; Dead, The; Ocean MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Before the abyss of the unanswering grave Last Line: Which casts all flesh as chaff to all the winds? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NACHIKETAS AND DEATH, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Young nachiketas went to death Last Line: For thou art that! Variant Title(s): Thy Soul Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NAMELESS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, lovely spirit, in the first fond dusk-light / gleaming Last Line: And still death's old, shallow mock. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The NAMELESS MEN, by EDWARD SHILLITO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around me when I wake or sleep Last Line: The men who watch and die for me. Subject(s): Death; Redemption; Soldiers; War; Dead, The NANCY JANE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grandma laughing on her deathbed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NARRATIVE OF THE VISION OF OUR LADY OF ARMEIRO, by NATHANIEL TARN Poem Text First Line: The photograph of our lady of armeiro has been placed Last Line: Have we ever known of any death so measured and so rigorous? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Old Age; Photography & Photographers; United States; Dead, The; America NATIVITY, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fiends tear me to blood Last Line: As the lack of love. Subject(s): Christmas; Death; Love; Nativity, The; Dead, The NATURAL HISTORY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rain the naked old father is dancing; he will get wet. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NATURAL WORLD: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earth is almost round. The seas Last Line: For a man to sleep in. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Extinct Animals; Whales; Dead, The NATURAL WORLD: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On hawk mountain in pennsylvania Last Line: Slaughtered for pleasure. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Birds; Death; Hawk Mountain, Pennsylvania; Hawks; Dead, The NATURE, by ALFRED DE VIGNY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the stage, impassive, mute and cold Last Line: And by my breast and brows the air be riven. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NATURES COOK, by MARGARET LUCAS CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is the cook of nature; and we find Last Line: When with salt rheum and phlegm they powdered are. Alternate Author Name(s): Newcastle, Duchess Of; Lucas, Margaret Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NEAR MANSFIELD, OHIO, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The enormous muscle-bound dobbins of autumn Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Death; Loneliness; Dead, The NEARER HOME, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One sweetly solemn thought Last Line: On the rock of a living faith! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise NEARING PORT, by C. P. R. Poem Text First Line: The noble river widens as we drift Last Line: Lift us and bear us to eternity. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NECROLOGICAL, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The friar had said his paternosters duly Last Line: Whom the kites of heaven solicited with sweet cries Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NECROPOLIS, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even in death they prosper; even in the death Subject(s): Wealth; Poverty; Death; Social Commentaries; Riches; Fortunes; Dead, The NEEDLESS FEAR, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Afraid? Of whom am I afraid Last Line: As soon impeach my crown! Subject(s): Death; Easter; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection NEKROS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! All thy glory gone Last Line: Arise! Thou hast inherited the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NELL AND JOHN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When nell, given o'er by the doctor, was dying Last Line: When you lost your white heifer, and I my brown mare! Subject(s): Death; Loss; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NELLIE, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: What ails thee, little rosebud of my heart? Last Line: "forget-me-not?"" no, little darling, no!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Childhood; Dead, The NERVOUS FIT OF ANGUISH, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet hebrew, unfasten my transit of clay Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Soul; Dead, The; Heretics NESTS IN ELMS, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rooks are cawing up and down the trees! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Birds; Life; Death; Birds; Dead, The 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 NEVER TOO LATE TO DYE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No man comes late unto that place from whence Last Line: Never man yet had a regredience. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NEVERLAND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Bending over her bed, I saw the smile Last Line: Intact for the water table, she opened her eyes Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NEVERLAND, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bending over her bed, I saw the smile Last Line: And now it grows faint, and now I cannot hear it Subject(s): Death; Brothers & Sisters; Dead, The NEW ENGLAND GRAVEYARD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: As a pale cypher set among the weeds Last Line: "dear husband"", ""virtuous wife"", ""son lost at sea""." Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Widows & Widowers; Graveyards; Dead, The NEW ENGLAND WALLS, by AMORY HARE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not from the blow that shall deliver death Last Line: My flesh would pass, leaving my spirit here. Alternate Author Name(s): Hutchinson, Amory Hare Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; New England; Walls; Dead, The NEW NIGHT THOUGHTS ON DEATH; A PARODY, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night! Dark night! Wrapped round with stygian gloom! Last Line: Fools banter heav'n itself, o young!—and thee! Subject(s): Death; Night; Thought; Young, Edward (1683-1765); Dead, The; Bedtime; Thinking NEW SPRING: 24, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hearts of us two, my loved one Last Line: To death was wellnigh press'd. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The NEW SPRING: 32, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the forest, in the moonlight Last Line: Or a sign that death is nigh me? Subject(s): Bells; Death; Fairies; Love; Dead, The; Elves NEW SPRING: 40, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My cherish'd wishes blossom Last Line: And bleeds away in my breast. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The NEWS, by GODFREY ELTON Poem Text First Line: They came, you know, and told me you were dead Last Line: I missed the one beyond laburnum-tree. Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The NEWS UPDATE; FOR ERHART, GITTLESON, FLYNN & STONE, HAPILY DEAD & GONE, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, here I am in the centre daily times Last Line: Oh, big sighs. Windy sighs. And ghostly laughter. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The NEXT OF KIN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows gather round me, while you are in the sun Last Line: Yea, we twain shall sleep together in an equal bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Home; Dead, The NEXT, PLEASE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Always too eager for the future, we Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NICE GUY, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had a friend and he died Last Line: He died of too much Subject(s): Frendship; Death; Dead, The NIGHT, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE Poem Text First Line: The ever-busy weaver clouds are carding Last Line: Wash clean the earth from stain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Peace; Rest; Dead, The NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School NIGHT AND DAY, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The innocent, sweet day is dead Last Line: -- come back, o day! Said he. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NIGHT AND DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the sunlit hours are o'er Last Line: Death is life, and death alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Tears; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT AND DEATH, by ELIZABETH H. WHITTIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The storm-wind is howling Last Line: Her glory above. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT CRY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The radiator taps like a frantic blind man Last Line: A crocheted cap for a stillborn baby. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Infants; Dead, The NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 1. A DELIRIOUS VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweeter than sleep and the dream of death Last Line: Being rest. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sea; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 2. VOICE OF A YOUTHFUL TURK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If only up the straits the tempest flew Last Line: Dying again upon the mouth of you! Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Moon; Storms; Dead, The NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 3. AN ENGLISH VOICE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew the stars would come Last Line: O southward blowing wind, blow on! Subject(s): Death; Lesbos (island), Greece; Sea; Soul; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 5. VOICE OF AN ENGLISH POET, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South!...These stars I know!...And south is greece! Last Line: That hide but do not hush the river's brink. . . . Subject(s): Death; Greece; Hearts; Sleep; Stars; Dead, The; Greeks NIGHT OFF GALLIPOLI: 8. A HOST OF SPIRITS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We fought and saw the stars and fell Last Line: Take us; like men we fought. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Life; Dead, The NIGHT POEMS: 2, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again in a still peace, in clear Last Line: Endured by all, breathed by how few! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Peace; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NIGHT SCENE AT THE FALL OF SEBASTOPOL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils, the flames, the thunders of the siege Last Line: A crumbling mass of ruin and decay. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cities; Death; Freedom; Night; War; Urban Life; Dead, The; Liberty; Bedtime NIGHT SOWERS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, these are they that toil by night Last Line: The dews of peace perennial! Subject(s): Death; Night; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 2. TIME, DEATH AND FRIENDSHIP, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the cock crew he wept, -- smote by that eye Last Line: With incommunicable lustre bright. Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Friendship; Life; Nature; Night; Time; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 4. THE CHRISTIAN TRIUMPH, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A much-indebted muse, o yorke! Intrudes Last Line: Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.' Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Fear; God; Life; Night; Old Age; Dead, The; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 5. THE RELAPSE, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lorenzo! To recriminate is just Last Line: Tis the survivor dies. -- my heart! No more. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Fortune; Grief; Life; Night; Pride; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Self-esteem; Self-respect NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n) Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part? Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NIGHT WATCHING, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sat beside her lover, and her hand Last Line: To one cold, speechless city of the dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NIGHTFALL, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Fold up the tent! / the sun is in the west Last Line: And rest is best! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology NIGHTFALL, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eve goes slowly Last Line: Bold then beaten—now long lost, and here! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Shadows; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise NIGHTINGALE IN THE EAST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: On a dark lonely night on the crimea's dread shore Last Line: One of heaven's best gifts is miss nightingale Subject(s): Death;love;nurses;soldiers; "dead, The; NIOBE: INEXORABLE DEATH, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone of gods death has no love for gifts Last Line: From him alone persuasion stands apart. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NIRVANA, by ELIZABETH N. BARR Poem Text First Line: The all-embracing mother wraps herself about me Last Line: O love, it is so lovely to be dead! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise NO COWARD'S SONG, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am afraid to think about my death Last Line: A living mouse than dead as a man dies. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NO LETTER, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No letter!' poor mother! Oh, well may'st thou weep Last Line: Brings the longing to be with the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The NO MAN'S LAND, by JAMES HARRY KNIGHT-ADKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No man's land is an eerie sight Last Line: Is hunting for blood in no man's land. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NO MORE THAT ROAD, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now do I know Last Line: "sounds the forsaken, ""never, never, never!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Dead, The NO MUSIC, by C. E. SHUFORD Poem Text First Line: Death and no music Last Line: Death and no music. Alternate Author Name(s): Shuford, Gene Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NO QUESTION, by GEORGE H. DILLON Poem Text First Line: Seeing at last how each thing here beneath Last Line: Why birds must fly, seeing the flight of birds. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Flowers; Dead, The NO RESURRECTION, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friendship, when a friend meant a helping sword Last Line: And grass again to make modern flesh Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The NO ROOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was room for her anywhere Last Line: Lena? Louise? Lisette? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Names; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones NO SOUND, by HENRY WORTHAM II Poem Text First Line: No sound in winter under the trees Last Line: Who knows that death comes in winter? Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The NO SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up from the south come the birds that were banished Last Line: But unto a dead love there cometh no spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love; Sea; Spring; Dead, The; Ocean NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Death; Parents; Dead, The; Parenthood NO TIME, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a rush this weekday morning Subject(s): Cemeteries; Family Life; Death; Parents; Graveyards; Relatives; Dead, The; Parenthood NOCTURNAL, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If animals think Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dead, The NOCTURNAL VEILS, by CLAYTON ESHLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In bed, looking up at the light-peppered dark, Subject(s): Night; Death; Paintings & Painters; Bedtime; Dead, The NOCTURNE OF REMEMBERED SPRING, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moonlight silvers the tops of trees Last Line: And then we laugh, with shadows in our eyes. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Old Age; Spring; Dead, The NON OMNIS MORIAR, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask you: has the singer sung Last Line: Death frames the singer and the song. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Ford, John (1586-1639); Marlowe, Christopher (1564-1593); Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The NOON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: And has joined us with a nod. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Kisses; Noon; Wisdom; Dead, The; World NORA, by ELIZABETH WEST PARKER Poem Text First Line: When I came back from nora's burial Last Line: "oh, let me be like her!" Subject(s): Death; Housekeeping; Dead, The NORTH AMERICAN DEATH SONG, by ANNE (HOME) HUNTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sun sets in night, and the stars shun the day Last Line: And thy son, o alknomook, has scorned to complain. Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America NORTH CAROLINA MOUNTAINS, by CHARLES R. MURPHY Poem Text First Line: Here earth and sky and thudding hoofs of horses Last Line: Bringing its elder presence -- and closed eyes. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mountains; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) NOT A SPARROW, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Just when I think the buddhists Last Line: Keeps right on flying Subject(s): Birds; Death; Dead, The NOT HOW THEY LIVED, BUT HOW THEY DIED, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Sweet is the sleep of those whose lives were hurled Last Line: "not how they lived—but only how they died!" Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War NOT THOU BUT I, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It must have been for one of us, my own Last Line: Thou hadst the peace and I the undying pain. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness NOT TO BE DWELLED ON, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-interest cropped up even there, Subject(s): Graves; Death; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The NOT WAVING BUT DROWNING, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody heard him, the dead man Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The NOTE BOOK OF ROMANCES AND LAMENTS: LAMENT OF THE RUINED CHATEAUX IN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Lusignan, les baux, coucy, white towers in winter's fee, and autumn's king Last Line: Is it not bitter pain life's semblance to retain when death is in the air? Subject(s): Death; Lament; Pain; Winter; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery NOTE TO REALITY, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without even knowing it, I have Last Line: Makes the mourners salivate against their will Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NOTES FOR AN ELEGY, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alternative to flying is cowardice, Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Aviator & Aviators; War; Death; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines NOTHING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Will my love come to me? Last Line: Alas! I have no love. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Jesus Christ; Love - Loss Of; Moon; Nothingness; Soul; Dead, The; Nihilism; Voids NOTHING REMAINS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing remains of unrecorded ages Last Line: This, this remains. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Time; Dead, The NOVEMBER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After three days of steady rain- Last Line: While my mother calmly tells him to lie back down Subject(s): Death; November; Dead, The 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 NOVEMBER, by SOPHIE TUNNELL Poem Text First Line: The nuts are dropping in the wood Last Line: In november. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; November; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER 11TH, by FRANK E. CAMPBELL Poem Text First Line: This day three years ago Last Line: "this great ""unknown"" acclaim ..." Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The NOVEMBER ELEGY, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: I looked out my window Last Line: Like autumn leaves, dead, on the walk. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; November; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The NOVEMBER TREES, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: O sad november trees Last Line: Through death of last year's leaf? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Leaves; Nature; Trees; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness NOW AND AFTERWARDS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two hands upon the breast' Last Line: Pardon those erring prayers! Father hear these! Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Variant Title(s): Labor And Rest Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NOW I AM FILLED WITH DEATH, by FRANZ WERFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I understood the little fire Last Line: At my sodom and gomorrah. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The NUNC DIMITTIS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dying; but what of that? Last Line: That I've found you -- at the last. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery NURSE EDITH CAVELL; TWO O'CLOCK, THE MORNING OF OCTOBER 12, 1915, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To her accustomed eyes Last Line: Announced that day she met the immortal dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Death; Nurses; World War I; Dead, The; First World War O DEATH, ROCK ME ASLEEP, by GEORGE BOLEYN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death, o death, rock me asleep Alternate Author Name(s): Rochford, Viscount Subject(s): Death; Dead, The O MORS! QUAM AMARA EST MEMORIA TUA HOMINI PACEM HABENTI, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Exceeding sorrow / consumeth my sad heart! Last Line: This one day! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The O MY LOVE LEONORE, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my love leonore! O my lithe lady! Last Line: O my love leonore, -- o my lithe lady? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Death; Dead, The O NOBLE DEAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O noble dead who rest beneath the sod Last Line: And honor thee. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones O WANDER NOT SO FAR AWAY!, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Togetherness; Death; Dead, The O WIND! GOD'S WIND!, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: O wind! God's wind! You swept across Last Line: Where he may reign supreme. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones O-TSUYA FORSAKEN, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I followed. In the tea-house geisha danced the death Last Line: Shall he be mine in no reincarnation? Subject(s): Death; Japan; Love; Loyalty; Stars; Dead, The; Japanese OAK LEAVES COME QUITE CHEAP, by A. A. IMBERMAN Poem Text First Line: Here lies giovanni Last Line: Sic transit gloria mundi. Subject(s): Death; Italy; Soldiers; Tyranny & Tyrants; War; Dead, The; Italians; Dictators OBITUARY, by CHARLES TRUEMAN LANHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We made our love a pretty thing Last Line: So quietly it turned and died. Alternate Author Name(s): Lanham, C. T. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The OBITUARY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He comes! The awful king of terror comes! Last Line: To war with man. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OBLIVION OF DEATH, by JUAN HOLGUIN Poem Text First Line: Once I knew you could not be forgotten Last Line: Or to smile with my pain? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OCCASIONAL ELEGY, IN WHICH 'THE SHIPWRECK' IS CONCLUDED, by WILLIAM FALCONER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scene of death is closed! The mournful strains Last Line: In silent tribute pay her kindred tear. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The OCEAN, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Goodbye again. Say there is a little song in my head Subject(s): Sea; Loneliness; Death; Ocean; Dead, The OCEANO NOX, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! How many mariners, how many captains Last Line: Of the blindman singing in the corner of an old bridge. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OCTAVES IN AN OXFORD GARDEN: 6, by ARTHUR W. UPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hath she uttered that should make me dread Last Line: And smileth on the glory of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Oxford, England; Dead, The OCTOBER MUSINGS: 1866, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, grave, subdued, and sober Last Line: Shall wake to life my sleeping dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; October; Dead, The OCTOBER THOUGHTS: 1862, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A solemn, tender melancholy Last Line: Shall call him yet to guard her shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nature; October; War; Dead, The; Liberty OCTOBER: 1859, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again, again, and yet again Last Line: Even in the shadows of the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; October; Dead, The OCTOBER: 1861, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not changeful april, with her suns and showers Last Line: My life's decline—my solemn—last october. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; October; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The ODD MOMENT, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Live your values said a voice Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: If hoarded gold possess'd a power Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Gold; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine ODE ON A LYCIAN TOMB, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What gracious nunnery of grief is here! Last Line: The instrument o'er which his fateful fingers range. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Les Pleureuses (monument); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness 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 HIS FATHER, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, let the soul her slumbers break Last Line: Bright, radiant, blest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 ODE ON THE INSURRECTION IN CANDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I laid my laurel-leaf Last Line: We call thee and we charge thee that all these be free. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Grief; Revolutions; War; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness ODE ON THE PASSION, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sable clad, urania come Last Line: And proud captivity an humbled captive led! Subject(s): Catholics; Christianity; Crucifixion; Death; Passion; Piety; Prayer; Sin; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The ODE TO A PIG WHILE HIS NOSE WAS BEING ROASTED, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! Hark! That pig - that pig! The hideous note Last Line: To think that for your master's good you die? Variant Title(s): Ode To A Pig, Who Nose Was Being Bored Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mankind; Nature; Pain; Pigs; Sacrifices; Selflessness; Dead, The; Paradise; Human Race; Suffering; Misery; Boars; Hogs ODE TO A REDBREAST, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The darling thou of many a heart Last Line: "thy glancing heaven may show!" Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hope; Nature; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Optimism ODE TO DEATH, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the wretched! Wherefore should the eye Last Line: Nor pause in fearful dread before the opening grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ODE TO NIGHT, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail reverend monarch! Hoary night! Last Line: Converse, refreshing as thy dews. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Death; Night; Yalden, Thomas (1670-1730); Dead, The; Bedtime ODE TO PROSERPINE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter of demeter, yet once more Last Line: And grants the key to her mysterious ways. Subject(s): Death; Demeter; Faces; Mythology - Classical; Persephone; Dead, The; Ceres; Proserpine; Proserpina ODE TO SHELLEY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou dead? Upon the hills once more Last Line: His own soul's voice, nor crave a brother's string. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Soul; Dead, The ODE TO THE LATEST PRIMROSE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Last things are ever sad Last Line: New vital show! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sun; Dead, The ODE TO THE SETTING SUN: ODE, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alpha and omega, sadness and mirth Last Line: For they are twain yet one, and death is birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ODE, TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF COLONEL ROSS [AT] FONTENOY, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While, lost to all his former mirth Last Line: And bid her shepherds weep. Subject(s): Death; Fontenoy, Battle Of (1745); Dead, The ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a time when meadow, grove and stream Last Line: Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. Variant Title(s): Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood;immortality;intimations Of Immortality Subject(s): Death; God; Immortality; Nature; Dead, The ODE: ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS, by ARTHUR JAMES MARSHALL SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: An old thorn tree in a stony place Last Line: Of the sky his cold and passionate song. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, A. J. M. Subject(s): Death; Odes (as Poetic Form); Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The ODE; SUNG BY THE CHILDREN OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, by W. T. ADAMS Poem Text First Line: No more the cannon peal Last Line: And deathless fame. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fame; Monuments; United States - History; Dead, The; Reputation ODES I, 24. HORACE TO VIRGIL ON THE DEATH OF QUINCTILIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why check the yearning for a friend Last Line: To meet the unchanging will of heav'n! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ODES III, 9. DIALOGUE BETWEEN HORACE AND LYDIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When no fond rival's favoured arms Last Line: To live with you, with you to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Smiles; Soul; Dead, The ODES: 10. CHORUS OF FURIES, by BASIL BUNTING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us come upon him first as if in a dream Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ODV; FULL ACCOUNT OF THE FATE OF ABRAHAM ISAACS OF IVY LANE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "true 'tis p t, and p t 'tis, 'tis true" Last Line: An s a unto death Subject(s): Alphabets;death;fate;sin; "dead, The;destiny; ODYSSEUS HEARS OF THE DEATH OF KALYPSO, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: All their songs are of one hour Subject(s): Mythology - Classical; Death; Dead, The OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: THE PASSING OF OEDIPUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How he departed hence, you who stood by Last Line: I ask no grace of those who think them so. Subject(s): Death; Oedipus; Dead, The OF A WOMAN, DEAD YOUNG, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If she had been beautiful, even Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OF LOVE AND SLEEP, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw sleep stand by an enchanted wood Last Line: That love was one with life, and sleep with death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sleep; Dead, The OF MAN'S MORTALITY, by SIMON WASTELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the damask rose you see Last Line: The swan's near death, -- man's life is done! Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The OF MY LIFE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weary of my life Last Line: If I might die! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The OF PAPA AL, by OUIDA LOUISE CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: I think he is taking his turn tonight Last Line: And trying to come near, very near. Subject(s): Children; Death; Moon; Childhood; Dead, The OF THE LAST VERSES IN THE BOOK, by EDMUND WALLER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we for age could neither read nor write Last Line: That stand upon the threshold of the new. Variant Title(s): The Self Banished (1);on The Foregoing Divine Poems;of His Divine Poems;on The Last Verses In His Book Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The OF THE REMEMBERED DEAD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no moment when our dead lose power Last Line: Draws into fellowship of loveliness? Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The OF THOSE WHO WALK ALONE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women there are on earth, of courage and high Last Line: Earth's wrongs are ended. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Earth; Faith; Loss; Love; Soul; Women; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; World; Belief; Creed OFFERING TO A DEAD FRIEND, by CHARLES VAN LERBERGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I bring these flowers, these pure white flow'rs to you in your night Last Line: They are silence too. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Friendship; Dead, The OFFICE FOR THE DEAD, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The grief-chewers enter, their shoes hard on the marble Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OH, WHEN I DIE, by WILLIAM LAIRD BROWN Poem Text First Line: Poet names his burial-stead Last Line: I wonder, those bright other orchards are? Alternate Author Name(s): Laird, William Subject(s): Apple Trees; Death; Trees; Dead, The OLD 'PROF' DICKSON DIES, by CARL HOLLIDAY Poem Text First Line: Old 'prof' dickson's dead at last Last Line: But my! What cheers rocked heaven's wall! Subject(s): Death; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors OLD AGE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In me is a little painted square Last Line: Some evening I shall not return to my people. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The OLD CHUMS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I die first,' my old chum paused Last Line: And I laughed -- whisperingly -- and we were glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Laughter; Dead, The OLD COMMODORE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Od's blood! What a time for a seaman to skulk Last Line: "shall kill, till they grapple him at sea" Subject(s): Death;sailing & Sailors;sea; "dead, The;ocean; OLD JONES IS DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sat in my window, high overhead Last Line: And I hear the live folk laugh in the street. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OLD LOVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old loves, once so alive, but now long dead! Last Line: Give them remembrance for a coronal. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Memory; Time; Dead, The OLD MAN, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When an old man walks with lowered head Last Line: Frail bridges to infinity. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The OLD MAN'S NURSERY RHYME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jolly winters Last Line: Oh! No! No! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The OLD POEM: 12 (CONTINUATION OF 11), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The dead are gone and with them we cannot converse Last Line: "I want to go back, but there's no road back" Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The; 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 OLD STEPHEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He served his master well from youth to age Last Line: Across his dial and his orphan lawn. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OLD STORMY, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stormy's dead,' I heard them say, 'he's Last Line: And she took and drowned herself at last, the night old stormy died. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The OLD TRINITY, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This was a merchant, and that was a belle Last Line: Sorrow and ecstasy, hatred and love. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Passion; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails OLD WOMEN'S SAYINGS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Draw near and give attention Last Line: Of the olden time Subject(s): Death;proverbs;women; "dead, The;maxims;adages; OLD WYLIE'S STONE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You want to see wylie's stone - look here Last Line: Growing round it. We planted them there last year. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Graves; Railroads; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains OLIVES, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Dead people don't like olives Subject(s): Aging; Olives; Death; Dead, The OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, is it well with thee? Over thy grave Last Line: His love the fire that will consume and save? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OMNIA SOMNIA, by JOSHUA SYLVESTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, silly worm, drudge, trudge, and travell Last Line: To prove thy days but dream and slumber. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON A DEAD BABE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away! Thou heavenly one!-- Last Line: But I can not weep fer thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Babies; Death; Grief; Infants; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON A DEAD GIRL, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Lovely she was, if so be night Last Line: Whereof she never spelt a word. Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The ON A FORGOTTEN BY-WAY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: The shabby street-cars jingling go Last Line: To their sweet manes this light rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Graves; New York City - 19th Century; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A FRIENDS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: We thought that death was hard and harsh, a doomer of dread power Last Line: Ah no! His wings wave gently as the petals of a flower. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Immortality; Love; Nature; Dead, The ON A GENTLEMAN AND HIS WIFE, WHO DIED BOTH WITHIN A VERY FEW DAYS, by JOHN HALL (1627-1656) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice happy pair! Who had and have Last Line: The burial but the wedding be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall Of Durham, John Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let us leave him; for his shroud the Last Line: Translated unaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grindelwald, Switzerland; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A PACKET OF OLD LETTERS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: The choicest blooms that ever blent Last Line: Unshadowed joy, immortal youth! Subject(s): Death; Letters; Life; Love; Memory; Youth; Dead, The ON A PICTURE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As a forlorn soul waiting by the styx Last Line: He stands at fault for joy, she whispering 'ay.' Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Rivers; Soul; Dead, The; Optimism ON A SCULPTOR WHO DIED YOUNG; J. MILO GRIFFITH, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Art smiled on him, but one unchanging frown Last Line: Nay! For he giveth his beloved sleep! Subject(s): Death; Sculpture & Sculptors; Dead, The ON A VIRTUOUS YOUNG GENTLEWOMAN THAT DIED SUDDENLY, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the old flaming prophet climb'd the sky Last Line: That she could die or that she could live here. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON A YOUNG POET, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lay him down in peace to take his rest Last Line: But wheresoe'er god hides him, it is well. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON A YOUNG POETESS'S GRAVE, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under her gentle seeing Last Line: Is the sweeter for the flower. Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON A YOUNG STATESMAN; IN MEMORIAM: THOMAS ELLIS, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in this place of peace we make his grave Last Line: "duw rho dy hedd." Subject(s): Death; Statesmen; Dead, The ON AN OLD ROUNDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, from thy rigor a voice appealed Last Line: Ages ago. Subject(s): Death; Roundels; Soul; Dead, The ON AN OPEN GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "laborious passenger, look down" Last Line: Whose end is everywhere Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; ON ANNE ALLEN, by EDWARD FITZGERALD Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The wind blew keenly from the western sea Last Line: She is with thee, o death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON BISHOP ATTERBURY'S BURYING THE DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM: 1720, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have no hopes,' the duke he says, and dies Last Line: And who can say, the reverend prelate lies? Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ON CHANGE OF OPINIONS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As you advance in years you long Last Line: To rake into his bag of nought. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Growth; Longing; Maturity; Childhood; Dead, The 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 DEATH, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream Last Line: His future doom which is but to awake. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON DEATH, by ANNE KILLIGREW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me thou safest end of all our woe Last Line: When canaan did with milk and honey flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Killegrew, Anne Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Means death so much? Is it so great an ill Last Line: He that escapes desire, at last is free. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Desire; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The ON DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pale, the cold, and the moony smile Last Line: With the fears and the love for that which we see? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON DEATH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the death to come? Last Line: And make the parting less and less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mortality; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology ON ETHNIC DEFINITIONS, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the jewish cemetery in prague Last Line: With a sigh, they'll at last lie down. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Ghosts; Judgment Day; Supernatural; Graveyards; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ON FINDING A SMALL FLY CRUSHED IN A BOOK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some hand, that never meant to do thee hurt Last Line: Yet leave no lustre on our page of death. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Dead, The ON FREEDOM, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a dream I'm no longer in love Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty ON HEARING A.W.P.G. PLAY ONE OF RACHMANINOFF'S PRELUDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frenzied hands at the coffin-lid Last Line: That he died in his grave instead of his bed?) Subject(s): Death; Graves; Wales; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Welshmen; Welshwomen ON HEARING THE NEWS FROM VENICE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now dumb is he who waked the world to speak Last Line: When song is murk from springs of turbid source. Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Epitaphs; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON HIS CHOICE OF A GRAVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Caves, and streames that downward slyde Last Line: Sprynge is faire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The ON HIS DEATH, by WILLIAM HABINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, o great all-knowing god Last Line: I shall forgive the trespasse of my heire. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON HIS MISTRESS DROWNED, by THOMAS SPRAT Poem Text First Line: Sweet stream, that dost with equal pace Last Line: These tears, these tears shall mend thy way. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Love; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON HIS MISTRESS'S DEATH, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love the ripe harvest of my toils Last Line: She lives in me, in her I died. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON JOHN DUKE OF BRIDGEWATER, WHO DIED IN THE TWENTY-FIRST YEAR OF AGE, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Intent to hear, and bounteous to bestow Last Line: These honours, egerton, were all thy own! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Youth; Dead, The ON KILEY'S RUN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The roving breezes come and go / on kiley's run Last Line: On kiley's run. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares ON MISS JESSY LEWARS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Talk not to me of savages Last Line: Would be so blest a sight. Subject(s): Love; Fiendship; Death; Dead, The ON MRS. MARGARET PASTON, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet Last Line: Now she is gone, the world is of a piece. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Mrs. Margaret Paston, Of Barningham, In Norfolk Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The ON MY BIRTHDAY, JULY 21, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I, my dear, was born today Last Line: Thou, my dear, wert born to-day.' Subject(s): Birthdays; Death; Life; Mythology - Classical; Venus (goddess); Dead, The ON MY DOG'S DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: My friend has gone Last Line: I am learning to listen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Faith; Friendship; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness ON MY LATE DEAR WIFE, by JONATHAN RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Adieu, dear life! Here am I left alone Last Line: When I but see the shadow of her shade. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Marriage; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON ONE DEAD, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She might be lovely, if the night Last Line: From which no single word she read. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON READING OF THE DEATH OF THOMAS WOLFE, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Text First Line: From death to morning' is the way he went Last Line: To morning! Morning was the answer that he found . . . Subject(s): Death; Wolfe, Thomas Clayton (1900-1938); Dead, The ON RECEIVING AN ACCOUNT THAT HIS ONLY SISTER'S DEATH WAS INEVITABLE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tear which mourn'd a brother's fate scarce dry Last Line: Better to die, than live and not be lov'd! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON RECORD, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not bring a baby face Last Line: Life's scars, for god himself to see! Subject(s): Death; Faces; God; Life; Scars; Dead, The 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 SIR F. CAREW, by SIDNEY GODOLPHIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No way unworthy of his fair descent Last Line: Not move thy tears, but warm thee with like flame. Subject(s): Carey, Sir Ferdinando; Death; Dead, The ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep Last Line: His pious widow consecrates this tomb. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fairborne, Sir Palmes (1634-1680); Graves; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON SOUTHEY'S DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends! Hear the words my wandering thoughts would say Last Line: And, shattered by the fall, I stand alone. Subject(s): Death; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Dead, The ON THE APPROACH OF A SISTER'S DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit who risest to eternal day Last Line: (how soon!) before the throne. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE BICENTENARY OF CORNEILLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scarce two hundred years are gone, and the world is past away Last Line: Whence of yore the spell of song drove the shadow of darkling death. Subject(s): Death; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Memory; Dead, The ON THE BRINK OF DEATH, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now hath my life across a stormy sea Last Line: Whose arms to clasp us on the cross were spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE COUNTESS OF PEMBROKE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this sable [or, marble] hearse Last Line: Both her mourner and her tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Variant Title(s): On The Countess Dowager Of Pembroke;subject Of All Verse;elegy;on The Death Of Marie, Countess Of Pembroke Subject(s): Death; Herbert, Mary Sidney (1561-1621); Herbert, William, 3d Earl Of Pembroke; Sidney, Sir Philip (1554-1586); Dead, The; Pembroke, Countess Of; Sidney, Mary (1561-1621); Dudley, Mary ON THE DAY OF NIXON'S FUNERAL, by IRA SADOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's time to put the aside the old resentments; lies Subject(s): Nixon, Richard (1913-1996); Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DEATH OF A CAT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall tell the lady's grief? Last Line: Nor disturb her narrow bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF A LADY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet spirit! If thy airy sleep Last Line: We thought thou wert not form'd to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A MOTHER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little maiden, her doll to her Last Line: Mother to mother means dear to dear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fear; Kisses; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; World ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER WHILE ABSENT AT SCHOOL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet sister! Is it so? And shall I see Last Line: Saviour of souls! I thank thee for her bliss. Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A VERY YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who could view the book of destiny Last Line: Imagine all in one, and think that one is he. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG AND FAVORITE SLAVE, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear youth, too early lost, who now art laid Last Line: Mine be as lowly and as green a tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by FRANCIS FAWKES Poem Text First Line: Short and precarious is the life of man Last Line: And bloomed renewed in everlasting life. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Immortality; Youth; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush'd are the winds, and still the evening gloom Last Line: Still in my heart retain their wonted place. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Cousins; Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF ALFRED TENNYSON, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who took the laurel from the brow Last Line: And kept the lily's whiteness fair. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron 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 AN AGED FRIEND, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are not dead -- life has but set you free Last Line: You merely smiled to greet another friend! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Future Life; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology ON THE DEATH OF AN OLD LADY, by L. K. GARRISON Poem Text First Line: They tended you for many years Last Line: I for my part was glad. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Old Age; Dead, The; Paradise ON THE DEATH OF ANNE BRONTE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's little joy in life for me Last Line: Must bear alone the weary strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Variant Title(s): 21 June 1849 Subject(s): Bronte, Anne (1820-1849); Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF CATARINA DE ATTAYDA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those charming eyes within whose starry sphere Last Line: Sighed o'er the ruin, and returned to heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF CUCHULAINN, by THOMAS BOYD Poem Full Text First Line: The last of the mighty deeds of the son of sualitim Subject(s): Cuchulainn (irish Mythology); Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF DIANA, by PHILIPPE DESPORTES Poem Text First Line: As you maye see the sudden lightnynge smite Last Line: I leave the earth and fly to thee above. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF DR. ROBERT LEVET, A PRACTISER IN PHYSIC, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Condemned to hope's delusive mine, / as we toil from day to day Last Line: And freed his soul the nearest way. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr. Variant Title(s): Lines On The Death Of Mr. Levett;dr. Levett;the Quiet Life Subject(s): Bible; Death; Levet, Robert; Physicians; Religion; Dead, The; Doctors; Theology ON THE DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL MARSHALL, 1771, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade Last Line: The spouse, the sire, the universal friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF DR. SWIFT, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As rochfoucault [or rochfoucauld] his maxims drew Last Line: "I wish it soon may have a better." Variant Title(s): Verses On The Death Of Dr. Swift Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Gay, John (1685-1732); Pope, Alexander (1688-1744); Rochefoucauld, Francois De La (1613-80); Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Dead, The; Liberty ON THE DEATH OF EDWARD PAYSON, D.D., by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A servant of the living god is dead Last Line: Shall we bewail our brother -- that he died? Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Payson, Edward (1783-1836); Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF FRIENDS IN CHILDHOOD, by DONALD JUSTICE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We shall not ever meet them bearded in heaven Last Line: Come, memory, let us seek them there in the shadows Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF HER BODY, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a thought breaking the granite heart Last Line: Plucking the flowers of the abyss. Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF HER BROTHER, FRANCIS I, by MARGARET OF ANGOULEME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis done! A father, mother, gone Last Line: That we may be his own at last! Alternate Author Name(s): Marguerite D'angouleme; Marguerite Of Navarre; Marguerite De Valois Subject(s): Death; Francis I, King Of France (1494-1547); Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, by WEI WEN-TI Poem Text First Line: I look up and see / his curtains and bed Last Line: Then why was he / not spared? Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Death; Fathers; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye fabled muses, I your aid disclaim Last Line: The poor man's portion, and the orphan's stay. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ON THE DEATH OF JOHN CASSELL; THE TRUE FRIEND OF THE WORKING MAN, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mournful voices thrill upon my ears? Last Line: The trophies of his power remain behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cassell, John (1817-1865); Death; England; Labor & Laborers; Praise; Dead, The; English; Work; Workers ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. WILLIAM HOWARD ALLEN, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He hath been mourned as brave men mourn the brave Last Line: It was a mother's -- and is broken now. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Subject(s): Death; Grief; Navy - United States; Pirates; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; American Navy; Piracy; Buccaneers ON THE DEATH OF LITTLE MAHALA ASHCRAFT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little haly! Little haly!' cheeps the robin the tree Last Line: "and the katydids and crickets hollers ""haly!"" all the night." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Bees; Birds; Death; Grief; Insects; Night; Beekeeping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bugs; Bedtime ON THE DEATH OF LONGFELLOW, by KENNETH MCLACHLAN Poem Text First Line: Thy end hath come! An end will come to all Last Line: The song that's never mute, and evermore shall be. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MARY COWDEN CLARKE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She who saw blue-eyed shelley plain is gone Last Line: Now that their last contemporary dies. Subject(s): Clarke, Mary Cowden (1809-1898); Death; Finality; Funerals; Grief; Loss; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF MR RANDOLPH, by R. GOSTELOW Poem Text First Line: When donne and beaumont died, an epitaph Last Line: Since wit's decay, or randolph's death -- so long. Alternate Author Name(s): Feltham, Owen Subject(s): Death; Randolph, Thomas (1605-1634); Dead, The 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. JAMES VALENTINE, by JAMES HAY BEATTIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye clouds that in tempestuous grandeur driven Last Line: And give me back my loved, lamented valentine. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MR. PURCELL, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark how the lark and linnet sing Last Line: Nor know to mend their choice. Variant Title(s): An Ode On The Death Of Mr Henry Purcell;an Ode, On The Death Of Mr. Henry Purcell, Late Servant To His Majesty Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Purcell, Henry (1659-1695); Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors ON THE DEATH OF MR. WOODWARD, AT EDINBURGH, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another! 'tis a sad word to the heart Last Line: When time, with all his years and centuries has passed by. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MRS. BOWLES, by MARY WORTLEY MONTAGU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy bride, for thou art truly blest! Last Line: With fellow-angels you enjoy it now. Alternate Author Name(s): Montagu, Mary Wortley; Pierrepont, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MRS. JENNINGS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past: dear venerable shade, farewell Last Line: Who gave the dearest blessing I possess. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers ON THE DEATH OF MRS. MARTINEAU, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who around this venerated bier Last Line: "speaks from the tomb, and cries ""thy friends are here!" Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MRS. [ELIZABETH] ROWE, by ELIZABETH CARTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accept, much honoured shade! The artless lays Last Line: And spend their blest eternity in praise. Subject(s): Death; Rowe, Elizabeth Singer (1674-1737); Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR BROTHER, MR. H.S., DROWNED: THE TEMPERS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The elements, that do man's house compose Last Line: Surpris'd his open heart. Subject(s): Death; Sandys, Henry; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR BROTHER, RICHARD FLATMAN; PINDARIC ODE, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy muse! Employ'd so oft Last Line: Then some kind friend perhaps may drop one tear for me. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY DEAR SISTER ELIZA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If spotless innocence, and truth, refined Last Line: "no more my spirit death or sickness fears." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF MY MUCH HONOURED UNCLE, MR. G. SANDYS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pardon, great soul, if duty grounded on Last Line: Tis making anthems in the heavenly quire! Subject(s): Death; Sandys, George (1578-1644); Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF OLD BENNET THE NEWS-CRIER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "one evening, when the sun was just gone down" Last Line: "homer and bennet were in this agreed, / homer was blind, and bennet could not read" Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;death;grief;news;silence; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; ON THE DEATH OF PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marked ye the mingling of the city's throng Last Line: Oh! Tell those hearts, hath made that bliss eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN CHARLOTTE 1818, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death has gone up into our palaces Last Line: May best deserve our love. Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Courts & Courtiers; Death; Epitaphs; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Grief; Marriage; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD BURTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night or light is it now, wherein Last Line: That shines as dawn on a tideless sea. Subject(s): Death; England; Night; Soul; Dead, The; English; Bedtime ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD DOYLE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A light of blameless laughter, fancy-bred Last Line: Between the grass grown greener round his head. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF SIR HENRY TAYLOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourscore and five times has the gradual year Last Line: Into the light of peace and fame departs. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare Last Line: She said, and vanish'd with the sweeping blast. Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Graves; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF THE BEAUTIFUL MRS. -- ., by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: I saw her when life's tide was high Last Line: The damp sepulchral icy wreath. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS BORGHESE, AT ROME, 1840, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, and but once again I dare to raise Last Line: Like some lone column of his native rome! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Rome, Italy; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN OF BOHEMIA, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although the most do with officious heat Last Line: And after all her wrongs, may do her right. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Elizabeth, Queen Of Bohemia; Life; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. KIPPIS, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Placed midst the tempest, whose conflicting waves Last Line: Earth's purest homage, and the meed of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Kipnis, Dr. Andrew (1725-1795); Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MATTHEW GARDNER, D.D. OF BOTHWELL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ripe, fully ripe, then came the reaper death Last Line: "my love, my joys are thine, and ""heaven thy home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF THULENE THE KYNGE'S JESTER, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sire, thulene is dead. I have seen his grave Last Line: But unto poets brynges but emptye coffers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jesters; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF WILLIAM AIKMAN THE PAINTER: FINIS, by JAMES THOMSON (1700-1748) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As those we love decay, we die in part Last Line: Till, dying, all he can resign is -- breath. Variant Title(s): On The Death Of A Particular Friend Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DECEASE OF MRS ROSENHAGEN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah yes! The hour is come Last Line: That loving word, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE DOWNS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Squeeze out the cowslip-wine and let me drink Last Line: My landscape; -- she is with me; -- I can die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Drinks & Drinking; Orion (mythology); Silence; Dead, The; Nightmares; Wine ON THE DUNES, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now that my tasks are done, and fast Last Line: Blue-flowered on the sandy spurs. Subject(s): Death; Dunes; Dead, The ON THE FREQUENT REVIEW OF THE TROOPS, by M. [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Reviews are gaudy shows - allowed Last Line: "let causists tell us, if they can, / is england's welfare furthered?" Alternate Author Name(s): M. Subject(s): Death;england;fights;guns; "dead, The;english; ON THE GRAVE OF MICHAEL GORDON, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more gravestone-one more heart Last Line: Spoke in blessing o'er the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism ON THE LATE SHIFT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Seven waggons to siding four, one to the buffer / end Last Line: For a mourning dress at dawn. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heaven; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Train Wrecks ON THE LOSS OF A PIOUS FRIEND, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who shall weep when the righteous die? Last Line: Shall say, there is no peace for thee. Subject(s): Piety; Death; Dead, The ON THE MONUMENT OF A FAIR MAIDEN LADY, WHO DIED AT BATH, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Below this marble monument is laid Last Line: In sickness patient; and in death resign'd. Variant Title(s): On The Monument Of Miss Mary Frampton Subject(s): Death; Frampton, Mary (1676-1698); Monuments; Soul; Dead, The ON THE MONUMENT OF THE MARQUIS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who in impious times untainted stood Last Line: To earth were meant for ornaments to heav'n. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Monuments; Paulet, John. 5th Marquis Of Winchester; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Pawlett, John; Poulett, John; Powlett, John ON THE OCCASION OF A POET'S DEATH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dedication and intensity of the dead Last Line: The disembodied glories of hades await us. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE PASSING OF KING GEORGE V, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When time has sifted motives, passions, deeds Last Line: And ventured to a nobler marching word. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; George V, King Of England (1865-1936); Memory; Prayer; Rest; Dead, The ON THE PICTURE OF A DEPARTED POETESS, by ELIZABETH J. EAMES Poem Text First Line: This still, clear, radiant face! Doth it resemble Last Line: The better land thy dream of love fulfilled. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The ON THE RANGE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On nungar the mists of the morning hung low Last Line: Marks the last resting-place of the lord of the hills. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Love; Dead, The ON THE REBURIAL OF A SECOND LIEUTENANT, by MILLER WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drank a beer Subject(s): Soldiers; Death; Chess; Dead, The ON THE RECENT DEATHS OF HIS FRIEND COLONNA AND HIS LADY LAURA, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Broken. The high column. The green laurel Subject(s): Petrarch (1304-1374); Death; Francesco Petrarca; Dead, The ON THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortality, behold and fear Last Line: Buried in dust, once dead by fate. Subject(s): Death; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The ON THE TREK, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the weary, weary journey on the trek, day after day Last Line: For we're going on a long job now. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Soldiers; Dead, The ON THE VERGE, by WILLIAM WINTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the dark it throbs and glows Last Line: The shattered ship that sails to-night! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ON THE WESTERN FRONT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found a dreadful acre of the dead Last Line: If you fail now, we shall not see or hear. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Peace; Silence; War; Dead, The; World ON THE WIRE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god, take the sun from the sky! Last Line: Here on the wire . . . The wire. . . . Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ON TWIN-SISTERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fair marble, tell to future days" Last Line: That death mistook them both for one Subject(s): Death;epitaphs;twins; "dead, The; ONCE WITH DEATH NEAR, by REBA MAXWELL AVERY Poem Text First Line: Once, with death near, I thought: what will it mean Last Line: Will live beyond the sleep that men call death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The ONE AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came home from forced labor to Last Line: The fields of where we all are one. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Graves; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE BY ONE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Few are my friends Last Line: My friends leave home. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Friendship; Dead, The; Parting ONE DAY, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One day, one day, our lives shall seem Last Line: Consent to linger and to be. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ONE MORE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With a smile and a kiss he went away Last Line: The father whom they sacrificed. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Smiles; Dead, The ONE OF MANY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Some sing among the trumpets in the fray Last Line: A laurel -- or a rose. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE OF THE ANIMALS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does a dog get sick Last Line: — you tell me. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Dead, The 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 ONE STORY, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In one story, the coyote sings us into being Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Paperweights; Dead, The ONE TO ANOTHER, by KENNETH S. DENISON Poem Text First Line: When the lips have turned to dust Last Line: Who shall long for that frozen touch? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ONE WHO IS DEAD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again, my darling, never again Last Line: And I remember only I held you dear. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ONE-SIDED TROTH, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not for what he would be to me now Last Line: Had he only died ere he broke the bond. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ONLY A YEAR', by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One year ago - a ringing voice Last Line: This sad, sad year. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The ONLY IN DEATH, by MAUDE CHATEAUNEUF OVERTON Poem Text First Line: He had not much in life Last Line: And from the organ rolled sweet, solemn strains. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The ONLY JOE, by JAMES ROANN REED Poem Text First Line: This grave were ye meanin,' stranger? Last Line: That a body could never do that, as were simple and dazed, like joe! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Legends; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONLY THE CLOTHES SHE WORE, by NATHANIEL GRAHAM SHEPHERD Poem Text First Line: There is the hat Last Line: Then—will it be well? Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Death; Dead, The ONLY WAITING, by FRANCES LAUGHTON MACE Poem Text First Line: Only waiting till the shadows Last Line: Tread its pathway to the skies. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology OPEN, TIME, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open, time, and let him pass Last Line: Into country grass. Subject(s): Death; Time; Youth; Dead, The OPUS POSTHUMOUS, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the way the dead keep writing to us Last Line: Place beyond desire and meanness, beyond dust Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Dead, The ORA PRO ME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ave maria! Bright and pure Last Line: Ora pro me. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Mary And Martha (bible); Soul; Women In The Bible; Dead, The ORACLE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because the burn's unstable, burning too hot Subject(s): Engineering & Engineers; Rockets; Fathers; Death; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: A PRAYER FOR THE PAST, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sights and sounds of day and year Last Line: What home is too may know? Subject(s): Aging; Children; Christianity; Death; Future Life; God; Life; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ORGAN SONGS: HYMN FOR A SICK GIRL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, in the dark I lay Last Line: Rise and live in thine. Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Future Life; Girls; God; Sickness; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Illness ORGAN SONGS: O DO NOT LEAVE ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O do not leave me, mother, lest I weep Last Line: Leaving is left behind. Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; God; Mothers; Desertion; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: TO ANY FRIEND, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I did seem to you no more Last Line: Then think me what you will. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Dead, The ORGAN SONGS: TO MY AGING FRIENDS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is no winter night comes down Last Line: We are coming fast to you! Subject(s): Aging; Death; Friendship; God; Dead, The ORIGIN, by NAOMI DUCKMAN FURTH Poem Text First Line: I cannot believe that he is dead Last Line: And my lips still taste of his. Subject(s): Breasts; Death; Lips; Dead, The OSCAR C. MCCULLOCH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would best please our Last Line: To all humanity -- our nobler lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Obituaries; Dead, The; Destiny OSCAR COHEN, by HAMMOND B. GAYFER Poem Text First Line: Oh, that death should lay thee low Last Line: Shone the glory of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Gayfer, H. B. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism OSWALD, THE MINNESINGER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oswald von wolkenstein! / last of a gifted line Last Line: God rest his soul! Subject(s): Death; Legends; Life; Love; Dead, The OTTERBURN, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lad who went to flanders Last Line: And never will return. Subject(s): Death; Flanders, Belgium; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe Last Line: As the libretto of a maiden's heart. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Death; Graves; Patriotism; Soldiers; Confederacy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OUR DEAD, by E. L. PETERSON JR. Poem Text First Line: We have forgotten them, thank god! They fell Last Line: Young men were made for war; god bless our boys! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The OUR DEAD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing is our own: we hold our pleasures Last Line: And, to save our treasures, claims them all. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Fate; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The; Destiny OUR DEAD, OVERSEAS, by EDWARD ARCHIBALD MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: In italy, in belgium, in france Last Line: Something that swings the spirit to a star. Alternate Author Name(s): Markham, E. A. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; World War I - United States; Graveyards; Dead, The OUR DUST, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Full Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I am your ancestor. You know next-to-nothing Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The OUR FALLEN BRAVE, by CORNELIA J. M. JORDAN Poem Text First Line: They fell! In freedom's cause they fell Last Line: Our fallen and our free. Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Death; Freedom; Love; United States - History; Confederacy; Dead, The; Liberty OUR FAMILY TREE; ON THE DEATH OF MY SISTER CECILIA, by JOSEPH CEPHAS HOLLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our family tree is in the sear Last Line: Our names shine bright as day. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Sisters; Dead, The; Relatives OUR HERO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers, only flowers - bring me dainty posies Last Line: So we left him sleeping, still amid the flow'rs. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War OUR LITTLE GIRL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart knew naught of sorrow Last Line: "our little girl again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Girls; Life; Dead, The OUR LOST, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They never quite leave us, our friends who have passed Last Line: But they live, like ourselves, in god's infinite care. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Loss; Dead, The; Paradise OUR LOST AVIATORS, by ISOLA M. OHAVER Poem Text First Line: Brave hearts were they Last Line: Do know. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The OUR TRAVELLER, by HENRY CHOLMONDELEY-PENNELL Poem Text First Line: If thou would'st stand on etna's burning brow Last Line: Then, why the dickens don't you go and do it? Alternate Author Name(s): Pennell, Henry Cholmondeley Subject(s): Death; Soul; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips OUR WIDOWED QUEEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The husband of the widow care for her Last Line: Then may her husband praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Albert Of Saxe-coburg-gotha (1819-1861); Death; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Widows & Widowers; Prince Consort Of Queen Victoria; Dead, The OUT FROM NOONKANBAH, by JOHN WILSON (19TH CENTURY) Poem Text First Line: The coolibahs quiver, / the snakewood moans Last Line: Out from noonkanbah. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilo Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The OUT OF DARKNESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: There is more in earth and heaven Last Line: But we scarce have caught the gleam. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise OUT OF EARTH, by FREDERICK R. MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: Pattern the clouds for a moment Last Line: A thorn in the heel of death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Heaven; Hell; Nature; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Paradise OUT OF HEARING, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No need to hush the children for her sake Last Line: She will not wake, mavrone, she will not wake. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OUT OF REACH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think them 'out of reach' Last Line: "this side of ""out of reach." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The OUT OF THE RANKS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the bitter fight I have made my way Last Line: And hope for the dawn of a better day. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Fights; Tears; Dead, The OUT, OUT -', by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard Last Line: Were not the one dead, turned to their affairs. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Dead, The OUTIDANA: A DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-day is a thought, a fear is to-morrow Last Line: Then we weep for ourselves, and wish thee goodbye. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The OUTSIDE, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The dead thing mashed into the street Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The OVER THE BORDER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Over the border to rifle and plunder Last Line: Over the border would venture to stray! Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;hunting; "dead, The;hunters; OVER THE MAY HILL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All through the night time, and all through the day time Last Line: My heart and my love will be lying ere long. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Hearts; Love; May (month); Night; Dead, The; Bedtime OVER THE MOUNTAIN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like dreary prison walls Last Line: O beating heart, be still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Mountains; Dead, The; Nightmares; Hills; Downs (great Britain) OVER THE RANGE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little bush maiden, wondering eyed Last Line: To the beautiful country over the range. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Home; Life; Summer; Dead, The OVER THE RIVER, by NANCY WOODBURY PRIEST Poem Text First Line: Over the river they beckon to me Last Line: The angel of death shall carry me. Alternate Author Name(s): Wafield, Nancy Amelia Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The OVERSEAS; IN MEMORY OF ALAN SEEGER, by ABBIE CARTER GOODLOE Poem Text First Line: Across the vexed, insuperable sea Last Line: The imperishable essence of his soul! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Seeger, Alan (1888-1916); Soldiers; War; Dead, The OWL SONG, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the heart of a murdered woman Subject(s): Owls; Death; Dead, The OZYMANDIAS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I met a traveler from an antique land Last Line: The lone and level sands stretch far away. Variant Title(s): Ozymandias Of Egypt Subject(s): Death; Decay; Deserts; Egypt; Fame; Food & Eating; Pride; Rameses Ii, King Of Egypt; Ruins; Statues; Time; Transience; Vanity; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Reputation; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Impermanence PACKING HER THINGS, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The PAHA SAPA TWILIGHT, by MARTIN E. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: The paha sapa twilight falls Last Line: To sleep in paha sapa's arms. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The PAIN, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a mystery that walks the earth Last Line: Thou feelest that I am! Subject(s): Blood; Death; Despair; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PAINED UNTO DEATH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One life I knew was a psalm, a terrible psalm of pain Last Line: And was and was not of this under earth. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 2, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While arcite lives in bliss, the story turns Last Line: The knights to combate; and their arms to sing. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories PALAMON AND ARCITE, OR THE KNIGHT'S TALE: BOOK 3, by GEOFFREY CHAUCER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day approached when fortune should decide Last Line: And all true lovers find the same success. Subject(s): Chaucer, Geoffrey (1342-1400); Death; Fables; Fortune; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Allegories PALE COUNTRY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: I who thus have brought life down Last Line: I'll take its measure with my thumb. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PALLOR, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The great white lilies in the grass / are pallid as the smile of death Last Line: To let them dream they are not dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Variant Title(s): Death In The World Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: BELLARIA'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies entomb'd bellaria fair Last Line: Curse him that caus'd this queen to die. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jealousy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PANEM ET CIRCENSES, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crumbs of bitter comfort fall Last Line: "we were revenged before we died!" Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Life; Pleasure; Sun; Dead, The PARADE, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Out of step,' they said, as we marched along Last Line: ... But how could they know that I marched with the dead? Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marching & Marches; Soldiers; War; Dead, The PARADISE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O paradise, o paradise Last Line: In god's most holy sight. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise PARAPHRASED, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou shalt leave this miserable life Last Line: For who shall say to thy dead clay, I love thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PARISH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: God only knows what he'd been doing. Painting or sewing? Last Line: Of them vanishing into the hills. Subject(s): Death; Escapes; Morticians; Dead, The; Fugitives PARSON GRAY, by OLIVER GOLDSMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A quiet home had parson gray Last Line: His breath he could not draw! Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PARTED, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Alack for life! Last Line: Alack for life, who'd say? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PARTED, by ALICE MEYNELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to one now silenced quite Last Line: And yet my feet are on the flowers. Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PARTED FRIENDS, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend after friend departs Last Line: They hide themselves in heaven's own light. Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life closed twice before its close Last Line: And all we need of hell. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PARTING, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A moment more, the swelling sails Last Line: Within the grave a dreamless rest! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness PARTING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As from our dream we died away Last Line: How far away from paradise! Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise PARTING OF A MOTHER WITH HER CHILD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He knew her not, that fair, young boy Last Line: And know thy mother there. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The PASCAL, by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lovedst life, but not to brand it thine (o rich in all forborne felicities Last Line: More blessedly, that men can name them not. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pascal, Blaise (1623-1662); Dead, The PASSER MORTUUS EST, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death devours all lovely things Last Line: Now that love is perished? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Catullus, Gaius Valerius (84-54 B.c.); Death; Sparrows; Dead, The PASSING AWAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is written on the rose Last Line: To pass away! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise PASSING AWAY, by JOHN PIERPONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it the chime of a tiny bell Last Line: "passing away! Passing away!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PASSING BY, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day is dying! Day is dying Last Line: Day is dying—day is dead! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The PASSIONATE DOWSABELLA: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The pears were in the perry Last Line: And dowsabella's cry is still -- and is she still in pain? Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Love; Moon; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime PAST AND PRESENT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll never forgive you! I said Last Line: As I seek to harden my heart? Subject(s): Anger; Death; Forgiveness; Past; Dead, The; Clemency PASTORAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It happened so fast. Fenya was in the straight Last Line: The vigil of astonishment. Subject(s): Breast Feeding; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Nursing (infants); Dead, The PASTORAL, by DOMINIC BEVAN WYNDHAM LEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lumpish trollop! / let 'er bleed Last Line: In bristol moll — Alternate Author Name(s): Shy, Timothy; Lewis, Wyndham Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Masefield, John (1878-1967); Dead, The PATIENCE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: With drooping head sweet patience sighs and sees Last Line: And peace return to earth on shining wing. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PATRIOTICS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday a little girl got slapped to death by her daddy Subject(s): United States; Patriotism; Death; America; Dead, The PATTERNS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would you lay a pattern on life and say, thus shall ye live? Last Line: For the only sin is death, and the only virtue to be altogether alive and your own authentic self. Subject(s): Death; Growth; Life; Order; Self; Sin; Dead, The PAUDEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: What is it beyont that ye're watchin', paudeen Last Line: "och! Afeared they'd come covetin' — grania magee!" Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sky; Dead, The; Paradise PAUL, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Hotel st. Sulpice - you'll not know Last Line: "mais pourquoi pas? Quelle femme! Quelle boîte!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; War Injuries; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The PAUL CELAN, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paul celan. Towards the end, the words grew Last Line: To take a breather and wipe his brow Subject(s): Death; Celan, Paul (1920-1970); Dead, The PAULO PURGANTI AND HIS WIFE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the fixed and settled rules Last Line: But, to my comfort, I'm prepared. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Physicians; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Doctors PAURA NON E NELLA CARITA, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The place, a tuscan churchyard, and the time Last Line: And smile to hear the fatal words she saith! Subject(s): Autumn; Cemeteries; Death; Messages & Messengers; Seasons; Tuscany, Italy; Fall; Graveyards; Dead, The PAYING CALLS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went by footpath and by stile Last Line: But they spoke not to me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The PEACE, by LILLIAN LOWRY Poem Text First Line: What? Pity her! Last Line: Her sculptured peace? Subject(s): Death; Pity; Dead, The PEACE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Peace! Is it the dull Last Line: "in thine own place, thy soul shall find its peace." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness PEACE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul, there is a country Last Line: Thy god, thy life, thy cure. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Sweet Peace Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise PEACE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Thou gentle dove! Wing'd envoy to mankind Last Line: And bring the leaf the tender olive yields! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise PEACE (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shout of gladness is heard afar Last Line: In the glorious reign of the prince of peace. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Peace; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones PEACH-BLOSSOM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly the hoar-frost freezes Last Line: And life shall never die! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fruit; Life; Peaches; Spring; Dead, The PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 60. AL-MU'HID, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who dies at azan sends Last Line: This to those that made his grave. Variant Title(s): Resurrection Of Abdullah;after Death [in Arabia] Subject(s): Consolation; Death; God; Islam; Dead, The PENAL SERVITUDE FOR MRS. MAYBRICK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the maybrick trial is over now, there's been a lot of jaw" Last Line: So stick close to your husband and keep clear of berry's drop Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;law & Lawyers;trials; "dead, The; PERFECT WOMAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She was a phantom of delight Last Line: With something of angelic light. Variant Title(s): "a Portrait;seen, Loved, Wedded;""she Was A Phantom Of Delight""; Subject(s): Death; Hutchinson, Mary; Love; Marriage; Women; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PERMANENT GLORIA, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wrought my work - more durable than steel Last Line: And bind his brows with laurel ever green. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Muses; Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise PERPETUITY, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night a mighty poet passed away Last Line: At that same hour another bard was born! Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Rebirth; Dead, The PETRARCHAN, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dogs locked in the shed now Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The PHANTASUS, by ARNO HOLZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Its roof among the stars projected Last Line: A dreamer and a prodigal. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery PHAON IN HADES, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To-day the very dead would love his face Last Line: Of blame, were I to love his beauty less! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Hades; Persephone; Tears; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina 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 PHILIPER FLASH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young philiper flash was a promising Last Line: Whacked his jugular open and went to smash. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The PHILOCTETES: PHILOCTETES CALLS FOR DEATH, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O healer death, spurn not to come to me Last Line: Are doctor, and a dead man feels no pain. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PHILOSOPHY AND BESS, by ROBERT B. SHARPE Poem Text First Line: Bess, do you mean it, really, when you say Last Line: Love only's wise. Taste, truth, life, there,—and there— Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The PHRYGES: JUSTICE PROTECTS THE KING, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you would do a kinness to the dead Last Line: And justice wreaks their vengeance for the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PICKING SKULLS AT VERDUN, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A respectable, exceedingly proper paper reports Last Line: Who always see the folly when it is too late! Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Skulls; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PICNIC, LIGHTNING, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is possible to be struck by a meteor Last Line: To burrow back under the loam Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Dead, The PILGRIMS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For oh, when the war will be over Last Line: We point . . . To a name on a cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War PILLAR WORK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the flowers, the lily blooms supreme Last Line: Fell on their hearts, and heavenly release. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dreams; Flowers; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares PIPE DREAMS: 6, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Ah, but it's good to be alive, wah kee Last Line: And sought your joint—chase up six pills, wah kee! Subject(s): Death; Survival; Dead, The PIPPA AND HER FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Her flowers? The martagon flame-lily glowing Last Line: Shames into silence death's despairful creed. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Girls; Happiness; Heart's-ease (flower); Lilies; Dead, The; Joy; Delight PLACIDE BOSSIER, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, friend! In the tender college time Last Line: The cross on the saint-heart shining! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Southern States; War; Dead, The; South (u.s.) PLANTING BULBS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Setting my bulbs arow Last Line: No more weeping, but laughter. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Gardens & Gardening; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life PLATONICA, by JEANNETTE FOSTER Poem Text First Line: Dear, dearest, / why do the arms of me yearn? Last Line: Could I be distant and cold? Variant Title(s): Platonics Subject(s): Absence; Cold; Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The PLAY IN WHICH DARKNESS FALLS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two girls runaway from the home. They have a revolver Subject(s): Roussel, Raymond (1877-1933); Girls; Escapes; Death; Fugitives; Dead, The PLAYED OUT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a bullock falls in the crooked ruts, he fell when / the day was over Last Line: From no particular where. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Mortality; Poverty; Dead, The; Work; Workers PLAYING DEAD, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Our father liked to play a game. Last Line: I’m way too young to quote ’em Subject(s): Fathers; Family Life; Death; Relatives; Dead, The 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 POEM AFTER CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's life that is hard: waking, sleeping, eating, loving Last Line: Arrive once more at the house where love seemed to be in the air Subject(s): Andrade, Carlos Drummond De; Death; Life; Dead, The POEM ON MY FORTIETH BIRTHDAY TO MY MOTHER WHO DIED YOUNG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well I have almost come to the place where you fell Last Line: Running like hell and if I fall / I fall Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The POEM, READ THE SOLDIERS' WELCOME, FRANKLIN, NEW YORK, AUG. 5, 1865, by B. H. BARNES Poem Text First Line: The heroes of a hundred fields Last Line: For peace and liberty! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Homecoming; Life; Soldiers; United States - History; Dead, The POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: OF THE RAIN-BOW, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was ever nightly rain-bow seen? Last Line: Though clothed in a svmmer weed. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Rainbows; Seasons; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Bedtime 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 POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: TO HER LADISHIP, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If those salt showers that your sad eyes haue shed Last Line: That your so loued mate is gone before. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Grief; Loss; Rain; Reason; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals 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 POETIC EPIGRAMS: 13. BY ONE JUST DEAD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though but an hour has sped Last Line: As one ten aeons dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The POETIC EPIGRAMS: 15. NOVEMBER LEAVES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the least leaf of all Last Line: The universes fall. Subject(s): Death; Leaves; November; Dead, The POETIC EPIGRAMS: 27. AGE AND DEATH, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My fire has burnt so low Last Line: Is not a guest, I trow! Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The POETIC EPIGRAMS: 28. THE DEAD THINKER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the slow silent hearse Last Line: Home to the universe. Subject(s): Death; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking POLAND, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of freedom, shadow of the god Last Line: Fling wide the portal to the peerless queen! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Nations; Poland; Soldiers; Dead, The; Liberty POOR LITTLE JOE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "prop yer eyes wide open, joey" Last Line: "oh, my god! Can oe be dead?" Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; POOR OLD MAN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, love, one wild dance more, while still Last Line: Blundering by, and say he's god. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Dead, The POPHAM OF THE NEW SONG: 2, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And so a man I love says fifteen years is all he has Last Line: Each other's hair. They don't believe in me or you. Subject(s): Children; Death; Love; Men; Reason; Stairs; Childhood; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals PORTALS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What are those of the known but to ascend and enter the unknown? Last Line: And what are those of life but for death? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PORTENTS, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: October fades out in its special colors Subject(s): October; Death; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence PORTRAIT OF ONE DEAD, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is her house. On one side there is darkness Last Line: We'll never know, you say, for she is dead. Subject(s): Death; Home; Dead, The POSSIBILITIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As day doth live beyond the sunset skies Last Line: And 'mid the wheels of fate a living god. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Dead, The; Destiny POST MORTEM, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment Subject(s): Death; Dead, The POST MORTEM, by LUCILLE LONG Poem Text First Line: You knew my fancies, whims, desires Last Line: Oh, so long ago. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The POST MORTEM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man goes his way, and cuts a narrow Last Line: To pay for pomp and fuss and foolish pride. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The POST MORTEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since ending must be, this was how to end Last Line: What comfort is there since she went from me? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness POST-MODERNISM, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pinup of rita hayworth was taped Last Line: Do I know him? Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Bombs; Death; Hiroshima, Japan; Nuclear War; Schools; Teaching & Teachers; Actresses; Dead, The; Atomic Bomb; Hydrogen Bomb; Students; Educators; Professors 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 POSTHUMOUS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of what avail the tardy showers Last Line: Pulses quivering, to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The POSTHUMOUS REMORSE, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you shall sleep, my faithless one, under / a monument Last Line: -and the worm will gnaw your flesh like a remorse. Subject(s): Death; Regret; Dead, The POSTPONED, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: God! Did I hear you call? Yesterday? Today? Last Line: You see, I'm busy, because you made me that way. Subject(s): Ambition; Death; God; Hope; Learning; Prayer; Dead, The; Optimism POSTSCRIPT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At 8:12 a.M. All of the watches in the world are being wound Last Line: Decided to stay. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Despair; Yesenin, Sergei (1895-1925); Dead, The POVERTY, by HAMLEN HUNT Poem Text First Line: I wish I had a gift Last Line: And nothing more. Subject(s): Death; Love; Poverty; Dead, The PRAISE PREMATURE, by SAMUEL BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Praise immature is idle breath Subject(s): Praise; Death; Dead, The PRAYER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Choked we live, and choked we die Last Line: Death! Subject(s): Breath; Death; Life; Prayer; Dead, The PRAYER, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let us leave our island woods grown dim Last Line: For the soul unhearing them is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; God; Prayer; Soul; Dead, The PRAYER BEFORE SUMMER, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more across the frozen hills Last Line: That ends so starkly and so soon? Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Death; Memory; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The PRAYER OF ANY HUSBAND, by MAZIE V. CARUTHERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, may there be no moment in her life Last Line: May not the two of us be parted long! Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Prayer; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives PRAYERS FOR THE DEAD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay! I will pray for them until I go Last Line: And there, as here, god listens evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Prayer; Dead, The PRELUDE, by NEIL TRACY Poem Text First Line: A thing long sought Last Line: With a thing long sought. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Relationships; Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our long sun into the dark had set Last Line: Remakes all things and men in holiness. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heroism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Heroes; Heroines PREPARATION, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bone-man lives in a stucco Subject(s): Family Life; Dogs; Death; Relatives; Dead, The PREPARE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why don't you write me a poem that will prepare me for your death?' you said Last Line: Reading now. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The PRESCIENCE, by SIMON GLASS Poem Text First Line: Beneath each lovers' parting Last Line: God within would tell me so. Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The PRESENT HELP IN TROUBLE, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The memory of a simple tale, / called up from childhood's years Last Line: "warding off despair." Subject(s): Angels; Death; Legends; Mothers & Daughters; Poverty; Spinning; Dead, The 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 PRIMO VERE, by GIOSUE CARDUCCI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold from sluggish winter's arm Last Line: Has spring, too, felt the doom of years? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Italian Renaissance; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise PRINCE YOUSUF AND THE ALCAYDE; A MOORISH BALLAD, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In grenada reigned mohammed Last Line: Long lost lord -- our rightful king! Subject(s): Death; Moors (people); Spain; Dead, The PRINCESS AND PEASANT, by MARYETTA LEHR Poem Text First Line: Who is a princess? Mother, say Last Line: "there's just a difference in their name!" Subject(s): Death; Story-telling; Dead, The PRINCESS JEHANARA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the road leads from delhi to the south Last Line: Let no more then be mine when I am dead.' Subject(s): Death; Hearts; India; Dead, The PRISONERS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the road turn at last Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials PRO MORTUIS, by FRANCIS TURNER PALGRAVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What should a man desire to leave? Last Line: When man lies down to rest! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PROBLEM AND ANSWER, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: To conjure life into a lonely waste Last Line: And solve the subtle trick with more than sleep. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PROSE POEM IN SIX PARTS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm so happy, he shouts, as he puts a bullet through his head Last Line: "his comfort, he is ready to die successfully, he dies and is complete, an Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The PROSPICE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear death? - to feel the fog in my throat Last Line: And with god be the rest! Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology PROUST'S MADELEINE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somebody has given my Subject(s): Card Games; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Fathers & Sons; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Playing Cards; Dead, The PSALM: 7, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On thee, o lord my god, relyes Last Line: And tell of all his righteousnesse. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Fear; God; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology PULSE OF MY HEART, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are these your eyes, isla Last Line: Pulse of my heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Eyes; Grief; Legacies; Loss; Love; Parents; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks PURE DEATH, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We looked, we loved, and therewith instantly Subject(s): Death; Dead, The PURPLE AUTUMN, by GEORGY IVANOVICH CHULKOV Poem Text First Line: Purple autumn unloosened her tresses and flung them Last Line: Weaving a wreath of thorns. Variant Title(s): Autumnal Love Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Hearts; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Passion; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The PUT BACK THE DARK, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let's not stop in cold, in drought Last Line: When your hand into mine put back the dark. Subject(s): Death; Decay; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence PUT OUT THE LIGHT, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put out the light; - and then Last Line: To earth or sea or sky. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Light; Pain; Wind; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery QUALITY OF WINE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This wine is really awful Last Line: Let the dying be long. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Sickness; Dead, The; Wine; Male-female Relations; Illness QUATORZAINS: 11. A CLOCK STRIKING AT MIDNIGHT, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the echo of time's footsteps; gone Last Line: While the glad spirit seeks a brighter birth. Subject(s): Clocks; Death; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUATRAIN: THE ROSE, by LILLA CABOT PERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One deep red rose I dropped into his grave Last Line: And must fare on without it to the end. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The QUEEN BATH, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Shrine of the healing waters, peerless bath Last Line: To be the beauteous city of a dream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The QUEEN VICTORIA, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: With mystic power hath played upon the heart Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Death; Dead, The QUENCHING THE RED, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love kindle / death slay Last Line: Turns to clay. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The QUESTION, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall it be after the long misery Last Line: To feel the sole impossibility. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The QUICK AND DEAD, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the trouble and strife of life set free Last Line: "would that I were alive!"" he said." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The QUIET DEATH IN A RED CLOSET, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fourteen anniversaries Last Line: Someone had to go Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The RABBI BEN HISSAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rabbi ben hissar rode one day Last Line: "'I thank thee, lord,' was all he said" Subject(s): Clergy;death;fathers & Sons;jews; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;judaism; RACHEL: 2, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a lonely villa in a dell Last Line: The beauty and the glorious art of greece. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism RADHA TO RAM LILA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Still in the moonlight gleam himalayan snows Last Line: And till a tongue of ashes speaks again. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Himalayas (mountains); Dead, The; Burials RAGTIME!, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ragtime! Ragtime! Keep it going still! Last Line: Gently the music fades away—and so, god rest us all! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Music & Musicians; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Titanic (ship); Dead, The RAINY DAY, by RUSSELL BECKWITH Poem Text First Line: Too many things have died around this place Last Line: We are too many things, the terrible blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The RALPH WALDO EMERSON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the cloud that dimmed his sunset light Last Line: Itself, and stamps it with the seal of heaven. Subject(s): Death; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Soul; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors RANDALL JARRELL, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dream went like a rake of sliced bamboo, Subject(s): Jarrell, Randall (1914-1965); Death; Life; Dead, The RAOUL LUFBERY, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: His was the spirit that, in ages gone Last Line: A noble ending—and a deathless name! Subject(s): Death; France; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War RAW SILK, by MEENA ALEXANDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Open the door or I'll faint hearing amma's voice Last Line: Raw silk turned to smoke in the night's throat Subject(s): Children; Death; Family Life; Memory; Poetry Readings; Childhood; Dead, The; Relatives RAY AT 14, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bless this boy, born with the strong face Subject(s): Blessings; Boys; Brothers; Death; Heaven; Women; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Paradise READING AT NIGHT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What have I learned that can keep me Last Line: On my face Subject(s): Death; Dead, The READING THE NAMES OF THE VIETNAM WAR DEAD, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a long day and a night we read the names Last Line: "thousands of dense black stones fall forever through the darkness under the Subject(s): Death; Memory; Names; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The REALIZATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is one syllable that stirs me: war Last Line: God, let me apprehend this nearer strife! Subject(s): Death; England; France; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War RECESSIONAL (2), by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life flares up like a dying torch Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RECOLLECTIONS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a lad deserted by his mates Last Line: They found him -- dazed and dumb that this could be. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hearts; Love; Memory; Soul; Tears; Dead, The RECOMPENSE, by AMY FORBES KING Poem Text First Line: I knew you never asked a worldly thing Last Line: A recompense for all I failed to be. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Regret; Shame; Dead, The; Paradise RECORDING THE SPIRIT VOICES, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hollow below the hill vaults Last Line: Bury the truth these angels stand on: born and died. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Confederate States Of America; Death; Poetry & Poets; Southern States; Spiritual Life; Graveyards; Confederacy; Dead, The; South (u.s.) RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 2, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Monsieur leonce miranda, then, ... But stay! Last Line: Meanwhile, no separation of the pair! Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 3, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And so slipt pleasantly away five years Last Line: Look at it for a moment while I breathe. Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY; OR, TURF AND TOWERS: PART 4, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ready to hear the rest? How good you are! Last Line: And stand all ready for morn's joy a-blush? Subject(s): Normandy, France; Death; Sex; Obsessions; Guilt; Religion; Suicide; Dead, The; Theology RED FLAG, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: This is no time for tears, no place for mournful poses Last Line: Our children shall win to freedom; theirs shall pay the score. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Injustice; War; Dead, The; Liberty RED POPPY, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: That linkage of warnings sent a tremor through june Last Line: To bend and take Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RED VALLEY, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To-day I saw a ploughman go Last Line: We keep their sacrament with bread. Subject(s): Death; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen RED WINGS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the shadows moving among old trees Last Line: In trust. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The REGRETS, by ANNA ELISABETH MATHIEU DE NOAILLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Go, for I wish to be alone among the tombs Last Line: Finding my ashes' heat more fervent than their lives. Alternate Author Name(s): Brancovan, Princess Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Nature; Regret; Dead, The REINCARNATE, by JOSEPH U. HARRIS Poem Text First Line: Somewhere my spirit, in the long ago Last Line: As they troop back into my memory. Alternate Author Name(s): Upper, Joseph Subject(s): Death; Memory; Thought; Dead, The; Thinking REINCARNATION, by J. R. I. BROOKE Poem Text First Line: They only saw that he was dying Last Line: Men fear their mother, fear to die. Subject(s): Death; Oxford University; Dead, The REJECTED ADDRESSES: THE REBUILDING, BY R. S., by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a blessed glendoveer Last Line: "no, thank you! One tumble's enough!" Subject(s): Death; Fire; Law & Lawyers; Southey, Robert (1774-1843); Tears; Dead, The RELEASE, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I paced the street at evening and my soul was fraught / with fears Last Line: From the ghosts and the sins and shadows, for christ had walked with me. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Jesus Christ; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise RELEASE, by JUNE ELLIOTT CARLSON Poem Text First Line: The voices of animals, of the winds and the waves Last Line: Is only release. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RELEASE, by JEAN GRIGSBY PAXTON Poem Text First Line: Do not fear Last Line: When death stoops down to light the fire. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RELEASE, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, love, through what unfathomed deeps Last Line: To my release. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RELEASE, by AUGUSTA WRAY Poem Text First Line: In the dark and tranquil stillness of the night Last Line: When sleep, or death, gives them their liberty. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The REMARKS ON DR. AKENSIDE'S AND MR. WHITEHEAD'S VERSES, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whither is europe's ancient spirit fled? Last Line: "and whitehead grasp th' exacuating fife." Subject(s): Akenside, Mark (1721-1770); Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Physicians; Poetry & Poets; Punishment; Whitehead, William (1715-1785); Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Doctors 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 REMEMBERING THE CHILDREN OF AUSCHWITZ, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know the story. The children Last Line: Darkening all our skies Subject(s): Auschwitz, Poland; Children; Death; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Holocaust, Jewish - Aftermath; Jews; Childhood; Dead, The; Shoah; Judaism REMEMBERING WILD WORDS, by REX HUNTER Poem Text First Line: I remember the wild words, the drunken words, the boast- Last Line: Before the smirking bully knocked them flat with his bony fist. Subject(s): Death; Language; Memory; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary REMEMBRANCE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold in the earth, and the deep snow piled above thee! Last Line: How could I seek the empty world again? Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Variant Title(s): R. Alcona To J. Brenzaida Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Grief; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBRANCE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O night of death, o night that bringest all! Last Line: Thy name, o death! She could not brook to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more: let there be no more said Last Line: Farewell, dead love: no more the same road we fare. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness RENDEZVOUS, by WINIFRED STODDARD LEBAR Poem Text First Line: I, too, have a rendezvous with death Last Line: "I'm ready now for anywhere!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RENDEZVOUS, by ALAN SEEGER Poem Text Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I have a rendezvous with death Last Line: I shall not fail that rendezvous. Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War REPETITIONS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are crying salt tears Subject(s): Milholland, Inez (1886-1916); Death; Boissevain, Inez Milholland; Dead, The REPORT FROM THE HOSPITAL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We used matches to draw lots; who would visit him Subject(s): Hospitals; Death; Dead, The REPOSE OF THE SOUL IN THE WOOD OF L'HAUTIL: THE MARRIAGE OF THE OISE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Here, where are grouped fin-d'oise, maurecourt, andresy, conflans Last Line: O poesy, o poesy, o poesy! . . . Subject(s): Death; Fate; Marriage; Dead, The; Destiny; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REQUIEM, by DOROTHY COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Sleep, sleep, dear heart! Your orders all are taken Last Line: Your tasks are ended; mine are still undone. Subject(s): Death; War; Wellesley College; Dead, The REQUIEM, by CHRISTINE L. HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: I must say good-bye to the leaves Last Line: I must say good-bye to the leaves. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The REQUIEM, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I weep these tears upon my bier Last Line: Who knows that I am dead Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REQUIEM, by WHILHELMINA T. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Tender the flowers are Last Line: And my world ends. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REQUIEM, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It came to me the other day Subject(s): Death; Self; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence REQUIEM, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: Oh, cedars, guard him well, ye sentinels, for near ye Last Line: As after sunset, earth, her lord's warm rays. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones REQUIEM FOR THE SPANISH DEAD [OR, THE DEAD IN SPAIN], by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The great geometrical winter constellations Subject(s): Death; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939); Dead, The REQUIEM: PROLOGUE, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was a time when only the dead Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Death; Human Rights; Russia - Stalin Era; Saint Petersburg, Russia; Dead, The; Leningrad; Petrograd REQUIEM; THOMAS RANDOLPH PRICE, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, soldier of the south, who loved me well! Last Line: Sleep with thy early friends in battle slain! Subject(s): Death; Price, Thomas Randolph (1839-1903); Dead, The REQUIESCANT, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In lonely watches night by night Last Line: O house them in the home of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The 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 REQUIESCAT, by COE BOTKIN Poem Text First Line: Lips forever closed Last Line: Tall silhouette. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REQUIESCAT, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night my love is sleeping cold Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The REQUIESCAT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be it life, be it death, there is nearing Last Line: Of death to the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The REQUIESCAT, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I digged thy grave in my memory Last Line: Not sown of love, not sown of love. Subject(s): Death; Love - Unrequited; Memory; Dead, The REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have watched him to the last Last Line: Mind of mind, and love of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Death; Rest; Dead, The REQUIESCAT IN PACE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The end with outstretched hands Last Line: Lord of eternal rest! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Tears; Dead, The; Ocean REQUIESCIT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot tell his story. He was one Last Line: Upon his grave. I cannot doubt he sleeps. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Old Age; Dead, The RESCUE, by JEAN STARR UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind and wave and the swinging rope Last Line: But not of you. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean RESERVES, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: As the spark flares red in the ember Last Line: Oh, let me swoon in death. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The RESIGNATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no flock, however watched and tendered Last Line: The grief that must have way. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology RESIGNATION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Struggle no more: let it go Last Line: It is dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; Water; Wind; Dead, The RESPECTED, FEARED, AND SOMEHOW LOVED, by MARJORIE WELISH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run we must fix our compass Last Line: Shipwrecked icily, the windows called away? Subject(s): Accidents; Aviation & Aviators; Death; Disasters; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The RESPICIT ARTIFEX, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Ambitious, young / ardent, inhibited, shy Last Line: No true heart could forget. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Gratitude; Dead, The RESPITE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drowsing, the other afternoon, I lay Last Line: That now again beneath their lids are hot. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Mothers; Dead, The; Nightmares RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA Poem Text First Line: We are curse-laden: even amid our yearnings Last Line: "they have revealed." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness RESPONSIBILITY, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus, lying among roses in the garden of the great inn Last Line: "I am dry: leave my soul at the inn." Subject(s): Death; Evil; Good; Soul; Dead, The RESSONING BETUIX DETH AND MAN, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mortal man, behold, tak tent to me Last Line: Mercy on me to haif on domisday.' Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REST, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou art weary of the world Last Line: And thou shalt rest Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; REST, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spread, spread thy silver wings, o dove! Last Line: Flutter again to thy quiet nest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Time; Dead, The REST IN THE GRAVE! BUT REST IS FOR THE WEARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rest in the grave! But rest is for the weary Last Line: Have slain the unborn flower and new-fledged bird Subject(s): Birds;death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; REST; LINES FOUND UNDER THE PILLOW OF A SOLDIER WHO DIED IN HOSPITAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I lay me down to sleep Last Line: Lead after him Subject(s): Death;soldiers; "dead, The; RESTORATIVES, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Whisper with bated breath Last Line: Joy lives anew. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Time; Dead, The RESURRECTION, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long did we lie on the torn, red field of pain Last Line: Wondering what god would look like when he came. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Military; Rebirth; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The RESURRECTION, by HARRIET SEYMOUR Poem Text First Line: A trivial offense, long years ago Last Line: Restore to life my sense of sin today! Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sin; Soul; Dead, The RESURRECTION, by HARRIET ANNA WRATTEN Poem Text First Line: O, I have learned how beauty, lingering, sings Last Line: Upon the earth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life RESURRECTION EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He resteth: weep not Last Line: That he inherits. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Life; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology RETIREMENT: AN ODE, by JAMES BEATTIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the crimson cloud of even Last Line: "and all the past is vain." Subject(s): Retirement; Death; Peace; Dead, The RETROSPECT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas just this time last year I died Last Line: Themselves should come to me. Variant Title(s): Poem: 445;poem: 344 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RETROSPECTION, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: The bleakest pinnacle to him who long Last Line: Finis. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Death; Past; Dead, The RETURN, by MARY JANE CARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary o'donovan died yesterday Last Line: Mary o'donovan went, yesterday. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REUBEN BRIGHT, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because he was a butcher and thereby Last Line: In with them, and tore down the slaughter-house. Subject(s): Butchers; Death; Love - Marital; Marriage; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives REVELATION 20:11-15, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He was a farmboy who had drowned that wednesday Last Line: We were amazed. Subject(s): Boys; Death; Drowning; Farm Life; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers REVELRY OF THE DYING, by BARTHOLOMEW DOWLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We meet 'neath the sounding rafter Last Line: And hurrah for the next that dies! Variant Title(s): Indian Revelry;the Revel;our Last Toast;revelry In India;hurrah For The Next That Dies Subject(s): Death; England; Epidemics; India; India - British Rule; Plague; Tragedy; Dead, The; English REVERIE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thinks of the dead. But they Last Line: A party's noise. Bottle caps stuck to them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Loss; Dead, The REVERIE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the crowded shelves the lamplight falls Last Line: Gazes on satan hurled from paradise. Subject(s): Death; History; Memory; Dead, The; Historians REVERY, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, there are thoughts that have no sound - such thoughts Last Line: The bad, and strew with flowers his way to death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The REVIEW, by WILLIAM GREENOUGH SCHOFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And now we find no room for sentiment Last Line: The pounding rumble of new england surf! Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime 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 RHESUS: THE DEATH OF RHESUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Disaster, yea: and with disaster shame Last Line: Tis not foul wrong wrought on us by a friend. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RHYMES AND RHYTHMS: 15, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You played and sang a snatch of song Last Line: Before we can be dead indeed. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RHYMES OF A RED CROSS MAN: FOREWORD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've tinkered at my bits of rhymes Last Line: So take or leave them as you will. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War RICHARD WATSON GILDER; IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of a soldier in a poet's frame Last Line: Amid the city's strife, thy noble deed! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Death; Gilder, Richard Watson (1844-1909); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The RID OF HIS ENGINE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The way that it came about was this Last Line: Bill had got rid of his engine at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains RIDING TO THE HUNT, by WILLIAM AUGUSTINE LEAHY Poem Text First Line: String your arrow to my lips, harry lincoln Last Line: Sober death's dancing, too, at life's door. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Life; Love; Luck; Dead, The; Parting RIVERLIGHT, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I lie down together. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Death; Dead, The ROB. FERGUSSON'S LAST WILL, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While sober folks, in humble prose, / estate, and goods, and gear dispose Last Line: Are sign'd by him at my command. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Inheritance & Succession; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Heirs ROBERT BROWNING (DIED AT THE PALAZZO REZZONICO, VENICE), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So, it is well: what need is there to mourn? Last Line: Uplift his soul to immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Death; Dreams; Life; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares ROBERT CLAYTON WESTMAN OF MASSACHUSETTS; DIED IN FRANCE, AUGUST 1919, by WILLARD WATTLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will make his name silver Last Line: Who have achieved indifference. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War ROBERT THE BRUCE (TO DOUGLAS IN DYING), by EDWIN MUIR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Death; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce; Dead, The RODNEY DYING: 3, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I vacuumed your bedroom Last Line: Everything is sad but what's real Variant Title(s): Rodney Dying (3) Subject(s): Cleanliness; Death; Dead, The RODRIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lie down and rest, the fight is done Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The ROMANCE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last farewells were said, friends hurried ashore Last Line: Ere it goes down to darkness, whence it came! . . . Subject(s): Betrayal; Boats; Death; Happiness; Lies; Love; New York City; Youth; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: CHARLES I, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the charcoal-burner's hut in the wood Last Line: "my dear little headsman, sleep proudly!" Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Courts & Courtiers; Death; God; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: HASTINGS BATTLE-FIELD, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The abbot of waltham deeply sigh'd Last Line: The monks pray'd, full of compassion. Subject(s): Death; Hastings, Battle Of (1066); Kisses; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: KING DAVID, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Despots smiling yield their breath Last Line: "that said joab's brains to scatter." Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Death; Religion; Slavery; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Theology; Serfs ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: POMARE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the gods of love are shouting Last Line: In that thou so much didst love. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; God; Hearts; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE POET FERDUSI, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Men of gold, and men of silver Last Line: That the dead ferdusi bore to his tomb. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Heroism; Poetry & Poets; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 12. THE ANNIVERSARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not one mass will e'er be chanted Last Line: A fiacre all ready for thee. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 13. MEETING AGAIN, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One summer eve, in the woodbine bower Last Line: Yes, I and the dead, who my side ne'er quitted. Subject(s): Death; Moon; Summer; Voices; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 4. THE DYING ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flying after bliss and light Last Line: O have pity, gracious lord! Subject(s): Death; Germany; Home; Dead, The; Germans ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 8. PIOUS WARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou dost quit this mortal abode Last Line: Soft slippers, sweet music, and rest thou'lt find. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Night; Dead, The; Paradise; Bedtime ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 9. THE COOLED-DOWN ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we are dead, we long must lie Last Line: And happy be, -- without a riot. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Youth; Dead, The ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: SPANISH LYRICS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on hubert's day - the year was Last Line: Ask'd: had we enjoy'd our dinner? -- Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Love; Spain; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The RONSARD'S GRAVE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wells, ye founts that fall Last Line: There sappho sings. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Prayer; Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585); Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O caves, and you, o springs Last Line: Of whoso hears. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise ROOMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness ROOMS, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know the heaviness of official rooms Last Line: (outside an organ's singing in the road!) Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Houses, Deserted; Memory; Rooms; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The ROOSTER; TO PAT RYAN, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to kill the rooster tomorrow. He's being an asshole Last Line: Doesn't matter and he will wag his head, strut, perhaps crow. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Roosters; Dead, The; Cocks ROSALIE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a wild tale - and sad, too, as the sigh Last Line: She knelt -- and gazed -- and saw her mother -- dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The ROSALIND, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat upon a mountain Last Line: Fair rosalind is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ROSAMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One soweth and another reapeth Last Line: Too true! Too true! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Spain; Women; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean ROSINA, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weeks of wild delirium past Last Line: Remains a mortal shade!' Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Love; Hope; Death; Optimism; Dead, The RUBBING THE FACES OF ANGELS, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the balcony of the golden eagle motor inn Last Line: Me the reclining skeleton of thomas pool. Subject(s): Charleston, South Carolina; Death; Hotels; Southern States; Dead, The; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; South (u.s.) RUINS REBUILT, by ADOLPH BOCK Poem Text First Line: God said, 'let there be light!' and lo! Last Line: Behold, humanity come forth to pray. Subject(s): Creation; Death; God; Heaven; Humanity; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones RUST, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are you saying that iron understands Subject(s): Death; God; Rust; Dead, The RUTH, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your pale egyptian eyelids used to stir Last Line: When you lay dead, and were yourself again. Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne Subject(s): Death; Dead, The RUTH AND NAOMI, by LOWELL COURIER Poem Text First Line: A rabbi's child and puritan's once met Last Line: And reap in joy the harvest—truth sublime. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Judaism RUTH AND NAOMI, by WILLIAM OLIVER BOURNE PEABODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell? Oh, no! It may not be Last Line: My firm and faithful heart from thee. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Ruth (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism SABBATH EVE, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: The sweet sabbath eve has drawn near Last Line: Floats out on the soft evening air. Subject(s): Death; Prayer; Sabbath; Dead, The; Sunday SAFE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, she was not an angel to adore Last Line: As she by death has been elected to. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SAFE, by LINDA GREGERSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The tendons sewn together and the small bones Subject(s): Women - Abused; Death; Wife Beating; Dead, The SAFE CONDUCT, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The snowplow was a rattling iron box Last Line: As distant as this world. Subject(s): Death; Grandchildren; Grandparents; Plowing & Plowmen; Snow; Dead, The; Grandsons; Granddaughters; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers SAH SIN, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I found the hummingbird Subject(s): Hummingbirds; Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation SAILING HOME FROM RAPALLO, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your nurse could only speak italian, Variant Title(s): Life Studies: Sailing Home From Rapallo Subject(s): Italy; Mothers; Death; Sea Voyages; Cemeteries; Fathers; Italians; Dead, The; Graveyards SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That is no country for old men. The young Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy SAINT DOROTHEA, MARTYR, by BROTHER CLEMENT Poem Text First Line: Account it most strange if I should fear Last Line: You will run, you will run to welcome death! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The; World SAINT MARY OF THE FLOWERS, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers Last Line: Meet me at saint mary of the flowers'. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Love; Saints; Graveyards; Dead, The SAINT THOMAS IN INDIA, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Christ risen, commanded thomas, saying 'begone! Last Line: "take this!"" he said, ""I yield my crown to christ." Subject(s): Death; India; Religion; Saints; Singing & Singers; Slavery; Dead, The; Theology; Songs; Serfs SALISBURY PLAIN, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When hurricanes blow I love to be hurled Last Line: Of the wrestlings of man with god. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SALOME TO THE DEAD JOHN, by GLADYS OAKS Poem Text First Line: What visions were there in that stony hole Last Line: "and now I burn no longer and can die." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SALT WIND, by EVELYN MARA Poem Text First Line: There is something in the wind that blows Last Line: Calls louder to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The SALUTE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We, about to die, salute you kindly Last Line: We, the elders, hail our brothers young! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hearts; Hope; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism SALVE, REX DEI GRACIA!, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There lived a man who was wise and old Last Line: And how on earth should a singer know? Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Poverty; Writing & Writers; Dead, The SAM PERRY (A GENIUS UNRECORDED), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood by a grave and white grave-stone Last Line: "and tell what you do, and where you are!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; Science; Youth; Graveyards; Dead, The; Scientists SAN BORONDON, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Saint brandan, a scotch abbot, long ago Last Line: Whose boundless deep we name eternity. Subject(s): Brendan, Saint (484-578); Death; Future Life; Religion; Soul; Brendan Of Clonfert; Brandan, Saint; Brandon, Saint; Brennainn, Saint; Brendan The Voyager; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology SANCHO SANCHEZ, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sancho sanchez lay a-dying in the house of mariquita Last Line: "he has thrown his hat behind him for the glory of the lord!" Subject(s): Bullfights & Bullfighters; Death; Fights; Spain; Dead, The SANCTUARY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister got me the script, I couldn't Last Line: Is sitting accusingly at the foot of my bed. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Dreams; Morgues; Motion Pictures; Unfaithfulness; Actresses; Dead, The; Nightmares; Movies; Cinema; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SANCTUARY, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fear; Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness SANDHILL PEOPLE, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took away three pictures Last Line: Wears between sunset and dusk. Subject(s): Death; Love; Silence; Dead, The SAPPHO, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sigh at day-dawn, and I sigh Last Line: Unwept, untended and alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Pain; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SATIA TE SANGWINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you loved me ever so little Last Line: I hope he will some day die. Variant Title(s): Satia Te Sanguine Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sea; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SATIRE: 10. CELESTIAL WISDOM, by DECIMUS JUNIUS JUVENALIS Poem Text First Line: Must hapless man, in ignorance sedate Last Line: And makes the happiness she does not find. Alternate Author Name(s): Juvenal Subject(s): Death; Knowledge; Love; Dead, The SATURN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the place! / no moon, no mist, no sound Last Line: Oh love -- Subject(s): Death; Devil; Hope; Life; Moon; Planets; Sleep; Wind; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Optimism SAVING A TRAIN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A poor old woman lived on the line of the ohio railway Last Line: Which should be written on her tombstone in letters of gold. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Disasters; Heroism; Memory; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Train Wrecks SCHOOL BOYS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are lads who count the days Last Line: Opening out on every side. Subject(s): Children; Death; Freedom; Hearts; Life; Schools; Childhood; Dead, The; Liberty; Students SCIENCE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of a thousand strings, awake Last Line: And live beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Nature; Railroads; Science; Dead, The; Railways; Trains; Scientists SCINTILLA, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I kissed a kiss in youth Last Line: At a dead man's door. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SCOTTY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Scotty's dead.-- / of course he is! Last Line: Luckiest -- and now he's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Dead, The SCURRUB, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He died at his fingers first, and his toes Last Line: The rest of us there is a devil. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Dead, The SEA CANES, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half my friends are dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEA SORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: We lay along the steamer's deck Last Line: Twill be memorial day. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Holidays; Memorial Day; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day SEALED WORD, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Not by the spring Last Line: Against the too light perishing of leaves. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Silence; Dead, The SECOND AIR FORCE, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far off, above the plain the summer dries Subject(s): Air Warfare; Army Life; Death; World War Ii; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; Second World War SECOND EPITAPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: On the gloomy banks of the melas, at tomasson in pamphylia Last Line: Seen my tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Farewell; Graves; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones SECOND LIFE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After life's departing sigh Last Line: Come and catch that butterfly!' Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Insects; Reincarnation; Dead, The; Bugs; Transmigration; Pretas SECRETS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think not some knowledge rests with thee alone Last Line: Shall drag thy secret out into the light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; God; Secrets; Tears; Dead, The SEEING A STRANGE WOMAN DEAD, by A. G. BECKMANN Poem Text First Line: She died in her fullest beauty Last Line: May god be with her lovers! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; God; Dead, The SEEN ON A WAR-SHRINE IN PENNSYLVANIA, by E. M. GREEVES-CARPENTER Poem Text First Line: Silent and unbetrayed, a carven rood Last Line: Whose crown of victory followed cross and thorns. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mothers & Sons; Pennsylvania; Shrines; Soldiers; War; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The SELF-ANALYSIS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not writing because I feel as though Last Line: Victims of their dreams. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Self; Dead, The SELFISHNESS, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Death takes our loved ones Last Line: The dead know nought of sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SEMELE, by ROSE TERRY COOKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of light divine! Last Line: Then, clay, in fire depart! Then, soul, in heaven survive! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The SENSE OF PROPORTION, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old lion hunter and I Last Line: Will never come around again Subject(s): Aging; Death; Future; Hunting; Time; Dead, The; Hunters SENTENCE OF DEATH, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death's herd are we, and all the world a sty Last Line: For death we're primed and butchered, -- god knows why! Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SENTENCED TO DEATH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I must die on friday the first Last Line: To the justice eternal of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEPARATION, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I heard that such-a-one was gone Last Line: And laughing gaze into each other's eyes? Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Death; Dead, The SEPARATION OF FRIENDS, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not their souls, who 'neath the altar wait Last Line: And all will soon be plain. Subject(s): Death; Froude, Richard Hurrell (1803-1836); Dead, The SEQUENCE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead haloed in gladiolus Last Line: Snaps its neck, horse cowered before crop. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dead, The SEQUENCE: 4, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the woods the low red bridge Last Line: Flowing then and still. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Water; Dead, The SESTINA; FOR TED BERRIGAN, by BERNADETTE MAYER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As love as what by chance as brotherly Last Line: Community, answers death just with poetry or else. Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Brothers; Death; Love; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Half-brothers; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 1, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That children in their loveliness should die Last Line: Is the extreme of all perplexity. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 2, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That there are better things within the womb Last Line: It troubles us that this should be the whole. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 3, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see the rich autumnal tint depart Last Line: With strong assurance conquer blank dismay. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 4, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But whether in the uncoloured light of truth Last Line: Who about this shall tell us what to think? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 5, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If it is thou whose casual hand withdraws Last Line: The skiey picture we had gazed upon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 6, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But if as not by that the soul desired Last Line: The where and how doth not desire to hear. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN SONNETS ON THE THOUGHT OF DEATH: 7, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I decide it by a random shot? Last Line: (whoe'er can ask or hope) accord the best Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SEVEN TIMES ONE [- CHILDHOOD. EXULTATION], by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's no dew left on the daisies and clover Last Line: I am seven times one to-day. Subject(s): Aging; Birthdays; Children; Death; Flowers; Life; Childhood; Dead, The SHADOW-CASTING, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This boy's father dies. / fine. / it always happens. / the boy knows Last Line: This boy, it always happens, doesn’t know what to do anymore Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Fish & Fishing; Life; Sports; Dead, The; Anglers SHADWELL STAIR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am the ghost of shadwell stair Last Line: I wish another ghost am lain. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Rivers; Supernatural; Dead, The SHALIMAR GARDENS, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the garden of earth a square of water Last Line: To die again, into the living stone. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism SHALL I NOT KNOW?, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When over me the heedless wild things grow Last Line: But, come! Shall I not know? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHAMEFUL DEATH, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were four of us about that bed Last Line: And for alice, his wife, pray too. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The SHANE ONEILLS CAIRN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I on the palos verdes cliff Last Line: How beautiful are both these nothings Subject(s): Life; Death; Beauty; Dead, The SHAPES AND SHADOWS, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: We are but shapes and shadows Last Line: But the screen remains unchanged! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Life; Shadows; Time; Dead, The; World SHE CAME TO ME, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: She came to me Last Line: And the past was lost in the radiant flame! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHE DIED IN BEAUTY, by CHARLES DOYNE SILLERY Poem Text First Line: She died in beauty, like a rose Last Line: Amid the blue of june. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHE IS NOT DEAD, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She is not dead - oh! Do not say she's dead Last Line: The pensive glories of these eyes so blue. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHE NEVER BLAMED HIM, NEVER, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The SHE SHALL NOT GUESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even if I died no sound should tell it her Last Line: Bears but betrays it not. She shall not guess. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHE WHO MARIED JOHN, by GRACE SOUTH Poem Text First Line: She who married john is dying Last Line: "jed .. Jed ..." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHEA-OAK TREES ON A STORMY DAY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er sandy tracts the shea-oak trees Last Line: A death song o'er the mournful plain. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Australia; Death; Oak Trees; Dead, The SHEKLA: A VISION, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Shekla's magic island lay Last Line: Writes this tale of shekla here. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Heaven; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Paradise; Seamen; Sails; Beach; Coast; Shore SHELLEY'S DEATH, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And it was so! Thou wert then Last Line: As exiles for rough paths that help them to their home. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Dead, The SHORT PRAYER FOR A LOYALIST HERO, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book remained at the edge of his dead waist Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Prayer; Toledo, Spain; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines SHORT WORDS, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some dried-up phlox so old the blue was white Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary SHOT DOWN THE NIGHT, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A boy I knew Subject(s): War; Death; Dead, The SHUDDER, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The foot of death has printed on my chest Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SHULE, SHULE, SHULE, AGRAH!, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His face was glad as dawn to me Last Line: Shule, shule, shule, agrah! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): The Songs Of Ethlenn Stuart Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Male-female Relations SHUT OUT, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death bars me from my garden, but by the dusty Last Line: When the old wound starts a-throbbing and starlight brings no rest. Subject(s): Death; Gypsies; Dead, The; Gipsies SHUT OUT THAT MOON, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Close up the casement, draw the blind Last Line: Too tart the fruit it brought! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SIC SEMPER INSURANTIBUS, by MORRIS GILBERT BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sombre-habited / one stood without my door Last Line: The screams of one who ran to get himself insured. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Dead, The; Destiny SIC VITA, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, -- and man forgot! Variant Title(s): Life;of Human Life;such Is Life Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind; Mortality; Transience; Dead, The; Human Race; Impermanence SICILIAN ARETHUSA, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sicilian arethusa! Thou, whose arms Last Line: Of time will only make more durable? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Sicily; Dead, The SICK I AM AND SORROWFUL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Sick I am and sorrowful, how can I be well again Last Line: Here, where fear and sorrow are — my heart so far away? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Sickness; War; Dead, The; Illness SIDERA CADENTIA (ON THE DEATH OF QUEEN VICTORIA), by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When one of the old, little stars doth fall Last Line: And the ultimate change that we fear feels a little less far. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The SIEGFRIED'S DEATH, by FRIEDRICH HEBBEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From whence so early? Dewy is thy hair Last Line: "darkness"" and heath's dictionary@" Alternate Author Name(s): Hebbel, Christian Friedrich Subject(s): Death; Legends, German; Tragedy; Dead, The SIERRAN IDYL, by BYRON MCCRAY JONES Poem Text First Line: Beside my grot, the little brook Last Line: Though she sings of death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SIGNLAND, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cicadas tear the tear to flitters Subject(s): Life; Death; Dead, The SILA, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upgrade, past snow-tangled bramble, past Last Line: The dog exploded Subject(s): Animals; Death; Deer; Dogs; Eskimos; Native Americans; Dead, The; Inuit; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America SILENCE, by J. D. EAGLE Poem Text First Line: The morning sun, in silence, tells its coming Last Line: And death, in silence, quickly follows birth. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SILENCE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: This hush of death! How could I know hefore Last Line: Speaks not? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The SILENCE, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night on her couch of the mountains Last Line: For the love of a child that is dead. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Cold; Death; Heaven; Rest; Wales; Dead, The; Paradise; Welshmen; Welshwomen 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 STREET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SIMEON SINGER, by JOHN CHAPMAN Poem Text First Line: Oh, weep not for the dead.' alas! How weak Last Line: "an angel of the lord of hosts is he." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Jews; Peace; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism SIMILE, by ROSANNA WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: As when her friend, the crack austrian skier, in the story Subject(s): Skiing; Fear; Mothers; Death; Dead, The SINCE THOU ART GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence and stealth of days! 'tis now Last Line: Find heaven and thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SING, YE TRENCHES!, by HELEN COALE CREW Poem Text First Line: Sing, ye trenches bloody-lipped! Last Line: Paean shout for lycidas! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SIR EUSTACE GREY (SEE CRABBE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, oh lay me low Last Line: Death is immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Death; Fear; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SISTER DEATH, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sister death! I pray thee come to me Last Line: With one cool kiss, for ever. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SISTER LOU, by STERLING ALLEN BROWN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Honey Last Line: Honey, take yo' bressed time. Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Railroads; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Railways; Trains SISTER MARIE; A LEGEND OF TYROL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I through the valley of klausen went Last Line: "ah! Pity me, dear lord,"" it sighed." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Brooks; Death; Legends; Nuns; Prayer; War; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The SIT DOWN SAD SOUL, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, sad soul, and count Last Line: Are thine forever! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise SIX PERSIMMONS, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carbon, rings in his ears as he walks down Last Line: Their fingertips glow in the skin of their days. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Nature; Dead, The SIX WINTERS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the black hotel a child is asleep Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Memory; War; Graveyards; Dead, The SKELETON UNDER A LEDGE, by LEONARD JENNEWEIN Poem Text First Line: Perhaps it was a storm that on some night Last Line: To meet you now———most interesting. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Skeletons; Dead, The SLANTING LIGHT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting light casts onto a stucco wall Last Line: Death as the stark light sifts the branches of the plum. Subject(s): Death; Light; Dead, The SLAVE AND EMPEROR, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor mocked at nazareth Last Line: To save his world again. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Jesus Christ; Slavery; Dead, The; Serfs SLEEP, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor pain-worn mortal, dost thou weep? Last Line: God must be good. For god made sleep. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime SLEEP, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is quick-sand in sleep, and quick-silver Last Line: In a coffin of temporal sand. . . . Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Drugs & Drug Abuse; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEP AND DEATH, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two wandering angels, sleep and death Last Line: "remembers thee with gladness!" Variant Title(s): The Two Angels; An Allegory Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEP-SONG, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunken bell is ringing up through the sea of / sleep Last Line: Love, if we sank together beneath the sea of sleep! Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SLEEPING AT LAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleeping at last, the trouble and tumult over Last Line: Sleeping at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The SLEEPY HOLLOW, by WILLIAM ELLERY CHANNING (1817-1901) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No abbey's gloom, nor dark cathedral Last Line: God's mercy in thy thought and life confest Alternate Author Name(s): Channing Ii, William Ellery Subject(s): Concord, Massachusetts; Death; Dead, The SLIDING AWAY, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your hand rigid, curled into its final shape Last Line: Sliding away. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Dead, The SLOW DEATH, by HAZEL HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You need no other death than this Last Line: Of breath tarnished to color of air. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SMALL DEATH TO LAUGH, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Away, airy comber of comets! Last Line: Away, airy comber of comets! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SMALL GARDEN NEAR A FIELD, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While any two are talking one Last Line: With the live birds still in it Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SMITH OF MAUDLIN, by GEORGE WALTER THORNBURY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My chums will burn their indian weeds Last Line: "here's mr. Smith of maudlin." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SMOKE, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Who would want to give it up, the coal Subject(s): Death; Fire; Smoke; Tragedy; Women; Dead, The SMOKING IN AN OPEN GRAVE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bury ourselves to get high Last Line: So much of us already geared for the journey. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Labor & Laborers; Poverty; Urban Life; Dead, The; Work; Workers SMYRNA, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The 'ornament of asia' and the 'crown' Last Line: Her rise, make asia's fall magnificent. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Asia; Beauty; Death; Nature; Sea; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The; Ocean SNAGTOOTH SAL, by LOWELL OTUS REESE Poem Text First Line: I was young and happy and my heart was light Last Line: Walkin' down through laramie with snagtooth sal. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Love; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States SNOWED UNDER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of a thousand things that the year snowed under Last Line: Your mantle of ermine, tell me, pray! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Hope; Snow; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Optimism SO LONG, by NELL GRIFFITH WILSON Poem Text First Line: He was so smiling and so debonair Last Line: Alone with tears. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SO MIGHT IT BE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, when you come to me, tread with a footstep Last Line: Spring in the world when you fetch me away! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SOISSONS: 1918, by GERALD V. STAMM Poem Text First Line: Now dreadful night unrolls, and dawn in gray Last Line: May come from poppies in the wheat. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Harvest; Soldiers; War; Wheat; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOLDIER-DEAD, by GILBERT" "EMERY [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O beautiful young dead! Last Line: O beautiful young dead Alternate Author Name(s): "emery, Gilbert; Subject(s): Death;soldiers;war; "dead, The; SOLILOQUY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am a player, on the stage? Not so Last Line: May god himself approve my curtain speech! Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; God; Life; Plays & Playwrights ; Sleep; Actresses; Dead, The; Dramatists SOLOMON ON THE VANITY OF THE WORLD: BOOK 3. POWER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come then, my soul, I call thee by that name Last Line: And in my act may thy great will be done! Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Life; Mankind; Pain; Solomon (10th Century B.c.); Dead, The; Human Race; Suffering; Misery SOLUS, by ADA HASTINGS HEDGES Poem Text First Line: His dog's sharp, sudden bark upon the stillness Last Line: That he is dead -- that he is dead! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SOME ASPECTS OF IMMORTALITY, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The alley between the elm trees ends Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SOME INCIDENTS IN THE LATTER DAYS OF JOHN WHITELAW, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bridge was won, the foe had crossed Last Line: Another sadder moral teach. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Scotland; War; Dead, The SOMEBODY TRYING, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Http://www.Poetryfoundation.Org/poem/238458 Last Line: Trudging behind his funeral, he earned Subject(s): Death; Grief; Social Classes; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Caste SOMEBODY'S FATHER, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas after the battle of gettysburg Last Line: "july 3, '63." Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Fathers; Gettysburg Campaign (1863); U.s. - History; Dead, The; Gettysburg, Battle Of SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, by MULFORD DOUGHTY Poem Text First Line: Song of a fair may morning Last Line: Only a mile from me. Subject(s): Death; France; Military; Soldiers; War; Dead, The SONATA IN PATHOS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I am tired; tired of all these years Last Line: I shall remember till I die. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Shadows; Dead, The SONATA TRAGICA, by MARGARET TOD RITTER Poem Text First Line: There is one death, one only, one supreme Last Line: And cry for thee in vain; this, this is death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONG, by DIGBY MACKWORTH DOLBEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is young today: / forget the gods are old Last Line: Is palpable -- and love. Alternate Author Name(s): Dolben, Digby Augustus Stewart Mackworth Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sweetest love, I do not go Last Line: Alive, ne'er parted be. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go and catch a falling star Last Line: False, ere I come, to two, or three. Variant Title(s): To His Love Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Love - Marital; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONG, by VAUQUELIN DE LA FRESNAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love be mute, but take thyne arc Last Line: I am slaine. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SONG, by CHRISTIAN MILNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve, when dee's transparent stream Last Line: For him who far, far hence lies low! Alternate Author Name(s): Ross, Christian Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (1), by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No passionless creature of duty Last Line: Her glowing young spirit had flown! Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONG (1), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come to me in any shape Last Line: Come, my own! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Love; Snakes; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers 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 (7), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved you for long long years ellen Last Line: Tho' you will not love me yet? -- Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The SONG AND CRY OF A SOLDIER IN THE LINES, by ALBERT EDWARD CLEMENTS Poem Text First Line: Sharpen the sky to flashes of flame Last Line: When a cross and dust mark where you fell? Subject(s): Death; Government; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG AND SINGER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw him once, the while he sat and played Last Line: Keep an immortal youth. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG BEFORE DEATH, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet mother, in a minute's span Last Line: My true love to my dying day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG FOR A DEAD SPARROW, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: Small, unmourned-for one Last Line: On his own heart. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Grief; Heaven; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise SONG FOR THE CENTENARY OF WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter in spirit elect and consecrate Last Line: Who by thine own words only bid thee hail, and live. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Landor, Walter Savage (1775-1864); Life; Love; Memory; Roses; Dead, The SONG FROM AN EVIL WOOD: 3, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with death in his country Last Line: And he did not look at me. Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONG FROM AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hope, the great explorer Last Line: At death's gate! Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Variant Title(s): Song From An Unfinished Play Subject(s): Death; Hope; Life; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Optimism SONG OF AUTUMN, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When a sighing begins Last Line: A dead leaf. Variant Title(s): Chansons D'automne Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONG OF RENEWAL: 1, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked near sunset through wet fields Last Line: "the bones that you would bury there will never turn to dust." Subject(s): Death; Fields; Graves; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF RENEWAL: 2, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the fields when morning freshened Last Line: "and ruined spring renews her flower and anxious eyes are once more glad." Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fields; Memory; Cadavers; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas SONG OF RENEWAL: 3, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Following his look, I saw the vale shaking Last Line: Faint marks renewed where love burned through, how many centuries ago! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF THE DYING OLD MAN TO HIS YOUNG WIFE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kate, there's a trembling at my heart, a coldness at my brow Last Line: I die within thy arms, my kate, and feel no sting of death. Subject(s): Death; Love - Age Differences; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 OF THE SAINTS AND ANGELS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gordon, the self-refusing Last Line: Die in a psalm of peace. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Gordon, Charles George (1833-1885); Homecoming; Peace; War; Dead, The SONG OF THE SILENT LAND, by JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the silent land! Last Line: Into the silent land! Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The SONG OF THE THREE SEEDS IN THE MACAW'S BEAK, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cracked by that accurate beak Last Line: The three seeds sung. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Parrots; Seeds; Dead, The SONG OF THE TROUBADOUR, by J. R. PERRY Poem Text First Line: Where is her lip's soft laugh to-night? Last Line: My lips with a death-sad song. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG: 101, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now must I learn to feign Last Line: Seeing she will not so. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Truth; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 107, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Absence, alas / causeth me pass Last Line: In this dolour. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Trust; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONG: 114, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What would ye more of me, your slave, require Last Line: That without cause causeless thus suffer'th smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Farewell; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 16, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cause accord or to agree Last Line: That are impossible. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 2, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My bird who may not lift his wing Last Line: Who now is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Dead, The SONG: 2, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I have at mine own will Last Line: For I am gone for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Life; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs SONG: 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet love, lay thy hand on my heart, and tell Last Line: That I some slumber at length may taste. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The SONG: 6, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patience, surly pilot, shortly Last Line: Both thou broughtest, death and flame! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Love; Patience; Dead, The; Parting SONG: 73, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Complaining, alas, without redress Last Line: Where now for pain I die, I die. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Lament; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery SONG: 74, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Duress of pains and grievous smart Last Line: Heart, sigh no more, I pray thee, break. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Hearts; Life; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONG: 82, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in your grace I know I was Last Line: That once I was. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Ons In Your Grace I Knowe I Was Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Happiness; Hearts; Dead, The; Joy; Delight 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 SONG: THE DEATH OF THE ROSE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Life, dear life, thy summer days have flown Last Line: And death had made undying with a kiss. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Nature; Roses; Dead, The SONG; THE SENTIMENTS BORROWED FROM SHAKESPEARE, by WILLIAM COLLINS (1721-1759) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Young damon of the vale is dead Last Line: And o'er her lov'd-one died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONGS FROM THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by JOY HARJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the house of death there is rain Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Dead, The SONGS OF NEW YORK: NEXT DOOR, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We saw the tapers burn Last Line: And my neighbor grieves -- alone, alone! Subject(s): Death; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE AUTUMN DAYS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We bore him through the golden land Last Line: Are dreaming of the spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; Day; Death; Farm Life; Grief; Harvest; Hope; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE SUMMER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dreary wind of night is out Last Line: With stars that shine and see. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Night; Rivers; Solitude; Summer; Dead, The; Bedtime; Loneliness SONGS OF THE DAYS AND NIGHTS: SONGS OF THE WINTER NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Back shining from the pane, the fire Last Line: My father, in my soul! Subject(s): Children; Cold; Death; Fathers; God; Memory; Night; Winter; Childhood; Dead, The; Bedtime SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: THE MIDDLE WATCH, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I woke in the night, and the darkness was heavy and deep Last Line: I swear by myself, they are mine.' Subject(s): Death; Earth; Night; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; World; Bedtime; Songs SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 2, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whither would my passion run Last Line: So each will equal triumph share. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Loss; Passion; Tyranny & Tyrants; Dead, The SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 23, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vain, alas! Poor strephon tries Last Line: But, amoret, in thee. Subject(s): Breath; Death; Happiness; Love; Pain; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 26, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since, moggy, I mun bid adieu Last Line: Ought to be wretched ever. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Singing & Singers; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny SONGS: 1. LEND ME THE LYRE AGAIN, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: That once she lent it. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise SONGS: 6. THE WEARY MOON GOES DOWN INTO THE WEST, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Wilt thou not also rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The SONNET, by GEORGE HENRY BOKER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'll call thy frown a headsman, passing grim Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: A month - the first from many - now hath past Last Line: We sink indeed and never rise again. Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Death; Love; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The SONNET, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of you as one but lately dead Last Line: But as one lately dead I think of you. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The late gracie allen was a very lucid comedienne Subject(s): Allen, Gracie (1906-1964); Burns, George (1896-1996); Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The SONNET, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lift not the painted veil which those who live Last Line: For truth, and like the preacher found it not. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Now farewell thou sweet and gentle maid Last Line: Was calm in sorrow, and to heaven resigned. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET (3), by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you see millions of the mouthless dead Last Line: Great death has made all his for evermore. Variant Title(s): The Dead Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SONNET (SUGGESTED BY MR. WATT'S PICTURE OF LOVE AND DEATH), by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea, love is strong as life; he casts out fear Last Line: And love grows faint beneath that ponderous tread! Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Death; Watts, Isaac (1674-1748); Dead, The SONNET IN VAIN, by ROLFE HUMPHRIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not sick, nor bent on self-destruction either Last Line: Profusion-bred, to die, o rolfe, stay warm! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET ON THE DEATH OF ROBERT RIDDELL, ESQ., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more ye warblers of the wood - no more Last Line: Me, memory of my loss will only meet. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET TO - -., by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, thou art for the grave; thy glances shine Last Line: And we will trust in god to see thee yet again. Variant Title(s): Consumption Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET WRITTEN BY FRA. GORGIA WHO WAS BORN AS ... MOTHER TO HER GRAVE, by FRA. GORGIA Poem Text First Line: Unhappy I came from my mother's womb Last Line: For I, in death's cold arms, receiv'd my birth. Subject(s): Birth; Death - Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The SONNET WRITTEN IN SWEFFLING CHURCHYARD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a spirit in these ancient stones Last Line: The measure of man's destiny fulfilled. Subject(s): Death; Life; Trees; Dead, The SONNET, WRITTEN AT THE COUCH OF A DYING PARENT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight! And pale melancholy stands Last Line: And let sweet slumber lull my weeping woe. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The SONNET, WRITTEN IN JANUARY 1817, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After dark vapors have oppressed our plains Last Line: A woodland rivulet--a poet's death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 1, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where have I known thee, dear, in what strange place Last Line: Our faces blanch, as mine; as thine that pales! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Life; Love; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 2, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the valley of the shadow of death Last Line: What menace haunteth joy so dearly bought? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 3, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This menace: -- of remembrance that must come Last Line: The inviolate rapture of fulfilled desire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 5, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear, through the silence comes a vibrant call Last Line: We meet, we merge, we are one; I thou; thou me! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SONNET-SEQUENCE: 8, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And so, is it so? The long sweet pain is over? Last Line: Thou shalt not know it in thy peace supreme. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SONNET. A STATESMAN, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Staunch at thy post, to meet life's common doom Last Line: Than thy plain life, high thoughts and matchless constancy. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Leadership; Dead, The; Reputation SONNET: IN ANNIVERSARIO MORTIS.1, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I can bring no tribute of fresh tears Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SONNET: 18, by HILAIRE BELLOC Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you to acheron's ugly water came Last Line: Good land to leave: and young love satisfied. Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: 2, by CHARLES HAMILTON SORLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Such, such is death: no triumph: no defeat Last Line: And blossoms and is you, when you are dead. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The SONNET: 33. TO A LADY WHO DIED AT SEA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou to whose power my hopes, my joys, I give Last Line: While time, and love, and memory shall endure, Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean SONNET: 35, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this of death, from you who never will die? Last Line: Make known him master, and for what good reason. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Creation; Death; Dead, The SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: 50, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though utter death should swallow up my hope Last Line: One love sufficeth an eternity. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: 66, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry Last Line: Save that, to die, I leave my love alone. Variant Title(s): The World's Way Subject(s): Death; Injustice; Love; Suicide; Dead, The 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: 73, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: That time of year thou mayst in me behold Last Line: To love that well which thou must leave ere long. Variant Title(s): "that Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold"";where Late The Sweet Birds Sang;sonnet #73; Subject(s): Aging; Autumn; Conceit; Death; Labor & Laborers; Love - Marital; Old Age; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love SONNET: 81. ON A LOCK OF MISS SARAH SEWARD'S HAIR WHO DIED 20TH YEAR, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My angel sister, though thy lovely form Last Line: From the resistless ravage of the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Death; Hair; Sisters; Dead, The SONNET: DEATH, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not death, that sometime in a sigh Last Line: No resurrection in the minds of men. Variant Title(s): True Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: DEATH-WARNINGS, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the ramparts of my native land Last Line: That was not a reminder of the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Death; Decay; Omens; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence SONNET: HELOISE. 2. NUN, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the doom I must henceforth fulfill Last Line: Joy comes with morn -- that joy whose name is death. Subject(s): Death; Heloise (1098-1164); Nuns; Dead, The; Eloise; Eloisa 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 SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not true the dead unhonoured were Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 4, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy ways were not my ways. Thy life was peace Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Dead, The SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 5, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were two with thee in thine agony Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: LIFE AND DEATH: 2. DEATH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then whence, o death! Thy dreariness? Last Line: And all are portion of the immortal whole. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET: SILENCE, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a silence where hath been no sound Last Line: There the true silence is, self-conscious and alone. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The SONNET: THE MOCKERY OF LIFE: 3, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who shall tell what ignominy death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNET; COMPOSED AFTER MIDNIGHT ON 31ST OF DECEMBER, 1878, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A moment since his breath dissolved in air! Last Line: Clothes the dim ghost of him just passed away! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS FOR FIVE SEASONS: THE CIRCLE, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is imagination's white face remembers Subject(s): March (month); Death; Dead, The SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 3, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unlike are we, unlike, o princely heart! Last Line: And death must dig the level where these agree. Variant Title(s): Death And Love Subject(s): Death; Angels; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations SONNETS IN SHADOW: 27, by ARLO BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must be nobler for our dead, be sure Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The SONNETS IN SHADOWS: 2, by ARLO BATES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this montrous thing called death? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS ON AGE: 5, by KATHRYN HOWARD WELLS Poem Text First Line: I cannot tell this eager youth Last Line: And know that soon one, too, must die. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Fear; Dead, The SONNETS ON AGE: 6, by KATHRYN HOWARD WELLS Poem Text First Line: O soul, be calm, forget thy fear and dread Last Line: When in a quiet grave you lie for aye. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 12. JOHN MARSTON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bitterness of death and bitterer scorn Last Line: It keeps this noble heart of hatred whole. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: GOING TO VISIT, REMEMBERS SHE IS DEAD, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh eyes! Our sun's extinct, and at an end Last Line: And, when life's done, crowns with eternal joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: HE LAMENTS FOR HER DEATH, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This nightingale that does so much complain Last Line: Nothing that pleases here, can long endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: PETRARCH ON LAURA'S DEATH, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hold, treacherous thoughts, that dare my rule despise Last Line: Thou art the cause of my unhappiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SONNETS TO MIRANDA: 1., by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Daughter of her whose face, and lofty name Last Line: Toward him spurring over bosworth field. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Alps; Daughters; Death; England; Mountains; Dead, The; English; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 9. THE PLAGUE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, the last stroke of death's noon has struck Last Line: Who mourneth for the multitude dead here? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Plague; Dead, The SONNETS: 3. MAN AND THE ELECTRIC THEORY, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are then the souls of men as moonbeams lashed Last Line: Death doffs our robes; we sleep; we may not die! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Nature; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean SONNETS: 4. SIR ALAN M'LEAN'S EFFIGY, ON INCH KENNETH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the ruined kirk above the sound Last Line: Tis better with his body than his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SONNETS: TO A DEAD FRIEND, by ELLEN C. NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: Do you rest sweetly in your wintry grave Last Line: Those dear, dumb lips can keep their secret well. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicholson, Mrs. James Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The SORGENDO DA LUNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No sound / save the hush'd breath Last Line: And falleth. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Rome, Italy; Time; Dead, The SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUND SEED, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: We hear of death Last Line: And for this fact no hands can dig a grave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUND SLEEP, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some are laughing, some are weeping Last Line: To her soul at rest and shriven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SOUNDS OF BELLS AND OF PRECIOUS STONES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The old duke philip died one night in the arms of his jesters three Last Line: Their ire, charles, duke of burgundy, went forth from his chateau. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Love; Dead, The SOUNDS OF THE RESURRECTED DEAD MAN'S FOOTSTEPS (#3): 2. ANGEL ..., by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hands that were nailed, the ankles that were pierced as if one Last Line: The cloud appeared to him by day and the little star by night. Subject(s): Angels; Concentration Camps; Crucifixion; Death; Jews; Religion; Spirituality; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology SOUVENIR, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I weep, but with no bitterness I weep Last Line: My soul to god shall bear. Subject(s): Death; Gethsemane; Grief; Nature; Souvenirs; Tears; Time; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPANIARDS' GRAVES AT THE ISLES OF SHOALS, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sailors, did sweet eyes look after you Last Line: With thinking of your woe! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Grief; Isles Of Shoals, New Hampshire; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Spain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails SPANISH FOLK SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let the rich man fill his belly Last Line: Before having loved at all. Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Emotions; Dead, The SPANISH ROSES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Roses, roses / yellow and red Last Line: A kiss for a kiss, and a sigh for a sigh! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Variant Title(s): Roses Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Roses; Youth; Dead, The SPECTATORS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Around us, wheresoe'er we tread Last Line: Beyond the vale of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPECULATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A girl we didn't actually know Subject(s): Death; Depressions, Economic; Girls; Sisters; Dead, The; Recessions SPEED THE PARTING -, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not sprinkle with dust Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Transcience; Death; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SPHERAL CHANGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this new shade of death Last Line: And you may wait and I may come? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPHINX, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We who are nothing but self, and have no manner of being Last Line: Is it eternal death, or is it infinite life? Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SPIRITS AT HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was father, and mother. And emmy, and jane Last Line: "for we live in the ghost of the old house now!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Home; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Relatives SPIRITUAL: THE LOST LOVE, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, where has my honey gone? Last Line: Nobody knows! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPLENDIDLY DEAD; AFTER READING FOR POETS SLAIN IN WAR, by MARION DOYLE Poem Text First Line: Splendidly dead,' who dares such maudlin singing Last Line: But I hear the voice of lost song crying. Alternate Author Name(s): Doyle, Marion Stauffer Subject(s): Death; Peace; Poetry & Poets; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War SPOILS OF THE DEAD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two fairies it was Last Line: The spoils of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: ANNE RUTLEDGE, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of me unworthy and unknown Last Line: From the dust of my bosom! Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Rutledge, Ann (1813-1855); Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: LUCINDA MATLOCK, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I went to the dances at chandlerville Last Line: It takes life to love life. Variant Title(s): Lucinda Matlock Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: THE HILL, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are elmer, herman, bert, tom, and charley Last Line: One time at springfield. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The SPOON RIVER ANTHOLOGY: WILLIAM AND EMILY, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is something about death Last Line: Like love itself! Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The SPORTING WITHOUT A LICENSE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a charm when spring is young Last Line: What charm of life is wanting? Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Charm; Death; Hunting; Singing & Singers; Sports; Spring; Dead, The; Hunters SPRING AND ALL, XIV, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of death / the barber Subject(s): Barbers; Death; Dead, The SPRING SNOW, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here comes the powdered milk I drank Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Transience; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The ST GOVAN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: St govan he built him a cell Last Line: As his cell by that sounding sea? Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Soul; Wales; Dead, The; Liberty; Welshmen; Welshwomen ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night is come, no fears disturb Last Line: And ye had joy in heaven. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Despair; France; Freedom; Future Life; Guilt; Saints; Dead, The; Liberty; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ST. FRANCIS AND THE NUN, by CARL DENNIS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The message st. Francis preached to the birds Last Line: From poetry Subject(s): Death; Francis Assisi, Saint (1181-1226); Nuns; Saints; Dead, The ST. MICHAEL'S CHAIR, AND WHO SAT THERE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Merrily, merrily rung the bells Last Line: "in compliment to me." Subject(s): Bells; Churches; Death; Freedom; Marriage; Cathedrals; Dead, The; Liberty; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ST. ROMAULD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One day, it matters not to know Last Line: And so we meant to strangle him one night. Subject(s): Death; Devil; Reason; Religion; Saints; Spain; Travel; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Theology; Journeys; Trips STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We're deep into the seventh hour, the car Subject(s): Adolescence; Automobile Accidents; Death; Heaven; Travel; Women; Teen Agers; Dead, The; Paradise; Journeys; Trips STANLEY WARE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now as sinks the new year's sun Last Line: Hours celestial — stanley ware! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Holidays; New Year; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The STANZAS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll not weep that thou art going to leave me Last Line: To go and rest with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Death; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STANZAS, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hopes that allured me Last Line: Tis the scream of the vulture despair at his prey. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness STANZAS (1), by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast left us long, my mother dear Last Line: And hath only purified! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The STANZAS ENDING WITH THE SAME TWO WORDS, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: At first I felt shame because I had entered Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS IN PROSPECT OF DEATH, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I loth to leave this earthly scene Last Line: O, aid me with thy help, omnipotence divine! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF H-- A--, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I deck truth in fiction's graceful dress Last Line: Where thy pure spirit now beholds its god! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We knew that the moment was drawing nigh Last Line: And bid her look upwards with holy love. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art gone to the grave - but we will not deplore thee Last Line: Where death hath no sting, since the savior hath died. Variant Title(s): Hymns: At A Funeral Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Friendship; Dead, The STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell to the hopes which the nation has cherish'd Last Line: Which retires from the throne, to repose on the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Death; Dead, The STANZAS TO M.P., by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mary! I wake not now for thee Last Line: In unison with thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The STANZAS TO PUNCHINELLO, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lignum-vitae roscius, who Last Line: First of head-breaking and side-splitting actors! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Faces; Youth; Dead, The STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another, yet another! Year by year Last Line: The name of milne shall be an honour'd name. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Milne, Admiral Sir David (1763-1845); Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics STANZAS, ON THE DEATH OF LIEUT. P., by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sacred tribute claim'd Last Line: And child. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STANZAS; HOOD'S LAST POEM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, life! My senses swim Last Line: I smell the rose above the mold! Variant Title(s): Farewell, Life; Written During Sickness, April, 1845 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STARLIGHT, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chill sad evening wind of winter blows Last Line: Sad as the breathing of a human sigh. Subject(s): Death; Snow; Winter; Dead, The STARLING, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The starling in the ivy now Last Line: To show—his mother's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Starlings; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War STARS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Across the harbor, up the mountain's base Last Line: The spirits pass? Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean STATEMENT, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: Durable is flesh when young Last Line: Discourse on all it would not tell. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Grief; Cadavers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness STEEL, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man is dead Last Line: Is now quite definitely said. Subject(s): Death; Steel; Suicide; Dead, The STELLA'S EPITAPH (WHICH AUTHOR HOPES WILL LIVE AS LONG AS SHE DOES), by MARY JONES Poem Text First Line: Here rests poor stella's restless part Last Line: What, no more worlds, ye gods!' -- and died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STICK ELEGY, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead were still singing turn the lights down low Last Line: Into trend's shadow because our money always followed Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The STILL LIFE IN LANDSCAPE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was night, it had rained, there were pieces of cars Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STOLEN OR STRAYED, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What has become of the maidens fair Last Line: Toast is burned and the steak is charred, and tears are glimmering on my cheek. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness STONE GOD AND GODDESS IN AN ARK, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the stone ark that carried them this far Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STONES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small yellow stones Last Line: Of an unfoaming far unvisioned sea. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore STONES, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They don't change, or change so slowlhy Subject(s): Stones; Death; Granite; Rocks; Dead, The STOOD AT CLEAR, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where is adams?' that was the cry Last Line: Might find heaven's signals clear to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains STORMS, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After the storm of his dying Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STRANGE MEETING, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: It seemed that out of battle I escaped Last Line: "let us sleep now. . . ." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Hell; Regret; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Nightmares; First World War STRANGER, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the village where the funeral Last Line: The night drops down with sullen grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen Subject(s): Death; Dead, The STREETS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A man leaves the world Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Sleep; Streets; Dead, The; Avenues STRENGTH THROUGH JOY, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming back over the col between Subject(s): Death; Introspection; Mountains; Self; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) STYGIAN VILLANELLE, by BERNICE SWANSON Poem Text First Line: Charon, cease your constant rowing Last Line: On these waters darkly flowing. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The STYX RIVER ANTHOLOGY, by CAROLYN WELLS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I couldn't help weeping with delight Last Line: I did. Subject(s): Death; Masters, Edgar Lee (1869-1950); Rivers; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUBMISSION, by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sparrow sits and sings, and sings Last Line: And clasp god's hand, who wrought it all. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SUITCASE SONG, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John=o was given a key to the apartment. The deal Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SUITE TO FATHERS: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think that night's our balance Last Line: Finding him as the bones of a fish in stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Fables; Fathers; Ghosts; Levertov, Denise (1923-1997); Love; Night; Supernatural; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Allegories; Bedtime SUITE TO FATHERS: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cemetery the grass is pale Last Line: A speech to become meat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fables; Dead, The; Allegories SUITE TO FATHERS: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once in nevada I sat on a boulder at twilight Last Line: Night stares down with her great bruised eye. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Night; Supernatural; Dead, The; Bedtime 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 SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: SPRING, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Spring, the sweet spring, is the year's pleasant king Last Line: Spring! The sweet spring! Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): Spring Song;the Birds In Spring;song Of Ver And His Train;spring Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Nature; Spring; Dead, The SUNDAY HYMN; IN IMITATION OF DR. WATTS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the day the lord of life Last Line: And death shall call me hence. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology SUNDAY MORNING, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Complacencies of the peignoir, and late / coffee and oranges in a sunny chair Last Line: Downward to darkness, on extended wings. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; God; Life; Nature; Religion; Dead, The; Theology SUNDOWN, by BERT LESTON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my sun of life is low Last Line: Now I lay me down to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): T., B. L. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SUNLIGHT AND SEA, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the sunlight and the sea Last Line: And who shall take my heaven from me? Subject(s): Breath; Death; Eyes; Faces; Heaven; Life; Sea; Singing & Singers; Spring; Sun; Dead, The; Paradise; Ocean SUNSET, by THOMAS WILLIAM HODGSON CROSLAND Poem Text First Line: Sickle moon and smouldering star Last Line: Beauty burning in the west. Alternate Author Name(s): Crosland, T. W. H. Subject(s): Death; Evening; War; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight SUNSET, by DOROTHY TALBOTT FOSTER Poem Text First Line: I saw an aeroplane Last Line: Straight into the setting sun! Subject(s): Death; Evening; Flight; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Flying SUNSET AND MOONRISE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the west whereon the sunset sealed the dead year's Last Line: All the hours are theirs of all the seasons: death has but his hour. Subject(s): Death; Evening; Holidays; Moon; New Year; Night; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Bedtime SUPPOSED TO BE WRITTEN .. FORCED CONVICTION OF FUTURE STATE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'erladen with sad musings, till the tear Last Line: That such as thou were never born to die!' Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life SUPREME UNCTION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the eternal night Last Line: And in the end come back to me? Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime SURE, IT'S FUN, by RICHARD BUTLER GLAENZER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, it's fun, fun, fun, Last Line: Fun? -- sure, it's fun, just the finest ever, son! Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The SURETY, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have each other's deathless love Last Line: How dear a thing is dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love; Loyalty; Mortality; Dead, The SURPRISES, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: When through the shadow thou shalt see death smile Last Line: My love for thee, a wild heart's thornless rose. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SURRENDER, by ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ask for peace. We, at the bound Last Line: We ask for peace. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SURRENDER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I strove, and strove with fate. I leave my throne Last Line: My once-imperial soul! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The SURVIVORS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came up to her, strangers in the street Last Line: Mirrors, for bargirls who ask no questions. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Vietnam; Dead, The SUSAN, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He dropt a tear on susan's bier Last Line: And let herself be woo'd again. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Death; Tears; Women; Dead, The SUTER'S CLAIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say! You feller! You Last Line: And I'm his disease! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Dead, The SWEET BLOOMS AT DUSK, by JAMES H. DEVLIN Poem Text First Line: Oft wet with tears on haloed ground Last Line: Forgotten soon and death its goal. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness SWEET CHILD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Sweet child, thou wast my bird by day Last Line: Is gone, for ever gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SWEET DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sweetest blossoms die Last Line: Prefer to glean with ruth? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The SWIMMER, by ALEXANDER KINMAN LAING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His chin cut water Last Line: Was acheron. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Hades; Swimming & Swimmers; Water; Dead, The; Swimmers SWIMMERS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I took the crazy short-cut to the bay Last Line: And death, a long and vivid holiday. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Swimmers SYCAMORE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pecooliarity of his bark Last Line: "he never'll sic 'em more." Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Plane Trees; Dead, The; Sycamores SYMBOLISM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods Last Line: And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longing; Love; Mortality; Dead, The; Paradise SYMBOLS (2), by VANCE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My palace is of smoke and rain Last Line: Men mad with dreams, shout to the night. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Night; Stars; Dead, The; Bedtime SYMPATHY, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watch me in the gloaming Last Line: Loving god and man. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Peace; Sympathy; Tears; Dead, The; Empathy T.A.H., by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, he was that, or that, as you prefer Last Line: And, having meanly lived, is grandly dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The T.C. PHILIPS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O noble heart, and brave impetuous Last Line: And lifted thee to rest eternally. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TABLE TALK, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To weave a culinary clue Last Line: Of these narcotic numbers. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; London; Marriage; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TAILLEFER THE TROUVERE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They sailed in their long gray galleys, they tossed on the narrow sea Last Line: On the verge of the fight at senlac with a song upon his lips! Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Sea Battles; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Naval Warfare TAKING THE TRAIN HOME, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dusk grew on the window. Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Railways; Homecoming; Family Life; Fathers; Death; Relatives; Dead, The TALBRAGAR, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack denver died on talbragar when christmas eve began Last Line: Rode in to talbragar. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TAM THE CHAPMAN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As tam the chapman on a day Last Line: Death taks him hame to gie him quarters. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TANKA, by ELIZABETH HAYNES SANDS Poem Text First Line: The beech leaves falling Last Line: Of withered palsied fingers. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The TARANTULA: OR THE DANCE OF DEATH, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: During the plague I came into my own Last Line: Into my own Subject(s): Plague; Death; Dead, The TARIM REPENTS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul once was pagan Last Line: That I may not forget. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The TARPAULING JACKET, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am a young jolly brisk sailor Last Line: And fiddle and dance to my grave Subject(s): Death;drinks & Drinking;love;sailing & Sailors; "dead, The; TASSO'S CORONATION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A crown of victory! A triumphal song! Last Line: Way for the bier -- make way! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595); Dead, The TEACH US TO DIE, by ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we learn to die? Last Line: So teach us, lord, with thee to die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TEAR, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poet's Biography First Line: I was sent in to see her Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers TEARS, by TUMADIR BINT IBN AL-SHARID AL-KHANSA Poem Text First Line: Tears, ere thy death, for many a one I shed Last Line: (r. A. Nicholson) Alternate Author Name(s): Tumardir Bint `amir Al-harith Ibn Ash-sharid; Al-khansa Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Tears; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by PAUL H. OEHSER Poem Text First Line: No eye-tears ever drown our deepest woe Last Line: While heart-tears gnaw their human prey piece-meal. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TEN O'CLOCK NO MORE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind has thrown Last Line: And looked again. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Sleep; Trees; Dead, The TEN YEARS AFTER, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In flanders and in france the poppies bloom Last Line: Ten years ago we could not give enough. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Veterans Day; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TENANTS, by WINIFRED VIRGINIA JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to the old woman Last Line: In one crow's bill. Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Old Age; Sheep; Dead, The TENET, by GORDON LECLAIRE Poem Text First Line: We know not whence we come nor where we wend Last Line: To fugue of faith transpose the mourners' dirge! Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The TENNYSON, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The larks of song that high o'erhead Last Line: To this one lark alone in heaven. Subject(s): Death; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TENNYSON, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: As one each evening with a new surprise Last Line: Autumnal splendors of the waning woods. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise TENNYSON, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We of the new world clasp Last Line: From old and new world -- ay, and still the new! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TERENCE MACRAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Musha, mrs. Dinneen! How's yourself Last Line: An' there's maybe a sugarstick yit in me pocket, moorneen, if you thry. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Dead, The TERMINUS (1), by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is time to be old Last Line: "and every wave is charmed." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The TERNISSA, FR HELLENICS, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ternissa! You are fled Last Line: And your cool palm smooths down stern pluto's cheek. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TESTAMENT, by MABEL KINGSLEY RICHARDSON Poem Text First Line: Scatter my dust on a prairie hill Last Line: Up from dust in april dawn. Subject(s): April; Death; Dead, The THAISA'S DIRGE, by HERMAN CHARLES MERIVALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thaisa fair, under the cold sea lying Last Line: What was thaisa lies entombed here. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THALATTA! THALATTA!; CRY OF THE TEN THOUSAND, by JOSEPH BROWNLEE BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand upon the summit of my life Last Line: Time-tired souls salute thee from the shore. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THALIA, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I say it under the rose Last Line: Down-town, look in to-morrow! Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The THALIA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fierce flames fell on your brow upturned Last Line: The dwelling of the dead. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Tragedy; Dead, The THANATOPSIS, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To him who in the love of nature holds Last Line: About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Nature; Religion; Trees; Dead, The; Theology THANATOPSIS FOR HETTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hartman's seamstress, hetty Last Line: To the no-more-needy dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THANKS TO SIR WALTER, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Nine weeks in a nursing home Last Line: Keep him and sleep well. Subject(s): Death; Nursing Homes; Peace; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Dead, The; Old Age Homes; Assisted Living THAT KIND OF POEM', by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He called our son to ask if he Last Line: "of poem"" to keep her alive." Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Women; Dead, The; Relatives THAT OTHER WAR, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bird sings in the tree you planted Last Line: Handing out coupons and samples. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE 'FRISCO EARTHQUAKE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While the earth shook and trembled and hungry Last Line: Sad, ah, sad was their fate! Subject(s): Cities; Death; Disasters; Earthquakes; Urban Life; Dead, The THE 'STILL-HOUSE SPRING, by ELIZABETH PICKETT Poem Text First Line: Dripping over fern and docks Last Line: Forever the 'still-house spring! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Dead, The THE ABSENCE OF LITTLE WESLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sence little wesley went, the place Last Line: With our last prayers, and our last tears, sence little wesley's dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Clocks; Death; Moon; Prayer; Time; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The 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 ACTOR-SOLDIER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the grass I'm lying Last Line: "o masquerader, come!" Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE ADIEU; WRITTEN .. THE IMPRESSION AUTHOR WOULD SOON DIE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, thou hill! Where early joy Last Line: Instruct me how to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ADORATION OF DISK BY KING AKHNATEN AND PRINCESS NEFER NEFERIU ATEN, by AKHENATEN Poem Text First Line: Thy dawn, o ra, opens the new horizon Last Line: In the great dawn, then lift up me, thy son. Alternate Author Name(s): Akhnaten; Akhenaton Subject(s): Death; Sun; Dead, The THE AFFIANCED ONES, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou weep'st, and on me look'st, believing Last Line: Dear corpse, for ever fare thee well! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are preparing for sleep, brushing your teeth Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE AGES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When to the common rest that crowns our days Last Line: How happy, in thy lap, the sons of men shall dwell? Subject(s): Death; Past; Dead, The THE ALBION BATTLESHIP CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 21st of june Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Despair; Dead, The THE AMATEUR RIDER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Him going to ride for us! Him - with the pants and the Last Line: Said. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The THE ANACREONTICS: 4, by JACOPO VITTORELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Cruel maid, come thou not nigh Last Line: To sleep in quiet where 'tis laid. Alternate Author Name(s): Vittorelli, Iacop Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ANCESTRAL SONG, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were faint sounds of weeping Last Line: She passed, as twilight melts to night, away! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ANCIENT CHANCE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battle and fog and dream Last Line: And the ancient chance is sweet! Subject(s): Birth; Blindness; Death; Dreams; Eyes; Hearts; Child Birth; Midwifery; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Nightmares THE ANCIENT SACRIFICE, by MAHLON LEONARD FISHER Poem Text First Line: Ye dead and gone great armies of the world Last Line: About the blood-stained shrine of bygone wars! Subject(s): Death; History; Legacies; Military; Sacrifices; War; Dead, The; Historians THE ANGEL OF DEATH, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the beautiful angel Last Line: And death, thy friend, will give them all to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Life; Pain; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE ANGEL OF MADEIRA, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Each eve I lie a-musing on madeira's hills Last Line: To awake o'er the myrtle grave time alone has lent. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise THE ANGEL'S BIDDING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a sound is heard in the convent Last Line: "at the deed you have done to-night." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Death; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE ANNOUNCEMENT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came, the brothers, and took two chairs Last Line: A spirit had passed. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ANSWER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "who would not go' / with buoyant steps, to gain that blessed portal" Last Line: "seeking, by faith, beyond this clouded air, / that land so fair!" Subject(s): Death;heaven; "dead, The;paradise; THE ANZACS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: No straws weighed they of the right or wrong Last Line: And shrines in her heart the dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Heaven; Soldiers; War; Graveyards; Dead, The; Paradise THE ARGUMENT, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the way to the village store Last Line: And the wish to forestall the argument Subject(s): Religion; Death; Theology; Dead, The THE ARMY OF THE DEAD, by BARRY PAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that overhead Last Line: Salute! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE ARMY OF THE LORD, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To fight the battle of the cross, christ's Last Line: "o grave, where is thy victory! O death, where is thy sting!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Religion; Sin; Soul; War; Dead, The; Theology THE ARTIST, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood before his finished work Last Line: Had closed his eyes in death. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Life; Dead, The THE ASIANS DYING, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the forests have been destroyed their darkness remains Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ASPIRATION, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days he rode: the sun at morn Last Line: From sky to sky the same Subject(s): Ambition; Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The THE ATONEMENT OF FERODACH THE KING; FOR LLOYD R. MORRIS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: High in his crystal-lighted grianan Last Line: Clan connla's henchmen, and hacked off his head. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Murder; Dead, The THE AUL' KIRKYARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The aul' kirkyard! - the aul' kirkyard! Last Line: The grave aneath the brier sae green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE AUTHOR'S EPITAPH, MADE BY HIMSELF, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Even such is time, that takes in trust Last Line: My god shall raise me up, I trust. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Verses Found In His Bible .. At Westminster;the Conclusion;lines Written The Night Before His Execution;to-day A Man, To-morrow None;last Line;his Epitaph;lines Found In His Bible In The Gate-house;even Such Is Time;verses Made The Night Before His Beheading;verses Made The Night Before He Died;lines Said To Have Been Written On The Eve Of His Execution;epitaph;verses Written In His Bible Subject(s): Ambition; Death; Easter; Faith; Great Britain - History; Heaven; Holidays; New Year; Religion; Time; Transience; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Belief; Creed; English History; Paradise; Theology; Impermanence THE AVENGED CROW, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: You have all heard the tale of the fox and the crow Last Line: "in return, he lies there, carried off by disease!" Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Foxes; Revenge; Story-telling; Dead, The THE AVIATOR, by FRANK R. THURSTON Poem Text First Line: I'll don my helmet and flying gear Last Line: Swift and sure and clean. Subject(s): Aviation & Aviators; Death; Life; Sky; Dead, The THE AWAKENING (1), by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once she woke to fairyland Last Line: Sleep so like to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE BACKGROUND GROUP, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crowd huzzas, the music madly plays Last Line: The children orphaned at the mouths of guns. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heroism; Life; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE BALLAD OF BAZILE BORGNE: L'ENVOI, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: There is many a man like bazile borgne Last Line: And death were a kinder mate! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 BALLAD OF MACINDOE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Macindoe was a scotchman-had other failings, too Last Line: But I never believed the tale. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BALLAD OF MELICERTES, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, a light outshining life, bids heaven resume Last Line: Life so sweet as this that dies and casts off death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE BALLAD OF SOULFUL SAM, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You want me to tell you a story, a yarn of the firin' line Last Line: I'd only -- a deck of cards, boys, but . . . It seemed to do just the same. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE BALLAD OF THE ANGEL, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it knocking in the night Last Line: "of heaven when you die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Hell; Dead, The; Paradise THE BAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange dreams of what I used Last Line: Who either pity or despise. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BARD OF BREFFNEY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Withered with years and broken by time's play Last Line: Upon the field where brave o'ruark did die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Bards; Death; Harps; Musical Instruments; Dead, The; Lyres THE BATTLE FIELD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a battle field, and the cold moon Last Line: And listless slumber. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF ATBARA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain, pray list to me Last Line: And to annihilate barbarity, and to establish what is right. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - History; Rifles; War; Dead, The; English History THE BATTLE OF CORUNNA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1808, and in the autumn of the year Last Line: By giving them an inch or two of cold steel. Subject(s): Death; Loss; Napoleonic Wars; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF EH ALMA: FOUGHT IN 1854, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the heights of alma the battle began Last Line: Which was responded to by hurrahs, loud and clear. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Fights; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the month of october, and in the year of 1899 Last Line: At home or abroad, wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Guns; Highlands Of Scotland; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF INKERMANN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1854, and on the 5th of november Last Line: Alas! Pitiful to relate, thousands of innocent men. Subject(s): Alma, Battle Of The (1854); Blood; Crimean War (1853-1856); Death; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BATTLE OF OMDURMAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of great britain! Come join with me Last Line: And to establish what's right wherever they go. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Great Britain - History; Military; Victory; War; Dead, The; English History THE BATTLE OF SHERIFFMUIR: A HISTORICAL POEM, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year 1715, and on the 10th of november Last Line: And to allay all doubts about which party won, we must feel content. Subject(s): Death; History; Sheriffmuir, Battle Of (1715); Victory; War; Dead, The; Historians THE BATTLE OF THE NILE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 18th of august in the year of 1798 Last Line: That thanksgiving should be returned to god for the victory complete. Subject(s): Death; Guns; Nile (river); Sailing & Sailors; Victory; War; Dead, The THE BATTLEFIELD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They dropped like flakes, they dropped like stars Last Line: Can summon every face. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BATTURE, by DARA WIER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE BEARER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like all his people he felt at home in the forest Last Line: Began to kill him with clubs and heavy stones Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BED BY THE WINDOW, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the bed down-stairs by the sea-window for a good death-bed Last Line: "thumps with his staff, and calls thrice: ""come, jeffers." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BELFRY OF MONS, by WILFRID CHARLES THORLEY Poem Text First Line: At mons there is a belfry tall Last Line: They hear the trumpet sound. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Peace; Soldiers; Spires; War; Dead, The; Steeples THE BELL, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the bell of death I hear Last Line: Nor love nor hate the mystery. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Dead, The THE BELLS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "oh, it's h-a-p-p-y I am, and it's f-r-double-e" Subject(s): Bells;death; "dead, The; THE BELLS OF MOONLIGHT AND LEAF, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moonlight and the leaves, / bells, these Last Line: Of the bells of moonlight and leaf. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The THE BELOVED IS DEAD, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The beloved is dead. Limbs Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BIRD, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Once when a child, he found within the neighbouring wood Last Line: Swift flew his soul to god, far in the happy skies. Subject(s): Courage; Death; War; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE BIRTH OF THE INVISIBLE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O scene of enchantment! O vision of bliss! Last Line: As in accents sepulchral it groaned -- I am death! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Birth; Death; Eden; Gardens & Gardening; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The THE BIRTHDAY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another blossom blooms for thee Last Line: Thou too behold it very good! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity, saith [or said] the pracher, vanity! Last Line: As still he envied me, so fair she was! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Graves; Vanity; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE BISHOP'S SEE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the see, the see, the bishop's see" Last Line: Shall come to the wealthy bishop's see Subject(s): Clergy;death;farm Life;love; "priests;rabbis;ministers;bishops;dead, The;agriculture;farmers; THE BISON TRACK, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the tent! The sun has risen Last Line: Howl around each grim-eyed carcass, on the bloody bison track! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Animals; Bison; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE BITTERNESS OF DEATH, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rich man moved in pomp. His soul was gorged Last Line: With a redeemer's righteousness. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BLIND MAN, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At nogent, on the river marne Last Line: "my little eleanor is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Death - Children; Democracy; Fathers; Innocence; Schools; Social Protest; War; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Students THE BLIND MAN, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As haggard as an owl by day, / a blind man through the town doth stray Last Line: Shall see distinctly in the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The THE BLOOD-STAINED CROSS, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A black cross and a bloody Last Line: And youth. War slew them utterly. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE BODING DREAMS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lover's ear a wild voice cried Last Line: The murder's done. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Murder; Predestination; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE BODY BESIDE THE TIES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can't seem to wake you, kid, guess it Subject(s): Death; Youth; Dead, The THE BOLD GHOST, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The year was young, but the place was old Last Line: Death's meaning at last he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BOOBY-TRAP, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm crawlin' out in the mangolds to bury wot's left o' joe Last Line: Night! Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE BOOK, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the book of shadows Subject(s): Books; Death; Reading; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man thinks he is alive when he sees blood in his stool Subject(s): Blood; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#1): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man can balance a glass of water on his head without trembling Subject(s): Bodies; Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man splays his arms and legs, he is a kind of medusa Last Line: Mortal among immortals, the dead man can change you to stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Vanity; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#11): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND MEDUSA, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man mistakes his rounded shoulders for wings Last Line: The dead man speaks also for those who were turned into stone. Subject(s): Death; Medusa; Mythology - Classical; Women; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears thunder, he thinks someone is speaking Last Line: The dead man speaks god's language. Subject(s): Death; God; Language; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#13): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND THUNDER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man counts the seconds between lightning and thunder to Last Line: Smell of solder at the junction of earth and sky. Subject(s): Death; God; Lightning; Religion; Speech; Spirituality; Thunder; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Theology; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#15): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND RIGOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You think it's funny, the dead man being stiff? Last Line: You think it's hilarious, comedy upstanding, crackers to make sense of? Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Humorists; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man's skin turns black and blue, he thinks it is winter Last Line: The dead man in winter is not just winter. Subject(s): Death; Winter; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#19): 2. MORE ABOUT THE DEAD MAN AND WINTER, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man in winter is the source of spring Last Line: The dead man in winter is in heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Spring; Winter; Dead, The; Paradise THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): 1. ABOUT THE DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man hears the thunderous steps of an ant, he feels eager Last Line: The dead man has it all, even the worms and the dogs. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Nature; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#21): MORE ABOUT DEAD MAN'S HAPPINESS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man wanted more until he had everything and wanted none of it Last Line: The dead man did the same with substance and shadow. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#34), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man is slag ash soot cinders grime powder embers flakes Last Line: Sides of a simple box. Subject(s): Death; Dust; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#35), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In an evening of icicles, tree branches crackling as they break Last Line: Of the old songbooks, taped and yellowed, held there in time. Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#43) , by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man itches, he thinks he has picked up a splinter Last Line: Stinger that cost something its life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Touch (sense); Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#47) , by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lives in the flesh, in memory, in absentia, in fact and Last Line: Scraps and a mouthful of quills. Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Cookery; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#6), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Will the dead man speak? Speak, says the lion, and the dead man Last Line: Anvils. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Speech; Dead, The; Oratory; Orators THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#62), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the dead man opens himself up, he is blown about, showered Last Line: Music, and your heart blows up when you gasp. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#63), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man has up-the-stairs walking disorder Last Line: The dead man stands for living anyway. Subject(s): Death; Language; Love; Sickness; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Illness THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#65), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man struggles not to become crabby, chronic or hypothetical Last Line: When the river met the shore. Subject(s): Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Language; Poetry & Poets; Reason; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#66), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That one was lost at sea and another to rot, that one threw himself Last Line: Do not let them tell you that the dead man has gone on ahead. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#68), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man likes it when the soup simmers and the kettle hisses Last Line: Some say the dead man was miserable to be so happy. Subject(s): Death; Language; Happiness; Story-telling; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ABSALOM, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I first discovered what was killing these men. Subject(s): Family Life; Labor & Laborers; Death; Relatives; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: ARTHUR PEYTON, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consumed. Eaten away. And love across the street Subject(s): Physicians; Death; Doctors; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: DEAD MAN ARISETH AND SINGETH A HYMN TO THE SUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "homage to thee, o ra, at thy tremendous rising!" Last Line: Millions of years shall come. Thou art above the years! Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE COMETH FORTH INTO THE DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am here, I have traversed the tomb, I behold thee" Last Line: "in the beautiful world by the bright lake of horus, / riseth the day" Subject(s): Death;fathers & Sons;heaven; "dead, The;paradise; THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE ESTABLISHETH HIS TRIUMPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hail, thou who shinest from the moon" Last Line: Victorious through the dark! Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: HE WALKETH BY DAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "I am yesterday, to-day, and to-morrow" Last Line: My spirit is god Subject(s): Death;goddesses & Gods;mythology;mythology - Egyptian; "dead, The; THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: MEARL BLANKENSHIP, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He stood against the stove Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Illness; Death; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: POWER, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The quick sun brings, exciting mountains warm, Subject(s): Machinery & Machinists; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These roads will take you into your own country. Subject(s): Home; Progress; United States; Death; America; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE CORNFIELD, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Error, disease, snow, sudden weather. Subject(s): Corn; Disease; Death; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE DOCTORS, by MURIEL RUKEYSER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell the jury your name. Subject(s): Trials; Physicians; Labor & Laborers; Death; Doctors; Work; Workers; Dead, The THE BOOK OF THE DEAD: THE OTHER WORLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here are cakes for thy body Last Line: By night the rising star Subject(s): Death;peace;utopia; "dead, The; THE BOUT, by EVARISTE BOULAY-PATY Poem Text First Line: Two wrestlers in a ruthless grapple strive Last Line: And even in dying feels his glory kindle. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Wrestling & Wrestlers; Dead, The; Judo; Karate THE BOY DIED IN MY ALLEY, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Without my having known Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BOY IN ARMOR; HE SPEAKS TO THE GATHERED NATIONS, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tremble, o world! Bow down! Cringe! Be afraid! Last Line: For you shall think! And ghosts will drive you on! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Lectures; Patriotism; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; Thought; War; Dead, The; Addresses; Speaking; Public Speaking; Thinking THE BRAES OF YARROW, by JOHN LOGAN (1748-1788) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy braes were bonny, yarrow stream Last Line: And then with thee I'll sleep in yarrow. Variant Title(s): Yarrow Stream Subject(s): Death; Yarrow (water), Scotland; Dead, The THE BREAD HAS BECOME MOLDY, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BREATH OF SWEET, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now did wallflower breathe Last Line: His cold shade beneath. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Heaven; Rebirth; Dead, The; Paradise THE BRIDAL DAY, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bride! Upon thy marriage-day Last Line: "comfort 'midst our tears for thee!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDAL OF LADY AIDEEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O lady aideen, will you wed with me, wed with me in the early morning? Last Line: (the banshee waits on the window-sill.) Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courtship; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love looks like a girl to-night Last Line: By its shape, like the thrushes in clear evenings. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BRIDE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came, but she was gone Last Line: May stamp the sentence of eternity. Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dawn light these white girders Last Line: Return to yourself. Subject(s): Bodies; Bridges; Death; Dead, The THE BRIDGE OF LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Across the rapid stream of seventy years Last Line: To where all glories of our being tend Subject(s): Death;old Age;time; "dead, The; THE BRIGHT DARK, by HOWARD MCKINLEY CORNING Poem Text First Line: Forever conscript to profoundest dark Last Line: Assume terrestial orbit with the sun's. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Soul; Dead, The THE BROKEN PROMISE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the crisp of fall Last Line: And a broken promise is their doom. Subject(s): Autumn; Mountains; Fall; Dead, The; Nightmares; Human Race; Bedtime THE BROTHER DEATH, by RUTH DUHME Poem Text First Line: The soundless army beats retreat Last Line: The city of the dreadful night. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BROTHERS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slumber, sleep - they were two brothers Last Line: Slumber did his brother's duty -- sleep was deepen'd into death. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE BUGLER; A CASE STUDY IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF WAR, by LIN DAVIES Poem Text First Line: I can't blow taps no more Last Line: "and that squares me!" Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Music & Musicians; Psychology; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Psychologists THE BUGLES OF DREAMLAND, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly the dews of the gloaming are falling Last Line: And the bugles of dreamland about us are calling. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bugles; Death; Dreams; Future Life; Mysticism; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we on earth have run our race Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones THE BURIAL OF MR. GLADSTONE, THE GREAT POLITICAL HERO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people now do sigh and moan Last Line: You were the greatest politician in your day. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Heroism; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Heroes; Heroines THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE BURIAL OF THE DANE, by HENRY HOWARD BROWNELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blue gulf all around us Last Line: We have buried our dead! Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE BURIAL OF THE OLD, by WENDELL BERRY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old, whose bodies encrust their lives Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE BURIAL OF THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the gilfillan burial day Last Line: And that ended the gilfillan burial in the hill o' balgay. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gillfillan, George (1813-1878); Dead, The; Burials THE BURIAL OF WEBSTER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Low and solemn be the requiem above the nation's / dead Last Line: And future generations shall honor webster's name! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE BURIAL-MARCH OF THE DUNDEE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sound the fife, and cry the slogan Last Line: Chieftain than our own dundee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Graham Of Calverhouse, John (1648-1689); Scotland; Scotland - Relations With England; War; Dead, The THE BURIED LADY, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, humbly, upon the charming tomb / the unconscious monument Last Line: Death far dearer than life. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Dead, The THE BURNING OF THE PEOPLE'S VARIETY THEATRE, ABERDEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of september Last Line: But I hope they are now in heaven, amongst the heavenly choir. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Heroism; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE BUS STOPPED IN FIELDS OF MISDEMEANOR, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know why they turn the irrigation Last Line: And I am of the enemy. And we are legion. Subject(s): Death; Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Drugs & Drug Abuse; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Narcotics; Opium; Cocaine; Crack; Heroin THE BUSTS OF GOETHE AND SCHILLER IN WALHALLA, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is goethe, with a forehead Last Line: And the poet is the king! Subject(s): Death; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von (1749-1832); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Dead, The; Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von THE BUTTERFLY, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I watched to-day a butterfly Last Line: Have raised my thoughts from earth to god. Subject(s): Butterflies; Death; Earth; Insects; Life; Time; Dead, The; World; Bugs THE CALL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The unforgotten voices call at twilight Last Line: They will not give me peace at dawn and twilight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ireland; Loss; Memory; Voices; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish THE CALL OF DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Last of myself-I thought how hard to die Last Line: Once and no more—ah! Make no cry! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CALL TO ARMS, by CARL JOHN BOSTELMANN Poem Text First Line: Drums of doom are marching to the battle Last Line: God! Save young laughter from the lust of guns! Subject(s): Death; God; Military; Salvation; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE CAMPEADOR'S SPECTRE HOST, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On leon's towers deep midnight lay Last Line: That more than men had fought for god! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fights; Spain; Swords; Dead, The THE CAMPS; FOR MARILYN HACKER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the young brown-haired Last Line: Rest on the unmoving forms. Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Despair; Love; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Writing & Writers; Dead, The THE CAPTIVE OF THE WHITE CITY, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flower of the foam of the waves Last Line: O rain-in-the-face? Subject(s): Chicago; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE CARELESS GALLANT, by THOMAS JORDAN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us drink and be merry, dance, joke, and rejoice Last Line: Since all shall be nothing a hundred years hence. Variant Title(s): Coronemus Nos Rosis Antequam;the Epicure;song Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE CASTLE OF GATHORE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a place none knows but I Last Line: And the castle of gathore! Subject(s): Castles; Death; Home; Love; Soul; Trees; Dead, The THE CATBIRD, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: On mountain-tops of joy he sings, quite clear Last Line: "a sneering—""sin?—aw—you—yes—you—too—sin!" Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE CATFISH, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a traffic jam on st. Simons bridge Last Line: Back to the current of our breathable past. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Dead, The; Anglers THE CATHEDRAL, by WILLIAM G. SHAKESPEARE Poem Text First Line: Hope and mirth are gone. Beauty is departed Last Line: Forgiving, praying, singing, feeling sorry. Alternate Author Name(s): S., W. G. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE CATTLEMAN'S BURIAL (S.S. MAORI KING, SOUTH SEAS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bore our comrade from his bunk, we / kept him overnight Last Line: And longed for fields, and running brooks, and all my friends, and home. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Burials THE CAVALIER'S CHOICE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was a gallant cavalier of honor and reknown Last Line: Look kindly, and reply. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE CERTAINTY OF DEATH, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mortals! Around your destined heads Last Line: To meet the fatal blow! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CHALLENGE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost quell in thy victorious tide Last Line: The radiant silence of my sleepless pain. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE CHALLENGER, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old liar, death, do you think I don't see you? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CHANGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more Last Line: When friends are frail and dropping to the grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CHANGES TO CORINNA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be not proud, but now encline Last Line: As well as I. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CHANGING FACE OF AIDS: 12. LAST ACT, by RAFAEL CAMPO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not epidemiology, not love Last Line: My heart restored that wasn't ever safe Subject(s): Aids (disease); Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THE CHARCOAL PAN, by H. HEAD Poem Text First Line: Though huts like ours were rather scarce Last Line: Whose names were scarcely known. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Fire; Tents; Dead, The; Relatives 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 CHARIOTEER'S GRAVE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: In tarragona where the waves Last Line: "would I had died within the circus cheer." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHARNEL SHIP, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The breeze blew fair, the waving sea Last Line: Mong the red coral groves for you. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CHILD IN BLACK, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Out in the street the children play Last Line: For sending her away? Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE CHILD-BRIDE, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Tread lightly in the lane-way Last Line: The child-bride's sleep is long * * * — Subject(s): Children; Death; Heaven; Love; Childhood; Dead, The; Paradise THE CHIMERA'S KISS, by JEAN RICHEPIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fierce chimera's hooded eyes Last Line: Immortal in one moment's bliss. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Mythology; Tears; Dead, The THE CHOLERA MORBUS, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It comes! It comes! From england's trembling tongue Last Line: Requite the love that snatched them from the pest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Death; England; Love; Dead, The; English THE CHRIST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father (so the word) he Last Line: "father! Father!"" so he died." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Jesus Christ; Mercy; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The THE CHRISTIAN, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was free. But now in a net I am caught Last Line: I can not evade immortality. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sermons; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness THE CHURCH OF BROU, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the savoy valleys sounding Last Line: The rustle of the eternal rain of love. Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Churches; Youth; Graves; Hunters; Dead, The; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE CID AND THE JEW, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE CID'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was an hour of grief and fear Last Line: For the noble cid hath passed! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Death; Cid Campeador (143-199); Diaz De Vivar, Rodrigo (143-199); Dead, The THE CIRCUS ANIMALS' DESERTION, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sought a theme and sought for it in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Memory; Past; Poetry & Poets; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The THE CITY DEAD-HOUSE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the city dead-house by the gate Last Line: Months, years, an echoing, garnish'd house -- but dead, dead, dead. Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE CITY IN THE SEA, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death has reared himself a throne Last Line: Shall do it reverence. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE CITY OF LAISH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you read of the orient people of / laish in the olden time Last Line: Christ came and his presence declared it, so the dream may not utterly die. Subject(s): Asia; Cities; Death; Dreams; Jesus Christ; War; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE CITY [OF THE DEAD]., by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They do neither plight nor wed Last Line: For the lie at ease and know that life is done. Subject(s): Autumn; Cities; Death; Life; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Fall; Urban Life; Dead, The; Songs THE CLUE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only the virgin knows the life story Last Line: And the old spinner ravels skeins of death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE COACHMAN'S YARN, by EDWIN JAMES BRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This a tale that the coachman told Last Line: Nimitybell on monaro. Alternate Author Name(s): Brady, E. J. Subject(s): Bars & Bartenders; Cold; Death; Fire; Story-telling; Winter; Pubs; Taverns; Saloons; Dead, The THE COAST-ROAD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A horseman high alone as an eagle on the spur of the mountain Last Line: Not the least hurt by this ribbon of road carved on their sea-foot Subject(s): Pacific Ocean; Death; Dead, The THE COFFEE CUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The newspaper, the coffee cup, the dog's Subject(s): Death; City & Town Life; Dead, The THE COIN, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: While you were alive Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COMET, by SAMUEL WILSON Poem Text First Line: For three nights had it marched across the / sky Last Line: And so I knew that all was as before. Subject(s): Death; God; Peace; Prayer; Dead, The THE COMMON LOT, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, in the flight of ages past Last Line: Than this, -- there lived a man! Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COMMON PRAYER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O hear the secret word I cannot say Last Line: "say: ""throughly do I know thee. Peace, be still!" Subject(s): Death; Love; Peace; Prayer; Dead, The THE COMPLAINT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Mighty love, oh how dost thou Last Line: Make an holocaust of me! Subject(s): Worship; Death; Dead, The THE COMPLAINT OF LISA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no woman living that draws breath Last Line: Ere day be done, to seek the sunflower. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sun; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE COMPLAINT OF ROSAMOND, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the horror of infernal deeps Last Line: Who made me known, must make me live unseen. Subject(s): Brooks; Clifford, Rosamund (d.1176); Death; Ghosts; Henry Ii, King Of England (1133-1189); Life; Soul; Supernatural; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The THE COMPOSER'S WINTER DREAM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vivid and heavy, he strolls through dark brick kitchens Last Line: In a struggle with the loud, combatant horns. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Cooking & Cooks; Deafness; Death; Music & Musicians; Winter; Cookery; Dead, The THE COMRADE, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger by the tavern board Last Line: Winnowed by the wave and sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ships & Shipping; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE CONFEDERATE, by WHITELAW SAUNDERS Poem Text First Line: Death called, but frightened, he had turned away Last Line: Or that the bloom was death's confederate. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Flowers; Dead, The THE CONFESSION OF ST. JIM-RALPH, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I used to sneak into the movies without paying Last Line: These things speak the clear promise of heaven Subject(s): Heroism; Travel; Crime & Criminals; Death; Soldiers; Heroes; Heroines; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE CONFLICT OF CONVICTIONS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On starry heights / a bugle wails the long recall Last Line: Wisdom is vain, and prophesy. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Dreams; Hope; Past; United States - History; Wisdom; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism THE CONFLICT: 5. KRUPPISM, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crowned on the twilight battlefield, there bends Last Line: So long shall we serve krupp instead of christ. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; Germany; Jesus Christ; Krupp (industrial Conglomerate); Loss; Loyalty; World War I; Dead, The; Germans; First World War THE CONGER EEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters dance on the ocean crest, or swirl in Last Line: That vampire conger eel. Subject(s): Arctic; Bones; Death; Marine Animals; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE CONSUMPTIVE, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: Bring flowers, fresh flowers, the fairest spring can yield Last Line: Bring flowers ere I depart. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Life; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE CONVALESCENT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I walked among the willows very quietly all night Last Line: But mother's sayin' nothin', and she clasps -- a silver cross. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE CONVENT PORTER, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was an ancient, bearded man Last Line: And took the old man praying. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Prayer; Dead, The THE COPPERHEAD, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A dwarfed limb Last Line: All spine and nerve. Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Rattlesnakes; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The THE COROBBOREE (MIDNIGHT), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in the forest-depths the tribe Last Line: The silent stars above the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bedtime THE CORPSES (1), by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Are unhappy in this shut down Last Line: Slippery look. And even a corpse can be a disguise Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Cadavers; Dead, The THE COTTAGE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in turn succeed and rule Last Line: No! For death is waiting by. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COUNTESS CATHLEEN IN PARADISE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All the heavy days are over Last Line: Flame on flame and wing on wing. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): A Dream Of A Blessed Spirit Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COUNTRY GRAVEYARD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Close beside the winding highway Last Line: Of god's home beyond the skies. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Country Life; Death; Graveyards; Dead, The THE COURIER, by ARTHUR E. GLEED Poem Text First Line: So... You have come at last! Last Line: After all these years. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE COURSE OF LEAST RESISTANCE, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: The course of least resistance is Last Line: Upon the rocks below. Subject(s): Death; Water; Waterfalls; Dead, The THE COWBOY, by ETHEL ROMIG FULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People, like cattle Last Line: To his corral. Subject(s): Cowboys; Death; Dead, The THE CRADLE OR COFFIN, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The cradle or coffin, the robe or the shroud Last Line: Tell us, o mortals, which like ye the best? Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Mortality; Dead, The 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 CREED OF DESIRE, by BRUCE PORTER Poem Text First Line: Still to be sure of the dawn Last Line: And go down to the grave with a shout! Subject(s): Death; Desire; God; Dead, The THE CREEPER, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It covered all Last Line: When from no earthly meadows crept the remembered wind. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CROSS OF SNOW, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long, sleepless watches of the night Last Line: And seasons, changeless since the day she died. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE CROSSING, by IRENE HALDERSON Poem Text First Line: A soft, black sponge envelopes me Last Line: An ardent life enthusiast! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE CROWNING OF THE KING, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now within its narrow hall Last Line: By that chrism of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE CRUCIFIXION OF CHRIST, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Then pilate, the roman governor, took jesus and scourged him Last Line: Therefore, believe in the saviour, and heaven you shall enter in! Subject(s): Bible; Crucifixion; Death; Heaven; Religion; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE CRUEL GAMEKEEPER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In buxton town in staffordshire Last Line: All on the gallows tree so high Subject(s): Babies;crimes & Criminals;death;murder;pregnancy; "infants;dead, The; THE CRUSADE, by KARL GOTTFRIED VON LEITNER Poem Text First Line: A monk in lonely convent cell Last Line: "into the holy land." Subject(s): Crusades; Death; War; Dead, The THE CRY, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the trampled gardens once so fair Last Line: "mother!" Subject(s): Death - Mothers; War; Dead, The THE CRY OF RACHEL, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the dark; I beat on the floor Last Line: Let me in, death. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Rachel (bible); Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Judaism THE CRY OF YOUTH, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard youth crying in the night Last Line: "yea, I am youth because I die!" Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Youth; Dead, The THE CUP, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unable to quell a sudden urge for neatness, Subject(s): Cups; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE CUP OF DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She bends her beauteous head to taste thy draught Last Line: Thus grief that is, makes welcome death to come. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Grief; Paintings And Painters; Vedder, Elihu (1836-1923); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE CUP OF YOUTH, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, gaspar, how I hold the hours of love Last Line: [exit gelosa. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The THE CURE OF CALUMETTE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Dere's no voyageur on de reever never run hees canoe d'ecorce Last Line: An' bless leetle fader o'hara, de cure of calumette. Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DADDY STRAIN, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends over a chinese lunch Last Line: Can hatch any bird but flightless bromides. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Comfort; Death; Fear; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 1, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the barren pasture and the wood Last Line: The dancing waters danced by dancing daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Children; Death; Fathers; Friendship; Love; Love - Unrequited; Oaths; Childhood; Dead, The THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 5, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The river brimming full was silvered over Last Line: Over the barren fields where march brings daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Fathers; Love; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Regret; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAFFODIL FIELDS: 7, by JOHN MASEFIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a light gust came a waft of bells Last Line: To this old tale of woe among the daffodils. Alternate Author Name(s): Masefield, John Edward Subject(s): Abandonment; Death; Love; Marriage; Murder; Regret; Shame; Tragedy; Desertion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DANCE OF DEATH, by SEM TOB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I am death! With aim as sure as steady Last Line: Even then shall hope and joy our footsteps bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Santob De Carrion; Santo, Don Subject(s): Death; Jews; Dead, The; Judaism THE DANCE OF DEATH (AFTER HOLBEIN), by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is the despots' despot. All must bide Last Line: There is no king more terrible than death. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DANGER CAR, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to Last Line: Banker, and maimed an auctioneer. Subject(s): Accidents; Automobile Drivers; Crime & Criminals; Death; Murder; Tragedy; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DARK CAVALIER, by MARGARET WIDDEMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark cavalier; I am the last lover Last Line: You shall lie happily, smiling in your sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DARK HOUSE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where a faint light shines alone Last Line: Will be living, having died. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Life; Dead, The THE DART, by ELIZA [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: Shoot from above Last Line: Shot with a dart of heavens bright eye Alternate Author Name(s): Eliza+1 Subject(s): Cupid;death;love; "eros;dead, The; THE DAY MY MOTHER DIED, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seldom have premonitions of death Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE DAY'S END, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Boys, I've been out in the clearin' Last Line: "come in, pa, the night is fallin'!" Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mothers & Daughters; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DAYS THAT ARE NO MORE, by GEORGE DONALD Poem Text First Line: Through the dim past in fancy oft I stray Last Line: Beyond the realms of death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DAYS THAT NEVER WERE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: O days that are no more! The lords of song Last Line: The vision splendid, and the gift sublime! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead abide with us. Though stark and cold Last Line: And curse the heritage which we bequeath. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the clear red sun goes down Last Line: To be nurtured by the dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Not till my spirit's naked and ashamed Last Line: And free of flesh, would I approach the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How great unto the living seem the dead! Last Line: And all is what imagination dreams. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The THE DEAD, by KATHERYN KOHBERGER Poem Text First Line: We rest in illimitable slumber Last Line: And is eternal night. Subject(s): April; Death; Graves; Light; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEAD, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sea that breaks on the opposite shore Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEAD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Revolving in oval loops of solar speed, Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by SIMONIDES OF AMORGOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of souls departed, if our minds were strong Last Line: We'd think no longer than a day is long. Alternate Author Name(s): Semonides Of Amorgos Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by ERNST STOCKMANN Poem Text First Line: How they so softly rest Last Line: Calls them, they slumber! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see them, crowd on crowd they walk the earth Last Line: Than those that to the earth with many tears they give. Subject(s): Death; 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 BRIDE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Within my circled arm she lay and Last Line: But oh, the emptiness of dawn that breaks the dream!) Subject(s): Brides; Death; Dreams; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD BRIDE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There she lay so still and pale Last Line: Death hath found her. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Brides; Death; Happiness; Heaven; Life; Dead, The; Joy; Delight; Paradise THE DEAD CHILD, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little son was dead Last Line: The mother is in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Children; Death; Innocence; Lambs; Mothers; Sons; Childhood; Dead, The THE DEAD CITY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I rambled in a wood Last Line: And I straightway knelt and prayed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Cities; Death; Fear; Forests; Grief; Urban Life; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEAD COACH, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At night when sick folk wakeful lie Last Line: Wipe thou the widow's tears that fall! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD DAY, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The golden day is dead and now doth go Last Line: For all her face with sorrow's tears is wet. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD FRIEND, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you were alive, at least Last Line: As I remember here to-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE DEAD FRIEND, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not to the grave, not to the grave, my soul Last Line: There will be joy in grief. Variant Title(s): Communings Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE DEAD GIRL, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This girl is dead, is dead in love's old way Last Line: They went afield, afield as every day . . . Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE DEAD JOKE AND THE FUNNY MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Long years ago, a funny man Last Line: Outright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Comedy; Death; Laughter; Dead, The THE DEAD KINGS, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: All the dead kings came to me Last Line: I woke, 'twas day in picardy. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Ireland; World War I; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Irish; First World War THE DEAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time is so long when a man is Last Line: That wants to fly back to you. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Time; Dead, The THE DEAD MISTRESS, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, o my dark beloved, thou shalt drowse Last Line: The worm shall suck thy burning body pale. Subject(s): Death; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DEAD MOTHER, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord roland on his roan horse Last Line: About a dead man's head. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE DEAD OF THE WILDERNESS, by CHAIM NACHMAN BIALIK Poem Text First Line: Yonder great shadow-that blot on the passionate glare / of the desert Last Line: Stillness returns as of old. Desolate stretches the desert. Alternate Author Name(s): Bialik, Hayim Nahman; Byalik, Chaim Nachman Subject(s): Death; Legends; Dead, The THE DEAD PAINTER, by VIRGINIA TAYLOR MCCORMICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day after day he sat beneath these eaves Last Line: Whose vision holds a moment, not eternity. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Paintings And Painters; Vision; Dead, The THE DEAD POET, by ARTHUR CHRISTOPHER BENSON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child that leans his ear beside the shell Alternate Author Name(s): Benson, A. C. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THEE, O GOD, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: We are alone: the dead who sleeping lie Last Line: "we dead." Variant Title(s): We Are Alone Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD PUSSY CAT [OR KITTEN], by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You's as stiff an' as cold as a stone Last Line: And forget all de kicks of de town Subject(s): Animal Rights;animals;cats;cold;death;grief; "animal Abuse;vivisection;dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE DEAD RETURN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead return. I know they do Last Line: Their spirits hover very near. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE DEAD SAMURAI TO DEATH, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had not called nor prayed for thee to come Subject(s): Samurai; Death; Dead, The THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A piece of flesh gives off Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 SOLDIER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look! They came, the triumphant army! Last Line: He dreams the dream of the dead soldier. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE DEAD SOUL, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed such a horrible dream last night Last Line: The soul that's dead!' Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEAD TEACHER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Ah! But yesterday we saw him there in the familiar / place Last Line: Where thou restest from thy labors in the hearing of the pines! Subject(s): Bowdoin College; Death; Funerals; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials; Educators; Professors THE DEAD TO THE LIVING, by FERDINAND FREILIGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bullet in the marble breast, the gash upon the brow Last Line: "they once were free—they fell—and now, forever they are slaves!" Alternate Author Name(s): Freiligrath, Hermann Ferdinand Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Germany - Revolution - 1848-1849; Dead, The; Liberty THE DEAD WIFE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always I see her in a saintly guise Last Line: I need so much -- so much! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DEAD WIFE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice turned she in her narrow bed Last Line: "and to his love say nay!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD-HOUSE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the dead of night to the dead-house Last Line: All under her queenly cover. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEAD: 1, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think you the dead are lonely in that place? Last Line: Are ever by great beauty visited. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE DEAD: 2, by DAVID MORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All souls' night! Forth from their dwelling places Last Line: For finding remembered and remembering faces. Subject(s): All Souls' Night; Death; All Hallows Night; Dead, The THE DEAR ADVENTURER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dear adventurer, once more dost thou Last Line: What talk, what treasures shown, what shining hours! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Past; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean 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 AND PASSION: 23, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Unhappy merchant, thus t'expose thy lord Last Line: Of him, who came, this sicke worlde to redeeme. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 24, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh blessed virgin, hadst thowe present bene Last Line: That juryes wealth, on hayre should never buy. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 25, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But thowe true patterne of pure pyety Last Line: Goe buy thyne owne from those preistes murth'ring handes. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 26, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: And judas o yf greedy hope of gayne Last Line: Then scornefull foes, whose spight and pyde abhorre him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 27, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Oh what would lazarus new brought to live Last Line: Who lov'd him more then all ye world can doe. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 28, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: Yea leave the earth, and ask the angels bright Last Line: Thy guilt had bene the lesse, thy gayne the more. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH AND PASSION: 29, by ELIZABETH MIDDLETON Poem Text First Line: But sin, with self conceit it self doth blind Last Line: Weare in his pow'r, to use him, as he please. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ; Love; Religion; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Theology THE DEATH DANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O arone a-ree, eily arone, arone! Last Line: O, o, arone, a-ree, eily arone! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Love Affairs; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE DEATH GHAZALS, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If a raindrop enters the ocean, good Last Line: Does your smeared forehead out-top the gracious mountain? Variant Title(s): Ghazals;death Of Ghazals Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL, by VIRGINIA MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was a double gardenia Last Line: A dark brown odor. Alternate Author Name(s): Untermeyer, Louis, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the enemy hath bent his bow Last Line: The grave? Just god! Thy no is written there! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF A MISTRESS, by MILTON RAISON Poem Text First Line: Slowly she sips the poison from the cup Last Line: So even after death no one may doubt her. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF A PHOTOGRAPHER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Light was his paradigm Last Line: Down to its dark frame. Subject(s): Death; Photography & Photographers; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE DEATH OF AILILL, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When there was heard no more the war's loud sound, Last Line: And knew by the cold touch that he was dead. Subject(s): Death; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF ANTONINUS PIUS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the marble gates of ostia Last Line: And thine aequanimitas! Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN WARD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas about the beginning of the past century Last Line: Where too many of our brave seamen silently sleep. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF DAWN, by GERTRUDE RATHBUN Poem Text First Line: Morning light on a quivering leaf Last Line: The cold, gray shadow, hate. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Shadows; Silence; Snow; Dead, The THE DEATH OF FRED. MARSDEN, THE AMERICAN PLAYWRIGHT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pathetic tragedy I will relate Last Line: And remember always this sad tragedy! Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Tragedy; Dead, The THE DEATH OF GEOFFREY RUDEL, THE TROUBADOUR, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her wandering pilgrims, from the syrian shore Last Line: Bore his chaste spirit to the realms above. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Troubadours; Dead, The; Male-female Relations; Minnesingers THE DEATH OF HALLIGAN, by ALEXANDER FORBES Poem Text First Line: Ho, men pile up the firewood Last Line: Such deeds of blood and shame. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Justice; Murder; Punishment; Dead, The; Hunters THE DEATH OF HUSS, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the streets of constance was heard the shout Last Line: Ere to heaven his soul went up with the smoke. Subject(s): Death; Heresy; Hus, Jan (1373-1415); Dead, The; Heretics THE DEATH OF JOHN M'LEOD, ESQ., by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad thy tale, thou idle page Last Line: Shall happy be at last. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF LEAR'S FOOL, by H. COLUMBUS ISAACS Poem Text First Line: The pall of night settled slowly over that scene Last Line: Of pain. The fool has joined his loved ones. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF LORD AND LADY DALHOUSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Lord and lady dalhousie are dead, and buried at last Last Line: Then the people retired with sad hearts at a quick pace. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF MARIE TORO, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We're taking marie toro to her home in pere-la-chaise Last Line: For marie toro, gutter waif and queen of queens, is dead. Subject(s): Bohemians; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MATTAHIAS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sons of my age, attend Last Line: Hope lifts my soul to thee. Subject(s): Christianity; Clergy; Death; Fathers & Sons; Legacies; Mysticism; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOLESKIN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joe is dead? Of course he is Last Line: Peace be with your slumber, joe. Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOSES, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Moses, who spake with god as with his friend Last Line: "he dwells not with you dead, but lives as law." Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Law & Lawyers; Moses; Religion; Dead, The; Attorneys; Theology THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: See moses nebo's slopes ascend Last Line: From doors against thee barred! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Moses; Dead, The THE DEATH OF MOSES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Israel, my hour is come Last Line: And triumphantly fight for the lord. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Faith; God; Moses; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE DEATH OF ODIN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soul of my much-lov'd freya! Yes, I come Last Line: Then rush'd to seize the seat of endless rest. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mythology - Celtic; Rome, Italy; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF PARCY REED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: God send the land deliverance Last Line: They'll mind the fate o' the laird troughend Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; THE DEATH OF PETER CLARK, by HUBERT H. PARRY Poem Text First Line: The sun was blazing fiercely on the cracked and dusty plain Last Line: And horses groan and labour, as the teamster rides beside. Alternate Author Name(s): Barwon Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Noble prince leopold, he is dead! Last Line: For the loss of the virtuous prince leopold they loved so dear Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Leopold I, King Of The Belgians; Memory; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF RICHARD WAGNER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning on earth, as when dark hours descend Last Line: From the depths of the sea Subject(s): Composers; Death; Earth; Grief; Roundels; Sea; Wagner, Richard (1813-1883); Dead, The; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE DEATH OF ROLAND, by LOUIS XAVIER DE RICARD Poem Text First Line: When I was young -- ah, france was paradise Last Line: But, sooth, this race of aquitaine is worse! Subject(s): Death; France; Grief; Hugh Capet (938-996); Roland; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEATH OF ROLLA, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Marie then, smiling, looked into the glass Last Line: And for a moment two had tasted bliss. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Happiness; Kisses; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Parting; Joy; Delight; Male-female Relations THE DEATH OF SIR LAUNCELOT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At canterbury seven years a monk Last Line: Like evening's purple with the setting sun. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Funerals; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE DEATH OF SUALTEM, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the brown bull passed from cooley's fields Last Line: And all about him waves the heavy gorse. Subject(s): Death; Family Life - Ireland; Love; War; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE BALL TURRET GUNNER, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: From my mother's sleep I fell into the state Subject(s): Air Warfare; Aviation & Aviators; Death; World War Ii; Airplanes; Air Pilots; Dead, The; Second World War THE DEATH OF THE HIRED MAN, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Mary sat musing on the lamp-flame at the table Last Line: Dead,' was all he answered. Subject(s): Death; Home; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE DEATH OF THE MOTHER OF THE JUGOVITCH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "lord of hosts, how passing great the marvel" Last Line: "and the tenth, the jug bogdan, their father" Subject(s): "death;kossovo, Battle Of;serbia;" "dead, The;servia; THE DEATH OF THE OLD MENDICANT, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a rich old gentleman Last Line: And never turned any one away from his door. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Death; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Our noble and generous queen victoria is dead Last Line: The greatest and most virtuous queen that ever wore a crown. Subject(s): Crowns; Death; Leadership; Obituaries; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WILSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of january Last Line: Then along with the people assembled there they left the burying-ground. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF THE SEA KING, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, how dark the morning Last Line: The earl and the maiden together lie dead! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF THE VIRTUOUS, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the scene when virtue dies Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Virtue; Death; Dead, The THE DEATH OF WALLENSTEIN, by JOHANN CHRISTOPH FRIEDRICH VON SCHILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All well -- and now let it be ended, seni. Come Last Line: [the curtain drops.] Alternate Author Name(s): Schiller, Friedrich Von Subject(s): Courage; Death; Treason And Traitors; Wallenstein, Albrecht (1583-1634); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE DEATH RIDE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On o'er the rocky ground Last Line: Heroic ones! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE DEATH SONG OF ALCESTIS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She came forth in her bridal robes arrayed Last Line: "for thee, for thee, my spirit's lord, I die!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Alcestis (mythology); Death; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The THE DEATH-BED, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We watched her breathing through the night Last Line: Another morn than ours. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH-BOAT OF HELIGOLAND, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can restlessness reach the cold sepulchred head Last Line: Named their faction -- I blot not my page with its name. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEATH-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She sits beneath the elder-tree Last Line: Knoweth that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Death; Dreams; Tears; Childhood; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DEATH-DAY OF KORNER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A song for the death day of the brave Last Line: With the sword, his bride! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Courage; Death; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Pride; Singing & Singers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Songs THE DEATH-DIRGE FOR CATHAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the wild hills I am hearing a voice, o cathal! Last Line: O where is cathal mac art, that has tears to water my stillness? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Grief; Longing; Swords; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEATHWATCH BEETLE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cardinal hurls itself Subject(s): Death; Beetles; Dead, The THE DEBT, by EDWARD VERRALL LUCAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more old england will they see Last Line: (although to live is almost shame). Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The THE DEBT UNPAYABLE, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What have I given Last Line: (god grant!) all weeds in ours. Subject(s): Army - United States; Death; Honor; Navy - United States; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War - Home Front; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; American Navy THE DECEIVED LOVER SUETH ONLY FOR LIBERTY, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If chance assigned / were to my mind Last Line: My death, or life with liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 33 Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Fate; Freedom; Life; Dead, The; Destiny; Liberty THE DEER LAY DOWN THEIR BONES, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I followed the narrow cliffside trail half way up the mountain Last Line: New discovery may lie. The deer in that beautiful place lay down their bones: I must wear mine Subject(s): Deer; Old Age; Death; Dead, The THE DEN, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: They sleep together in one den Last Line: Came here to die, not sleep -- the swine!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEPARTED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shrink ye from the way Last Line: Our own familiar friends! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE DEPARTED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They cannot wholly pass away Last Line: Like lifted clouds, reach on. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DEPARTED FRIEND, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though he that ever kind and true Last Line: Waits on a stile. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Verses Written In 1872;resurgence Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Grief; Religion; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE DESCENT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nailed by our axes to the snow Last Line: It'll way be this side of china, for sure Subject(s): Mountain Climbing; Death; Dead, The THE DESERT, by HENRY (HARRY) HERBERT KNIBBS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the lean coyote told me, baring his slavish soul Last Line: Just a rain-washed track and an empty gun — and the old home trail ahead. Subject(s): Cowboys; Coyotes; Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Dead, The; Southwest; Pacific States THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DESPAIRING SHEPHERD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alexis shunned his fellow swains Last Line: He bowed, obeyed, and died! Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Dead, The THE DESTRUCTION OF SENNACHERIB, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, Last Line: Hath melted like snow in the glance of the lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sennacherib Subject(s): Assyria; Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sennacherib, King Of Assyria; War; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE DEVIL AND DEATH DEFEATED; ADAPTED FROM THE MIDRASH, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The devil wandering up and down Last Line: "of a jealous, vengeful woman!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Devil; Evil; Vengeance; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DEVIL ON THE ROCK, by G. M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: There's a rock out in the never Last Line: Of old-man kangaroos. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY, SELECTION, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography Last Line: Frequent oil your safety-clutch. Subject(s): Death; Egoism & Egotism; Holidays; Noses; Physicians; Social Protest; Dead, The; Doctors THE DEVIL'S SERMON, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, I'll unroll your hearts, and read them to ye Subject(s): Death; Devil; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub THE DINGO-CHASER, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: His camp was warm in the wilgas, the scent of the dew was sweet Last Line: He follows across the midnight the way that the wild dog goes. Subject(s): Animals; Cattle; Death; Dingoes; Dogs; Story-telling; Dead, The THE DIRGE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is the existence of man's life Last Line: And leaves no epilogue but death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DIRGE OF THE REPUBLIC (IN MEMORIAM, E. Z.), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the great days men heard afar the clarions of hope rejoice Last Line: "to be true men, and free, ""beneath the shadow of a crown""!" Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Hope; Pain; Dead, The; Optimism; Suffering; Misery 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 DISCOVERER, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a little kinsman Last Line: Things that shall never, never be to mortal hearers told. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DOCTOR, by CHARLOTTE KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: You chose secure delight who so combined Last Line: Ride in the memoried cell defying death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors THE DOCTOR, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The doctor! How that name doth call to mind Last Line: While we are living in this finite world. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Sickness; Dead, The; Doctors; Illness THE DOLPHIN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Take me, o sea! I plunge. My suit do not contemn! Of metamor Last Line: Attain the sun! Subject(s): Death; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE DOOMED CITY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Death hath rear'd himself a throne Last Line: Shall give his undivided time. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Sea; Urban Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE DREAM, by IRVING FELDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, years after your death, I dreamt Subject(s): Dreams; Mothers; Death; Selfishness; Nightmares; Dead, The THE DREAM, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you were here to-night, o my dead love Last Line: In silence down the shadowy stream of life. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest, rest; the troubled breast Last Line: A very dream of dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Happiness; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Joy; Delight THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM MAID (SUGGESTED BY GENE STRATTON PORTER'S 'THE HARVESTER'), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: South wind, south wind Last Line: The path to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise THE DREAM OF DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O gentle death, bow down and Last Line: Forever on your loving breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM OF WAKING, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something is there. And teacher here at home Last Line: His life and their death: oh morning, morning Subject(s): War; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAM'S WISDOM, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed / mama came back Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dreams; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DREAMS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sleeping I go in dreams Last Line: When I wake from my dreams, I wake to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Friendship; Life; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Garcia lorca tasted Last Line: This is the drinking-fountain Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Dead, The THE DROWNED MAN: DEATH BETWEEN TWO RIVERS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Someone moves through the jungle Last Line: Someone is born with the bright face of your brother Subject(s): Death; Drowning; New York City; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE DUCHESS OF MALFI, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are welcome to your country, dear antonio Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Freedom; Love; Religion; Tragedy; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology THE DUCHESSE'S RED SHOES; AFTER PROUST, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Swann has visited the duc and duchesse de guermantes Last Line: The chaos of a small pond. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Selflessness; Dead, The THE DUFF, by DAVID MCKEE WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: It was on a sunday morning, the church was far away Last Line: "and fast enough." Subject(s): Cooking & Cooks; Death; Drinks & Drinking; Food & Eating; Dead, The; Wine THE DUKE OF BYRON IS CONDEMNED TO DEATH, by GEORGE CHAPMAN (1559-1634) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By horrow of death, let me alone in death Last Line: These are but ropes of sand. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DUMBFOUNDING, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you walked here, Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DUSTY YOUNG MEN, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dusty young men move out with combat pack Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Soldiersl War; Death; Dead, The THE DYING BOY TO THE SLOE BLOSSOM, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before thy leaves thou comest once more, Last Line: His last and slept. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DYING CHRISTIAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I die - my limbs with icy feeling Last Line: And bliss awaits me then! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DYING CHRISTIAN TO HIS SOUL, by PUBLIUS AELIUS HADRIANUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vital spark of heavenly flame! / quit, o quit this mortal frame! Last Line: O death! Where is thy sting? Alternate Author Name(s): Hadrian Variant Title(s): Ode: The Dying Christian To His Soul Subject(s): Bible; Death; Heaven; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology THE DYING GIRL'S MESSAGE, by ELIZABETH LUMMIS FRIES ELLETT Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The struggle's o'er; the coward fear is past Last Line: On this my long, and sad, and last farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Ellet, Elizabth F. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE DYING IMPROVISATORE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The spirit of my land Last Line: Sweet friends! Bright land! Farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Italy; Dead, The; Parting; Italians THE DYING INDIAN, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dart of izdabel prevails! 'twas dipped / in double poison Last Line: I go! Great copac beckons me! Farewell! Subject(s): Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Statues; Dead, The THE DYING MAN IN HIS GARDEN, by GEORGE SEWELL Poem Text First Line: Why, damon, with the forward day Last Line: "but rosemary, will with thee go." Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Dead, The THE DYING MAN TO HIS BETROTHED, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One word - 'tis all I ask of thee Last Line: O christ, who art the gate of heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Marriage; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE DYING OF PERE PIERRE, by JOHN MCCRAE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, grieve not that ye can no honour give Last Line: Lay, tombed in splendour, in the house of god. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE DYING OLD YEAR: 1867, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Avaunt, away! Dread shapes of hate and fear Last Line: Then passed away, with one low, moaning sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Holidays; Italy; Law & Lawyers; New Year; Social Protest; Treason & Traitors; Dead, The; Italians; Attorneys THE DYING PHILOSOPHER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have crept forth to die among the trees Last Line: To love the uncreated! Earth, farewell! Subject(s): Death; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE DYING POET, by HELENE GALLAGHER MULLINS Poem Text First Line: During this hour shadows touch his eyes Last Line: Nor beauty's voice again to teach him pain. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE DYING POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the motionless and silent grass Last Line: Falls, and I shall not see another morn. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Kisses; Life; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE DYING POETS FAREWELL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou wondrous arch of azure Last Line: To that high and laurelled quire. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Farewell; Flowers; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Dead, The; World; Parting THE DYING PROSTITUTE; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS HOLCROFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep o'er the miseries of a wretched maid Last Line: Or bloom thy laurels o'er my winding-sheet? Subject(s): Death; Prostitution; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels THE EARL'S RETURN, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ragged and tall stood the castle wall Last Line: Under the boughs of this bare black thorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Dead, The THE ECLAT OF DEATH, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Had he the power to spurn! Variant Title(s): Poem: 1307;poem: 1363 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ELDER'S WARNING; A LAY OF THE CONVOCATION, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo, john makgill, my elder, come listen Last Line: For cozily he kept the manse, and never took the hills. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Prudence; Dead, The; Caution THE ELF-STROKE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sir oluf has ridden far and wide Last Line: "there lay sir oluf, and he was dead" Subject(s): Death;fairies;knights & Knighthood; "dead, The;elves; THE EMIGRANT LASSIE, by JOHN STUART BLACKIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As I came wandering down the glen spean Last Line: Was dropped upon the heather. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EMPEROR'S PROGRESS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child of brighter than the mornings birth Last Line: Leaves fearful of the bitterness of death. Subject(s): Children; Death; Pain; Childhood; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE ENCHANTED VALLEYS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the gate of sleep we enter the enchanted valleys Last Line: It is past: there is no dawn: no to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Future Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE END, by EDOUARD JOACHIM CORBIERE Poem Text First Line: Well now, these mariners - sailors, captains Last Line: -o let them roll, parvenu landlubbers! Alternate Author Name(s): Corbiere, Tristan Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails 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 END, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The long search ended! Last Line: Let not this double price be paid in vain! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Disappeared Persons; Graves; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Dead, The; Missing Persons; Tombs; Tombstones THE END OF IT, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The earth weighs down my lids -- they forget the feeling of tears Last Line: Now that I rest, beloved -- now that I rest. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE END OF LOVE, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now he is dead Last Line: Than mud or stone? Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE END OF TIME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who art dreary Last Line: And soon must end the night, and soon must dawn the day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Fear; Hope; Time; Youth; Dead, The; Optimism THE ENEMIES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As fish that take the motion of the sea Last Line: But god who made me so? Subject(s): Death; Enemies; Finality; Hearing; Love - Unrequited; Self; Sight; Touch (sense); Winter; Dead, The THE ENEMY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Though I am all for warmth and light Last Line: His hard, dry rattle in my throat. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ENGLISH DEAD (IN THE SOUDANESE CAMPAIGN), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give honour to our heroes fall'n, how ill Last Line: But with the poppy alone, their deeds and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Sudan; Dead, The THE EPIPHANY OF THE MAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the voice of the outcast things Last Line: Approach and cleansed are. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Moon; Singing & Singers; Voices; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE ERETRIAN DEAD, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Euboeans we, men of eretria city Last Line: How long the road between! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE EVENING STROLL, by HENRY KIRKE WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Quick o'er the wintry waste dart fiery shafts Last Line: Which gnaws his heart and bids him hope no more. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Evening; Poetry & Poets; Winter; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight THE EVERLASTING ARMS, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tides of death go swiftly home Last Line: Transfigured in his gaze. Subject(s): Death; Wales; World War I; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen; First World War THE EVERLASTINGS; FOR L.P. SNYDER AND KARMA WANGMO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the village it must be a clear night with the light of a red Last Line: It is the thunder at dawn! Subject(s): Death; Rumors; Sea; Spiritual Life; Dead, The; Ocean THE EXHAUSTED BUG; FOR MY FATHER, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a tiny., hard-shelled thing. He is the length of a child's tooth, and Last Line: Father stretched out in his coffin. Subject(s): Beetles; Curiosities & Wonders; Death; Fathers & Sons; Insects; Enigmas; Oddities; Dead, The; Bugs THE EXILE OF BEAUTY, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go seeking in the human forest old Last Line: Be ugliness to them, though beauty's self thou art. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Exiles; Lips; Love; Dead, The THE EXPIRATION, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So, so, break off this last lamenting kiss Last Line: Being double dead: going, and bidding go. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FACELESS MAN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm dead / officially I'm dead Last Line: As there alone I wait the last release. Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE FAGOT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou art fit to feed Last Line: Will give thy soul good-night. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FAIR LITTLE MAIDEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There is one at the door, wolfe o'driscoll Last Line: "who lies in the churchyard green." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FAIREST THING IN MORTAL EYES, by CHARLES D'ORLEANS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To make my lady's obsequies Last Line: The fairest thing in mortal eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): D'orleans, Duc; Orleans, Charles Of Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Death - Childbirth THE FAITHFUL, by JANE COOPER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FALL OF D'ASSAS; A BALLAD OF FRANCE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone through gloomy forest-shades Last Line: "auvergne, auvergne! The foe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; France; Dead, The THE FALL OF THE ROSE; ON THE DEATH OF A FAIR YOUNG LADY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rose was saturate with dew Last Line: Unchanging glows. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE FALLING OF THE FREEDOM FIGHTERS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead are more unmanageable every day Subject(s): Death; Liberty; Dead, The THE FAR FIELD, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream of journeys repeatedly Subject(s): Travel; Rivers; Death; Journeys; Trips; Dead, The THE FATAL ERRAND, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mother bade me go. I went Last Line: Nor wept to think I ever had. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE FATIGUE OF OBJECTS, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the victim's room Last Line: For the fingerprints of the murderer Subject(s): Death; Detective Stories; Murder; Dead, The THE FEAR OF DEATH, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I woke and found between us drawn Last Line: Dear god! A little longer, ah not yet! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down old ways the monks pass ringing Last Line: Miserere, domine. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Far away in the land of morning Last Line: Like us: it is just the same. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE FECKLESS YEARS, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wounded took the stone-eyed girls Last Line: A crooner sang their dirge. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; War Injuries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE FEMALE CONVICT, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She shrank from all, and her silent mood Last Line: The convict has found in the green sea a grave. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Adversity; Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts THE FEMALE PHAETON, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thus kitty, beautiful and young Last Line: And set the world on fire. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Mankind; Dead, The; Human Race 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 FESTIVAL, by ROBERT CREELEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death makes his Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FESTIVAL OF MEMORY, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Doth rapture hold a feast Last Line: Thy sacrament and shrine. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FIELD OF PINKIE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A lovely eve! As loath to quit a scene Last Line: And all shall walk in light—the light from heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Fields; Peace; Pinkie, Battle Of (1547); Scotland; Warwickshire, England; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE FIR-GROVE, OR THE FATAL FLASH, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the ripening crops begin to shine Last Line: Crossing the silence of a funeral. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FIRST CUCKOO, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: May had bid the young lambs play Last Line: The dead youth, the dead delight. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Birds; Cuckoos; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE FIRST LAY OF GUDRUN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Gudrun of old days Last Line: Of the dead-slain sigurd Subject(s): Death;mythology - Norse; "dead, The; THE FIRST NIGHT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Night; Death; Bedtime; Dead, The THE FIRST NIGHT, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls, soothing to lascivious old men Last Line: Of those who will spend their first night there. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE FIRST SILENCE, by HILDA DE STEIGER Poem Text First Line: The tide of sounds and voices rolled within our life Last Line: And in the stillness was fulfilment. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The THE FIRST SNOWFALL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The snow had begun in the gloaming Last Line: Folded close under deepening snow. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Snow; Dead, The; Death - Babies THE FIRST THREE [NOVEMBER 3, 1917], by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere in france,' upon a brown hillside Last Line: Upon their hillside graves our immortelles! Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE FIRST-FOOT, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright the firelight touch'd his portrait hanging on our humble wall Last Line: My darling's blood with that round light upon the ghastly snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Railroads; Dead, The; Railways; Trains THE FLAG OF PEACE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men long have fought for their flying flags Last Line: The rainbow flag of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins Subject(s): Death; Earth; Nations; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; World THE FLIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look back with longing eyes and know that I will follow Last Line: But what if I heard my first love calling me once more? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Eagles; Togetherness; Dead, The THE FLIGHT OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like the rise and set of the starry host Last Line: And the glory that is to be! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise THE FLITTIN', by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Sure, the little house is tumblin' now Last Line: As I shuts th' oul' brown door! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Physicians; Sickness; Dead, The; Paradise; Doctors; Illness THE FLOWER OF FINAE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bright red is the sun on the waves of lough sheelin Last Line: This nun is poor eily, the flower of finae. Subject(s): Army - Ireland; Death; Finae, Ireland; Nuns; Dead, The THE FLOWER THAT FEELS NOT SPRING, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the prisons dark of the circling bark Last Line: If it waft me, o fanny, my daughter, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Spring; Dead, The THE FLUTE-PLAYER OF BRINDABAN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why didst thou play thy matchless flute Last Line: The nectar of thy flute! Subject(s): Death; Melodies; Memory; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE FOG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies dim and cold on the face of the mould Last Line: And the words die away in my song. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Funerals; Nature; Weather; Dead, The; Haze; Burials THE FOLD, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let down the bars, o death Last Line: Too tender to be told. Variant Title(s): Poem: 1065;poem: 1117 Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FOOD OF THE SOUL, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: I came at eve upon a lowland mead Last Line: "they shall be all thy soul shall feed upon." Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The THE FOOL, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But it isn't playing the game,' he said Last Line: In the last great game of all. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; War; World War I; Half-brothers; Dead, The; First World War THE FORGOTTEN CAPTAIN, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have many shadows. I was walking home Subject(s): Battleships; Boats; Bombs; Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; War; Dead, The; Ocean THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years / nobody knows the place Last Line: Dropped by memory. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE FORSAKEN, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Holy mother of god, merciful mary, hear me Subject(s): Premarital Sex; Sin; Pregnancy; Death; Dead, The THE FORSAKEN HEARTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hearth, the hearth is desolate! The fire is quenched and gone Last Line: Though the loved hearth be desolate, the bright fire quenched and gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FORSAKEN MAID, by RICHARD BROME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor love, nor fate dare I accuse Last Line: For which offence I pine, I die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FOUNTAIN OF OBLIVION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One draught, kind fairy! From that fountain Last Line: I ask not to forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FOURE MONARCHIES: ASSYRIAN. SEMIRAMIS, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This great oppressing ninus dead, and gone Last Line: But by what means, we are not certifi'd. Subject(s): Children; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Home; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; War; Childhood; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness THE FOURFOLD ASPECT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When ye stood up in the house Last Line: So hopefully ye think upon the dead! Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE FREE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They bathed in the fire-flooded fountains Last Line: Time will not remember again. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty THE FRIENDS, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor john died yesternight Last Line: And miss him sadly. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Neighbors; Dead, The THE FRIENDS OF HERACLITUS, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Your friend has died, with whom Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Imaginary Conversations; City & Town Life; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE FUGITIVE, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty has come to make no longer stay Last Line: But you that die. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The THE FUGITIVE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the hush of early even Last Line: Crept away, and died. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE FUN HOUSE FABLE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the mirror of his mother died Last Line: And the roller coaster clocked to the top. Subject(s): Amusement Parks; Death; Dead, The THE FUNERAL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pang that spurns all soothing cares Last Line: Forever more adored his holy name! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory; Time; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Last Line: That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. Variant Title(s): The Funerall Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by WALTER J. HEGARTY Poem Text First Line: In the 70's we was workin' far back on a big north run Last Line: And we'll plant them next his mother's in the tomb at dusty town! Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Funerals; Procrastination; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The coffin, as I past across the lane Last Line: For it pleased god to take her to his mercy. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Faith; Mothers; Selflessness; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE FUNERAL, by CAROLINE CROSBY WILSON Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: And a shroud. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL BELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more is gone Last Line: Into sweet rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL OF A VILLAGE GIRL, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fair louise, half child, half woman, died Last Line: And every bird was warbling in its nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Girls; Poverty; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL OF THE GERMAN EMPEROR, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sons of germany, your noble emperor william now is dead Last Line: The founder of the fatherland germany, that he did revere. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Leadership; William I, Kaiser Of Germany (1797-1888); Dead, The THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE EX-PROVOST ROUGH, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of november Last Line: Declaring that the late ex-provost rough couldn't be equalled in great britain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead! Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE FUNNY LITTLE FELLOW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a funny little fellow Last Line: "little angel he will make!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Laughter; Life; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE FUTURE LIFE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I know thee in the sphere which keeps Last Line: Thy fit companion in that land of bliss? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE GARDEN OF IREM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Have you seen the garden of irem? Last Line: The blossoms are shaken by allah's breath. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The THE GARDEN OF PROSERPINE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where the world is quiet Last Line: In an eternal light. Subject(s): Death; Love; Persephone; Dead, The; Proserpine; Proserpina THE GARDEN VIGIL, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the deep silence of the garden-bowers Last Line: May in thy flame adore his hidden face. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Rest; Silence; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 4. THE LUTE-SONG, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why need you a burnished mirror of gold Last Line: In the flame of immutable years! Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Passion; Dead, The THE GATE OF DELIGHT: 8. THE VISION OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O love! My foolish heart and eyes Last Line: And you the mystic pang of death. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The 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 GHOST, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night within the music hall Last Line: As though he had not been! Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GHOST, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Since you I loved are lost Last Line: And the cocks both white and red. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Longing; Loss; Love; Supernatural; Dead, The THE GIANT'S RING: BALLYLESSON, NEAR BELFAST, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever is able will pursue the plainly Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Dead, The; Irish THE GIDDY GIRL; A RECITATION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A giddy young maiden with nimble feet Last Line: Chassée back, chassée back, whirl about quick. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Soul; Dead, The THE GIFT OF INDIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there aught you need that my hands withhold Last Line: Remember the blood of thy martyred sons! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GIFT OF JUNO, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Already 'neath the morning star Last Line: The best was given them, -- dreamless sleep. Subject(s): Death; Gifts & Giving; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The THE GIFT OF WISDOM, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My spirit bids defiance to decay Last Line: The gift of wisdom ere I left the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Wisdom; Dead, The THE GILMAN HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The meeting-house is but a dream Last Line: The door that led to heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE GOAL OF THE WORLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the goal of the world is joy Last Line: The soul to its nobler realms above! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Death; Funerals; Happiness; Life; Marching & Marches; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight THE GOANNA, by G. M. SMITH Poem Text First Line: On the castlereagh some years ago Last Line: That blooming black goanna. Alternate Author Name(s): Grey, Steele Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Lizards; Dead, The THE GOD OF IGNORANCE, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Mexitli more regarded human life! Last Line: And banish from our land this woful dread? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Sacrifices; Tuberculosis; Dead, The; Consumption (pathology) THE GODS WHO COME AMONG US IN THE GUISE OF STRANGERS, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Late nights, with summer moths clinging Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The THE GOING, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you give no hint that night Last Line: Not even I - would undo me so! Subject(s): Death; Gifford, Emma Lavinia; Life Change Events; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE GOLD STAR, by NAOMI CLARKE Poem Text First Line: He was just a kid Last Line: And think it'll make me feel proud ... Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE GOLD STAR MOTHER PASSES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAHNKEY Poem Text First Line: A gold star gleaming on her breast Last Line: Who had no son to die. Subject(s): Childlessness; Death - Mothers; Dead, The 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 GOOD COMRADE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a faithful comrade Last Line: My comrade good and true! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; War; Dead, The THE GOOD SON, by JASON SHINDER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If god had come to me and said, Subject(s): Forgiveness; Mothers & Sons; Death; Clemency; Dead, The THE GOSSIP, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So near me dwells my neighbor death Last Line: And tell what he has heard. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE GRAND DUKE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me flowers in the crimson eves Last Line: When I am far away. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The THE GRAVE, by ROBERT BLAIR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: While some affect the sun, and some the shade Last Line: Then claps his well-fledged wings, and bears away. Subject(s): Death; Landscape; Dead, The THE GRAVE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept by your grave last night Last Line: I had dreamed that I slept with you dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue Last Line: "god's paradise to fill." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE DIGGER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grim old man with a weazened visage Last Line: Chuckles the sexton, digging graves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Work; Workers THE GRAVE OF A NIGGER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'yes, it's true that's the grave of a nigger" Last Line: Where foam-waters gurgled their way.' Subject(s): "aborigines, Australian;death;family Life;heroism;horse Racing;" "dead, The;relatives;heroes;heroines; THE GRAVE OF SOPHOCLES, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, ivy, on sopholces' grave - right, tenderly - twine Last Line: Priest of the gay and profound, sweetest of singers terrene. Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD; A DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when should we visit the graves of the dead Last Line: Like the clouds from heaven, away we pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVEYARD AT WEST POINT, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On this sweet sabbath morning, let us wander Last Line: Until the end of all! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Soldiers; United States - Military Academy; Graveyards; Dead, The THE GRAY FOX, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Someone I know is dying, at seventeen Last Line: Watch him, ten yards away, unafraid. Subject(s): Death; Foxes; Nature; Youth; Dead, The THE GREAT BLACK CROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The crow - the crow! The great black crow! Last Line: But it's fine to live and die like a great black crow! Subject(s): Birds; Crows; Death; Worms; Dead, The THE GREAT BLUE HERON, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I wandered on the beach Last Line: My mother would drift away. Subject(s): Death; Herons; Mothers; Women; Women's Rights; Dead, The; Feminism THE GREAT EVENT, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trivial, the small Last Line: That none survives! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE GREAT MISGIVING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours,' say some, 'the thought of death to dread' Last Line: And there, o death, thy sting. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE GREAT WHITE SHARK, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: For days he has dumped a trail of tuna blood Last Line: The seasons are not yet human forms of desire. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Dead, The THE GREETING, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited, waited yonder Last Line: In the camp on the other side! Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; U.s. - History; Dead, The THE GRIEF OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "love, I am sick for thee, sick with an absolute grief" Last Line: "never again to mock at love, ah, never, never!" Subject(s): Death;grief;hearts;love - Loss Of;peace; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE GRIEVING RING, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When word of his death arrived Last Line: For the rest of so many lives Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE GROUNDHOG, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In june, amid the golden fields Subject(s): Death; Decay; Groundhogs; Men; Transience; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Woodchucks; Impermanence THE GUEST, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes I feel that death is very near Last Line: Slip quietly to sea? Subject(s): Death; Guests; Dead, The; Visiting THE GUESTS OF NIGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ride in a gloomy land Last Line: And the loves that are, remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Guests; Love; Night; Dead, The; Visiting; Bedtime THE HAGGIS OF PRIVATE MCPHEE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hae ye heard whit ma auld mither's postit tae me? Last Line: For he thocht o' the haggis o' private mcphee. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HALL OF FAME, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noble fane of marble wall and moonlit ... Last Line: Entered new names on the roll of fame. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Halloween; Harlem River, New York; New York City; Dead, The; Reputation; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE HAPPY MAN, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful is he, and most secure Last Line: And with an easy sign give up his breath. Subject(s): Contentment; Death; Dead, The THE HAPPY MAN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: I alone, the heavens decide, gain full felicity. Pray whither shall I Last Line: How to sing everything. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Happiness; Dead, The; Destiny; Joy; Delight THE HAPPY MAN, by GILLES MENAGE Poem Text First Line: La galisse now I wish to touch Last Line: Deprived him of his life. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE HARLOT'S HOUSE, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: We caught the tread of dancing feet Last Line: Crept like a frightened girl. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dead, The THE HARTLEY CALAMITY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hartley men are noble, and Last Line: And the last dread trumpet rung. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hartley Colliery Disaster (1862); Mines And Miners; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE HARTLEY COLLIERY CATASTROPHE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark gulf of death! Black cavern of despair! Last Line: The widows' judge is he in holiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Coal Mines & Miners; Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE HARVESTING OF THE ROSES, by MENAHEM IBN SARUK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From his garden bed our lord Last Line: They were in death to him restored. Alternate Author Name(s): Menahem Ben Saruq; Menahem Ben Jacob Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Jews; Roses; Dead, The; Judaism THE HAWTHORN BUD AND THE STAR, by EDOUARD SCHURE Poem Text First Line: The hawthorn bud said to the star Last Line: "-- to love and die within an hour!" Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE HEALERS, by LAURENCE BINYON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a vision of the night I saw them Last Line: Braver than the brave? Subject(s): Courage; Death; First Aid; Healing; Nurses; Physicians; World War I; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Cures; Doctors; First World War 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 HEATH, by THOMAS BOYD Poem Text First Line: Through the purple dusk on this pathless heath Last Line: Frightens the wanderer aloof. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HEREAFTER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hereafter, o we need not Last Line: The mute beyond is just. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Tears; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE HERITAGE OF BURIAL, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: A butterfly spirit crawled out of its case Last Line: In sweetest of ways? Why the burial rite? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE HERMIT, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Darkness is falling through darkness Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HEROES, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: By many a dream of god and man my thoughts in shining flocks were led Last Line: A light around the shadowy heads, a shadow round the head of light. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE HEROIC RESISTANCE OF THE CITY OF BEAUVAIS, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: It seemed that master tristan l'ermite was not deceived. Burgundy Last Line: And performers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; France; Heroism; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE HIGH TIDE AT [OR, ON THE COAST OF] LINCOLNSHIRE, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old mayor climbed the belfry tower Last Line: "jetty, to the milking-shed!" Variant Title(s): The Brides Of Enderby Subject(s): Death; Floods; Lincolnshire, England; Tides; Dead, The THE HIGHWAY DEATH TOLL, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The highway's edge / of unmalicious deaths Last Line: If I'd turned it off before I might have heard. Subject(s): Death; Driving & Drivers; Fathers; Popes; Dead, The; Papacy THE HILLS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not why I love the cloud-lined hills Last Line: Holding its last sweet beam from earth to catch the first from heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE HILLS OF RUEL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills and far away Last Line: Honey-sweet folk of the hills of ruel. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fairies; Fathers & Sons; Fear; Ireland; Lutes; Story-telling; Dead, The; Elves; Irish THE HINT O' HAIRST, by HEW AINSLIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It's dowie in the hint o' hairst Last Line: Oh, mary! That I were wi' thee. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOLOCAUST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before men loosed these iron gods of strife Last Line: Beneath a canopy of alien stars? Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The THE HOME COMING (AFTER THE DEATH OF BUFFALO BILL), by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They have waited over yonder through the long Last Line: Friends! Subject(s): "cody, William ""buffalo Bill"" (1846-1917); Death; Native Americans;" Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HOME-RETURNING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis we who live that vagrants are; the dead Last Line: The home-returning! Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Grief; Home; Love; Wandering & Wanderers; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE HOME-VOYAGE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear with us, o great captain, if Last Line: Dip colors as you move to anchorage. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Home; Peace; Sailing & Sailors; Stars; Dead, The THE HOMES OF THE DEAD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We must not make a home for the dead Last Line: Are watched by the self-same god. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HORSE IN THE TREE, by E. S. SORENSON Poem Text First Line: High in the fork of a gnarled old tree Last Line: "twas a dam' fine leap he made." Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Trees; Dead, The THE HOSPITAL WINDOW, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have just come down from my father Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hospitals; Dead, The THE HOSTESS, by HELEN MITCHELL RICHARDS Poem Text First Line: Tho' she was working in the zinnia bed Last Line: Who met death even as a gracious friend. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HOUR OF DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leaves have their time to fall Last Line: Thou hast all seasons for thine own, oh! Death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HOUR-GLASS OF ASHES, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When torismund, for love of rosalind Last Line: In death, who found none in the living's land. Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF DEATH, by A. T. NANKIVELL Poem Text First Line: Surely the keeper of the house of death Last Line: And all his courts are gay with flowers of spring. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE HOUSE OF LIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The life of the body's a cage Last Line: That she be not alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Houses; Life; Solitude; Soul; Dead, The; Loneliness THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 36. LIFE-IN-LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in thy body is thy life at all Last Line: Lies all that golden hair undimmed in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 38. THE MORROW'S MESSAGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou ghost,' I said, 'and is thy name today?' Last Line: "and thrice,--whereby the shadow of death is dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 4. LOVESIGHT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When do I see thee most, beloved one? Last Line: The wind of death's imperishable wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 41. THROUGH DEATH TO LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like labor-laden moonclouds faint to flee Last Line: Hath guest fire-fledged as thine, whose lord is love? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Suicide; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 44. CLOUD AND WIND, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, should I fear death most for you or me? Last Line: And that hope sows what love shall never reap? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 48. DEATH-IN-LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came an image in life's retinue Last Line: "I and this love are one, and I am death." Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 55. STILLBORN LOVE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hour which might have been yet might not be Last Line: "I am your child: o parents, ye have come!" Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 87. DEATH'S SONGSTERS, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When first that horse, within whose populous womb Last Line: Nor shames her lip the cheek of victory? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 99. A NEW-BORN DEATH (1), by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today death seems to me an infant child Last Line: And drink it in the hollow of thy hand? Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE HOUSE OF REST, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a land unknown to me I came on some Last Line: I sleep content for endless years and never wish to speak a word. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Rest; Dead, The THE HUDDLED ONES BEHOLD ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She has known death to hover near her bed Last Line: And their repose the trust that each confers? Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The THE HUELESS LOVE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unto that love must we through fire attain Last Line: And one passed out, and one the bell-head hung. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Dead, The; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love THE HUGUENOT; 1686, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dry-lipped with terror, o'er the broken flints Last Line: You're very good to say so. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE HUMAN FLOWER: 2, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall that bright flower the countless ages toiled Last Line: Transplant it to his realm of paradise? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE HUSSAIN SAAGAR, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young dawn woos thee with his amorous grace Last Line: O lake, o living image of my soul. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE HUTS ARE ESQUIMAUX; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our clothes are still wet from wading Last Line: To the very quick of his being. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE IDIOT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The hand that rocked his cradle once Last Line: A coffin to contain his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The THE IMAGE IN THE HEART, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I call thee blest! - though now the voice be fled Last Line: Thine still in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE IMAGINATION SCHOOL, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine / getting each other's jokes Last Line: Unremarkable friendship… Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Dead, The 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 IMPERIAL PRAYERS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silenced the streets with sand of holy hue Last Line: Goes that spoiled, wretched, and mysterious youth. Subject(s): Asia; Death; Imperialism; Inheritance And Succession; Far East; East Asia; Orient; Dead, The THE IMPROVISATORE: ALBERT AND EMILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the evening of a summer day Last Line: A downy perfume whispers in the air. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Insanity; Lightning; Love; Nature; Rain; Sleep; Storms; Summer; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness; Lightning Rods THE IMPROVISATORE: LEOPOLD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The battle is over; the dews of the fog Last Line: The storm was hushed. Men tell not where he went. Subject(s): Adoption; Betrayal; Blood; Clergy; Death; Despair; Evil; Loss; Love; Violence; War; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE IMPROVISATORE: RODOLPH THE WILD, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a massy cloud of dismal hue Last Line: Up to the hillock found him dead and cold. Subject(s): Change; Death; Decay; Deception; Despair; Evil; Insanity; Love; Lust; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Rot; Decadence; Madness; Mental Illness; Songs THE INDOORS IS ENDLESS, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's spring in 1827, beethoven / hoists his death-mask and sails off Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Death; Music & Musicians; Soul; Dead, The THE INELUCTABLE, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: I have lost my love at last to one I dread Last Line: Of time, with whom at length must all loves lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE INFLUENCE OF THE DEAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who are the spirits watching by the dead? Last Line: While love stands watching by the sepulchre. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE INGRATE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Night upon her darkling ways Last Line: Westward fled away to death. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Insomnia; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sleeplessness; Bedtime THE INSATIABLE PRIEST, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Luke preach-ill admires what we laymen can mean Last Line: He can be content with two thousand a year. Subject(s): Birth; Clergy; Death; Marriage; Child Birth; Midwifery; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE INTERLUDE, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Much of transfiguration that we hear Subject(s): Insects; Death; Religion; Transfiguration; Bugs; Dead, The; Theology THE INTRUSION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His life had all been leisured and slow-paced: Last Line: But death was rude, and burst on him in haste. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE JERSEY BLUES, by ISAAC RUSLING PENNYPACKER Poem Text First Line: Brave as the battle roll of drum Last Line: Its ocean-dashed abutment here. Subject(s): Death; Revolutions; War - Home Front; Dead, The THE JESTER CONDEMNED TO DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One of the kings of scanderoon Last Line: "I'll die, so please you, of old age." Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Jesters; Sin; Dead, The THE JEW (DEDICATED TO BENJAMIN F. PEIXOTTO), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His dark face kindled in the east Last Line: Art, toil, and hope shall purify. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin (1834-1890); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE JEWISH CAPTIVE'S SONG, by MARION MOSS Poem Text First Line: Gone is thine hour of might Last Line: O'er the scattering of their race. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Judah (bible); Dead, The; Judaism THE JEWISH MARTYR, by MOSS MARKS Poem Text First Line: Bring forth the jew!' ben hassim said, 'the Last Line: "but mine it is the triumph—I die for faith and truth." Subject(s): Death; Israel; Jews; Martyrs; Dead, The; Judaism THE JEWS' CEMETERY ON THE LIDO, by JOHN ADDINGTON SYMONDS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A tract of land swept by the salt seafoam Last Line: Wept by no mourner but the moaning wave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Jews; Lido (island), Italy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Judaism THE JOBHOLDER, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand in the rain waiting for my bus Last Line: And wait for my turn to die. Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE JOURNEY, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Unwearied the seasons come and go Last Line: And the journey ends—who would not rest? Subject(s): Death; Rest; Dead, The THE JOURNEY, by GRACE FALLOW NORTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went upon a journey Last Line: All my journey sung! Subject(s): Death; Nations; Soldiers; Women; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE JUNK MAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am glad god saw death Last Line: Away. Subject(s): Death; Junk And Junkyards; Dead, The THE JUST MADE PERFECT, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stately music rises on my ear Last Line: And domes continuous span the lengthening way. Subject(s): Day; Death; Future Life; Hearts; Knights & Knighthood; Time; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE KELLYS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ye sons of australia, forget not your braves" Last Line: "which pierced the two kellys, joe byrne, and steve hart" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;hunting;prudence; "dead, The;hunters;caution; THE KENNIFFS, by JOHN CREEVEY Poem Text First Line: If you wish to hear a story, lads Last Line: If he should chance to fall. Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Crime & Criminals; Death; Hunting; Murder; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Hunters THE KESSACK FERRY-BOAT FATALITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on friday the 2nd of march in the year of 1894 Last Line: While the storm fiend did laugh and angry did rave. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Storms; Survival; Tragedy; Dead, The THE KEYS OF MORNING, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While at her bedroom window once Last Line: The littlest in the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE KIND KEEPER, OR LIMBERHAM: SONG FROM THE ITALIAN, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By a dismal cypress lying Last Line: But cruel she I lov'd in vain. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nymphs; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE KING OF DENMARK'S RIDE, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Word was brought to the danish king Last Line: "to the halls where my love lay dying!" Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Death; Denmark; Dead, The; Danes THE KING OF THULE, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! True was his heart while he breathed Last Line: Nor drop did he ever drink more. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE KINGDOM, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Twas the ominous month of october Last Line: "receive, and believe, as a child." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mythology; Dead, The; Paradise THE KISS, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stole into the secret room Last Line: Stood sovereign. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The 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 KNIGHT AND THE LADY; DOMESTIC LEGEND OF THE REIGN OF QUEEN ANNE, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lady jane was tall and slim Last Line: Have them spitch-cock'd -- or stew'd -- they're too oily when fried! Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Drowning; Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 1. REGRET, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How was I to know Last Line: "rot on,"" god saith, ""within the foss of death." Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Regret; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 2. THE KNIGHTS TO CHRYSOLA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We crazed for you, aspired and fell for you Last Line: Chrysola! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Desire; Knights & Knighthood; Love Affairs; Dead, The THE KNIGHTS AT RINGSTEAD: 3. WINTER, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the snow, / a frozen barefoot penitent I go Last Line: My sins are scarlet. She was white as snow. Subject(s): Death; Knights & Knighthood; Snow; Winter; Dead, The THE KROOMBIT BOYS, by LEX MCLENNAN Poem Text First Line: Beyond the broken bloodwoods, over the timbered rise Last Line: Their whooping and their cooees, their songs of long-dead years. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE LADY OF SHALOTT, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On either side the river lie Last Line: "the lady of shalott!" Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Mysticism; Arthur, King; Dead, The THE LAKE OF THE LOST PLEIAD, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Enchanted lakelet! Crystal mountain well! Last Line: Her peace protected by these guardian hills. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Sympathy; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness; Empathy THE LAMENT OF THE CAPTIVE, by RICHARD HENRY WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is like the summer rose Last Line: But none, alas ! Shall mourn for me ! Variant Title(s): Life;stanzas Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE LAMENT OF THE OUTALISSI, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I could weep! - the oneyda chief Last Line: The death-song of an indian chief! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Outalissi Subject(s): Death; Native Americans; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE LAND O' THE LEAL, by CAROLINA OLIPHANT NAIRNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I'm wearin' awa', john [or, jean] Last Line: In the land o' the leal. Alternate Author Name(s): Lady Nairne; Oliphant, Carolina; Nairne, Baroness Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE LAND OF BEULAH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Brightland of beulah, beatific mount Last Line: And still I long, and dread, to find me there. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Peace; Dead, The THE LAND WHICH NO ONE KNOWS, by EBENEZER ELLIOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, deep, and cold the current flows Last Line: That god is all, his shadow shows. Alternate Author Name(s): Corn-law Rhymer; Elliot, Ebenezer Variant Title(s): Plaint Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST ABORIGINAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see him sit, wild-eyed alone Last Line: Then sinks back on his unknown bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Australia; Death; Fear; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE LAST ANSWER (WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She turned round to me with her steadfast eyes Last Line: But she, meanwhile, only grew statelier. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Tears; Dead, The THE LAST BUGLE, by EMOGENE BOYCE SMITH Poem Text First Line: I have one fervent prayer Last Line: When I drop out of file. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Maude Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST CALL, by ETTA MILLER Poem Text First Line: Let me die on the trail, with my face to Last Line: Be the beckoning, blue, far hill. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST CALL, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death called me, Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST COMPLAINT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe is me! An old man said Last Line: My last look of the clear moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The THE LAST FIGHT, by LAURANCE J. NICOLSON Poem Text First Line: He left his home with failing hope and breath Last Line: "home! Home at last!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bard Of Thule Subject(s): Death; Fights; Dead, The THE LAST FRIEND, by JEROME ROTHENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the last friend Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST HOPE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Lord, in the gloom of my distress Last Line: "and ""death"" were life's supreme appeal." Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Despair; God; Hope; Religion; Dead, The; Optimism; Theology THE LAST JOURNEY, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With courage seek the kingdom of the dead Last Line: You cannot miss it, though you shut your eyes. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST LOOK, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long had he waned, from life, but now Last Line: His last, that long, that dying look. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST LOOK, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her face was like an opening rose Last Line: No need, if I forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Paradise THE LAST LOOK; W.W. SWAIN, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Behold - not him we knew! Last Line: And death himself shall die! Subject(s): Death; Swain, William W.; Dead, The THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing on, sing ever, and let sobs arise Last Line: An universe, a god, a living ever. [she dies. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Night; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Songs THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom Last Line: Or shake his trust in god! Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THE LAST MAN'S CLUB, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandfather was always sad. Sadly, as a boy, he paddled his canoe Last Line: After that he was never sad, not even when the river died Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hudson River; Life; Old Age; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: A DREAM, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I looked into a dream; 'twas drawn Last Line: Was of the northern hurricane _____ Subject(s): Cupid; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Eros; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST MAN: DREAM OF DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shivering in fever, weak, and parched to sand Last Line: Are these thy dreams! Variant Title(s): The Last Man; Fragment Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares THE LAST MAN: LIFE A GLASS WINDOW, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him lean Last Line: Knuckles the pane, and. ... Subject(s): Death; Life; Windows; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: LIFE'S UNCERTAINTY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The king looks well, red in its proper place Last Line: B. Nought: let her hatch. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: RECEPTION OF EVIL TIDINGS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What's this? Did you not see a white convulsion Last Line: There by her murderer crushed into the earth. Subject(s): Death; Messages & Messengers; Murder; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: ROSILY DYING, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'll take that fainting rose Last Line: And give to me thy pink, reclining death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Revenge; Roses; Dead, The THE LAST MAN: SWEET TO DIE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not sweet to die? For, what is death Last Line: In love and the enamelled flowers of song? Variant Title(s): Death Sweet;the Last Man; Fragment Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST MORNING, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me! The earth is very beautiful Last Line: And calm my spirit into happy prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST MOVIE, by RACHEL HADAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Motion Pictures; Death; Conduct Of Life; Movies; Cinema; Dead, The THE LAST NIGHT OF ARTAN THE CULDEE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is but a little thing to sit here in silence and the dark Last Line: And I shall hear oona's voice as a sleeping seal hears the moving wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Memory; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE LAST NIGHT WITH THE DEAD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How awful is the presence of the dead! Last Line: In losing those who loved us. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST QUARREL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I lay sleeping on my bed Last Line: Wherewith I sped my love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Love; Quarrels; Regret; Solitude; Dead, The; Arguments; Disagreements; Loneliness THE LAST RACE, by ERNEST HAROLD BAYNES Poem Text First Line: I have the mount on courage to-day Last Line: As he noses me out at the wire. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE LAST REQUEST, by MAURICE RABINOWITZ Poem Text First Line: E bade me pluck a rose o'red Last Line: Is bloomin' in me 'eart. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Hearts; Love; Roses; Dead, The THE LAST SCENE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Her lily skin, her bronze-red hair Last Line: For all it was so white and fair. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAST SURVIVOR, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! The vacant chairs tell sadly we are going, going fast Last Line: And heaven bequeath their memories to him who loves us best! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE LAST TIME, by LIZ ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last time I saw him awake and talking Subject(s): Fathers; Prayer; Death; Dead, The THE LAST TRUMP, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You led the trump, the old man said Last Line: The last -- the fourteenth trump. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dead, The THE LAST UNCLE, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last uncle is pushing off Subject(s): Uncles; Death; Dead, The THE LAST VICTORY, by MARY SOPHIA CASE Poem Text First Line: So faint with mortal weariness I lie Last Line: Even mine own faltering I can face, and will. Subject(s): Death; Universities & Colleges - Faculty; Wellesley College; Dead, The THE LAST WISH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go to the forest shade Last Line: Forgetting her that in her spring-time died! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE LAST WORD, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if your half-witted tongue Subject(s): Death; Language; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE LAST WORDS, by MAURICE MAETERLINCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And if he ever should come back Last Line: Do not let him weep. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE LAST WORDS OF MY ENGLISH GRANDMOTHER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were some dirty plates Subject(s): Death; Grandparents; Men; Mothers; Dead, The; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers THE LAST WORDS OF ST. TELEMACHUS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a sound of weeping; wherefore weep Last Line: For ever blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Praise; Saints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAST WORSHIPPER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken and shattered Last Line: The dying gods cannot wholly die. Subject(s): Candles; Death; Heaven; Prayer; Worship; Dead, The; Paradise THE LAW AGAINST LOVERS: LOVE PROSCRIBED, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wake all the dead! What ho! What ho! Last Line: Lie two in a grave, and to bed, to bed! Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LAY OF MR. COLT, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And now the sacred rite was done Last Line: And died within the gaol. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Trials; Dead, The; Convicts THE LEADY'S TOWER, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' then we went along the gleades Last Line: Built up the tower upon the knowl.' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage; Memory; Monuments; Story-telling; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE LEAPING POLL, by WILLIAM HERVEY ALLEN JR. Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: At early morning when the earth grows cold Last Line: Looking for death. Alternate Author Name(s): Allen, Hervey Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Skulls; Dead, The THE LEGACY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: She died when I was wild and young Last Line: In the kiss on her ghostly hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE LEGACY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I died last, and dear, I die Last Line: But oh, no man could hold it, for twas thine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LEGEND OF JUBAL, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When cain was driven from jehovah's land Last Line: The all-creating presence for his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Christianity; Death; Heroism; Legacies; Legends; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE LEGEND OF QU'APPELLE VALLEY, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the one who loved her as my life Last Line: Why white men named the valley the qu'appelle. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Grief; Legends; Love; Travel; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE LEPER, by ANATOLE LE BRAZ Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Monna keryvel looks toward the west Last Line: "lo, thy bridegroom waits -- monna, it is death!" Subject(s): Death; Leprosy; Life; Tears; Wind; Dead, The; Lepers THE LEPRECHAUN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She was so beautiful and light Last Line: His whisper hoarse? Subject(s): Death; Girls; Youth; Dead, The THE LIBELLED BENEFACTOR, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They warned me by all that affection could urge Last Line: "but short-sighted mortals have christened me death!" Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE DEATH, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark to the toll of the passing bell Last Line: And rush from my own sad thoughts away. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Bells; Coffins; Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE LIFE AND DEATH; THE LIFE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hath momus descended -- the god of mirth Last Line: But mathews alone has such trophies won! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Life; Dead, The THE LIGHT KEEPER, by CAROLYN FORCHE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A night without ships. Foghorns called into walled cloud, and you Alternate Author Name(s): Sidlosky, Carolyn Subject(s): Lighthouses; Death; Life; Dead, The THE LIGHTKEEPER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Above, below, how the wild winds go Last Line: Might strike and shuddering die. Subject(s): Death; Rest; Silence; Dead, The THE LILY OF THE VALLEY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where the hare-bells are ringing Last Line: Sign the warrant for its death. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Lilies Of The Valley; Dead, The THE LION GROTTO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing odd Last Line: He'll ask again why things die. Subject(s): Children; Death; Loss; Childhood; Dead, The THE LION OVER THE TOMB OF LEONIDAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "of beast am I, of men was he most brave" Last Line: "whose bones I guard, bestriding this his grave" Subject(s): "death;graves;leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.);" "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; THE LION'S DEATH, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A hunter old whom once the desert air Last Line: And like the lion make an end of all? Subject(s): Animals; Death; Hearts; Lions; Dead, The THE LITTLE BROOK OVER THE HILL, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little brook over the hill that my childhood / knew Last Line: That had swept with death the little brook over the hill. Subject(s): Brooks; Country Life; Death; Mountains; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) 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 LITTLE SISTER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind knocks at the window Last Line: That some evil thing is nigh. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Evil; Sisters; Dead, The THE LITTLE STONES; REMEMBERING A SIGHT OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETARY, by BARBARA YOUNG Poem Text First Line: I saw them shining in the sun Last Line: And no more stones in arlington. Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE LITTLE THINGS AROUND THE HOUSE, by DOUGLAS MALLOCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The little things around the house are what will / hurt the most Last Line: The little things around the house are what will help the most. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives THE LITTLE WHITE HEARSE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering Last Line: As the little white hearse went glimmering by. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Hearses; Childhood; Dead, The THE LIVE CONSCIENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead man lay beneath the mold Last Line: And god folds up the sky! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural; Cadavers; Dead, The THE LIVING AND THE DEAD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The humming sea is full of dirges Last Line: Who have passed into repose! Subject(s): Bones; Death; Life; Loss; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE LIVING DEAD, by HERBERT KAUFMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Battles have you and I to fight and we Last Line: And only we know of the hell. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LONE TRAVELER, by DONALD J. PAQUETTE Poem Text First Line: Snake eating snake the darkness eats the light Last Line: And this is death. Subject(s): Death; Silence; Dead, The THE LONELY DEATH, by ADELAIDE CRAPSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the cold I will rise, I will bathe Last Line: And draw the sheet under my chin. Subject(s): Cold; Dawn; Death; Solitude; Sunrise; Dead, The; Loneliness THE LONELY ISLE, by CLAUDIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in a distant bay, deeply hidden Last Line: Where those curved arms shut in a tranquil sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Claudius Claudianus Subject(s): Calm; Death; Solitude; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The; Loneliness THE LONG WAR, by LI PO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They fought last year by the upper valley of son-kan Last Line: They have accomplished nothing! Alternate Author Name(s): Rihaku; Li Pai; Li Tai Pe; Li Bo; Li Bai Subject(s): Army - China; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE LORDS OF PAIN, by GEORGE STERLING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lords of pain are mightier by night Last Line: Whom music leads to sleep, and sleep to death. Subject(s): Death; Life; Pain; Sleep; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE LORDS OF SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the water whispers 'mid the shadowy rowan-trees Last Line: And sealed my eyes with dew beneath the shadowy rowan-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fairies; Mythology - Celtic; Shadows; Vision; Dead, The; Elves THE LOSS OF THE 'VICTORIA', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Now o'er britannia there hangs a gloom Last Line: For the brave british tars that have been drowned. Subject(s): Accidents; Battleships; Death; Loss; Dead, The THE LOSS OF THE CONCORD, OF NEWHAVEN, by PETER GARDINER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas morning, and the ruddy sunbeams fell Last Line: With mothers, wives, and babes, be found on thy right hand. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE LOST BATTLE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not over yet -- the fight Last Line: Courage, it is not over yet. Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Names; Night; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Bedtime THE LOST DARLING, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was my idol. Night and day, to scan Last Line: Ask for its darling like the bliss of heaven? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE LOST LAMB, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shepherd laid upon his bed Last Line: He trode serene life's onward way. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOST LEGION, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Tough birds were some of our fighters, for the Last Line: But god won't give a crooked deal to men who died like men! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST ONES, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere is music from the linnets' bills Last Line: Crying about the dark for those who died. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE LOST PLEIAD, by WILLIAM GILMORE SIMMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in the sky Last Line: The desolate home they blessed? Subject(s): Death; Pleiades (constellation); Dead, The THE LOTUS; TO M.K. GANDHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mystic lotus, sacred and sublime Last Line: Coeval with the lords of life and death? Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The THE LOVE KISS OF DERMID AND GRAINNE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When by the twilit sea these twain were come Last Line: Far in a phantom dell against a phantom deer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Animals; Death; Kisses; Love Affairs; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Snakes; Swallows; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 31, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some day in six inches of Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE LOVER AND THE FRIEND, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou for whom my lyre I string Last Line: At once the lover and the friend. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Dead, The THE LOVER HAVING DREAMED OF ENJOYING HIS LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unstable dream, according to the place Last Line: Such mocks of dreams they turn to deadly pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 79;sonnet: 27 Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Dreams; Pain; Dead, The; Nightmares; Suffering; Misery THE LOVER'S MESSAGE; SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, tell amynta, gentle swain Last Line: Attends but death to close his eyes. Subject(s): Death; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The THE LOVER'S ROCK, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The maiden through the favouring night Last Line: Says for manuel's soul a prayer. Subject(s): Christianity; Death; Escapes; Granada, Spain; Love; Moors (land); Dead, The; Fugitives THE LOVING SHEPHERDESS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The little one-room schoolhousc among the redwoods Last Line: Of the solemn Subject(s): Pregnancy; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; California; Death; Dead, The THE MACHINE, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once in a dreary place where women die Last Line: Find only this, a respite from the loom? Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Labor & Laborers; Mills & Millers; Women; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE MAD LOVER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are feverish and dull Last Line: So moan yourself to death! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Life; Love - Unrequited; Dead, The THE MADMAN, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it a wayside flower Last Line: New ones will blossom and the old will be dead Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The THE MAGIC BOW, by CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: Her hair was blond as autumn wheat Last Line: Until its tresses touched her feet. Subject(s): Death; Hair; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MAGIC GLASS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead! The glorious dead! -- and shall they rise? Last Line: "records of joy and woe." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAID OF THE MOOR, OR THE WATER-FIENDS, SELECTION, by GEORGE COLMAN THE YOUNGER Poem Text First Line: Cold blows the blast - the night's obscure Last Line: Lies in the bottom of a well. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Drowning; Grief; Household Employees; Solitude; Wells; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Loneliness THE MAID'S LAMENT; ELIZABETHAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved him not; and yet, now he is gone Last Line: And, o, pray too for me! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE MAID-MARTYR, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Only you'd have me speak Last Line: Truly my soul is silent unto god. Subject(s): Death; God; Life; Love; Martyrs; Soul; Time; Dead, The THE MAIDEN DEAD IN THE ECSTACY OF LOVE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden she is dead, is dead, while love was fresh and new Last Line: They went to till the fields, the fields, as every day they do. . . . Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE MALICE-DANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An intolerable singing Last Line: Round that dial of the moon! Subject(s): Beauty; Dancing & Dancers; Death; Dreams; Love; Moon; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE MAMMOTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the deluge ceased to pour Last Line: A second mammoth dies. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Europe; Life; Dead, The; World THE MAN FORBID, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mankind has cast me out. When I became Last Line: The cliffed escarpment ends in stormclad strength. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Animals; Apes; Books; Death; Education; Exiles; Humanity; Life; Mankind; Estrangement; Outcasts; Gorillas; Chimpanzees; Gibbons; Orangutans; Reading; Dead, The; Human Race THE MAN FROM ATHABASKA, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh the wife she tried to tell me that 'twas nothing but the thrumming Last Line: And I'll rest in athabaska, and I'll leave it nevermore. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I had not walked aimlessly up town Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE MARCH OF THE GHOSTS, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chattering, clattering, here they come! Last Line: "let peace prevail through eternity!" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Dead, The THE MAREMMA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are bright scenes beneath italian skies Last Line: For thee, who thus didst pass in brightness to the tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Italy; Jealousy; Dead, The; Italians THE MARINE (POITEVIN), by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bold marine comes back from war Last Line: All so kind. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Remarriage; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Second Marriage THE MARINER, by RUTH ERICKSON Poem Text First Line: There was something about the sea that drew Last Line: For again he is sailing the uncharted seas. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails; Ocean THE MARTYR OF BRUSSELS, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Rest you, sweet martyr, nobly have you lain Last Line: "and hear from lips divine, ""abide with me." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Martyrs; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise THE MASS FOR THE DEAD, by SABINE BARING-GOULD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day unflagging in his stall Subject(s): Messina, Sicily; Death; Mass; Confession; Dead, The THE MATERIALIST, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul has left its tent of clay Last Line: "when death said, ""you may die." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE MATIN-SONG OF FRIAR TUCK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls could sing to heaven's high king Last Line: Te deum! Te deum laudamus! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Earth; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; World THE MAY QUEEN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother dear Last Line: And the wicked cease from troubling, and the weary are at rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MEADOW, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Across the road from where we nap Subject(s): War; Death; Cemeteries; Dead, The; Graveyards THE MEANING, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: It seemed to me the night she died Last Line: Her spirit passed to paradise. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The meek shall inherit the earth, -- yes Last Line: Six feet of earth -- at the last -- and worms for a fellowship nigh. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Humility; Inheritance & Succession; Pain; Dead, The; World; Heirs; Suffering; Misery THE MELON, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a melon fresh from the garden Subject(s): Melons; Death; Hornets; Family Life; Dead, The; Relatives THE MEMORY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The more on my fair voyage I dream, the more my langours lose their Last Line: Remembered dreams I borrow from this, my self-sufficing soul! Subject(s): Death; France; Memory; Dead, The THE MEMORY OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the wet dusk silver sweet Last Line: "so to close her tragic story." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Memory; Tragedy; Dead, The; World THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forget them not! Though now their name Last Line: Yet all for heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MESSAGE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From side to side the sufferer tossed Last Line: Fell back, sir, and was dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Mothers; Homecoming; Dreams; Family Life; Longing; Death; Nightmares; Relatives; Dead, The THE MESSAGE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the house of the widow Last Line: God touches his own. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MESSENGER, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a wild merriment of wind and bird Last Line: "blind to our agonies of death and birth!" Subject(s): Death; Language; Life; Messages & Messengers; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary THE MESSENGER, by MARJORIE THORN Poem Text First Line: She sipped her canton tea Last Line: And song-birds flying.) Subject(s): Death; Strangers; Dead, The THE MESSENGER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She rose up in the early dawn Last Line: "the fight itself was not so hard." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not heard, how many ages since Last Line: To weary, then deceiue, the hearing sence. Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Gifts & Giving; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MIDNIGHT SKATERS, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hop-poles stand in cones Last Line: And let him hate you through the glass. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death; England; Landscape; Skating & Skaters; Sports; Dead, The; English THE MIND SPEAKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm Last Line: To act beyond its power. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MINER OF PERU, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that vast realm, where down the rivers wash Last Line: Beside the cherish'd grave of him she loved! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Nature; Dead, The THE MINNEAPOLIS POEM, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wonder how many old men last winter Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Minneapolis; City & Town Life; Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE MINSTREL AT LINCLUDEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood by yon roofless tower Last Line: I winna venture't in my rhymes. Subject(s): Freedom; War; Death; Supernatural; Grief; Liberty; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MINUTE, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my daughter, open the gate! Last Line: "no thrill has shaken my breast." Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Dead, The THE MIRACLE, by TONY HOAGLAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every now and then a fishing pole Last Line: Reached up his arm as if asking Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Ambition; Death; Anglers; Dead, The THE MIRACLE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother, dearest friend, when I am dead, Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Dead, The; Clemency THE MIRACULOUS CATCH, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The tidings seemed so heaven-sent, - an uncle dead so a propos Last Line: And about their floats the little fish waltzed as sweetly as heart could wish. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE MISSION GRAVES, by NORA MAY FRENCH Poem Text First Line: By man forgotten Last Line: Watched, the night through. Subject(s): Death; Missionaries & Missions; Dead, The THE MISTLETOE BOUGH, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mistletoe hung in the castle hall Last Line: The bride lay clasped in her living tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Hide & Seek (game); Death; Dead, The THE MODERN FIRST LADY, by SOAME JENYNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Skilled in each art that can adorn the fair Last Line: And with true scorpion rage she stings herself to death. Subject(s): Death; Exiles; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MONUMENT OF FRANCIS MAKEMIE, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To thee, plain hero of a rugged race Last Line: Where rests this brave scotch-irish man of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Makemie, Francis (1658-1707); Monuments; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE MOON AND THE OCEAN; TO SYLVIA, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: The moon, / the old roue Last Line: And blind him. Subject(s): Death; Meditation; Dead, The THE MORE HE CONSIDERED HIS DEATH, by STEPHEN DOBYNS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MORNING STAR, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long and weary are the nights,' he said Last Line: Companioned by the bright and morning star! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Stars; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The THE MORNING-GLORY, by MARIA WHITE LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We wreathed about our darling's head Last Line: Twine round our dear lord's knee. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Morning Glories; Dead, The THE MORTAL ONE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three months after he lies dead, that Subject(s): Fathers; Death; Dead, The THE MOTH'S WING, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: They tell me my man is dead Last Line: It is the brush of the moth's wing against my cheek I feel. Subject(s): Death; Moths; Dead, The THE MOTHER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She will remember when they forget Last Line: Hides her face on the grave of me. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The THE MOTHER, by LYDIA GIBSON Poem Text First Line: Never again to feel that little kiss Last Line: Oh — little hands . . . That in the dust have lain! Subject(s): Children; Death; Faith; God; Grief; Mothers; Prayer; Childhood; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOTHER, by FRANCIS JORDAN PRESTON Poem Text First Line: Is my child aware that I / fear and worry Last Line: That I gave him life to live. Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THE MOTHER, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here where the rooms are dryly still Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The THE MOTHER SAINTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair girl, fond wife, and dear Last Line: And -- wait the end. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mothers; Saints; Dead, The THE MOTHS: 1. CIRCA 1952, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Indians stood on a hill in bath and watched Last Line: Into tomorrow. Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Knowledge; Moths; Native Americans; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Women; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE MOULD, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No doubt this active will Last Line: Archaic wistfulness. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MOUND IN THE MEADS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the mound that holds the slain Last Line: This is the mound that holds the slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, SELECTION, by ANEIRIN Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: In march birds couple, a new birth Last Line: Long is th' impris'ment of the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Aneurin; Neirin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 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 ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I look into the aching womb of night Last Line: How happy are the dead! Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE MOURNFUL TOURNAMENT, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With shield and spear apace they ride Last Line: To slumber side by side. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Man-woman Relationships; Tournaments; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE MOURNING DOVE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What art thou saying, doing, pensive dove Last Line: "to die or live unchanging lovers true." Subject(s): Absence; Death; Doves; Life; Love; Nature; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE MOURNING-GARMENT: HEXAMETRA ROSAMUNDAE AE IN DOLOREM AMISSI ALEXIS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tempe, the grove where dark hecate doth keep Last Line: Yet rosamond did die for love, false-hearted alexis! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE MUSIC MAKER. PART 2: 1, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadow death o'er time's broad dial creeps Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 MUSIC STRAIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Music strain, where do you go Last Line: "hope and hark, and have no fear." Subject(s): Death; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE MUSICMAKER'S CHILD, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: A maiden, waiting for a man to take her Last Line: I, the child of weir the musicmaker. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE MYSTERY, by CLAUDIA A. PINCKNEY Poem Text First Line: But yesterday you walked beside me, dear Last Line: And leav'st us with our grief -- a memory, and a prayer. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE MYSTERY, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art not dead; thou art not gone to dust Last Line: The light of mine, and give me death with thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Kisses; Time; Dead, The THE NAVVY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remote from mansion and from mart Last Line: And god be good to you — and me. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE NAVVY CHORUS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the beginning of ages Last Line: Between a shift and a shift. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE NEW EZEKIEL, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, can these dead bones live, whose sap is dried Last Line: And I shall place you living in your land. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Prophecy & Prophets; Dead, The; Judaism THE NEW JERUSALEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "hierusalem, my happy home" Last Line: "would god my woes were at an end, / thy joys that I might see!" Variant Title(s): The Heavenly City Subject(s): Death;jerusalem;mary. Mother Of Jesus;women - Bible; "dead, The;virgin Mary; THE NEW WIFE AND THE OLD, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark the halls, and cold the feast Last Line: An unwitting triumph find. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE NEXT WAR, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out there, we walked quite friendly up to death Last Line: He fights for death, for lives; not men, for flags. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE NIGHT BEFORE AND THE NIGHT AFTER THE CHARGE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On sword and gun the shadows reel and riot Last Line: To mark the dug-out where my comrades sleep. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE NIGHT BIRD, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down where the cedars are bending Last Line: "and sorrow is not eternal." Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Birds; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE NIGHT OF DEATH, by FRANCES ELLEN WATKINS HARPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a night of dreadful horror Last Line: And its cares beneath our feet. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE NIGHT OF THE DEAD, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in this house ye lie a-bed Last Line: God sends the summons that we bring. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE NIGHT-JAR, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the river, in the shallows, on the shore Last Line: Which is death. Subject(s): Boats; Death; Nature; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime THE NOBLE LAY OF AILLINN, by STOPFORD AUGUSTUS BROOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prince baile of ulster rode out in the morn Last Line: To meet, at last, for ever! Subject(s): Trysts; Death; Dead, The 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 NORTH SHORE WATCH, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things are lovely as they were, and still Last Line: With phosphorescent gleams, and dark oars dropping light. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nature; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE NOVICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love one and he loveth me Last Line: And shadowy branches wave. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Nature; Dead, The THE NUN, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the quiet convent garden Last Line: Down fell the long, black veil. Subject(s): Death; Nuns; Dead, The THE OAK OF OUR FATHERS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas for the oak of our fathers, that stood Last Line: In its beauty, the glory and pride of the wood! Subject(s): Death; Ivy; Lament; Oak Trees; Parasites; Dead, The THE OBSCURE, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's the poor first light of morning Last Line: That her breasts filled the window like a mouth. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Farm Life; Man-woman Relationships; Pigs; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Male-female Relations; Boars; Hogs THE OBSERVER, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a scurvy mind Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE OLD BARK HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In an old bark hut on the mountainside Last Line: And broken a woman's heart Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;death;family Life;fathers & Sons;hunting;waiting; "dead, The;relatives;hunters; THE OLD CARRIER, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Patient toiler on the road Last Line: To and from menaggio. Subject(s): Aging; Bells; Christmas; Death; Labor & Laborers; Nativity, The; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE OLD CHURCHYARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone field of graves! Our churchyard old and hoar! Last Line: Till time and death shall die, with thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD COLLECTOR, by BEATRICE HANSCOM Poem Text First Line: Tis strange to look across the street Last Line: For him are ended. Subject(s): Art Patronage; Collectors & Collecting; Death; Neighbors; Patrons Of The Arts; Dead, The THE OLD COUNTRY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I go home at end of day, the old road Last Line: And you sleeping so quietly under the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Fathers; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Roads; Dead, The; Irish; Paths; Trails THE OLD ENEMY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion against death, the old rebellion Last Line: Under the planet at the evening's end. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THE OLD ENGLISH GENTLEMAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I'll sing you a good old song, that was made by a good old pate" Last Line: Which reared those fine old english gentlemen all of the olden time Subject(s): Death;life;singing & Singers; "dead, The; THE OLD GHOST, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the water an old ghost strode Last Line: At his yearning desire and agony. Subject(s): Death; Desire; Ghosts; Grief; Longing; Sea; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE OLD LAND, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I came back to ireland the leaves on the tree Last Line: For don't you remember? And could you forget? Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Homecoming; Ireland; Memory; Dead, The; Irish THE OLD LIBERATORS, by ROBERT HEDIN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the people in the mornings at the mall; Last Line: & 2. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Veterans; Dead, The THE OLD MAID'S PETITION, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pity the sorrows of a poor old maid Last Line: Whose nights in unavailing tears are spent! Subject(s): Death;grief;love;women; "dead, The;sorrow;sadness; THE OLD MAN AND JIM, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old man never had much to say Last Line: "take keer of yourse'f!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE OLD MEN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a handful of meal in the barrel, and a Last Line: With a stake in the great hereafter, sealed by the hand of death. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Weariness; Wrinkles; Dead, The; Fatigue THE OLD MUSICIAN'S FATE, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN KING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He played so many instruments Last Line: He's simply gone to sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): King, Ben Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The THE OLD PATHWAY, by NELLE J. COLBERT Poem Text First Line: Little path with Last Line: Reveries, redeemed. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE OLD PIER-POST, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the sea-ward-looking one Last Line: Christ must be coming soon! Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Jesus Christ; Moon; Sea; Soul; Wharves; Dead, The; Ocean; Piers THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE OLD SEXTON, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nigh to a grave that was newly made Last Line: "I gather them in, I gather them in." Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE OLD SOLDIER, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lest the young soldiers be strange in heaven Last Line: Waiting to welcome them by the strange door. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Holidays; Veterans Day; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The; Paradise THE OLD SONG, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the dead go wed the dead Last Line: God have mercy on all lovers! Subject(s): Daisies; Death; Flowers; God; Love; Singing & Singers; Youth; Dead, The THE OLD SONG, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was a young lad of happy sixteen Last Line: "and my last breath shall whisper, 'god bless grannia wael.' " Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Youth; Dead, The; Irish THE OLD STOIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riches I hold in light esteem Last Line: With courage to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Immortality; Stoicism; Dead, The; Liberty THE OLD TUNE; THIRTY-SIXTH VARIATION, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This shred of song you bid me bring Last Line: "good-night, my dear old fellows!" Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE OLD WHIM-HORSE, by EDWARD DYSON Poem Text First Line: He's an old grey horse, with his head bowed sadly Last Line: Are the bleaching bones of the old grey horse. Alternate Author Name(s): Dyson, E. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Memory; Dead, The THE ONSET, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always the same, when on a fated night Last Line: And there a clump of houses with a church. Subject(s): Winter; Death; Dead, The THE OPERA OF CAMILLA, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If this is death, it is not hard to bear Last Line: To serve god's aim: else die we with the sun. Subject(s): Death; Love; Opera; Dead, The THE ORANGE ROOM, by EDWARD NAGLE Poem Text First Line: Deep within Last Line: Wail harshly. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE ORGANIST, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Soft thro' the chancel casement Last Line: Before the great white throne. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Paradise THE ORGANIST IN HEAVEN (SAMUEL SEBASTIAN WESLEY), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When wesley died, the angelic orders Last Line: And moved the balanced stars. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Death; Organs (musical Instruments); Wesley, Samuel Sebastian (1810-1876); Dead, The THE ORIEL WINDOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I pray in the country church, alas! Last Line: Down—down through the oriel window! Subject(s): Death; Love; Windows; Dead, The THE ORIGIN OF ACRYLIC, by THOMAS WILLARD CLARK Poem Text First Line: The fishing on the swamp is fine Last Line: "like the words ""dark green" Alternate Author Name(s): Clark, Tom Subject(s): Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE OTHER ARMY, by BARTHOLOMEW GRIFFIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er ruined road past draggled field Last Line: And fast it grows at every hedge! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Marching & Marches; Satire (as Poetic Genre); Soldiers; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Journeys; Trips THE OTHER WORLD, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies around us like a cloud Last Line: Our suffering life the dream. Variant Title(s): In The Other World Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE OUTCASTS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The smile of god was in the air Last Line: While they remain uncomforted. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Beauty; Death; Youth; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The THE OVERWORKED GHOST, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the embalmer closed my eyes Last Line: That's patience worth there on the phone! Subject(s): Death; Worth, Patience; Dead, The THE OVIPAROUS TAILOR, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wee, wee tailor, / nobody was paler Last Line: Wee, wee tailor. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Devil; Pain; Sin; Tailors; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery; Dress Makers THE PACT, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They have no pact to sign - our peaceful dead Last Line: Our dead will rise again. Subject(s): Death; Religion; War; Dead, The; Theology THE PAGAN PAST, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What sylvan god was worshipped here? Last Line: I sail, companioned by the past. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mythology - Classical; Paganism & Pagans; Pan (mythology); Past; Dead, The THE PARSON'S COMFORTER, by FREDERICK LANGBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The parson goes about his daily ways Last Line: That comforts him who comes to comfort thee? Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Life; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE PARTING, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I go, dear saint, away Last Line: And thus united be by death's divorce. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PASSAGE, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a year is in its grave Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PASSING, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is this a time for setting forth ...' Last Line: "and will not let me in." Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PASSING BELL: IN MEMORIAM, GEORGII GRANVILLE BRADLEY, S.T.P., by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, the bell hung in the tower and waited Last Line: Slowly the bell ceased on the listening midnight. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bradley, George Granville (1821-1903),; Death; Graves; Memory; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE PASSING OF A FRIEND, by JESSIE STEARNS GRIFFITHS Poem Text First Line: We loved her so! Last Line: And thou art love! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The THE PASSING OF WOODROW WILSON, PROPHET OF PEACE, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once more a grieving nation bows its head Last Line: When war forever shall give place to peace! Subject(s): Death; Honor; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The THE PASSING OF YEGOR, by C. K. TOREN Poem Text First Line: You have not long to live - yegor Last Line: Back -- fading like a star. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PASSING OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At pisa, where the cypress-spires alway Last Line: "beyond the flaming rampire of the world." Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Aging; Courage; Death; Melancholy; Pisa, Italy; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Dejection THE PASSING SHOW, by AMBROSE BIERCE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if it was a dream. I viewed Last Line: A wolf sat howling on a broken tomb. Subject(s): Cities; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Soul; Urban Life; Dead, The; Nightmares THE PASSION, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erewhile of music, and ethereal mirth Last Line: Had got a race of mourners on some pregnant cloud. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PATH OF TEARS: 1. THE SORROW OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why did you turn your face away? Last Line: Or the thrall of the old desire? Subject(s): Death; Desire; Hearts; Love; Memory; Old Age; Dead, The THE PEASANT GIRL OF THE RHONE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There went a warrior's funeral through the night Last Line: The tomb's last garland! -- this was love in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE PEOPLE'S SONG OF PEACE, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass is green on bunker hill Last Line: And janus rests with rusted door. Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Peace; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PERFECT DAY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The blast has swept the clouds away Last Line: As yester-evening's mist and rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Beauty; Calm; Day; Death; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Dead, The THE PHANTOM COASTERS, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The coasters of the past are back Last Line: And troy town's wreck behind them lies. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Prehistoric Peoples; Skeletons; Dead, The; Paradise THE PHANTOM FLEET, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset lingered in the pale green west Last Line: Then -- that high fleet of stars led on the night. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; England; Evening; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; English; Sunset; Twilight THE PHANTOM HOST, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught the whispered tread of phantom feet Last Line: Slunk vanquished death with low down-bended head. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PHANTOM REVIEW, by SQUIRE OMAR BARKER Poem Text First Line: Come phantom feet in the wind tonight and soundless drumbeats roll Last Line: "our pledge, to ease the watch you tread, ""it shall not be again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Barker, S. Omar Subject(s): Army Life; Death; Honor; Military; Social Protest; Soldiers; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The THE PHILANTHROPIST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a brother and sister Last Line: Had lately carried him off. Subject(s): Death; Food & Eating; Funerals; Life; Dead, The; Burials THE PHILOSOPHER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "be lost in one repose! " Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Philosophy & Philosophers; Dead, The THE PICK, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the pluvial season it gallantly stayed Last Line: To the pick that was ever trusted, tried on the dead-line and true. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Missions & Missionaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE PICTURE OF ST. JOHN: BOOK 4. THE PICTURE, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, whose journey lies Last Line: And love with bliss, and life with wiser youth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Portraits; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PICTURES, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: His reflection in water said Last Line: To crumbling, then to part of night Subject(s): Death; Light; Dead, The THE PIED PIPER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The huge pied piper, in a giant dance Last Line: And the millions perished in a jigging rigadoon. Subject(s): Death; Military; Military Service, Voluntary; Patriotism; Pipers; Soldiers; War; Dead, The THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood by the window Last Line: "o mary, blessed be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At the window stood the mother Last Line: "praise, mary, be to thee!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMAGE TO KEVLAAR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mother stood at her lattice Last Line: "o mary, blest be thou!" Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sickness; Tears; Dead, The; Illness THE PILGRIMS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who is your lady of love, o ye that pass Last Line: That man may reap and eat and live by day Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Dead, The THE PILLAR OF FAME, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fames pillar here, at last, we set Last Line: Firme and well fixt foundation. Subject(s): Death; Fame; Dead, The; Reputation THE PILOT OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: False,' they said, thy pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn Last Line: Hunters lost upon the plains. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Death; Legends; Love - Cultural Differences; Native Americans; Waiting; Dead, The; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE PIONEER, by JOHN DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why, he never can tell Last Line: The world about. Subject(s): Death; Pioneers; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE PIONEER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He was a servant boy, and he Last Line: The tale of the early pioneer. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Pioneers; Dead, The THE PITCHER, by YUAN CHEN Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I climbed to a high, high plain Last Line: Streamed from my eyes and fell on the collar of my dress. Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLACE OF REMEMBRANCE, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wouldst thou think of her? Where the young flowers Last Line: There shouldst thou dream of thy darling to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE PLACE OF REST, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am not happy, though my smiles betoken Last Line: "with triumph towering in thy shattered shield!" Subject(s): Death; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE PLANTED HEEL, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By talland church as I did go Last Line: Better, perhaps, on a planted knee.' Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Inheritance And Succession; Dead, The THE PLATE, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now he has silver in him. When sometime Last Line: Where in his head the fire is most alive. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PLAYERS, by FRANCIS LAWRENCE BICKLEY Poem Text First Line: We challenged death. He threw with weighted dice Last Line: With that nor death nor time can take away. Subject(s): Death; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 100, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For an image of life and death Last Line: Both life and death are fine Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Ice; Life; Reincarnation; Water; Dead, The; Transmigration; Pretas THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 143, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old chung north of town Last Line: But had such cold insides Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 15, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chuang-tzu said for his funeral Last Line: For those who live honest death is fine too Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 184, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buy meat with blood still dripping Last Line: And both of you finally part Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Food & Eating; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 186, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exhaust your mind for profit and fame Last Line: Buried in a grave does it still exist Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 221, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Birth and death are decreed Last Line: And brilliant scholars are broke Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chinese Literature; Death; Fame; Wealth; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Reputation; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 248, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a poem for you young lords Last Line: He was a fool for azure pearl Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 262, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the people I see Last Line: Blooming at dawn gone by dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 277, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Among the sages of the past Last Line: None escaped the wheel of birth and death Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Buddhism; Chinese Literature; Death; Buddha; Buddhists; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 295, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go ahead stockpile rhino horn Last Line: Trying to live forever is vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Mortality; Vanity; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 306, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the people I see Last Line: I'll carve your name in stone Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 41, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rich have so many cares Last Line: The mourners will all be flies Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Wealth; Dead, The; Riches; Fortunes THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 50, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Show me the person who doesn't die Last Line: The pine wind slays with grief Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Equality; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 52, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They act like drunks all day Last Line: Can't chant sutras then Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Chinese Literature; Death; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 74, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What's this crying for Last Line: The six paths don't excite me Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine young man on horseback Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 80, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you would increase increase your essence Last Line: You won't survive the trauma of death Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Death; Immortality; Self; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 86, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So many kinds of people exist Last Line: And behold the thoughtless mind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 48, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For a mud ball dropped in water Last Line: Then leave it all behind Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Greed; Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity THE POET, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! He traffics with the sun Last Line: And uncaring give us death. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fate; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Sun; Wind; Dead, The; World; Destiny; Ocean THE POET (2), by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He takes the glory from the gold Last Line: Illumined from the hill. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET AND HIS BOOK, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down, you mongrel, death! Last Line: Yellow clay on dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S DEATH, by EBENEZER JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the poet's death was certain, and the leech had left the room Last Line: And ten thousand thousand like him, stuff the earth with such like graves. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S GIFT, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That century to century may tell Last Line: Of earth, so long as pens and books endure. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Gifts & Giving; Love; Poetry & Poets; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: A SYMBOL, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heavy, and hot, and gray Last Line: Thou dust punish us with blessing! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Time; Dead, The; Nightmares THE POET'S JOURNAL: ATONEMENT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou hadst died at midnight Last Line: Without, the sun and snow! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Penance; Sun; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: CHURCHYARD ROSES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woodlands wore a gloomy green Last Line: Of love, that death has sanctified! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Flowers; Forests; Love; Roses; Dead, The; Woods THE POET'S JOURNAL: DECEMBER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beech is bare, and bare the ash Last Line: But thou and I are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; December; Love; Winter; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: EXORCISM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tongues of the past, be still! Last Line: With the phantom of the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Exorcism; Graves; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S JOURNAL: FIRST EVENING, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The day had come, the day of many years Last Line: Which she as fondly answered, thus he read: -- Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE FATHER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fateful hour, when death stood by Last Line: And lead me with thy helpless hands! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Life; Love; Time; Dead, The THE POET'S JOURNAL: THE VOICE OF THE TEMPTER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night the tempter came to me, and said Last Line: And found her brow less dewy-wet than mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Love; Temptation; Voices; Youth; Dead, The THE POND AT DUSK, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fly wounds the water but the wound Last Line: Just clearing the pews Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE POPE OF THE HILLS, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: Never a word will you hear at maynooth Last Line: To the gates of the morning and mists of the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Popes; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Papacy THE POPPIES, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: This is the garden of your joyous care Last Line: And in my love you live. Subject(s): Death; Love; Poppies; Dead, The THE POPPY FIELDS OF SERGEY, by KATE SLAUGHTER MCKINNEY Poem Text First Line: Oh! The poppy fields of sergey Last Line: Where the blood-red poppies grow. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Fields; Poppies; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas THE PRAYER OF ISLAM, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We praise thee, o compassionate! Last Line: Ya rahman! Ya raheem! Subject(s): Compassion; Death; Memory; Prayer; Shadows; Dead, The THE PREACHER, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As if the one tree you love so well and hardly Subject(s): Old Age; Nature; Social Commentgaries; Country Life; Death; Dead, The THE PRICE, by WILLIAM CANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man lived fifty years - joy dashed with tears Last Line: God paid — and thought it cheap. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; David (bible); Dead, The; Songs THE PRICE OF A KISS, by ELISE ESPINASSE Poem Text First Line: Where the ranges dip down to the plain at their base Last Line: Tis the smile he bought, maybe, that's still on his lips! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Death; Escapes; Hunting; Love; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Fugitives; Hunters; Convicts THE PRICE WE PAY, by J. H. STEVENS Poem Text First Line: Yes, he was the only one killed Last Line: But that life was all that I had. Subject(s): Assassination; Death; Heroism; War - Home Front; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE PRIEST'S BROTHER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thrice in the night the priest arose Last Line: "god save your soul from a night so long." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Prayer; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The THE PRINCE IS DEAD, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A room in the palace is shut. The king Last Line: The prince is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Nations; Tears; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The THE PRINT OF YOUR HAND, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mouth's full of snow Last Line: The print of your hand on my scarf still. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The THE PRISONER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I lie beneath the great pine tree Last Line: Ah, freedom is but death. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Dead, The; Liberty THE PRISONER'S RELEASE, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, in the east the wan moon climbs Last Line: Now I come — I come to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Inquisition; Prisoners Of War; Venice, Italy; Youth; Dead, The THE PROMISE, by SHARON OLDS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the second drink, at the restaurant Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The THE PROMISE OF SLEEP, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Put the sweet thoughts from out thy mind Last Line: That death is gentle too. Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The THE PROSPECT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks we do as fretful children do Last Line: The sunset consummation-lights of death. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE PROUD DEAD LADIES, by ELIZABETH JANE COATSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the groined firmament of the cathedral Last Line: Too arrogant to stir even to the whispers of their lovers. Alternate Author Name(s): Beston, Henry, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE PROVER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: If life gives friends Last Line: Had death been coming soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE QUAKER GRAVEYARD, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Four straight brick walls, severely plain Last Line: In gentlest mockery. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Quakers THE QUEEN'S BALL, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: How soon forgotten are the dead Last Line: But stories more I will not tell. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Supernatural; Dead, The THE QUESTION AND ITS MARK, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: May I cast a spell on the many swans of leda Subject(s): Death; Memory; Wishes; Dead, The THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE RACE OF BANQUO, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fly, son of banquo! Fleance, fly Last Line: Pour we now the dirge of death! Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Death; Legacies; Prophecy & Prophets; Singing & Singers; Dead, The THE RACE OF THE BOOMERS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bleak o' the dawn, and the plain Last Line: The indian's heart-wrung wail for his hapless hunting grounds. Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Dawn; Death; June; Pain; Soldiers; Sunrise; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE RAGGED STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I was walking with my dear, my dear come back at last Last Line: I'll not be walking with my dear next year, nor yet alone. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Legends; Love; Stones; War; World War I; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks; First World War THE RAID, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It chanced that as rua sat in the valley of silent falls Last Line: It shone on the smoke of feasting in the country of the vais. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE RAKE'S PROGRESS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Born lorn Last Line: Grief brief. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The THE RAVEN, by NICARCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The gloom of death is on the raven's wing Last Line: The raven dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Nicarchos Variant Title(s): The Singer;variations Of Greek Themes: 3. The Raven Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE RAVEN, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary Last Line: Shall be lifted -- nevermore! Subject(s): Birds; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Mysticism; Omens; Ravens; Supernatural; Dead, The THE REALMS OF GOLD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the palms of san diego Last Line: A song that had out-soared death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gold; Poetry & Poets; San Diego, California; Dead, The; Nightmares THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a reaper, whose name is death Last Line: And took the flowers away Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The THE REASON, by HERVEY ALDIS Poem Text First Line: They asked me what ailed her Last Line: "of too much blossoming." Subject(s): Apples; Death; Fruit; Trees; Dead, The THE RECITAL, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He sits there, staring into the keyboard-- Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Poetry & Poets; Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE RECORD OF A LIFE, by HENRY DAVID GRAY Poem Text First Line: He lived and died, and all is passed away Last Line: This is his history: he lived -- and died! Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE RED RETREAT, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tramp, tramp, the grim road, the road from mons to wipers Last Line: The graves of me mateys there, the grim, sour graves. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 REGIMENT, 1909, by JOHN CURTIS UNDERWOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The traffic clears, and the crowd to the curb shifts to Last Line: But still the red blood corpuscles shall vitalize the race. Subject(s): Death; Marching & Marches; Militarism; New York City; Soldiers; Dead, The; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple THE RELEASE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today within a grog-shop near Last Line: Light, freedom, love. . . . Fools call it -- dying. Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; Dead, The THE RESIGNATION, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! Whose thunder shakes the sky Last Line: Which god, my east, my sun, reveals. Variant Title(s): On Resignation;faith Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise THE REST, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He rests at last, as on the motherbreast Last Line: We'll not believe that till he tells us so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Death; Life; Mothers; Youth; Childhood; Dead, The THE RESTLESS DEAD, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Said death, the king, unto the jester, fate Last Line: "now all are quiet in their graves!"" death said." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE RESURRECTION OF ALCILIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet song-flower of the mayspring of our song Last Line: Murmuring, we hear thee, bird and flower of love. Subject(s): Death; Life; Winter; Dead, The THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The people of the earth are mighty Last Line: Is the only resurrection. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do all who lie down expect to awake? Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE RETURN, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen softly stole to me just now Last Line: Helen died a year ago to-day. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Presence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE RETURN, by ELEANOR ROGERS COX Poem Text First Line: Golden through the golden morning Last Line: From the soul's despair. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN, by MARGUERITE HILL Poem Text First Line: I have walked close to death / and felt his Last Line: And love a slow, deep river with no turn. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE RETURN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I rested in your easy chair Last Line: I was quite sure I felt your smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Daughters; Death; Fathers; Legacies; Love; Dead, The THE RETURN OF AUGUST, by PERCY MACKAYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Darkly a mortal age has come and gone Last Line: The summer wanes: the ploughman comes with spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Mackaye, Percy Wallace Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RETURN: AN ELEGY, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The east wind finds the gap bringing rain Subject(s): Grief; Death; Pine Trees; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Dead, The THE REVELATION, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old sprint in the morning, boys, to the same old din and smut Last Line: But all of us wonder what we'll do when we have to go back again. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE REVENANT, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a spirit now. After that death Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Death; Dead, The THE REWARD, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No greater earthly boon than this I crave Last Line: "he sang a song that reached the hearts of men." Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Songs THE RIFLE, by COVINGTON HALL Poem Text First Line: Tis made of hard, death-tempered steel Last Line: The message men to tyrants speak! Alternate Author Name(s): Ami, Covington; Ami, Covami Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Assassination; Death; Militarism; Murder; Rifles; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The THE RIGHT TO GRIEF, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take your fill of intimate remorse, perfumed sorrow, Last Line: With a broom. Variant Title(s): The Right To Grief; To Certain Poets About To Die Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yon pilgrim see, in vestments gray Last Line: -- why mourn ye, then, the righteous dead? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE RING OF DEATH, by C. G. A. COLLES Poem Text First Line: Where the bourke comes down to the level plains and junctions with the wills Last Line: When the ancient coorabulkas fought their last great fight of all. Subject(s): Aborigines, Australian; Animals; Curses; Death; Drought; Magic; Snakes; Water; Dead, The; Serpents; Vipers THE RIVAL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I so loved once, when death came by I hid Last Line: In love with death, not me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Competition; Death; Love; Dead, The THE RIVER, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was a mighty river that I knew Last Line: In that dim land that lies beyond our dreams. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Rivers; Swimming & Swimmers; Dead, The; Nightmares; Swimmers THE ROAD TO CURRASHEEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: There's a lonesome, rugged road Last Line: Like what led to currasheen! Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness THE ROMANCE OF THE LILY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever love the lily pale Last Line: Of the closing gates of hell. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Love; Magic; Story-telling; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE ROSE, by GUDMUNDUR GUDMUNDSSON Poem Text First Line: It drooped and it faded, my rose of beauty rare Last Line: Unbroken peace. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE ROSE AND MAPLE LEAF, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Came a loud knocking at the empire's gate Last Line: An empire knit in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said to the rose Last Line: The grave said to the rose. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE HAS LEFT THE GARDEN, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rose has left the garden Last Line: Still in her death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ROSICRUCIAN, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tripod flared with a purple spark Last Line: Were one; and he saw that this was she. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE ROYAL MISCHIEF: ACT 5, SCENE 1, by DELARIVIERE MANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your orders, sir, are punctually obey'd Last Line: And embraces on every fatal piece. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Plays & Playwrights; Dead, The THE RUBAIYAT OF BATTLE, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: Wake--for the dawn has come, and o'er the top Last Line: And seek repose amid the hostile dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 26, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, come with old khayyam, and leave the wise / to talk Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THE RUINED CROSS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wreathed bright flower-wreaths in her hair Last Line: The youthful wanderer died. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Flowers; Love; Dead, The THE RUSTLE OF A WING, by ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Poem Text First Line: Life is a narrow vale between the cold Last Line: Were haunted by a thousand fairy forms. Variant Title(s): Hope Sees A Star Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE SACRAMENT OF LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: Life is god's sacramental gift Last Line: From all earth's sorrows with god's gift of peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Sacraments; Dead, The; Theology THE SACRED FIRE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They lit a fire within their land that long was ashes cold Last Line: To make thee warm once more, kathleen, to bid thee live again. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Fire; Dead, The THE SAILOR'S RETURN, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think I see her as she went Last Line: Because so well I love her. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Regret; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE SANCTUARY: 3. THE WORSHIP OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crush me, o love, betwixt thy radiant fingers Last Line: And praise thee for my death! Subject(s): Death; Love; Worship; Dead, The THE SCEPTER OF THE DEAD, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: I would achieve-through long trails of purpose Last Line: Will shrink my soul with fear ... And I am bound. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE SCOTTISH ENGINE, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes that searched in the dark Last Line: The scottish engineer! Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Engineering And Engineers; Dead, The THE SCRIVENER'S ROSES; FOR MARVIN FISHER, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The gulls fly in close formation becoming a patch of sail Last Line: Inside the convent's south garden wall. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Gulls; Loss; Man-woman Relationships; Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Dead, The; Seagulls; Male-female Relations THE SEA, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! The sea! The open sea! Last Line: Shall come on the wild, unbounded sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller Variant Title(s): A Song Of The Sea Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE SEA DEAD, by J. D. MAHONEY Poem Text First Line: The lone wolf's howl is a gruesome thing Last Line: "when the sea gives up its dead." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SEA OF DEATH: A FRAGMENT, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw life swiftly treading over endless space Last Line: Of a dark dial in a sunless place. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean THE SEA-KING'S BURIAL; BY THE MIDSHIPMITE'S MOTHER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I, as his henchman served Last Line: Most of all men? Subject(s): Death; Loyalty; Service; Wishes; Dead, The THE SEA-PLANE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A tiny speck in the evening sky Last Line: Takes from the mother's arms their child. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SECOND BROTHER; AN UNFINISHED DRAMA, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair shine this evening's stars upon your pleasure Last Line: . . . . . . . Subject(s): Brothers; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Deception; Fathers; Love; Magic; Marriage; Nile (river); Pleasure; Politics & Government; Travel; Wealth; Half-brothers; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Journeys; Trips THE SECRET, by MAY BRINKLEY Poem Text First Line: She was a homely person Last Line: Her lips like cochineal. Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Dead, The THE SECRET, by JASPER BARNETT COUDIN Poem Text First Line: The cedars hold a secret in their heads Last Line: Goes on its way with death. No word comes back. Subject(s): Death; Secrets; Dead, The THE SECRET GATE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the dark of sleep, I rose, on the wings of desire Last Line: "ope not the gate." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Desire; Fear; Fire; Sight; Travel; Dead, The; Journeys; Trips THE SEVEN AGAINST THEBES: CHORUS, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now do our eyes behold Last Line: Ev'n to the bourne of all, to the unbeholden land. Subject(s): Death; Lament; Dead, The THE SHADOW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do you hear the calling, mary, down by the sea? Last Line: Out in the darkness rose the calling of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Sea; Shadows; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHADOW (1), by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain the morning trims her brows Last Line: Lest that they name the name of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray you, when the shadow of death draws nigh Last Line: Cling round the spirit in her upward flight. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SHADOWED ROAD, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our shadows moved before us on the road Last Line: "light falls about us from a surer sphere!" Subject(s): Shadows; Death; Love; Dead, The THE SHADOWS, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many have gone?' was the question of old Last Line: Lo! The shadows! The shadows! Room -- room for them all! Subject(s): Classmates; Death; Schoolmates; Dead, The THE SHEPHERD'S PIPE: FOURTH ECLOGUE, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under an aged oak was willie laid Last Line: Nor made a truer moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Death; Manwood, Thomas (d. 1613); Dead, The THE SHIP OF DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SHIPWRECK OF IDOMENEUS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Swept from his fleet upon that fatal night Last Line: And sees not, but the gods look down on both. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Mythology; Sea; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Ocean THE SHOW, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My soul looked down from a vague height with death Last Line: And the fresh-severed head of it, my head. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SHRINE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will build for thee with reverent hands Last Line: Far from the envious eyes of time. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Shrines; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SICK ROSE, FR. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: O rose, thou art sick! Last Line: Does thy life destroy. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Despair; Flowers; Mythology; Roses; Worms; Dead, The THE SICK WIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She had been ill for years and years Last Line: I will forget and never speak of her again Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The; THE SIEUR DE ROCHEFONTAINE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Picardy, provence, touraine Last Line: For the sieur de rochefontaine. Subject(s): Bechet, Etienne Nicholas Marie (d. 1798); Death; St. Paul's Catherdral (new York City); Rochefontaine, Sieur De; Rochefontaine, Stephen; Dead, The THE SIGHING TIME, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sighing time, the sighing time! Last Line: The sighing time, the sighing time. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Sighs; Death; Dead, The THE SIGN, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN FIELD Poem Text First Line: Loosed were the horses in the grass Last Line: For a bright red butterfly winging. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Ben Subject(s): Death; Omens; Dead, The THE SIGN-BOARD, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will paint you a sign, rumseller Last Line: So terribly, fearfully true. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine THE SILENT BATTLE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He was a soldier in that fight Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SILENT SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All sudden she hath ceased to sing Last Line: She mutely pities us. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Love; Singing & Singers; Trees; Dead, The THE SILENT SINGERS, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And proserpine, still fragrant of the air Last Line: But pluto's mouth, o mother proserpine! Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Hearts; Mythology; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THE SILK ROAD, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blood in your arteries is contaminated with sugar Last Line: Reflected deflected my intention as now I say now. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SILKEN SASHES, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The turks were many -- the greeks were few Last Line: With crimson sashes together bound. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SIN EATER, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hark ye! Hush ye! Margot's dead! Last Line: Freshly bowed with sin. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Sin; Dead, The THE SINGER, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: She sang with the voice of an angel Last Line: "I sing for him alone." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Love; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While with ambition's hectic Last Line: To ashes as he sings. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Singing & Singers; Dead, The THE SINGING SAVIORS, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead men tell no tales,' they chuckled Last Line: Listen.... They are all that you can hear! Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 100, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Years passed. And where that lowly hermitage Last Line: And love grown perfect did their days attune. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love; Peace; Dead, The 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 SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 26, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Sir eliduc's bright blade is at his throat Last Line: To dwell with those lost souls in battle slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Fights; Knights & Knighthood; Dead, The THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O thou who fashion'd her so beautiful Last Line: Save, lord, I may not—till thou cleansest me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE SLAIN (IN THE BOER WAR), by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Partners in silence, mates in noteless doom Last Line: And cold adjudication of the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Boer War; Death; South African War; Dead, The THE SLAVE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The olden chronicles tell us akbar the slave was / strong Last Line: Only an outworn story, now — as in long ago. Subject(s): Death; Slavery; Vengeance; Dead, The; Serfs THE SLEEP, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of all the thoughts of god that are / borne inward unto souls afar Last Line: "he giveth his beloved sleep." Variant Title(s): He Giveth His Beloved Sleep;to Sleep Subject(s): Bible; Death; Jews; Religion; Sleep; Dead, The; Judaism; Theology THE SLEEP OF SIGISMUND, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doom'd king pacing all night through the windy fallow Last Line: And their children after them. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dreams; Love; Marriage; Night; Sleep; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Nightmares; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE SLEEPER, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: At midnight, in the month of june Last Line: It was the dead who groaned within! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SLEEPER, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glen was fair as some arcadian dell Last Line: Forget, like sleep; and then forgive, like death! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Life; Nature; Peace; Sleep; Dead, The THE SLEEPING BEAUTY, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So has she lain for centuries unguessed Last Line: No doubts, no dreams, no laughter and no tears! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mountains; Silence; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE SLEEPING SOLDIER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: On the wild battlefield where the bullets were flying Last Line: Overwept by the night, overwatched by the stars. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War Injuries; Dead, The THE SLUMBER OF DEATH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peaceful and fair is the smiling repose Last Line: The sleep that is dreamless -- the sleep of the grave. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SNOW, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When freezing winter smites the whirling globe Last Line: In all the universe of star and sun? Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Homeless; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SOLDERER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch a man soldering positive and negative speaker Last Line: Die suspended in air like gold dust flecked by sunlight. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SOLDIER, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soldier does not think of death Last Line: Touches and patiently withdraws; death waits. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Soldiers; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines THE SOLDIER, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I watch'd him sleep by the furrow Last Line: To fall when green leaves come again! Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SOLDIER'S DEATH, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum Last Line: To your mistaken shrine, to your false idol honour. Subject(s): Death; War; Dead, The THE SOLDIER'S DEATHBED, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like thee to die, thou sun! - my boyhood's dream Last Line: Offers a trusting spirit up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The THE SOLDIER'S SEA CHANGE, by DANIEL HUGH VERDER Poem Text First Line: What do you carry, slow moving ship Last Line: Crimsons the dismal flowing flood. Subject(s): Death; Patriotism; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); World War I; Youth; Dead, The; First World War THE SOLITAIRES (ANNIVERSARY OF DEATH OF JOHN HAMPDEN, JUNE 24, 1643), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hampden, when charge on charge o'er chalgrove field Last Line: Through reason and old ever-beckoning death. Subject(s): Death; Hampden, John (1594-1643); Reason; Solitude; Dead, The; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals; Loneliness THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The THE SONG OF FIONULA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, sleep, brothers dear, sleep and dream Last Line: To sleep and dream, ah, that is well indeed! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Brothers; Comfort; Death; Dreams; Sleep; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE SONG OF HIAWATHA: THE DEATH OF KWASIND, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far and wide among the nations Last Line: "he is gathering in his fire-wood!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SONG OF JUDITH, PARAPHAS'D FROM THE APOCRYPHA, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Begin the song! To god the timbrels strike Last Line: Roll'd in a deluge of sulphureous flame! Subject(s): Bible; Death; Duty; God; Grief; Israel; Judith (bible); Revenge; Seduction; War; Women In The Bible; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE SONG OF MALONEY, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They are gambling in the cabin, moleskin joe, / magee and dan Last Line: Shut up, moleskin, here I'm coming, is it banker, brag, or nap? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE DEAD, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear now the song of the dead Last Line: Lord god, we ha' bought it fair! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE OLD LEAVES, by HILMA PARSONS Poem Text First Line: The autumn wind in a gust of joy Last Line: "the lady of death is queen of the world!" Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Oak Trees; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The THE SONG OF THE SHOVEL, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down on creation's muck-pile where the sinful / swelter and sweat Last Line: When you'll rise o'er sword and sceptre a mighty power in the land. Subject(s): Byzantine Empire; Death; Labor & Laborers; Labor Unions; Dead, The; Work; Workers THE SONG OF THE UPRISING, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Joy wings his way Last Line: New man is born from the old: joy shall leap laughing from sorrow. Subject(s): Death; Happiness; Dead, The; Joy; Delight THE SONG OF WERNER, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O roman maid! Why do you try Last Line: My lady sleeping in the tomb. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SONNETS OF ISHTAR: 2, by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My face lives always in the quenchless light Last Line: I watch the last-born laughing in mine eyes! Subject(s): Death; Faces; Sin; Youth; Dead, The THE SOUL BONE, by SUSAN WOOD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Soul; Death; Dead, The THE SOUL OF BRITAIN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Thro' the dark of the night we have trodden Last Line: Must sink again to the prison, of party and place and creed. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Civil War; Heaven; Peace; Soul; Dead, The; English Civil War; Paradise THE SOUL'S ARMAGEDDON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where I go Last Line: With immeasurable fear. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Knowledge; Messengers; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE SOUL'S RUBAIYAT: 1, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Of him who walked a thousand years ago Last Line: Why dream I, mad? All dreams for man are vain. Subject(s): Death; God; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Salvation; Soul; Truth; Dead, The THE SOUL-PATH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Out of my darkened vision Last Line: To god I shall return. Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The THE SOUNDLESS VOICE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Now as the shadow of a cross looms nigh Last Line: "like muted bells, repeats, ""in vain; in vain." Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SPANISH WIVES: SONG BETWEEN MR. LEVERIDGE AND MRS. CROSS, by MARY PIX Poem Text First Line: Fairest nymph that ever bless'd our shore Last Line: A wiser will supply, &c. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE SPARK, by JOSEPH MARY PLUNKETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because I used to shun Last Line: With laughter on our lips. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SPECTRAL ARMY, by GRETCHEN OSGOOD WARREN Poem Text First Line: I dream that on far heaven's steep Last Line: They left the reckoning to god. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE SPEED FIEND, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They dread my coming, east and west, and Last Line: I spoil a pedagogue, and there I bag a grocer. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Dead, The THE SPINNING WOMAN, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Morning and evening, sleep she drove away Last Line: (andrew lang) Subject(s): Death; Mythology - Classical; Old Age; Dead, The THE SPIRIT LAND, by JONES VERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father! Thy wonders do not singly stand Last Line: That ne'er returns us to the fields of light Variant Title(s): The Present Heaven Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE SPIRIT OF THE SABBATH, by ISIDORE G. ASCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: We greet her in her everlasting youth. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Peace; Dead, The; Judaism THE SPIRIT TO THE SPOILERS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Spoilers of men, beware the dawning hour Last Line: Of earth; he swears your time shall be no more. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THE SPIRITUAL BODY, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a heavenly home Last Line: Upon my naked and unsheltered soul! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On fields of france the violets are fair Last Line: Beyond the wistful limit of our spring! Subject(s): Death; Spring; Dead, The THE SPRING OF THE YEAR, by ALLAN CUNNINGHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone were but the winter cold Last Line: At the spring of the year. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SQUIRE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have sung me a stave, a stave or two Last Line: That ever death did house. Variant Title(s): The Young Squire Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Sea; Dead, The; Wine; Ocean THE STAPLER, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When my mother died Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The THE STAR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a dreamer, I saw a poet Last Line: "there it sung loud and sweet ""come, follow me." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Pearse, Patrick Henry (1879-1916); Stars; War; Dead, The THE STAR OF THE SEA, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many a mighty ship Last Line: Star of the sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Stars; Storms; Dead, The; Ocean THE STARS, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make friendship with the stars Last Line: Ascend to him, from whom its essence came. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Life; Love; Stars; Dead, The THE STARS WENT OUT, by RENE GHIL Poem Text First Line: The stars went out at dead of night Last Line: My twenty years, and me. Subject(s): Death; Love; Stars; Dead, The THE STEPMOTHER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First she come to our house Last Line: She's purt' nigh good as mother was! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Love; Mothers; Stepmothers; Dead, The; Relatives THE STILLED VOICE, by FERNAND GREGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fountain in my garden Last Line: Of a moan. ... Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Silence; Dead, The THE STING OF DEATH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I fear thee not, o death! Nay, oft Last Line: And life or death, each rests in mystery! Variant Title(s): Sonnet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE STING OF DEATH, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is sin, then, fair? Last Line: For evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Regret; Sin; Dead, The THE STOCKMAN'S TALE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "the campfire's burning brightly, and the coals are glowing red" Last Line: Pass it by as I always have with silent cool contempt Subject(s): Abstinence;alcohol & Alcoholics;brothers;death;story-telling; "half-brothers;dead, The; THE STONE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day I carry the stone Last Line: Weep when it won't nurse. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Mothers; Stones; Infants; Dead, The; Granite; Rocks THE STORMING OF DARGAI HEIGHTS, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 20th of november, and in the year of 1897 Last Line: And give them always strength to put their enemies to flight. Subject(s): Death; Fights; Tragedy; War; Dead, The THE STRANGE LADY, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds are darting by Last Line: He went to dwell with her, the friends who mourned him never knew. Subject(s): Hunting; Women; Death; Hunters; Dead, The THE STRICKEN HART, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stricken hart had fled the brake Last Line: And love, some say, has conquered heaven. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THE STRING, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Except when he enters my son Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SUICIDE, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For fifty years, / cruel, insatiable old world Last Line: Bang —! Subject(s): Death; Suicide; Dead, The THE SUMMER IS ENDED (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wreathe no more lilies in my hair Last Line: Only a little while. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilies; Summer; Dead, The THE SUMMONS; MARCH 28, 1884, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Away from love of child and wife Last Line: The constant presence of a friend. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SUN OF MY SONGS, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: The birds are all a-singing Last Line: "bursting into blossoming." Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Birds; Death; Seasons; Singing & Singers; Sun; Dead, The THE SUN'S ECLIPSE -- JULY 8TH, 1842, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis cloudless morning, but a frown misplaced Last Line: The thrilling joy, whose tears were on my cheek! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Eclipses; Sun; Dead, The; World THE SUN'S LAST LOOK ON THE COUNTRY GIRL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun threw down a radiant spot Last Line: That met so many a day? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SUPREME CONSUMATIN, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, but the world is old, nigh old as hell Last Line: Pass to my endless home with spirit clean! Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THE SUPREME WISH, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God give you joy, I said,-and joy you had Last Line: O sweet, god give you rest! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Rest; Wishes; Dead, The; Paradise THE SUPRFEME MOMENT, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As an ant is powerless Subject(s): Ants; Death; Dead, The THE SWAGMAN'S REST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We buried old bob where the bloodwoods wave Last Line: Is known as 'the swagman's rest'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Graves; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SWAN SONG, by FLORA ELIZABETH HASTINGS Poem Text First Line: Grieve not that I die young - is it not well Last Line: Let me depart! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE SWEATER, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now the orchid's pinned, and he lets go slack Last Line: And a corpse or two in his buttonhole. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TABLET OF TRUTH, by JAMES SMITH (1775-1839) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sit down, mr. Clipstone, and take Last Line: To gaze on my tablet of truth. Subject(s): Death; Humility; Life; Love; Truth; Dead, The THE TAY BRIDGE DISEASTER, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Beautiful railway bridge of the silv'ry tay! Last Line: The less chance we have of being killed. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Storms; Dead, The; Train Wrecks THE TEACHER, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Maps; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TEAL'S WING, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: About the tide line above the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death; Seashore; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE TEAM BULLOCK, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunrays scorched like furnace fires Last Line: "for I have taken none on these!" Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Drought; Horses; Dead, The THE TEARS OF AMYNTA FOR THE DEATH OF DAMON; A SONG, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On a bank, beside a willow Last Line: Love and damon are no more. Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The; Songs THE TELEGRAMS, by JULIA WARD HOWE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bring the hearse to the station Last Line: God next! Subject(s): Death; Hearses; Murder; Telegraph; Dead, The; Telegrams THE TELEGRAPH CLERK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sitting here by my desk all day Last Line: With a smile and then a sigh Subject(s): Accidents;death;funerals;telegraph; "dead, The;burials;telegrams; THE TEMPLE OF THE DEAD, by PHILIP TOBIN Poem Text First Line: Was it the sound of their bodies Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TEMPTATION OF HASSAN BEN KHALED, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hassan ben khaled, singing in the streets Last Line: And allah grant he go no more astray. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Poetry & Poets; Temptation; Dead, The; Paradise THE TERM OF DEATH, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Between the falling leaf and rose-bud's breath Last Line: The worm and butterfly -- it is not long! Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TERRIFIC CYCLONE OF 1893, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1893, and on the 17th and 18th of november Last Line: And both these storms will be remembered for a very long time. Subject(s): Cyclones; Death; Disasters; Dundee, Scotland; Wind; Dead, The THE TERRORS OF DEATH; WRITTEN ON THE WALLS OF A CARTHUSIAN MONASTERY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who dost pace this cloistered hall Last Line: Of him whose life hath been too sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE TEST, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He fears not death, and therefore he is brave' Last Line: If he have lived his life with dauntless heart. Subject(s): Courage; Death; Life; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE TEST, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell awhile, my bonnie darling! Last Line: "waits for the man who goes beyond!" Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Parting THE THIEF AND THE CORDELIER, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who has e'er been at paris must needs know the greve Last Line: Derry down, etc. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Paris, France; Dead, The THE THIN EDGE OF YOUR PRIDE: 12, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After a hundred years have slept above us Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Catskill Mountains, New York State; Death; Memory; Dead, The THE THINGS IN BLACK MEN?ÇÖS CLOSETS, by E. ETHELBERT MILLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On the top shelf Subject(s): African Americans; Death; Clothing & Dress; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The THE THINNING RANKS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: The bugles sound, the rolling drums Last Line: To honor noble dead. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Declaration Day THE THOUGHT OF DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Since when her faithful eyes, to which I yield Last Line: Whose thought brings comfort to my heart again. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Eyes; Flowers; Hearts; Dead, The THE THRE DEID POLLIS, by ROBERT HENRYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sinfull man, in to this mortall se Last Line: Thre knit in ane be perfyt unitie. Alternate Author Name(s): Henderson, Robert+(1) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE THREE GRACES, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have the picture of you in mind Last Line: So as I write this mary has died Subject(s): Beauty; Change; Death; Dead, The THE THREE-TEN, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the prime and may day time dead lovers went a-walking Last Line: Those maids, thank god! Are' neath the sod and all their generation. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE THUNDER STORM, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sabbath morn came sweetly on Last Line: In that sad evening hour. Subject(s): Death; Lightning; Sabbath; Dead, The; Lightning Rods; Sunday THE TIME TO DIE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a stranger's hearse move heavily Last Line: To some convenient hour, the time to die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TIMELY MEMENTO, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shipwrack'd bark cannot more sure convey Last Line: Since dying is the only way to live? Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE TIMEPIECE, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long has it uttered its warning cry Last Line: Still let them rest in their lowly bed! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Time; Dead, The; Parting THE TOLLMEN, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, silence, sleep, and death Last Line: To take of each the toll. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TOMB OF CRETHON, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tomb of crethon; here you read Last Line: With lands, how narrow now, how ample then! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF DIOGENES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'tell me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well'" Last Line: Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place' Subject(s): Cemeteries;death;diogenes;graves; "graveyards;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; THE TOMB OF GAUGIN, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of tahiti, when time's pace Last Line: And the infinite love of the archipelago! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF SARDANAPALUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "assured that you are doomed to die, do as your passions crave" Last Line: But of my rich possessions no penny could I save Subject(s): Death;sardanapalus (7th Century B.c.); "dead, The; THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOPOGRAPHY OF HISTORY, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All cities are open in the hot season Last Line: "calling out ""o love, love,"" but finding none" Subject(s): Death; Hate; History; Maps; United States; Dead, The; Historians; America THE TORCHES, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Limbs lopped off, the fathers Last Line: (2001) Subject(s): Death; Fire; Kent State University - Riot, 1970; Murder; Nicaragua; Dead, The THE TOWER OF SILENCE, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent! Tread airily! Last Line: Walk hence reverently! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Silence; Dead, The; Paradise THE TRAGIC DEATH OF THE REV. A. H. MACKONOCHIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friends of humanity, of high and low degree Last Line: Then the party took one sorrowful look and bade the corpse, farewell. Subject(s): Death; Tragedy; Dead, The THE TREASURED THREE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Here with my treasured three I sit Last Line: To leave this little house of joy? Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Pets; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 TREE OF DEATH, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let the king of the grave be asked to tell Last Line: So dark as the vine, the tree of death. Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The THE TRENCHES, by FREDERIC MANNING Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Endless lanes sunken in the clay Last Line: Night for menace with weary eyes. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE TRIBUTE OF HIS HOME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bowed, midst a universal grief Last Line: Our common friend and fellow citizen. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Flags; Grief; Home; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE TRICK, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: No answer, yet I called her name Last Line: And only death himself can prove. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TRIUMPH OF DEATH: THE TRIUMPHS OF LOVE, CHASTITY, DEATH. ARGUMENT, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glorious maid, whose soule to heaven is gone Last Line: Death seem'd in her exceeding faire to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Death; Life; Religion; Soul; Dead, The; Theology THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tender, delicate flowers Last Line: "and conquers all!" Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Future; Love; Time; Dead, The THE TRIUMPH OF TIME, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before our lives divide for ever Last Line: If I cry to you then, will you hear or know? Subject(s): Aging; Death; Life; Nature; Time; Dead, The THE TROLLEY FROM XOCHIMILCO, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The late-afternoon rain stopped. The electric trolley Last Line: The plaster rosettes of the ceiling. Subject(s): Accidents; Buses; Death; Kahlo, Frida (1907-1954); Mexico City; Rivera, Diego (1886-1957); Dead, The THE TRUTH THE DEAD KNOW, by ANNE SEXTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Gone, I say and walk from church Subject(s): Death; God; Parents; Religion; Dead, The; Parenthood; Theology THE TRYST OF SOULS, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low hung the moon, the wind was still Last Line: Till stars and shadows yield to day. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fathers; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TUGGED HAND, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I have no ears or eyes Last Line: And could not make it play. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy THE TURTLE AND SPARROW, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Behind an unfrequented glade Last Line: And knaves and prudes are six times married. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Fables; Grief; Sparrows; Turtles; Dead, The; Allegories; Sorrow; Sadness; Tortoises THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a long sad row the old gods come Last Line: Lie scattered in the sand! Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Mythology; Wind; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE TWIN-SOUL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dead of the night a spirit came Last Line: O spirit-enchantress, o demon-will! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Night; Soul; Dead, The; Bedtime THE TWINGE, by MAY WILLIAMS WARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was fifty when mother died Last Line: Now I shall never know! Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Ugliness; Dead, The THE TWO DEATHS: 1. DEATH OF SIGURD, EARL OF NORTHUMBERLAND, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The earl lay on his purple bed Last Line: And earl sigurd's life is done! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO DEATHS: 2. DEATH OF CAMOENS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Pale comes the moonlight thro' the lattice gleaming Last Line: Camoens, by thy grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Camoens, Luiz De (1524-1580); Death; Dead, The THE TWO DEVINES, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was shearing - time at the myall lake Last Line: Are the tallies made by the two devines. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Sheep; Dead, The THE TWO DREAMS, by GIOVANNI BOCCACCIO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will that if I say a heavy thing Last Line: "here dead she lieth, for whose sake love is dead." Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Gardens & Gardening; God; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares THE TWO FLOCKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Where are you going to now, white sheep Last Line: Clouds in the air! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO FLOWERS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Helen wore it in her hair Last Line: No little flower so holy anywhere! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Dead, The; Male-female Relations THE TWO MYSTERIES, by MARY ELIZABETH MAPES DODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We know not what it is, dear, this sleep so deep and still Last Line: And as life is to the living, so death is to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Poetry & Poets; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Dead, The; Death - Babies THE TWO PRAYERS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lord! When they came and stood upon my way Last Line: All that he hath not who hath tasted death.' Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Life; Prayer; Dead, The THE TWO ROSES, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These roses take, which rival hues invest Last Line: The red-rose there love's victory bespeaking? Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Roses; Dead, The THE TWO SPIRITS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night, when weary silence fell on all Last Line: The starry crown the glorious present wore. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Nations; Past; Dead, The THE TWO VOICES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two solemn voices, in a funeral strain Last Line: "thou art gone home!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE TWO WAITINGS, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear hearts, you were waiting a year ago Last Line: It will more than your hope fulfil. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The THE TYRANT AND THE CAPTIVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was midnight when I listened Last Line: "has the strength of love and death." Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Tyranny & Tyrants; Voices; Dead, The THE ULTIMATE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, of old, a chief died in the north Last Line: To the windless, unoared ultimate. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Sea; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean THE ULTIMATE (1), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of a man lies under the sod Last Line: Like mice have scuttled back into the air. Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Rome, Italy; Trees; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ULTIMATE NATION, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once babylon, by beauty tenanted Last Line: She makes his ways her ways eternally? Subject(s): Babylon; Death; Fate; God; Nations; Rome, Italy; Sin; Dead, The; Destiny THE UNATTAINED, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And is this life? And are we born for this? Last Line: The present can not sate nor e'er thy spirit fill. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Dead, The THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could we but know Last Line: Who would endure? Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The THE UNDYING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In thin clear light unshadowed shapes go by Last Line: Ripe berries on neglected boughs that wasted. Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; World War I; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE UNFORGOTTEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whene'er I see, hurrying through worldly ways Last Line: Or men could lose their dearness, being dead. Subject(s): Children; Death; Fairy Tales; Hearts; Past; Childhood; Dead, The THE UNFORTUNATE GENTLEMAN, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He, whose warm hand had often pressed Last Line: Who now belongst to me! Subject(s): Death; Poisons And Poisoning; Rest; Dead, The THE UNHONORED, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, alas! How many sighs Last Line: Kept in the long eternities! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN BELOVED, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed I passed a doorway Last Line: About a flowery wreath. Variant Title(s): Ballad Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The graceful column and the lofty arch Last Line: "we know the worthy in the ""dead unknown." Subject(s): Death; Life; Tears; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sleeps below? Who sleeps below? Last Line: And trust in him whose arm can save. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name to bid us know Last Line: Fades into endless peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then I felt a fever in my veins Last Line: Was that a whisper in the evening breeze? Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: How many men of state and high degree Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by CHARLES ABRAHAM WAGNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One man's shoulder, another man's thigh Last Line: To call each colored weed a flower. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The THE UNKNOWN WOMAN, by ALEXANDER (ALEKSANDR) ALEXANDROVICH BLOK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have foreknown thee! Oh, I have foreknown thee Last Line: Yet terror clings to me. Thy image will be strange. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Facades; Shadows; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares; Appearances THE UNREPENTANT, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now my time has come to die Last Line: But the dance -- was mine!) Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE UNRETURNING, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, knowing not eld, in thy youth all / divine Last Line: But not from the dark come my darlings to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Mothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNRETURNING, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For us, the dead, though young Last Line: That we have died in vain! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE UNRETURNING, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If our dead could come back to us Last Line: Gainst all returning. Subject(s): Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THE UNSEEN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death went up the hall Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE UNSEEN WORLD, by CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirits of the dead are with us still Last Line: Transfigured, lighted from the eternal shores. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE UNSPOKEN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Buried deep it lies Last Line: See the smiling mask that each one wears. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE UTMOST, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some clerks aver that as the tree doth Last Line: Lest fickle life me of my love deprive. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Conduct Of Life; Dead, The THE VALEDICTION, by RICHARD BAXTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vain world, what is in thee? Last Line: Who sing thy praises. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE VALLEY OF SILENCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the secret valley of silence Last Line: Eddies of prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Prayer; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were faces to remember in the valley of the shadow Last Line: Maimed. Subject(s): Death; Life; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE VALLEY OF WHITE POPPIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between the grey pastures and the dark wood Last Line: I am alone now among the silent grasses. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Poppies; Salvation; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE VANDAL, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot find this english woodland fair Last Line: Rides madly through the wonderland of life? Subject(s): Death; Despair; Dead, The THE VANISHING BOAT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He is dying, - / he is dying in england in the clammy heat Last Line: Farewell, my friend! Subject(s): Death; Sidgwick, Henry (1838-1900); Dead, The THE VAUDOIS WIFE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice is in mine ear, beloved Last Line: One only -- leaving thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THE VEIL OF ISIS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To lift her veil, whose broideries Last Line: To lift her veil? Subject(s): Chastity; Death; Flirtation; Innocence; Dead, The THE VERY END, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My eyes are strange to the print tonight Subject(s): Grandparents; Death; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Dead, The THE VIAL, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are potent perfumes to which nothing / is impervious Last Line: Gnawing me away, o life and death of my heart! Subject(s): Death; Perfume; Dead, The THE VICTORS, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dead men to the living call Last Line: With dreams to keep; with dreams to keep! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Variant Title(s): The Unemployed Subject(s): Death; Victory; War; Dead, The THE VICTORY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! How the church-bells' thundering harmony Last Line: Who art the widow's friend, her comforter! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; England; Sacrifices; War; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; English THE VIGIL, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay for me here!' ah, well doth love obey Last Line: I wait thee still. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE VIGIL OF AIDEN, SELECTION, by THOMAS HOLLEY CHIVERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the rosy bowers of aiden Last Line: There to rest forevermore. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VINDICTIVE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How should we praise those lads of the old vindictive Last Line: In those red gates of hell? Subject(s): Death; Desire; England; Fear; Hearts; Ships & Shipping; Soul; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THE VINEGAR MAN, by RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The crazy old vinegar man is dead! He never had missed a day before! Last Line: The vinegar man is a long time dead: he died when he tore his valentine. Alternate Author Name(s): Young, Sanborn, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Vinegar; Dead, The THE VIOLET'S GRAVE, by VICORTARI Poem Text First Line: The woodland, and the golden wedge Last Line: Where would you choose to die? Subject(s): Death; Trees; Dead, The THE VISION OF LOUKIANOS, THE ARMENIAN, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: When unto heaven the souls elect take flight Last Line: So I may breathe the perfumes of that land. Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE VISITATION OF PEACE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I closed the book of verse where sorrow wept Last Line: Rising see clear the everlasting land. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Grief; Keats, John (1795-1821); Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE VISITOR, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forget? I had forgotten Last Line: If she's to come no more. Subject(s): Candles; Death; Forgetfulness; Hearts; Dead, The 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 VOICE AMONG THE DUNES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have heard the sea-wind sighing Last Line: Breathes drownëd sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dunes; Sea; Voices; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE VOICE OF DEMOGORGON, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Palsied and fevered and blind Last Line: "ye will wake one day!"" it saith." Subject(s): Death; God; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The THE VOICE OF THE WORM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The prophets and the saints forever keep Last Line: "and cries, ""have courage! Live!" Subject(s): Courage; Death; Devil; Pain; Prophecy & Prophets; Saints; Voices; Worms; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub; Suffering; Misery THE VOICES, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: O waves, that break at my feet Last Line: And flings the portal wide for peace. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; War; Dead, The; Paradise 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 WAKERS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The joyous morning ran and kissed the grass Last Line: And there was the old scolding of the birds. Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Heaven; Rebirth; Shadows; Sleep; Dead, The; Paradise THE WALL-FLOWER, by HENRIK ARNOLD THAULOV WERGELAND Poem Text First Line: O wall-flower! Or ever thy bright leaves fade Last Line: Be its bridal torch! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Spring; Dead, The THE WANDERER: 5. IN HOLLAND: DEATH-IN-LIFE, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest is the babe that dies within the womb Last Line: And curst that death which steals this life's disguise. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Death; Netherlands; Travel; Dead, The; Holland; Dutch People; Journeys; Trips THE WANING FIRE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If death's dread angel came to me to-night Last Line: I see again the faces of old days. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Soul; Dead, The THE WAR FILMS, by HENRY JOHN NEWBOLT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living pictures of the dead Last Line: To take their death for mine. Subject(s): Death; Religion; World War I; Dead, The; Theology; First World War THE WARRIOR TO HIS DEAD BRIDE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in the fight my arm was strong Last Line: I have an angel there! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Brides; Death; Love; Soul; Dead, The THE WATCHER, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I hear the sound of horses' feet Last Line: And, smiling sweetly in her slumbers, died. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The THE WATCHERS, by ERNEST FAVENC Poem Text First Line: All things were old in that grim grey land Last Line: Three dead men lay on the ground. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Pain; Time; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THE WATCHERS (OLD AND NEW), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Time-worn they stand o'er the shelving strand Last Line: Of fire and steel and gold. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WATCHMAN, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Watchman, the judgment is at hand, give warning Last Line: "stands not a stone." Subject(s): Death; Peace; Watchmen; Dead, The THE WAYS AND THE PEOPLES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What does the storm say? What the trees wish Last Line: Who is dying and glass on her marvelous bier Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WAYS OF DEATH; I.M., R. G. C. B., by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene Last Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene. Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE WAYSIDE CROSS, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wayside cross at set of day Last Line: For such sweet thoughts in the twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Future Life; God; Heaven; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise THE WEAVER, by EFFIE BRUCE HARDY Poem Text First Line: Tired heart, now I shall weave all thy longings Last Line: Blanket of grief, I create thee, alone. Subject(s): Blankets; Death; Grief; Native Americans; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE WEIRD OF MICHAEL SCOTT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wild wind moaned: fast waned the light Last Line: A black corpse tossing on the tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fire; Mountains; Soul; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THE WELCOME TO DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art welcome, o thou warning voice! Last Line: Once more to meet my own! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WELSH POET, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The THE WHISTLE OF SANDY MCGRAW, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may talk o' your lutes and your dulcimers fine Last Line: You wee penny whistle o' sandy mcgraw. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War THE WHISTLE OF THE TRAIN, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The time is up, the friends are near Last Line: The whistle of the train. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Railroads; Dead, The; Parting; Railways; Trains THE WHITE DEVIL, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Banished Last Line: [exeunt. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Murder; Prostitution; Revenge; Unfaithfulness; Dead, The; Harlots; Whores; Brothels; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE WHITE HORSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What do I stare at - not the colt Last Line: When you come up behind, to mount!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Dead, The THE WIDOW OF GLENCOE, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not lift him from the bracken Last Line: Cry the coronach for thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE WIDOW'S MITE, by FREDERICK LOCKER-LAMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A widow - she had only one! Last Line: The little crutch. Alternate Author Name(s): Locker, Frederick Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE WIDOW; SAPPHICS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cold was the night wind, drifting fast the snow fell Last Line: God had released her. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Cold; Death; God; Salvation; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The THE WIFE, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: The day was fair, the wind blew steadily Last Line: Stunned by the thought of our own littleness. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Nature; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Storms; Dead, The; Parting; Ocean THE WIFE, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell annie I'll be home in time Last Line: "o god! Thy world is glorified." Subject(s): Death; Paris, France; War; Dead, The THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: It has grown across his grave Last Line: In soul or body. And the world may catch the fragrance. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honeysuckle; Rest; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE WILL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before I sigh my last gasp, let me breathe Last Line: To invent and practise this one way to annihilate all three. Variant Title(s): He Pretends A Series Of Bequests Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The THE WIND, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind went forth o'er land and sea Last Line: In tenderness or wrath, on land or sea! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Sea; Wind; Dead, The; Ocean THE WIND AND THE ROSE; AN APOLOGUE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little red rose bloomed all alone Last Line: "and kill where he meant to cure!" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The THE WIND OF DEATH, by AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD Poem Text First Line: The wind of death, that softly blows Last Line: I turn, I turn my face to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Wetherald, Ethelwyn Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WIND'S WORD, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A star that I love, / the sea, and I Last Line: All these did he have -- and he is dead.' Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sea; Stars; Dead, The; Ocean THE WINE PRESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A murdered man, ten miles away Last Line: Thro' a red volcanic sky ... Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Murder; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; Wine; First World War THE WIRES OF THE NIGHT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought about his death for so many hours, Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE WISDOM OF MERLYN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are the time-words of merlyn, the voice of his age recorded Last Line: Heart. Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Wisdom; Dead, The THE WITCH, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I have walked a great while over the snow Last Line: Oh, lift me over the threshold, and let me in at the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE WITCH OF ERKMURDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who cantereth forth in the night Last Line: "away with my babe and bride." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime THE WITCH-MOTHER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O where will ye gang to and where will ye sleep Last Line: And twae mair sauls in hell. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mothers; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime THE WIZARD, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Somewhere, nobody knows Last Line: And the bones drift by with a rustling sound. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Mystery; Seashore; Tragedy; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore THE WOE OF IT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet was the mavis' song of eld Last Line: And — ah! The bitter woe of it! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE WOLVES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They had tussled last night. Lechien cried Last Line: I noticed, was missing forom beside his bed Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Hunters; Dead, The THE WOMAN I MET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stranger, I threaded sunken-hearted Last Line: She turned and thinned away. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The THE WOOD, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come with me to the mossy places Last Line: If I kissed you, the wood-gods would not tell! Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Forests; Kisses; Life; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Woods THE WORKBOX, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See, here's the workbox, little wife Last Line: But known of what he died. Subject(s): Death; Wood; Dead, The THE WORLD OF THE PERFECT TEAR, by THOMAS MCGRATH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fire from a fixed star Last Line: To raise the living up Subject(s): Arks; Brothers; Death; Noah (bible); Stars; Half-brothers; Dead, The THE WORMS' CONTEMPT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: What do we earn for all our gentle grace? Last Line: The worms' contempt, that have no time for preaching. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Worms; Dead, The THE WRAITHS, by EDYTHE C. TONER Poem Text First Line: Hosts of the martyred dead! Last Line: "thus die ... Thus die?" Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Social Protest; Soldiers; Supernatural; War; Youth; Dead, The THE WREATH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here on my path by some hard fate struck down Last Line: Placed on my heart the grief of yester-year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones THE WREATH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A child through sunny meadows strolled Last Line: Both fruit and flowers it bore! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE WRECK OF HE COLUMBINE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, all pay attention to me Last Line: And conveyed to aalesund and there taking steamer to fair england. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE 'THOMAS DRYDEN'; IN PENTLAND FIRTH, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As I stood upon the sandy beach Last Line: And got lodgings for the night! Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Ferry Boats; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Shipwrecks; Tragedy; Dead, The; Ocean THE WRECK OF THE STEAMER 'LONDON'; WHILE ON HER WAY TO AUSTRALIA, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day Last Line: And they thanked god and captain cavassa, who did their lives save. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Drowning; Shipwrecks; Steamboats; Storms; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE THRESHER, by WILLIAM MEREDITH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand on the ledge where rock runs into the river Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Morris Subject(s): Submarines; Death; Shipwrecks; Submarine Warfare; U-boats; Dead, The THE WRECK OF THE WHALER 'OSCAR', by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the 1st of april, and in the year of eighteen thirteen Last Line: Unsure. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Voyages; Shipwrecks; Storms; Tragedy; Dead, The THE WRECK ON THE A-222 IN RAVENSBOURNE VALLEY, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Where the car hit him, fireweed sprang with Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Death; Youth; Dead, The THE WRECKER'S DAUGHTER, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down beside carn barra bay Last Line: Died meraud. Subject(s): Death; Love; Obsessions; Dead, The THE WRONG MAN, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wild-heaped rubble o'erpeers the pit-mouth black Last Line: A be t'roight mon for yo' an' no mistake.' Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Habits; Human Behavior; Social Problems; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Dead, The; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE YEAR'S SHEDDINGS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The varied colours are a fitful heap Last Line: Read that, who still to spell our earth remain. Subject(s): Death; Leaves; Dead, The THE YELLOW FEVER, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: The sky is pure, the clouds are light Last Line: The spirit was -- but is not there! Subject(s): Death; Plague; Sea; Yellow Fever; Dead, The; Ocean THE YELLOW RAYS, by CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On summer sabbath eves when six draws near Last Line: All night I hear them howl! Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 THE YOUNG CAPTIVE, by ANDRE MARIE CHENIER Poem Text First Line: The sickle spares the springing corn ...' Last Line: Within her gracious neighbourhood. Subject(s): Death; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Convicts THE YOUNG DEAD, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These who were born so beautifully Last Line: To find the unending beauty of the sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE YOUNG DEAD, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, how I pity the young dead who gave Last Line: And the lark singing for them overhead! Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Veterans Day; Dead, The THE YOUNG DEAD SOLDIERS, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The young dead soldiers do not speak Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War THE YOUNG SICK MAN, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: Fresh snow is now the mountain's crown Last Line: And me, among the rest, farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THE YOUNG THAT DIED IN BEAUTY, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If souls should only sheen so bright Last Line: Than when they died in beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Youth; Dead, The THE YOUNG VOLUNTEER, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With a knock upon the window comes the young volunteer Last Line: All the greater the recruiting of this dead volunteer. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Courage; Death; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE YOUNGER SISTER, by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The luxuries, of course, and privilege - Subject(s): Margaret, Princess, Countess Of Snowdon (1930-2002); Death; Dead, The THEFT, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Death could not have thee, sweet, and be unsatisfied Last Line: Has ever love or beauty died? Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THEM AND US, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Something in their psyche insists on elvis Last Line: Death and elvis, but watching for marvin gaye. Subject(s): Death; Fame; History; Presley, Elvis (1937-1977); Dead, The; Reputation; Historians THEODORE HERZL, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, o prince, farewell, o sorely tried! Last Line: "next year,"" we cry, ""next year, jerusalem." Subject(s): Death; Herzl, Theodore (1860-1904); Israel; Jews; Zionism; Dead, The; Judaism THEODORE ROOSEVELT; DIED AT DAYBREAK, JANUARY 6, 1919, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knell nor deep minute gun gave the world warning Last Line: Liberty's champion, cid of the west! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Cid Of The West Subject(s): Death; Presidents, United States; Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919); Dead, The THERANIA, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O unknown belov'd one! To the perfect season Last Line: O unknown belov'd one? Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The THERE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When trakl crossed over, the angels Last Line: Carved on a stone cheek. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Trakl, Georg (1887-1914); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THERE CAME A TIME, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came a time when men no longer / died Last Line: They seemed to hover on the edge of age. ... Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The THERE IS NO DEATH, by CONSTANCE ENTWHISTLE HOAR Poem Text First Line: Pansies are best for early spring Last Line: "pansies are for remembering." Subject(s): Death; Memory; Spring; Dead, The 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 THERE IS NO QUIET, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no quiet since you left the earth Last Line: There is no quiet since you left the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Wellesley College; Dead, The THERE SWEPT ADOWN THAT DREARY GLEN, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Fights; Death; Sound; Dead, The THERE WAS A MAN OF DOUBLE DEED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "when my heart began to bleed, / 'twas death and death and death indeed" Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; THESE DAYS, by NANCE VAN WINCKEL Poem Text First Line: In the mausoleum lies the corpse of a man who rode Subject(s): Change; Death; Russia; Time; Dead, The; Soviet Union; Russians THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THEY SOFTLY WALK, by HUGH ROBERT ORR Poem Text First Line: They are not gone who pass Last Line: And stars and god. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology THEY WHO COME BACK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My faithful dead come back to me in dreams Last Line: My changeless dead, who rest so long and well. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Love; Vision; Dead, The; Belief; Creed THEY'RE DEAR FISH TO ME', by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The farmer's wife sat at the door Last Line: What breaking hearts might swell the cry: / 'they're dear fish to me' Subject(s): Adversity;death;fish & Fishing; "dead, The; THIN ICE, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now this paste of ash and water Last Line: This cold's life, death's steamy mark and target. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Absence; Atlantic Ocean; Death; Ice; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THINGS, by KATHARINE MCCLUSKEY Poem Text First Line: Things are very intriguing! Last Line: Still crunching! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THINGS WE DREAMT WE DIED FOR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flags of all sorts Last Line: By the many who have not one. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Literature; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Nightmares THIRTEEN AT TABLE, by PIERRE JEAN DE BERANGER Poem Text First Line: I spilt the salt, one day -- and worse Last Line: I've looked on death, and do not fear! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS DAMSEL HERE LIES DEAD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This damsel here lies dead, lies dead in love's array Last Line: And to the fields they go, as they go every day. Subject(s): Death; Love; May (month); Dead, The THIS DARKNESS, by EDITH LOMBARD SQUIRES Poem Text First Line: I am not reconciled to this brief dust Last Line: Adventuring this darkness, to the sun. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS IS ALL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Trying, trying - always trying Last Line: This is death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS MAIDEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden is dead, is dead in love's play. Last Line: They have gone to the fields, to the fields like every day. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Household Employees; Dead, The; Burials; Servants; Domestics; Maids THIS MAN JONES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man jones was what you'd Last Line: Nothin' o' that fer a week or so. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Dead, The THIS NIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: This night, as I sit here alone Last Line: Oh-o-o! Oh-o-o! The owl doth cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Life; Owls; Dead, The THIS NIGHT COMES DEATH, by LEONE B. WATSON Poem Text First Line: I sat this night with death Last Line: I do not mourn. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS THING CALLED DEATH, by E. V. SHUTE Poem Text First Line: A hundred times I've sent a friend away Last Line: Must come by death! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THIS WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You go down to the grave Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THOMAS HARDY, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The first morning after anyone's death, it is important Last Line: You can hear the milk as it drills into wooden pails. Subject(s): Death; Hardy, Thomas (1840-1928); Life; Poetry & Poets; Sex; Dead, The THOSE OTHERS, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are those others? - the men who stood Last Line: As the hallowed host goes by! Subject(s): Death; England; Patriotism; Praise; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; English; First World War THOU ART GONE TO THE LAND OF THE LEAL, AND THE BELL, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THOU SHALT NOT KILL, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are murdering all the young men Subject(s): Death; Murder; Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953); Dead, The THOUGH THOU ART DEAD, by EMMELINE CUST Poem Text First Line: Though thou art dead and with thee all is dead Last Line: I do not mourn—for I with thee am dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cust, Nina Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THOUGHTS BEFORE DAWN; FOR MARY BUI THI KHUY, 1944-1969, by JOHN BALABAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bare oaks rock and snowcrust tumbles down Last Line: Brave woman, I hope you never saw the truck. Subject(s): Amputees; Death; Medicine; Soldiers; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription THOUGHTS DURING SICKNESS: 3. RETZSCH'S DESIGN OF THE ANGELS OF DEATH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well might thine awful image thus arise Last Line: So fast around my soul, it cannot spring to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Sickness; Dead, The; Illness THOUGHTS OF HEAVEN, by ROBERT NICOLL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High thoughts! / they come and go Last Line: So pure and deep! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise THR DEATH OF CAPTAIN HUNT, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The watch on board the unicorn Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Sea Battles; Great Britain - Navy; Death; Naval Warfare; Dead, The THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always suddenly they are gone Last Line: Half inaudibly shrieks to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THREE FATES: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O masquer, are you loth love sleep Last Line: To make the bed for you. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Kisses; Love; Sleep; Dead, The; Destiny THREE FRIENDS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: Fate and hard foes are prevailing? Last Line: The cliff, and the wind, and the sea! Subject(s): Death; Fate; Heaven; Memory; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Destiny; Paradise THREE GLIMPSES: AT THE END, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let no mortician be her Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THREE GOLDEN STARS, by ABBIE FARWELL BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lucy, helen, ruth! Sweet names they have Last Line: When truth and love make all the nations one. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Women; Dead, The THREE HILLS, by EDWARD CHARLES EVERARD OWEN Poem Text First Line: There is a hill in england Last Line: To souls in jeopardy. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Death; Mountains; Soldiers; War; World War I; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain); First World War THREE LULLABIES, by FRED EMERSON BROOKS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In days gone by, when a baby I Last Line: Angels are watching and mother is near! Subject(s): Mothers; Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The THREE MAIDS, by ACHILLE MILLIEN Poem Text First Line: It is the hour when day in beauty dies Last Line: "-- ""'tis anguish,"" sighs the third, ""and hence I die!" Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Love; Dead, The THREE MEETINGS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I met with life one day at dawn Last Line: "their friends are mine,"" said death, and smiled." Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The THREE NUNS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shadow, shadow on the wall Last Line: "the spirit and the bride say, come." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Nuns; Singing & Singers; Tears; Dead, The THREE O'CLOCK; OCTOBER 17, 1923, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My brother met me at a prairie inn Last Line: "I will take his brave spirit along with me." Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Dead, The THREE RUTHLESS RHYMES FOR HEARTLESS HOMES: 2, by HARRY GRAHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's been an accident!' they said Last Line: Send me the half that's got my keys.' Alternate Author Name(s): Streamer, Col. D. Variant Title(s): Mr. Jones;common Sense Subject(s): Cruelty; Death; Dead, The THREE SONNETS ON THE NECESSITY OF NARROWLY ESCAPING DEATH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Collapsible, selfwilled and jealousjelled Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THREE SORROWS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How shall I honour thee, o sacred grief? Last Line: Into a deathless shrine! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery THREE WOOD SONGS: 2. PATH'S END, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is here, death is there Last Line: Death remains, and fear, and fear. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Dead, The THREE YEARS, by PETER TUCCI Poem Text First Line: There's weeping in my heart tonight Last Line: As just six feet of earth. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Tears; Dead, The THRENODIA AUGUSTALIS: A FUNERAL PINDARIC ODE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus long my grief has kept me dumb Last Line: The fasces of the main. Subject(s): Charles Ii, King Of England (1630-1685); Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night Last Line: . . . . . . Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness THRENODY, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Watching here alone by the fire whereat last year Last Line: Take: the best we can give is breath. Subject(s): Death; England; Life; Night; Dead, The; English; Bedtime THRENODY, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: I never have known anyone so proud Last Line: This is not you, oh pitiful and dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The THRENODY FOR A BROWN GIRL, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, you who love her Last Line: We need elegies. Subject(s): Death; African American Women; Dead, The THRENODY ON THE DEATH OF SWINBURNE, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again, o poet passionate-hearted Subject(s): Death; Swinburne, Algernon Charles (1837-1909); Dead, The THROUGH DARKNESS TO LIGHT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Far in the vaults of the deep-blue heaven Last Line: "angels were chanting ""the death of night." Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Paradise THROUGH DIM EYES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it the world, or my eyes, that are sadder? Last Line: Like a grand amen to a minor song. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Stars; Summer; Sun; Dead, The THROUGH MELANCHOLY, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: When in forest depths I hear the mourning of the mere, red with the Last Line: World . . . 'tis I. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Grief; Soul; Dead, The; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH THESE PALE COLD DAYS, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THROW ROSES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Throw roses on the sea where the dead went down Subject(s): Sea; Death; Roses; Ocean; Dead, The THUS ENDETH, by NINA PETERSON Poem Text First Line: How quietly she sleeps Last Line: Not hers. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb at court for me that will Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11 Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The THYESTES, ACT 2: CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Climb at court for me that will Last Line: Death to him's a strange surprise. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Variant Title(s): Of The Meane And Sure Estate;epigram: 11 Subject(s): Death; Public Service; Dead, The 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 TIDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here to the sweep of the shore Last Line: Shall send to pilot thee. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Seashore; Tides; Wales; Water; Dead, The; Beach; Coast; Shore; Welshmen; Welshwomen TIME, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a happy spirit Last Line: Time smote me on the brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Life; Spiritual Life; Time; Dead, The TIME AND DEATH, by WILLIAM HENRY WHITWORTH Poem Text First Line: I saw old time, destroyer of mankind Last Line: And vanquish'd the great conquerors, time and death. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The TIME AND THE PERFUME RIVER, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Small buddhas smile above their blooms Last Line: Along the curves of the perfume. Subject(s): Death; Vietnam; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975; War; Dead, The TIME IS A SPACE, by BERENICE VAN SLYKE Poem Text First Line: Time is a space between two miseries Last Line: While it escapes between the ticks and tocks. Alternate Author Name(s): Heaton, Maurice C., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Time; Dead, The TIPPERARY DAYS, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, weren't they the fine boys! You never saw the beat of them Last Line: ('r! Ain't war just 'ell?) Subject(s): Army Life; Death; War; World War I; Drills & Minor Tactics; Dead, The; First World War TIRESIAS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an hour before the hour of dawn Last Line: Are these dead or art thou dead, italy? Subject(s): Blindness; Death; Grief; Italy; Mythology - Classical; Prophecy & Prophets; Visually Handicapped; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians TITIAN'S ASSUMPTION, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Burst is the iron gate! Last Line: We, of the wondrous art that gives it to our eyes! Subject(s): Assumption, The (theology); Death; Heaven; Miracles; Titian (1490-1576); Dead, The; Paradise; Vecelli, Tiziano; Vecellio, Tiziano TO, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Asleep within the deadest hour of night Last Line: Whose face would greet me in hell's fiery way. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TO -- (3), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thought travels past thee with intenser glow Last Line: We call him death - he telleth not his name! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ---- ----. (1), by MARY BRYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou unknown disturber of my rest Last Line: Pledge my devoted heart, and clasp that treasure mine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ---- ----. (2), by MARY BRYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O timeless guest! -- so soon returned art thou Last Line: I sleep in death's cold arms -- ere henry sleep in thine. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A CERTAIN LADY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tore her scarlet gown Last Line: "in your moral modern town!" Subject(s): Death; Kisses; Life; Love; Peace; Dead, The TO A CERTAIN VERY UGLY BUILDING: THE ARMORY, by VINCENT GODFREY BURNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Minotaur of madness, you certainly belong there Last Line: O slumtown symbol of war's grim insanity! Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Army - Ireland; Buildings & Builders; Death; Pacifism; Social Protest; War; Weapons; Ammunition; Dead, The; Peace Movements TO A CERTAIN VOLUMINOUS SCRIBLER, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forbear the public to abuse Last Line: Dy'd of a diabetes. Subject(s): Death; Diabetes; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A CYPRESS; ATHENS, 1913, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and mysterious watcher of the dead Last Line: To wander in thine ancient spell. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Death; Ghosts; Grief; Secrets; Supernatural; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A DEAD BIRD, by ROBERT JAMES KELLOGG Poem Text First Line: Sweet bird, in life thy tuneful voice Last Line: Robert james kellogg. Subject(s): Death; Procrastination; Science; Dead, The; Scientists TO A DEAD LOVER, by LOUISE BOGAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dark is thrown Last Line: To leave what is over. Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO A DEAD MAN, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the dead line we have called to you Last Line: Splattering the sea with crimson. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A DEAD SOLDIER, by KENDALL HARRISON Poem Text First Line: Though all the primrose paths of morning called Last Line: The laughing play of children in the sun. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; Dead, The TO A DEAD STUDENT, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew not your thoughts, nor regarded your books Last Line: Ere the books and the thought be forgot! Subject(s): Death; Praise; Writing & Writers; Dead, The TO A DECEASED FRIEND; WRITTEN IN MEMORY OF MRS. POLLY DIXON, by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The veil of death hath fallen Last Line: My inmost self, can yield thee, with glad heart. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A FRIEND, by ERNEST HARTSOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gold nights are these I spend Last Line: Of dreams: death cannot rob us much. . . . Subject(s): Death; Duty; Dead, The TO A FRIEND DYING, by ROBERT BRIDGES (1858-1941) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They tell you that death's at the turn of the road Last Line: "yes, I hear your faint voice: ""this is rest, and like sleeping!" Alternate Author Name(s): Droch Variant Title(s): The Unillumined Verge Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO A FRIEND IN DEATH, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Text First Line: Thou,gentle youth, wast rival in thy grace Last Line: Of him who perished in the nile's pale arms. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Nile (river); Youth; Dead, The TO A FRIEND IN DEATH: SURSUM, by GUILLERMO VALENCIA Poem Text First Line: A pallid taper its long prayer recites Last Line: And gaze on god, into his azure eyes! Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The TO A FRIEND WANTING WAR, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I trust that when the bugles blow Last Line: To think on death's monotony. Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers Subject(s): Death; Murder; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A LOG OF WOOD UPON THE FIRE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When horace, as the snows descended Last Line: To realms celestial. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Death; Earth; Fire; Life; Wood; Dead, The; World TO A MAPLE LEAF IN AUTUMN, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How like to man art thou! Last Line: Oh, let me fade like thee! Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Leaves; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The TO A MISTRESS DYING, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your beauty, ripe and calm and fresh Last Line: It is not safe to know. Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Variant Title(s): The Philosopher And The Lover To A Mistress Dying Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO A MOTHER, by A. I. AMBLER Poem Text First Line: Oh mother, when with thy sorrow alone Last Line: Thou wilt call the lost once more thine own. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Grief; Love; Mothers; United States - History; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO A POET THAT DIED YOUNG, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Minstrel, what have you to do Last Line: Had withstood it to grow old? Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Dead, The; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron TO A PRESSED FLOWER (FOUND IN AN OLD LATIN DICTIONARY), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Forgotten bloom that years ago was buried Last Line: I to a busy world of joy and tears. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness TO A REMEMBERED PICTURE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They haunt me still - those calm, pure, holy eyes! Last Line: To the deep souls that find no echo here. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death; Portraits; Dead, The TO A ROSEBUD, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O little timid rose Last Line: Lo, thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Roses; Dead, The TO A SCHOOLMATE-KILLED IN ACTION, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gordan rand, we saw you last Last Line: We salute you, -- gordan rand! Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO A SKULL, by DAISY WRIGHT FIELD Poem Text First Line: Why laughest thou, perched there among the books Last Line: His one great joke in death -- that sets us free! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Wright Subject(s): Death; Skulls; Dead, The TO A SKULL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turn your face this way Last Line: You do grin so satisfied! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faces; Skulls; Dead, The TO A SWEET PEA, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little fairy, with your outstretched / wings Last Line: And know it bloweth from immortal bloom. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Mortality; Dead, The; Parting TO A YOUNG GIRL, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Do not forget, / when you are old Last Line: "once and for aye enshrined you as her lover." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Honor; Love Affairs; Youth; Dead, The TO A YOUNG MURDERESS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair yellow murderess, whose gilded head Last Line: Nay, kiss me, sweet! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Murder; Youth; Dead, The TO A YOUNG WOMAN DYING, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: She hears a hermit laughing Last Line: That she loves something she has not found. Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Fear; Hermits; Love; Women; Dead, The TO ALCITHOE, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In your dim greece of old, alcithoe Last Line: The last, still, exquisite vision of your sleep. Subject(s): Death; Women; Dead, The TO ALICE'S PICTURE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unconscious child, fair pictured phantasy Last Line: For wild rebellion and for yearning woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Pictures; Dead, The TO ALL THE DEAD, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A chinese queen on a lacquered throne Last Line: To all the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: —the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America TO AMERICA, ON HER FIRST SONS FALLEN IN THE GREAT WAR, by E. M. WALKER Poem Text First Line: Now you are one with us, you know our tears Last Line: "to those who hear far heaven cry, ""well done!" Subject(s): Death; Enright, Thomas F.; Gresham, James D.; Hay, Merle D.; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TO AN AIR ON THE SAMISEN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little princess of the small slipper Last Line: Is the one word, -- love? Subject(s): Air; Death; Life; Lips; Love; Sailing & Sailors; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TO AN AMIABLE FRIEND MOURNING THE DEATH OF AN EXCELLENT FATHER, by MERCY OTIS WARREN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let deep dejection hide her pallid face Last Line: Just safe escaped from life's tempestuous sea. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO AN ARROW-HEAD, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I find thee here upon this field Last Line: Perhaps in this selfsame spot! Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Past; Dead, The TO AN OLD TUNE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You cannot choose but love, lad Last Line: Or stab you -- smile, lad, smile. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Life; Love; Dead, The TO AN OXFORD FRIEND KILLED IN ACTION; AFTER READING POEM BY W.M. LETTS, by EDWARD BLISS REED Poem Text First Line: I saw you last beside the stream Last Line: Or counts her gain in trade.) Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Letts, Winifred Mary (1882-1971); Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The 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 BE OLD, by HELEN ELDRED STORKE Poem Text First Line: Against the quicksands of receding life to sink Last Line: "the everlasting arms are underneath." Subject(s): Death; Old Age; Dead, The TO BEARERS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maids, carry her forth - your dead Last Line: Fall for her coverlet. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Dead, The TO CAMDEN, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One fayre par-royall hath our iland bred Last Line: Ech streame should graue thy name vppon his shore Subject(s): Death; England; Fate; Islands; Sea; Dead, The; English; Destiny; Ocean TO CHARLES BAXTER (IN LALLAN), ON THE DEATH OF ... JOHN ADAM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An' johnie's deid. The mair's the pity! Last Line: To's destination. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO CHARLES ON HIS HOME, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death is an unforgiven Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO CHATTERTON, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Immortal boy! Whose years scarce reached my own Last Line: Have I, and still my fields are green and wet. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Fortune; Life; Soul; Dead, The TO CLAUDIA HOMONOEA, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My words were delicately breathed Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO CLIO. FROM ROME, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear clio, every day / some sweet idea dies away Last Line: No more the trifles of my care. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO D. G. ROSSETTI, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From out the darkness cometh never a sound Last Line: And we inherit now its deathless pride. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Fear; Life; Pride; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Dead, The; Self-esteem; Self-respect TO DEATH, by ANNE FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O king of terrors, whose unbounded sway Last Line: And take to thy cold arms, insensibly, thy prey. Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by WILLIBALD CHRISTOPH GLUCK Poem Text First Line: Methinks it were no pain to die Last Line: I would I were away! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by MARGARET HALEY Poem Text First Line: Oh I can say with my lips Last Line: (preserve me always, oh god, as now!) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou bidst me come away Last Line: God mercy; and so die. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think of you as a great king, cold and austere Last Line: We are intelligent too; we shall turn and bow down our heads Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If within my heart there's mould Last Line: Let thy singer soar away. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death! Where is thy victory Last Line: To that mysterious strand. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by CAROLINE ANNE BOWLES SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come not in terrors clad, to claim Last Line: I'll go away with thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Bowles, Caroline Anne Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O thou most terrible, most dreaded power Last Line: From life itself contentedly may part. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DEATH OF HIS LADY, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, of thee do I make my moan Last Line: Death! Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DELIA: 20, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come, death, the anchor-hold of all my thoughts Last Line: So high attempts to low disgraces fall. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Dead, The TO DELIA: 26 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still in the trace of my tormented thought Last Line: I in my love, or thou in thy disdain. Subject(s): Death; Love; Sin; Dead, The TO DELIA: 30 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My cares draw on mine everlasting night Last Line: Th' elysian ghosts shall never know the same. Subject(s): Death; Life; Dead, The TO DIE, AND BE FORGOTTEN, by MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: A few short years will roll along Last Line: Through endless years to bloom. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO DR SHERLOCK, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forgive the muse, who, in unhallowed strains Last Line: And glad all heaven with millions thou hast saved. Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Life; Muses; Youth; Dead, The; Paradise TO DR. SCHOMBERG, OF BATH, by PAUL WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To schomberg quoth death, 'I your patient will have' Last Line: Since he and the college had been in alliance. Subject(s): Death; Physicians; Dead, The; Doctors TO E.M., by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night we saw the stacks of timber blaze Last Line: Drawn from the bottomless midnight of hell's ways. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ELIZABETH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O noble, true and pure and Last Line: For still we feel and know that thou art here. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Obituaries; Dead, The TO F.M.G. ON HER BROTHER'S DEATH, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay not the current of thy tears, for they Last Line: He waits to welcome thee! Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The 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 H. M.: IN MEMORIAM, by HENRY AYLETT SAMPSON Poem Text First Line: The blue wistaria hovers 'round her door Last Line: No saintlier soul, no lovelier flower blows. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO HASEKAWA, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps it doesn't matter that you died Last Line: But life has told on you. Variant Title(s): An Epitaph Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Life; Truth; Dead, The TO HELEN (OBIIT DECEMBER 3, 1903), by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lilies for her virgin breast Last Line: Opening now in paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; Dead, The; Paradise TO HESTER ON THE STAIR, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hester, creature of my love Last Line: Mind this only, only mind! Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Daughters; Hearts; Love; Dead, The 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 DEAD WIFE, by THEODOR STORM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is too black a grief for bearing Last Line: On a tomb of ghostly dreams. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 HIS HONOUR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ON DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-conquering death! By thy resistless pow'r Last Line: That fain thy soul to heav'nly scenes would raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The TO HIS LOVELY MISTRESSES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One night I' th' yeare, my dearest beauties, come Last Line: Though then I smile, and speake no words at all. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO HIS SON, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three things there be that prosper up apace Last Line: It frets the halter, and it chokes the child Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): The Wood, The Wool, The Wag;the Wood, The Weed, The Wag;sir Walter Ralegh To His Son Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Dead, The TO HIS WINDING-SHEET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come thou, who are the wine and wit Last Line: And then meet here. Variant Title(s): His Winding-sheet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO J. D. H. (KILLED AT SURREY C. H., OCTOBER, 1866), by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear friend, forgive a wild lament Last Line: O sad life - to keep thee mine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Dead, The TO J. S., by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind that beats the mountain blows Last Line: Lie still, dry dust, secure of change. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Death; Spedding, James (1808-1881); Dead, The TO J.C.P., by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Our instincts, not our memories, protest Last Line: Undreamt-ofcaravans and homeward ways. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO JOHN BRIGHT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the friendless else, and art thou dead? Last Line: This simple wreath to deck thy honoured clay! Subject(s): Bright, John (1811-1889); Death; Dead, The TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO JOHN NICHOL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friend of the dead, and friend of all my days Last Line: Memorial to us of morning left behind. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO JULIA (4), by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Julia, when thy herrick dies Last Line: Taken in by none but thee. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO L.H.B., by KATHERINE MANSFIELD Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last night for the first time since you were dead Alternate Author Name(s): Murry, John Middleton, Mrs.; Beauchamp, Kathleen Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Dreams; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Nightmares TO LADY NOEL BYRON: 2, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, why defend thee, who in life Last Line: Or loveth still its mate ! Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The TO LESBIA, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sweetest lesbia, let us live and love Last Line: And crown with love my ever-during night. Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Dead, The TO LUCY HINTON: DECEMBER 19, 1921, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O loveliest face, on which we look our last Last Line: Lucy, o lucy, a little while farewell. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO M. LE VAYER ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by MOLIERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep on le vayer, make thine eyes an urn Last Line: And for these things we must for ever weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Poquelin, Jean Baptiste Subject(s): Death; Fathers & Sons; Loss; Dead, The TO M.A., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Had I landor's power and pen Last Line: But kiss you on the lips. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO MARGARET, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: These hands, worn thin by many years of toil Last Line: Where you with him will hear my prayer. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Empathy 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 MASTER ANDREW LANG, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that are much a fisher in the pool Last Line: Shall any pious hand re-edit us? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Lakes; Dead, The; Pools; Ponds TO MATILDA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was, dear lamb, ordain'd to be Last Line: As erst she slept within mine arm! Subject(s): Death; Peace; Dead, The TO MATILDA, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: At a call unforseen thou wert taken! Last Line: And intimations of lands afar. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy TO MAY, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: May, like a maiden soft and fair Last Line: A glimpse of what thy love might be! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Absence; Death; Love; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The TO MERTILL WHO DESIRED HER TO SPEAK TO CLORINDA OF HIS LOVE, by ELIZABETH TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Mertill though my heart should break Last Line: Or fear to lose, -- but you. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Dead, The TO MICHAL: ON BRINGING HER BREAKFAST IN BED, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here come I from the buttery Last Line: In the land of the trinity. Subject(s): Death; Trinity, The; Dead, The TO MISS F.A.L. ON THE DEATH OF HER MOTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say not 'tis fruitless, nature's holy tear Last Line: The all it wanted -- immortality! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The TO MONICA THOUGHT DYING, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, o the piteous you! Last Line: Dreadful and sweet? Subject(s): Children; Death; Childhood; Dead, The TO MR HARLEY, WOUNDED BY GUISCARD, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In one great now, superior to an age Last Line: Enough to thee of grief, and fame is given. Subject(s): Death; England; Fame; Grief; Nations; Dead, The; English; Reputation; Sorrow; Sadness TO MRS. --, ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: The day invited me to walk Last Line: That you may comfort find. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO MY DEAD DOG, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All is noiseless Last Line: We, like leo, lie at rest! Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dogs; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO MY FRIEND ON THE DEATH OF HIS SISTER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thine is a grief, the depth of which another Last Line: Shall glean beside! Subject(s): Death; Sisters; Dead, The TO MY MOTHER, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've kept a haughty heart thro' grief and mirth Last Line: That gentle heart, loving me still so blindly. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Paradise TO NIGHT, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Cooling, quieting night Last Line: And be at one with the silent three that brood and move in the shadow of god! Subject(s): Comfort; Death; God; Night; Parents; Dead, The; Bedtime; Parenthood TO NIGHT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Swiftly walk o'er the western wave Last Line: Come soon, soon! Variant Title(s): Night;to The Night Subject(s): Death; Nature; Night; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Bedtime TO ONE BEYOND DEATH'S PORTALS, by ROBERT CARY Poem Text First Line: If you who loved so well the sonnet-form Last Line: Grief's manuscript to music's lingering bar. Subject(s): Death; Music & Musicians; Dead, The TO ONE BORN DEAD, by BERNICE CAREY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Not for you alone, though my defenseless Last Line: Condemned by alien force -- for these I mourn. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ONE DEAD, by ROSE HENDERSON Poem Text First Line: You are not there where the black pall waits Last Line: Abloom with spring. Subject(s): April; Death; Spring; Dead, The TO ONE DEAD, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A blackbird singing Last Line: And the sorrow for me. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE IN HEAVEN, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After you died, a few stray letters came Last Line: O little angel-maid, god's gifts are freely given! Subject(s): Death; Love; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The TO ONE SHORTLY TO DIE, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From all the rest I single out you, having a message for you Last Line: I do not commiserate, I congratulate you. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ONE THAT ASKED ME WHY I LOV'D J.G., by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do I love? Go, ask the glorious sun Last Line: That I shou'd love, and he shou'd be ingrate. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Fate; Love; Rivers; Dead, The; Destiny TO ONE WHO DIED LAST YEAR, by ANNA EMILIA BAGSTAD Poem Text First Line: What have you learned since then? Do you know all Last Line: Wistful at even with a thought of me? Subject(s): Death; Memory; Dead, The TO ONE WHO PASSED: WOODROW WILSON, by LOUISE BURTON LAIDLAW Poem Text First Line: Great men have passed Last Line: Thy vision still shall lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Backus, L., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The TO OUR FALLEN, by ROBERT ERNEST VERNEDE Poem Text First Line: Ye sleepers, who will sing you? Last Line: Oh, brothers, sleep in peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I - Casualties; Dead, The TO OUR LADIES OF DEATH, by JAMES THOMSON (1834-1882) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weary of erring in this desert life Last Line: To come and soothe away my bitter pain. Alternate Author Name(s): B. V.; Bysshe Vanolis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO PEACE, by W. W. M. Poem Text First Line: We are the dead Last Line: Make green thy fields for us, and bring us tears and laughter? Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Social Protest; War; Women; Dead, The TO PERILLA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah my perilla! Do'st thou grieve to see Last Line: Still in the coole, and silent shades of sleep. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The TO R.D., MARCH 4TH 1988, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were my mentor. Without knowing it, Subject(s): Dreams; Man-woman Relationships; Death; Nightmares; Male-female Relations; Dead, The TO RICHARD MANSFIELD, 2ND, by VIRGIL MARKHAM Poem Text First Line: Your fire - where is it now? It was a sun Last Line: You still are reaching up to snare the moon. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO ROBIN REDBREAST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Laid out for dead, let thy last kindness be Last Line: Here, here the tomb of robin herrick is. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO S.F.S., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They say that lonely sorrows do not chance Last Line: Would sleep like those that far-off music hear. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness TO SARAH, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In these drab days, alone there never cloys Last Line: The lips of shakspere on your jeweled fingers. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Soul; Dead, The TO SLEEP, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silent lover of a world day-worn Last Line: As one would pass from gentle friend to friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Sleep; Dead, The TO SLEEP AND TO FORGET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep and to forget, -- o blessed guerdon! Last Line: To sleep and to forget. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TO SOME POOR FAULT ...., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let her so much as lend pale scrutiny Last Line: The brothers of the word for what it said. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO SWINBURNE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poet! Thou art to me a faery king Last Line: Sea, wind and sun, the gods who rule the earth. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean TO THE BABE NIVA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Niva, child of innocence Last Line: Wentest snow to snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Innocence; Dead, The 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 BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 1, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yea! All the beauty of sorrow, like a crown Last Line: Immortals thralled for ever to the dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Grief; Love - Complaints; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness TO THE BUST OF MY SON CHARLES, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair image of our sainted boy Last Line: Farewell!—dear boy, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Boys; Children - Lost; Death; Family Life; Farewell; Heaven; Dead, The; Relatives; Parting; Paradise TO THE CICADA SEPTEMDECIM, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buried at moment of thy birth Last Line: Go forth, new-winged, to an undreamed-of light. Subject(s): Death; Mysticism; Dead, The TO THE DEAD, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What I hope (when I hope) is that we'll Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE DEAD, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many now are dead to me Last Line: Around the funeral pile. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE DEAD, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We say you sleep, but light your sleep, meseems Last Line: Shall all the dead speak to me -- and not thou! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE DEAD (A PARAPHRASE), by WILLIAM BELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone art thou, gone, and is the light Last Line: I shall be with thee; we again may smile. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life 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 END, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are lilies for her sisters Last Line: And leaning from the door. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Death; Flowers; Heaven; Lilies; Love; Dead, The; Paradise TO THE HONOURABLE CHARLES MONTAGUE, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Howe'er, 'tis well, that while mankind Last Line: I, phillis, but a perjured whore. Subject(s): Death; Experience; Fame; Fate; Mankind; Dead, The; Reputation; Destiny; Human Race TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY MEMORY OF THE FAIREST AND MOST VIRTUOUS LADY, by WILLIAM BOSWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her tongue hath ceast to speak, which might make dumb Last Line: In love and comfort, so is he now in grief. Alternate Author Name(s): William Boxworth Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The TO THE KINGS, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you've fulfilled the measure of your pride Last Line: And shake your kingdoms with its irony! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Irony; Skulls; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The TO THE LOVERS THAT COME AFTER US, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lovers, a little of this your happy time Last Line: On brain and limbs, and we be lovers still. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE MASTERS OF 1917, by ELIZABETH SEWELL HILL Poem Text First Line: The task is done. The student look Last Line: By the touch of the master sanctified. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TO THE MEMORY OF A YOUNG LADY, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brilliant and beautiful! - and can it be Last Line: When, waking in his strength, he sunward soars. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE MEMORY OF H-- M--, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! But o think not thy memory shall perish Last Line: Sink to sleep as inviting, as tranquil as thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 MEMORY OF MY DEAR DAUGHTER IN LAW, by ANNE BRADSTREET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And live I still to see relations gone Last Line: He knows it is the best for thee and me. Subject(s): Children; Death; Grief; Home; Love; Marriage; Puritans; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Illness TO THE MEMORY OF WILFRED OWEN, by CHARLES NORMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into the sunset of their youth they strode Last Line: When lads before them paced to pave the ground. Subject(s): Death; Honor; Memory; Military; Owen, Wilfred (1893-1918); Poetry & Poets; Soldiers; Youth; Dead, The TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth TO THE MISSISSIPPI, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came from fierce, burnt spain to seek for gold Last Line: Of hot, long listlessness and moody course. Subject(s): Death; Explorers; Gold; Mississippi; Dead, The; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers TO THE NIGHTINGALE, AND ROBIN REDBREAST, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I departed am, ring thou my knell Last Line: Thou sexton (red-brest) for to cover me. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE REV. JAMES HERVEY, ON HIS MEDITATIONS, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To form the taste, and raise the nobler part Last Line: August 5, 1748. Subject(s): Death; Hervey, James (1714-1758); Dead, The TO THE SOLITUDE OF FONTENAY, by GUILLAUME AMFRYE Poem Text First Line: Mid these hamlets and these woods Last Line: Cypress only to my grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Anacreon Of The Temple; Chaulieu, Abbe De Subject(s): Death; Forests; Dead, The; Woods TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 11. TIRED MEMORY, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The stony rock of death's insensibility Last Line: But (treason was't?) for thee and also her. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO THE UNKNOWN EROS: BOOK 1: 8. DEPARTURE, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was not like your great and gracious ways! Last Line: Twas all unlike your great and gracious ways. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Dead, The; Parting TO THOMAS HARDY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Master of human smiles and human moan Last Line: To live for love, and for love's sake to die. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Love; Praise; Smiles; Dead, The; Destiny TO THOSE WHO REPROVED THE AUTHOR FOR TOO SANGUINE PATRIOTISM, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The riches of a nation are her dead Last Line: If I prove false, it is the future errs. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Patriotism; Dead, The TO URBAN, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Where the livid lightning flies Last Line: To slumber in the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Health; Life; Maturity; Passion; Dead, The TO VALERIA (A ROMAN LADY BURIED AT CAERLEON DURING ROMAN OCCUPATION), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How came you to this misty, northern isle Last Line: This isle, these mountains and this healing rain. Subject(s): Death; Great Britain - Roman Conquest; Wales; Dead, The; Welshmen; Welshwomen TO W.P.: 2, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With you a part of me hath passed away Last Line: What I keep of you, or you rob from me. Variant Title(s): For Those Once Mine Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Potter, Warwick (1872-1893); Dead, The TO WHITTIER DEAD, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, speed thou on, gray voyager Last Line: Through all eternity. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TO WHOM?, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Trivial-? Last Line: To whom? To whom? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 TO WILLIAM LOGAN, ON THE DEATH OF HIS AGED MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not, my christian friend: - thy late removed Last Line: And blest re-union in the home above! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; God; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise TO WILLIAM VAUGHN MOODY, by HERBERT HERON Poem Text First Line: Dead! And we gaze, unseeing, on your bier Last Line: That music from your soul! Subject(s): Death; Moody, William Vaughn (1853-1917); Soul; Dead, The TO-MORROW, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lighthouse shines across the sea Last Line: The evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Lighthouses; Dead, The TODAY AND TOMORROW, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Withhold all eulogies when I am dead Last Line: My mother gave me. Subject(s): Death; Forgiveness; Religion; Dead, The; Clemency; Theology TOM DEADLIGHT, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell and adieu to you noble hearties Last Line: And do'nt blubber like lubbers when I turn up my keel. Subject(s): Death; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Seamen; Sails TOMB POND; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farmer drags two lashed poles through a storm Last Line: As an old pond once built to solemnize a tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Introspection; Knowledge; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TOMBE DES ANGLAIS, by HAGAR PAUL Poem Text First Line: Sleep, in this forest plot Last Line: This side of heaven. Subject(s): Death; France; Sacrifices; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TOMMY CORRIGAN, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You talk of riders on the flat, of nerve and pluck and pace Last Line: The gallant tommy corrigan will ride lone hand again. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Animals; Death; Horses; Racing; Dead, The TOMMY'S DEAD, by SYDNEY THOMPSON DOBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You may give over plough, boys Last Line: And tommy's dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Yendys, Sidney Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TOO INTRICATELY WEBBED..., by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do they regard the folk they were, and not Last Line: A little closer to the one they were. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery TOO LATE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each on his own strict line we move Last Line: --then, love, thy hand!--ah no! Adieu! Subject(s): Love; Death; Dead, The TOO LATE, by CLARISSA HILL HAWKINS Poem Text First Line: I never told you of my love Last Line: Had told you so. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Regret; Dead, The TOO LATE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What dead! - and I was only yesternight Last Line: You are gone from me. Oh! Too late! Too late! Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TOO LATE! DEATH OF GEN. GORDON, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Across the vast soudan was borne Last Line: Will rest the load of shame Subject(s): Death;england;heroism; "dead, The;english;heroes;heroines; TOO LONG DEAD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just came on it like a rake in the grass Last Line: In a gust of cherries and cinnamon Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The TORMENTUM, by CHARLES ADOLPHE CANTUCUZENE Poem Text First Line: My fear beyond the door has sped Last Line: Nay, for it may be thou art dead! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Happiness; Lips; Love; May (month); Dead, The; Joy; Delight TOUCHED, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold december nights I'd go Last Line: Each healing we begin. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Cold; Death; Healing; Mythology - Classical; Sickness; Touch (sense); Women's Rights; Dead, The; Cures; Illness; Feminism TOWARD SUNRISE, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, in old days, our fathers came Last Line: That cometh soon or late. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Life; Sunrise; Dead, The TOWARD THE MILLENIUM, by FRANCES HORODAS Poem Text First Line: They come to sip, they come to trip Last Line: The living and dead as it bursts overhead. Subject(s): Death; Missiles; Dead, The; Guided Missiles; Ballistic Missiles TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. AS ONE WHO FROM A HIGH CLIFF, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I look upon my life as from afar Last Line: O god, from this great eminence of death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. TO ONE WHO IS WHERE THE ETERNAL ARE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pass friend pass Last Line: A great star, growing, shining. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Memory; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER THE DAY'S WORK, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing by,passing by all exteriors Last Line: Waves. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Sea; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. REST AT LAST, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Love - having journeyed through all of life Last Line: And I in them attain at last to rest. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Rest; Dead, The; Paradise TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO ONE DEAD, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You must look at your own body lying dead there quiet calmly Last Line: And even so it is only one of your similitudes. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. AT MENTONE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why speak ye not, ye beautiful lands and seas Last Line: Why utterest not the voice we long to hear? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Earth; History; Mankind; Peasantry; Graveyards; Dead, The; World; Historians; Human Race 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 TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. TO THE EVERLASTING NOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all life has been rich in experience shall not death be rich Last Line: You fail to keep your first appointment. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. WHO BUT THE LOVER SHOULD KNOW, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Who but the loved at last should know what death is? Last Line: Ah! Who at last but the lover should know what death is? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TRADITIONAL POST-MODERN NEO-HOODOO AFRA-CENTRIC SISTER, by MICHELLE T. CLINTON Poet's Biography First Line: Traditional: that mean has a voice & a person you can relate to Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TRAFFIC WARNING, by RICHARD WARNER BORST Poem Text First Line: I saw the wreck a little after it happened Last Line: Drive carefully—for perilous is the highway! Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Soldiers; War; Dead, The TRAGEDIES: 2, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: She reach'd a rose-bud from the tree Last Line: The worst is over when we die! Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The TRAINWRECKED SOLDIERS, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death, that is small respected of distinction Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks TRANSCENDENCE OF JANUS, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not asleep, but I see Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TRANSFIGURATION, by LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mysterious death! Who in a single hour Last Line: And make death proud to take a royal soul. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The TRANSFORMATION, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In many homes / one sees old shrapnel cases Last Line: Let me work. Subject(s): Change; Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRANSITION, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: White sleeping tombs Last Line: In a million shafts of light. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRANSITION, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: O lay again thy hand in mine Last Line: Dear voice, speak on. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Love - Nature Of; Transience; Dead, The; Impermanence TRANSITION, by RAYMOND R. WILLOUGHBY Poem Text First Line: Where'er we turn, the specter waits Last Line: That all things work with joy, and sleep at close of day. Subject(s): Children; Death; Flowers; Friendship; Gardens & Gardening; Childhood; Dead, The TRANSLATION OF AN ODE OF KLOPSTOCK'S, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah selma! If our love the fates should sever Last Line: "sink on that breast, and wax as pale as thee." Subject(s): Death; Love; Tragedy; Dead, The TRANSLATION OF THE PATRIARCH, by LUCY A. RANDALL Poem Text First Line: No tombstone saw they there Last Line: Reveals how enoch went home to him. Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Death; God; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Paradise; Judaism TRAVEL: AFTER A DEATH, by JANE KENYON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drove past farms, the hills terraced with sheep Subject(s): Death; Literary Form; Dead, The TREE 1947, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Living now in myself the end of the world Last Line: To burst into the last flowering of the world. Subject(s): Death; Eden; Trees; Dead, The TREES IN WINTER, by ARTHUR WILLIAM BEER Poem Text First Line: Like ghosts of happier days, they stand Last Line: Abroad their canopy of spring. Subject(s): Death; Trees; Winter; Dead, The TREETOPS, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My father moves through the south hunting duck Last Line: Probable volume of dreams, think so. Subject(s): Death; Ducks; Fathers & Sons; Hunting; Dead, The; Mallards; Drakes; Hunters TRI-COLOUR, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poppies, you try to tell me, glowing there in the wheat Last Line: God's accolade! Lift me up, friends. I'm going to win -- my cross. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War TRIBUTE, by EDWARD KINKADE Poem Text First Line: An invincible silence Last Line: Astonishment of death! Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The TRIBUTE TO THE MEMORY OF CHARLES VINE DE PUY, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep on, brave boy! In quiet sleep Last Line: As from the kingdom of the blest. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Sleep; War; Dead, The TRILCE: 75, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You're all dead Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TRIOLET, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Oh the world was rich last night Last Line: But it did awake so poor! Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 TRIOLETS AFTER MOSCHUS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for us no second spring Last Line: That boast themselves the sons of men! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRIPOLI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the singing on the boats Last Line: Tripoli! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean TRISTANESQUE, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No wine was ever Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Death; Wine; Dead, The TRISTIA: WINTER AT TOMI, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Snow lies deep: nor sun nor melting shower Last Line: And horses' hoofs ring loud where once their oarsmen plied. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Snow; Storms; Winter; Dead, The TRYST, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: I thought to have made her my bride Last Line: We leave to love. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Love; Marriage; Reunions; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Weddings; Husbands; Wives TRYST (AFTER READING FROM SHAKESPEARE), by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, thou art heavy, with no stars to chain Last Line: A dead hand lies like flame upon my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Dramatists; Love - Loss Of; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Dead, The; Dramatists TUGG MARTIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tugg martin's tough.-- no Last Line: "all I know is -- he's dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Dead, The; Wine TURMOIL IN A MORGUE, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Negro / chinaman Subject(s): Racism; Death; Morgues; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry; Dead, The TURN DOWN THE LAMP, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turn down the lamp, my life is done Last Line: My hour has come, turn down the lamp. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TUTELARY, by MICHAEL RYAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a fuckup you are Subject(s): Conscience; Death; Skulls; Dead, The TWAS ONE OF THOSE DARK, CLOUDY DAYS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWILIGHT, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So mary died last night! To-day Last Line: Or e'er I should be dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWILIGHT, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O mystic hour! When day and night Last Line: Proclaiming their immortal dower! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love; Dead, The; Paradise TWO BOYS, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These were two of the funniest boys Last Line: Where these two brothers lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Boys; Brothers; Death; Friendship; Half-brothers; Dead, The TWO EPITAPHS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love lingers here while life has fled' Last Line: Then hail, o death, to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Dead, The TWO FUNERALS: 1., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a field of shrieking red Last Line: Began to grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TWO FUNERALS: 2., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials TWO LIVES. PART 2: 25, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An instant - leapt - leapt - followed. - in the hall Last Line: "letters that shrieked upon me, ""she is dead!" Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO LIVES: CONCLUSION. INDIAN SUMMER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth-and-autumn of the setting sun Last Line: While still so many yet must come to birth. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO OCTAVES: 2. PARAPHRASE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shriek to live, but no man ever lives Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO PICTURES OF A LEAF, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I make up this leaf Last Line: Come to resemble so much that does not. Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Leaves; Survival; Trees; Dead, The; Anglers TWO POINTS OF VIEW, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Terrible waves! In fierce, unearthly chorus Last Line: The once-dark waves gleam bright—each loss appears a gain. Subject(s): Death; Sea; Storms; Waves; Dead, The; Ocean TWO ROBBERS, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When death from some fair face Last Line: But honor crafty time. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO SONGS OF THE RIVER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At night angry survivors Subject(s): Rivers; Death; Dead, The TWO SONGS: FIRST SONG, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me die by the sea! Last Line: Oh! Fate, let me die by the sea. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH, by COUNTEE CULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, it will not be Subject(s): Death; Dead, The TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 1, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her heart that loved me once is rottenness Last Line: Their's too shall be as tho' it had not been. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Love; Thought; Worms; Dead, The; Thinking TWO THOUGHTS OF DEATH: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So I said underneath the dusky trees Last Line: And whose day shall no more turn back to night. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Earth; Love; Memory; Dead, The; World TWO WORLDS, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Two worlds there are. To one our eyes we strain Last Line: Evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise TYPHUS, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The whole earth was covered with snow, Last Line: We were poor—a box was worth something Subject(s): Epidemics; Plums; Death; Plum Trees; Dead, The ULALUME, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The skies they were ashen and sober Last Line: This ghoul-haunted woodland of weir Variant Title(s): Ulalume - A Ballad;ulalume - A Ballad (2) Subject(s): Auber, Daniel Francois (1782-1871); Death; Halloween; Landscape; Love - Loss Of; Mysticism; October; Soul; Supernatural; Weir, Robert Walter (1803-1889); Dead, The ULTIMA SPES MORTUORUM, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The bells will ring to-morrow for the day Last Line: And, by the living spurned, deludes the dead! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ULYSSES S. GRANT (1822-1885), by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The treasury voted nine to one against your ordinary Last Line: As she lies without a coat of arms. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Grant, Ulysses Simpson (1822-1885); Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The UNCLE BOB, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old uncle bob lay on the settle Last Line: "and ""tea! Tea!"" she said, ""uncle bob." Subject(s): Death; Despair; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The 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 UNCLE WILLIAM'S PICTURE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Uncle william, last july Last Line: Smile, and wipe my eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Family Life; July; Uncles; Dead, The; Relatives UNCOMFORTED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lelloine! Lelloine! Don't you Last Line: And tell him you are lonely without your mother there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Heaven; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise UNCONQUERABLE, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Homer and milton blind, beethoven deaf Last Line: Sink sullenly from sight. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UNDER THE BOATHOUSE, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of my clothes, I ran past the boathouse Last Line: I bobbed with a hook through the palm of my hand. Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Dead, The 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 UNDER THE SHADOW OF KILEY'S HILL, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where they all were bred Last Line: Under the shadow of kiley's hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Cattle; Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Dead, The UNDER THE SHEET, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What a terrible night! Does the night Last Line: A shape and a sheet. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Love - Complaints; Marriage; Night; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bedtime UNDER THE SNOWS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Thousands of things do the soft snows cover Last Line: Will there ever a spring-tide be for the heart? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER THE WHARF, by IDA COLE BARTLATT Poem Text First Line: Silurus shoals and water butterflies Last Line: Rising from this dark flood to seek eternal breath? Subject(s): Birds; Death; Floods; Gulls; Seashore; Water; Dead, The; Seagulls; Beach; Coast; Shore UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the wide and starry sky Last Line: And the hunter home from the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Underwoods: Book One: 21. Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Immortality; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 24, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet, my soul, these friendly fields desert Last Line: Solely delights, and all the camps rejoice. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Soul; Dead, The UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 27. IN MEMORIAM F. A. S., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet, o stricken heart, remember, o remember Last Line: And ere the day of sorrow departed as he came. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The UNFINISHED, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I cannot die Last Line: With shining haste to reach my tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNFORGOTTEN, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh unforgotten! / how long ago? One spirit saith Last Line: The single grain shall wax to ten. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Youth; Dead, The UNMOORED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To die in sleep - to drift from dream to dream Last Line: In reverence for a brother's holier name. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UNSHRIVEN, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have paid well for every sin Last Line: About my dying bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Ghosts; Sin; Supernatural; Dead, The UNSTRUNG, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a jeweled tapestry Last Line: A face so like its own. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Animals; Bats; Birds; Bones; Death; Dead, The 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 UNTOLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face may be woeful-white to cover a heart that's / aching Last Line: Alas! For the weary feet that may not rest to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise UNWED SOLDIER, by ETHEL A. FRAME Poem Text First Line: Posterity for him is unsought naught Last Line: Within him dead his unborn children lie. Subject(s): Death; Mankind; War; Dead, The; Human Race UP, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Reach me / I reach you Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Paradise UP-HILL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Last Line: Yea, beds for all who come. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Uphill Subject(s): Death; Faith; Heaven; Hotels; Life; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Religion; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Paradise; Inns; Innskeepers; Motels; Boarding Houses; Theology; Journeys; Trips UPON A DYING LADY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With the old kindness, the old distinguished grace Last Line: It is about to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Christmas Trees; Courage; Death; Dolls; Toys; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The UPON A MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gone she is a long, long way Last Line: Here, her ashes, or her urne. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON AN OLD MAN A RESIDENCIARIE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tread sirs, as lightly as ye can Last Line: He'l never haunt ye now he's dead. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON HIS DEPARTURE HENCE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I Last Line: Farewell. Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The UPON HIS SISTER-IN-LAW, MISTRESS ELIZAB. HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First, for effusions due unto the dead Last Line: Wherein thou liv'st for ever. Deare farewell. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by ELIZABETH SINGER ROWE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In what soft language shall my thoughts get free Last Line: My spotless faith shall be for ever thine. Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives UPON THE DEATH OF HIS FRIEND, SIR HENRY RAYNSFORD OF CLIFFORD, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could there be words found to expresse my lose Last Line: As I doe his, who was a thousand friends. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF LORD HASTINGS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, intercept some fountain in the vein Last Line: And art indeed is long, but life is short. Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF MISTRIS ELIANOR FALLOWFIELD, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Accursed death, what neede was there at all Last Line: That many a great one hath not after death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF THE LORD HASTINGS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must noble hastings immaturely die Last Line: Monument is his spouses marble brest. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Friendship; Life; Soul; Dead, The UPON THE DEATH OF THE YOUNG LORD HARRINGTON, by ARTHUR GORGES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow and honor were at strife Last Line: Soe great a treasure soe soone spent. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The UPON THE IMAGE OF DEATH, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Before my face the picture hangs Last Line: My life may mend, sith I must die. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The UPON THE MUCH LAMENTED DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH LANGHAM, by BATHSUA PELL MAKIN Poem Text First Line: Pass not, but wonder, and amazed stand Last Line: Installed with bliss, and hallelejahs sound. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness UPON THE WINDS OF SPRING, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the terror in the world tonight Last Line: Pain stabs my heart and binds the wound with fear! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; Spring; World War I; Dead, The; First World War UPON YE SIGHT OF MY ABORTIVE BIRTH YE 31TH: OF DECEMBER 1657, by MARY CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What birth is this; a poore despissed creature? Last Line: Amend it lord; & keepe it still with thee: Subject(s): Birth; Death; God; Life; Love; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The UPPER CHAMBERS, by CLARA PLATT MEADOWCROFT Poem Text First Line: I have heard my mother, as long as I remember Last Line: In the upper chambers. I grope on the stair. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Dead, The UPSTREAM, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The strong men keep coming on Last Line: The strong men keep coming on. Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Men; Dead, The; Liberty URANIA: THE DIVINE MUSE, ON THE DEATH OF JOHN DRYDEN, ESQ., by SARAH PIERS Poem Text First Line: When through the universe with horrour spread Last Line: Nor find that dryden's dead, while garth does live. Subject(s): Death; Dryden, John (1631-1700); Muses; Tears; Dead, The USELESSNESS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let mine not be that saddest fate of all Last Line: "she lives, but all her usefulness is past." Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Trees; Dead, The; Destiny VACATING AN APARTMENT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Efficient as fate Last Line: I'm moving out holding tombstones in my hands Subject(s): Transience; Death; Landlords & Tenants; Impermanence; Dead, The VAIN, by PAUL JEAN TOULET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Life is an image vain Last Line: It's a queer pain. Subject(s): Death; Pain; Tears; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery VAIN EXCUSE, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be patient, life, when love is at the gate Last Line: Be patient now with death, for love has passed. Variant Title(s): Dialogue Subject(s): Death; Idleness; Life; Love; Patience; Waiting; Dead, The; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence 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 VALEDICTORY; THE SCHOLAR TO THE ASHES OF HIS LIBRARY, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Gone the books of many names Last Line: Be the man that they should make. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Librarians & Libraries; World War Ii; Dead, The; Library; Librarians; Second World War VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A world of change and loss, a world of death Last Line: Your valentine rejoices having you. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Life; Love; Mothers; Valentine's Day; Dead, The VAN ELSEN, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God spake three times and saved van elsen's soul Last Line: Who conquered death. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VAN GOGH'S DEATH, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We climbed the steep stairway Last Line: On the headstones planted close to the wall Subject(s): Death; Van Gogh, Vincent (1853-1890); Dead, The VANISHED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She died - this was the way she died Last Line: Upon the mortal side. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VANISHED!, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I saw her first as when one sees Last Line: The due of lordly death. Subject(s): Death; Seasons; Soul; Time; Dead, The VANQUISHED, by FRANCES SAWYER Poem Text First Line: There is a way that I can save the hurt Last Line: Covered securely with a shield of bronze! Subject(s): Death; Fear; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The VARIATIONS: 12, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wind, wind, wind in the old trees Last Line: None shall have mercy, but all shall have death. Subject(s): Death; Wind; Dead, The VARIATIONS: 13, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blue waves are driven by wind Last Line: The querulous praise will soon be mute. Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Death; Love - Complaints; Dead, The VENERIS DIES, by JEAN PELLERIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woman of sorrow and shame Last Line: Tonight ... For me. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness VENETIAN NOCTURNE, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the narrow calle where the moonlight cannot enter Last Line: Ah! Could this be death? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Death; Venice, Italy; Dead, The VENUS AND DEATH, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With fetters gold her captivated feet Last Line: Lest he devour her and her godlets both! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES INSCRIBED TO AN UNKNOWN POETICAL CORRESPONDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where art thou, my leal 'auld brither'? Last Line: Oh! My soul would fly afar. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The VERSES ON HENRY THE EIGHTH'S SEIZING THE ABBEY-LANDS, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There liv'd a race to good charissa dear Last Line: Forgetful of the blood that stain'd his fearful stream. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Greed; Grief; Henry Viii, King Of England (1491-1547); Dead, The; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF MARY FLETCHER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Enthusiast, fanatic and fool Last Line: Thy heritage among the saints! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES TO THE MEMORY OF SARAH CANDLER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O doubt not thy memory liveth Last Line: Everlastingly echoes in heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES WRITTEN IN A LADY'S SHERLOCK UPON DEATH, by PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mistaken fair, lay sherlock by Last Line: Tis I must learn to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Chesterfield, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): To A Lady Reading Sherlock Upon Death Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VERSES, OCCASIONED BY AN AFFECTING INSTANCE OF SUDDEN DEATH, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou didst not sink by slow decay Last Line: And gratefully adore him! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VESPERS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: Though I be old, alone, and dying fast Last Line: Not long this fading form will hinder thee. Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The VESTAL, by GLADYS VERVILLE DEANE Poem Text First Line: Child of november, you were born to death Last Line: See, child, there is no fear when flame's within. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Dusk; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The VIA DOLOROSA: 1. TRANSFIGURATION, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: But half a man's days - and his days were nights Last Line: And eyes that meet a brother's now not blind. Subject(s): Death; Life; Soul; Dead, The VIA DOLOROSA: 2. DELIVERANCE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death, fair death, sole comforter and sweet Last Line: Denied him: darkness hath unsealed his eyes.' Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Night; Roses; Dead, The; Bedtime VIA DOLOROSA: 3. THANKSGIVING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could love give strength to thank thee! Last Line: With love grown strong enough to thank thee, death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness VIA DOLOROSA: 4. LIBITINA VERTICORDIA, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of sleep, healer of life, divine Last Line: That if they wake their life is sweet as sleep. Subject(s): Death; Life; Sleep; Dead, The VIA DOLOROSA: 6. PSYCHAGOGOS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As greece of old acclaimed thee god and man Last Line: Nought, when we would have given: thou bidst him live. Subject(s): Death; Greece; Rome, Italy; Dead, The; Greeks VICARIOUS ATONEMENT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is an old and very cruel god Last Line: This bitter cup from us. Subject(s): Death; Goddesses & Gods; Military; Mythology; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICISSITUDE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All things around us preach of death; yet mirth Last Line: Earth is our pilgrimage, our home is heaven! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Change; Death; Time; Dead, The VICTOR JOFFRE!, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: The summer's night was falling o'er the / marne Last Line: In chaos. There calm and stern, stood—victor joffre. Subject(s): Anxiety; Blood; Death; Fights; Patriotism; Soldiers; War; Dead, The VICTORIA REGINA, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: The earth is full of tears. 'the queen is dead!' Last Line: Received into the presence of the king. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Victoria, Queen Of England (1819-1901); War; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines VICTORY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before those golden altar-lights we stood Last Line: There's but one way. God make us better men. Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Fame; France; Love; Victory; Dead, The; Reputation VICTORY AND FAILURE, by ALAN MACKINTOSH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not for the day of victory Last Line: To die along with you! Alternate Author Name(s): Mackintosh, Ewart Alan Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Failure; Honor; Soldiers; Victory; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War VICTORY WITHOUT PEACE, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The slaughter-bugles screamed once more Last Line: Which leaves no peace on earth—but death. Subject(s): Death; Peace; Victory; War; Dead, The VIEW FROM THE EUGANEAN HILLS, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Many a green isle needs must be Last Line: And the earth grow young again. Variant Title(s): Lines Written Among The Euganean Hills;written In The Euganean Hills, North Italy Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Death; Italy; Mountains; Poetry & Poets; Sin; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Dead, The; Italians; Hills; Downs (great Britain) VILLANELLE, by JEAN PASSERAT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have lost my turtle fleet Last Line: After her I fayne would beat. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: A FATHER TO A MOTHER, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When god's own child came down to earth Last Line: It's only till to-morrow! Subject(s): Birth; Children; Death; Jesus Christ; Parents; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood; Dead, The; Parenthood VIOLIN SONGS: AT MY WINDOW AFTER SUNSET, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven and the sea attend the dying day Last Line: Eternal love is my eternal prayer. Subject(s): Death; Evening; God; Life; Love; Prayer; Solitude; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Loneliness VIOLIN SONGS: AUTUMN SONG, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn clouds are flying, flying Last Line: Burns to hues of spring. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Nature; Seasons; Spring; Fall; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: DEATH, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the bosom of the eldest night Last Line: Do my day's work ere fall my coming night. Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: FOOLISH CHILDREN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night to pray Last Line: Make us good as we go home. Subject(s): Children; Death; Home; Jesus Christ; Prayer; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: GOING TO SLEEP, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Little one, you must not fret Last Line: Saith the little brother. Subject(s): Children; Clothing & Dress; Death; God; Mothers; Sleep; Childhood; Dead, The VIOLIN SONGS: HOPE DEFERRED, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Summer is come again. The sun is bright Last Line: And summer winds were out! Subject(s): Death; Despair; Future Life; God; Hope; Seasons; Summer; Winter; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism VIOLIN SONGS: PICTURE SONGS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pale green sky is gleaming Last Line: Still it rises again! Subject(s): Death; Horseback Riding; Longing; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean VIOLIN SONGS: WILD FLOWERS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Content primroses, / with hearts at rest in your thick leaves' soft care Last Line: Of a past, age-long somnolence ! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; God; Nature; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 4, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Worthy were galen to be weigh'd in gold Last Line: Purchaseth realmes, and life prolonged brings. Subject(s): Death; Health; Life; Socrates (470-399 B.c.); Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 2: SATIRE: 5. ON SIMONY, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Saw'st thou ever siquis patch'd on pauls church door Last Line: For this thy base and seruile symonie. Subject(s): Churches; Death; Cathedrals; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 3: SATIRE: 2, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Greet osmond knows not how he shall be known Last Line: So long as on thy graue they engraued bee. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Arthur, King; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 1, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Vvho dares vpbraid these open rimes of mine Last Line: Rather than say I doted in my age. Subject(s): Death; Thames (river); Theater & Theaters; Dead, The; Stage Life VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: SATIRE: 5, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would now that matho were the satirist Last Line: Mammon himselfe shalbe a citizen. Subject(s): Books; Death; Life; Murder; Reading; Dead, The VIRGIDEMIAE: BOOK 4: THE AUTHORS CHARGE TO HIS SATYRES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye luck-lesse rymes, whom not vnkindly spight Last Line: Satis est potuisse videri. Subject(s): Death; Hate; Love; Truth; Dead, The VIRGINIA, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: First they took off one breast Last Line: The more multiples there are. Subject(s): Death; Surgery; Women; Dead, The VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence VISIONS IN VERSE: 9. DEATH. VISION THE LAST, by NATHANIEL COTTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis thought my visions are too grave Last Line: And triumph'd in the thoughts of death! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life VOICE OF THE UNKNOWN DEAD, by HERBERT STOTESBURY Poem Text First Line: Oh, my people! Do ye wonder Last Line: Be the symbols of his peace. Subject(s): Death; Military; Peace; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The VOICES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man died yesternight. To-day the town Last Line: Nay, ask me not: ask only god. He knows. Subject(s): Death; God; Hearts; Soul; Voices; Dead, The VOLCANO, by DEREK WALCOTT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joyce was afraid of thunder, Subject(s): Joyce, James (1882-1941); Death; Dead, The VOLUPTAS, by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To chase a never-reached mirage Last Line: Its green and watered strand. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The VOYAGER, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the moon, beyond planet blue Subject(s): Mothers; Death; Dead, The W.V.M, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dead - even he. They told me, and that day Last Line: Great dead belong to any humble heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness WABANAKI SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Now I am left on this lonely island to die Last Line: I am on this lonely island to die Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; WAITING, by GRACE EVELYN BROWN Poem Text First Line: I did not know the dawn could be so fair Last Line: And waiting yields to life its very breath. Subject(s): Dawn; Death; Love; Waiting; Sunrise; Dead, The WAITING, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the fervor Last Line: But I can't tell you how any of them sing. Subject(s): Birds; Death; Jerusalem; Jews; Poetry & Poets; Violence; Waiting; Dead, The; Judaism WAITING, by NELLIE GOWIN OLSON Poem Text First Line: So much of life is spent in waiting Last Line: Waiting for death's still, stirring call. Subject(s): Death; Waiting; Dead, The WAITING IN WINTER (1), by STANLEY BURNSHAW Poem Text First Line: They were tired, tired, and outside Last Line: And earth and heaven looked harsh. . . . Subject(s): Death; Earth; Heaven; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Paradise WAITING ON THE CURB, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stalled by traffic, waiting for the light Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WAITING THE CHANGE, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have no moan to make Last Line: Must wait my appointed time. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WALES: A GREETING, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In that wild land beyond sabrina's wave Last Line: The ever-climbing footsteps of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Fate; Life; Wales; Dead, The; Destiny; Welshmen; Welshwomen WALK SLOWLY, by ADELAIDE WARREN PETERSON LOVE Poem Text First Line: If you should go before me, dear, walk slowly Last Line: And pause to hear if someone calls your name. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The WALTER, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The changing moon will circle through the skies Last Line: And I am left alone. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Heaven; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Paradise; Loneliness WALTER OF BATTERSEA, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall commit suicide or die Last Line: Where it starts and ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; England; Dead, The; English WANDERING BEGGARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the threshold of the dawn Last Line: Y' allah! Y' allah! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WAR, by EDITH MEDBERY FITCH Poem Text First Line: Relentless mars, indulging insane wrath Last Line: Unleashed the lusts of men, and called it—war! Subject(s): Child Molesting; Cruelty; Death; Insanity; War; Women Immigrants - United States; Child Abuse; Dead, The; Madness; Mental Illness WAR, by CARL N. LISCHKA Poem Text First Line: As a hurricane bellowing thunder Last Line: For the dawn of thy smile—and peace! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War - Casualties (statistics, Etc.); Dead, The WAR, by ELOISE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: I laugh to see them pray Last Line: There was no milk for him. Subject(s): Death; Jesus Christ - Childhood & Youth; War; Dead, The WAR, by DONALD BYRON WILSON Poem Text First Line: Screaming shells, whining lead Last Line: More is lost than can ever be won. Subject(s): Death; Trumpets; War; Dead, The WAR CANARY, by ETHEL A. FRAME Poem Text First Line: Caged fragileness of golden song Last Line: Your muted song has told of the approach of yellow mist. Subject(s): Birds; Death; War; Dead, The WAR DEAD, by PATRICK JOHN MCALISTER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Always the dead seem unsuccessful Last Line: Of those in whom we might have been justified. Subject(s): Death; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Dead, The WAR DISPLAY, by EDMUND VANCE COOKE Poem Text First Line: This is the song of the thousand who are multipled by twelve Last Line: For oh, we are proud that we flaunt this flesh in the markets of dismal death! Subject(s): Death; Military Service, Compulsory; Military Service, Voluntary; Social Protest; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The; Conscription; Military Draft; Selective Service WAR IS KIND: 11, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: On the desert / a silence from the moon's deepest valley Last Line: Is in the dance of the whispering snakes. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Snakes; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Serpents; Vipers WAR SUITE: 1, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wars: we're drawn to them Last Line: With the blood still red and wet on them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Mythology; War; Dead, The WAR SUITE: 2, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing sixty-seven wars, the war now Last Line: He wishes suddenly to be stronger than a car. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fairy Tales; Ice; Dead, The WAR SUITE: 3, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The elephant to couple in peace Last Line: Dark and clear within her continent. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Elephants; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime WAR!, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "war - a dirty, loathesome, servile murder-job" Last Line: Because he made them in his image Subject(s): Death;injustice;military;social Protest;soldiers;war; "dead, The; WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WASHINGTON'S MONUMENT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: For him who sought his country's good Last Line: "and may she ever rise in fame, / to honor thy immortal name!" Subject(s): Death;washington Monument; "dead, The; WATER, WINTER, FIRE, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the little light of dawn Last Line: Now it is useless to be home. Subject(s): Death; Fire; Home; Loss; Water; Winter; Dead, The WE ARE THE BLIGHTED, by CHANDLER SHAW Poem Text First Line: We are the blighted, the sick, the tortured of body and soul Last Line: Living spirit of god. Subject(s): Death; Disease; Healing; Dead, The; Cures WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from the brooding home Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god. Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE MAY NOT KNOW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fragile figure robed in costly gown Last Line: Weighs human motives, thoughts, and deeds aright. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WE REAL COOL; THE POOL PLAYERS. SEVEN AT THE GOLDEN SHOVEL, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We real cool. We / left school. We Last Line: Die soon. Variant Title(s): We Real Cool Subject(s): African Americans; African Americans - Children; Americans; Death; Labor & Laborers; Men; United States; Youth; Negroes; American Blacks; Dead, The; Work; Workers; America WE VAINLY WRESTLE WITH THE BLIND BELIEF, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wholly perish Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WE WERE THREE, by CLARIBEL ALEGRIA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was winter Last Line: And there are too many to bury Alternate Author Name(s): Flakoll, Darwin, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Solitude; Dead, The; Loneliness WEANED FROM LIFE AND TORN AWAY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WEARINESS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, I am weary of the world Last Line: To place them with my soul beneath your feet. Subject(s): Death; Melancholy; Weariness; Dead, The; Dejection; Fatigue WEEP NOT FOR HER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for her! Her span was like the sky Last Line: Weep not for her! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness WEEP NOT FOR THOSE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not for those whom the veil of the tomb Last Line: Looks radiantly down on the tears of this world. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Religion; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Theology 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 WELCOME, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Welcome, o fiery pain! Last Line: Vision of love immortal. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Memory; Dead, The 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 WELCOME TO DEATH, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Why should we linger on earth, when have fled Last Line: There's release from all ills in thy grasp! Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Weariness; Dead, The; Fatigue WEST RUNNING BROOK, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Fred, where is north? Last Line: To-day will be the day of what we both said Subject(s): Marriage; Brooks; Death; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Streams; Creeks; Dead, The WESTPHALIAN SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When thou to my true love com'st Last Line: "say, I come tomorrow" Subject(s): Death;germany;hearts;heaven;love - Loss Of; "dead, The;germans;paradise; WHAT ABOUT DYING, by DAVID IGNATOW Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHAT GOD SAID, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After she died / her son destroyed her paintings Variant Title(s): Her Lost Book, Part 1: What God Said Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHAT IS DEATH?, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking on a page where stood Last Line: Asking -- what is death? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHAT MATTERS NOW, by CAROLYN SHARPE Poem Text First Line: Blow, wind blow Last Line: Lost in death's defeat. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHAT OF THE DARKNESS?; TO THE HAPPY DEAD PEOPLE, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What of the darkness? Is it very fair? Last Line: What of the darkness? Is it very fair? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHAT OF THE NIGHT?, by WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: What of the night / and the eventual silences? Last Line: The incoherent unity of things. Subject(s): Death; Night; Dead, The; Bedtime WHAT SPIRIT?, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: What spirit do I house? Last Line: Within the silence of the seed. Subject(s): Death; Love; Rest; Spirituality; Dead, The WHAT THE BONES KNOW, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remembering the past Last Line: I do not waste my breath. Subject(s): Death; Love; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Proust, Marcel (1871-1922); Self-consciousness; Sex; Women; Women's Rights; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939); Dead, The; Feminism WHAT THE BULLET SANG, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O joy of creation / to be! Last Line: Lieth there so cold? Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Bullets; Death; Holidays; Memorial Day; Dead, The; Declaration Day WHAT THE INSTANT CONTAINS (LYLE VAN WARING, 1922-1988), by JORIE GRAHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Presently lyle gets into bed Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHAT THE TRAIN RUN OVER, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the train came shrieking down Last Line: This is what the train runs over. Subject(s): Aging; Children; Death; Railroads; Childhood; Dead, The; Railways; Trains WHAT THEY SAID, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whispering to themselves Last Line: "she will follow soon!"" they said." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT WILL YOU DO, GOD?, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What will you do, god, when I die? Last Line: What will you do, god? I'm afeared. Subject(s): Death; God; Dead, The WHEN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When mine hour is come Last Line: Breathe a gay goodnight. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I were told that I must die to-morrow Last Line: If thou come late. Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Variant Title(s): Faithful Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed WHEN DEATH CAME, by ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wasn't with you when death came Last Line: Sparrows fighting for crumbs Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN DEATH COMES, by MARY OLIVER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN DEATH HAS LOST THE KEY, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING Poem Text First Line: When all my limbs are locked Last Line: Of some dead ecstasy. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN FINIS COMES, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When finis comes, the book we close Last Line: When finis comes! Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Toll not the bell of death for me Last Line: "untold, unsaid" Subject(s): Death; "dead, The; WHEN I AM DEAD, by MARGUERITE BOWMAN CLARK Poem Text First Line: When I am dead, and in a white hot flame Last Line: From this once-barren body life will spring. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: When once I die, I wish no one Last Line: Pure, spotless whiteness desecrate. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Love; Wishes; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by PAUL ELDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: I'll have no compromise Last Line: Their paradise. ... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN I AM DEAD, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, withhold, I pray, your blooming legacy Last Line: O, it would grieve me utterly, to find them on my bier! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: Of a viking! Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Vikings; Dead, The; Parting WHEN I AM DEAD, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead and turned to dust Last Line: Though I am dust. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead and buried underground Last Line: How could I hear, or heed, if I were dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I AM DEAD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, o let it be Last Line: Wilt watch beside that grave of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN I AM DEAD, by LILLIAN R. WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Bury me not too deep Last Line: I shall be one with living things. Subject(s): Death; Nature; Relationships; Dead, The WHEN I GO HOME, by MILTON LEE Poem Text First Line: No tears, no sorrowing farewells Last Line: When I go home! Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Dead, The; Paradise WHEN I HAVE GONE WEIRD WAYS, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have finished with this episode Last Line: Out of the atom-drift! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN I SHALL RISE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I shall rise, and full of many fears Last Line: As once they stood! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WHEN I WAS BORN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when I was born, then others laughed. I cried." Last Line: At death if love of life did not deceive them so. Subject(s): Birth;death;grief;happiness; "child Birth;midwifery;dead, The;sorrow;sadness;joy;delight; WHEN I'M KILLED, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I'm killed, don't think of me Last Line: Your playfellow from the grave. Subject(s): Death; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 WHEN MORNING BREAKS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Nor flowers, nor honeyed words can bring him back Last Line: Thou too shalt smile. Subject(s): Death; Smiles; Dead, The WHEN MY TURN COMES, by BARRETT EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: When my turn comes, dear shipmates all Last Line: All the long night through. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; Sailing & Sailors; Dead, The; Destiny; Seamen; Sails WHEN THE FIRMAMENT QUIVERS WITH DAYLIGHT'S YOUNG BEAM, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet Last Line: "back!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Funerals; Hearses; Horses; Dead, The; Burials WHEN THE NIGHT AND MORNING MEET, by DORA GREENWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the dark and narrow street Last Line: When the night and morning meet. Alternate Author Name(s): Dorothy, Greenwell Subject(s): Death; Grief; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness WHEN THERE IS PEACE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is peace on the sea tonight Last Line: Amid the earthquakes of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Fish & Fishing; God; Love; Peace; Dead, The; Nightmares WHEN WE ARE ALL ASLEEP, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he returns, and finds the world so drear Last Line: "let them sleep on untroubled -- it is best." Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Peace; Second Advent; Dead, The; Second Coming Of Christ WHEN WE HAVE LOST A FRIEND; REV. WILLIAM E. WOLCOTT, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When soldiers die and kings depart Last Line: And we shall find our friend. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN YOU ARE DEAD; A LOVER SPEAKS, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you are dead, my dainty dear Last Line: And buried 'neath the grass. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHEN? (DEATH), by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day in spring Last Line: In heaven, o my god! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHERE HEROES SLEEP, by L. ELEANOR VOSWINKEL Poem Text First Line: In picardy the shadows creep Last Line: In picardy. Subject(s): Death; Heroism; Shadows; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines WHERE MORNING GLORIES GLEAM, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: When the springtime mists are gray above the Last Line: Where the morning glories gleam red, white, and blue above our dead! Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; World War I; Dead, The; First World War WHERE SHALL I DIE?, by MARIA ABDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I die? Shall death's cold hand / arrest my breath Last Line: Who evermore hath cared for me. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Maria; Abdy, Mira; M. A. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHERE SILENCE REIGNS, by W. A. WOODS Poem Text First Line: Out back, where silence reigneth, on the great grey western plains Last Line: While the ever-creaking saddle is the only sound we hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Drayman, John Subject(s): Animals; Death; Desolation; Horses; Prairies; Dead, The; Plains WHERE THE DEAD MEN LIE, by BARCROFT HENRY BOAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out on the wastes of the never never Last Line: Death where the dead men lie. Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Dead, The WHERE?, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I called you through the silent night Last Line: Your bones recumbent lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHICH WAS MOST TRULY DEAD?, by CHARLES AUGUSTIN SAINTE-BEUVE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When late we followed, in her coffin laid Last Line: Which was most truly dead? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHISPERS OF HEAVENLY DEATH, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whispers of heavenly death murmur'd I hear Last Line: Some soul is passing over.) Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHITE CARNATION, by MARY ANNE DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Rain on her grave, and she loved the sun Last Line: Now, it's no matter. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHITE CRANE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Fathers; Death; Cranes (birds); Dead, The WHITE DEATH, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methought the world was bound with final frost Last Line: All darkness rendered shelterless and pale. Subject(s): Death; Frost; Sun; Dead, The WHITE LILACS, by MABEL CLELAND LUDLUM Poem Text First Line: I know that life's a long road with no turning Last Line: "saying, once more, ""be happy while you may!" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Lilacs; Dead, The WHITE NOCTURNE, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The first soft snowflakes hovering down the night Last Line: Wait far off in the undisturbing night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Ghosts; Love; Memory; Supernatural; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WHITE SWORD, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR Poem Text First Line: Oh, silence your levity Last Line: In drifting snows! Subject(s): Death; Laughter; Snow; Dead, The WHITHER, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear one, where art thou gone / who dwelt so long with me? Last Line: Thou goest. It must be best. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The 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 WHO IS HE?, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Who is he, dying so hard? Last Line: Hard it is to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHO PAYS?, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Who pays? I see a gallows set Last Line: Who pays? Who pays? Subject(s): Death; Pain; War; Dead, The; Suffering; Misery WHO'S THERE?, by J. CLARK GRAHAM Poem Text First Line: Wind in reeds Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHY BRAND DEATH?, by ALICE L. REYBOLD Poem Text First Line: Why brand death infamous except life press Last Line: We plead a boon -- release from arid loam! Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WHY DOHERTY DIED, by THOMAS E. SPENCER Poem Text First Line: It was out on the bogan near billabong creek Last Line: "faith! 'tis now that I know why poor doherty died." Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Obesity; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WHY I AM AFRAID OF TURNING THE PAGE, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spokes, spooks: your tinsel hair weaves the wheel Subject(s): Relationships; Birth; Death; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The WHY SHOULD I WAIT?, by LILITH LORRAINE Poem Text First Line: If, as the oriental mystics say Last Line: Why should I wait till death to be reborn? Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Jesus Christ; Rebirth; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WIDOW-MOTHER, by ADA JACKSON Poem Text First Line: Soldier boy, soldier boy Last Line: Presently I'll know. Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Mothers & Sons; War; Widows & Widowers; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War WILL (1), by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no chance, no destiny, no fate Last Line: And waits an hour sometimes for such a will. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Destiny; Ocean WILL THESE HANDS NE'ER BE CLEAN?, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And who is this lies prostrate at thy feet Last Line: But thou shalt not forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Memory; Vengeance; Dead, The WILLIAM BROWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He bore the name of william Last Line: All but the name of william brown. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Duty; Fate; God; Dead, The; Destiny WILLIAM MCKINLEY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He said: it is god's way Last Line: To glory here -- and there. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; God; Mckinley, William (1843-1901); Nations; Patriotism; Soldiers; Dead, The WILLIAM MORRIS, by NEWMAN HOWARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, eyes that beauty brightens! Last Line: In chaucer's heir. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Death; Freedom; Life; Love; Muses; Soul; Dead, The; Liberty WILLIE THE MINER, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Ghastly and strange was the relic found Last Line: Standing still with her lover dead! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mines And Miners; Youth; Cadavers; Dead, The WIND AND SEA, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An idle group within the willow's shade Last Line: Crying, vengeance, vengeance! All the summer night. Subject(s): Death; Love; Nature; Sea; Dead, The; Ocean WIND IN THE TREE, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Though I go quickly, it shall be Last Line: As the wind ... In every flowering tree. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WIND OF THE SOUTH, by JENNIE MCBRIDE BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Tender you were and shy, wind of the south Last Line: My love is dead, beneath the southern stars. Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Dead, The WINDOW, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Graveyard trees hug their shadows close Subject(s): Death - Mothers; Women; Dead, The WINE AND DEATH, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On tender grass, 'neath a laurel-tree Last Line: Who saves his goods for his heirs! Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Life; Dead, The; Wine WINTER BURIAL, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, will you be kind to her Last Line: Next spring? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Winter; Dead, The; Burials WINTER BURIAL, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: Lift - and walk! - they will shut the door for us Last Line: But her cold lover death was more discerning. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Loss; Dead, The; Burials WINTER MORNING, by FLORENCE E. VON WIEN Poem Text First Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Last Line: The morning's in a frivolous mood! Subject(s): Death; Haunted Houses; Skeletons; Dead, The WINTER STORES, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We take from life one little share Last Line: Life's evening hours will bless. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Transience; Life; Death; Impermanence; Dead, The WINTER SUNSET, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: Not in a cringing way Last Line: Goes down to die. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Winter; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The WIRASTRUA, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wirastrua, wirastrua, woe to me that you are dead Last Line: Wirastrua! Wirastrua! Would I were lying as cold as you. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WIRELESS, by HENRY ANDERSON LAFLER Poem Text First Line: The high stars glimmer in thine iron net Last Line: Caught from the far unfathomed gulf of death? Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WIRELESS, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now to those who search the deep Last Line: And a little child may lead them. Subject(s): Death; Night; Sea; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Dead, The; Bedtime; Ocean; First World War WISDOM, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The young girl questions: 'whether were it better' Last Line: "nor may till we be dead." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Life; Rest; Wisdom; Dead, The WITH DEATH THE UNCOUTH, by DONALD EVANS Poem Text First Line: None could remember when he first came there Last Line: New-cut gardenias for my head and feet. Subject(s): Bands; Death; Music & Musicians; Orchestras; Dead, The WITH FLOWERS, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I send to you a nosegay that but now Last Line: Then love me, while thou'rt fair, ere youth is gone! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Love; Time; Youth; Dead, The WITH OMAR, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sat with omar by the tavern door Last Line: Would ask and answer -- trust and doubt and pray. Subject(s): Death; Drinks & Drinking; Future Life; Soul; Dead, The; Wine; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITH THE BREAKDOWN SQUAD, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tanner down on a three spot, / losing again, he blowed!' Last Line: "business is doing well." Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Fire; News; Railroad Wrecks; Dead, The; Train Wrecks WITHDRAWAL, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was it thy step on the mountain-side? Last Line: With the glow of a deathless hope. Subject(s): Death; Moosilauke Mountain, New Hampshire; Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892); Dead, The WITHDRAWALS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look on his face, so aged, so set, so white Last Line: Death. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Faces; Hope; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism WITHOUT, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: We live in a small island stone nation Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WITHOUT CEREMONY, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was your way, my dear Last Line: Good-bye is not worth while!' Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WIVES BY THE DOZEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O death! How thou spoil'st the best project of life! Last Line: Full sorry to die till he made up his dozen. Subject(s): Death; Life; Marriage; Dead, The; Weddings; Husbands; Wives WOMAN TO LOVER, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am fire / stilled to water Last Line: I am the way to die. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Love; Women; Dead, The; Nightmares WOMAN, SONG AND SEASON, by WALTER L. ROOSA Poem Text First Line: No more songs of summer to me! Last Line: And run its way. Subject(s): Absence; Death - Mothers; Women; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The WOMEN OF WAR, by LUCIA TRENT Poem Text First Line: Women, who lust for blood and harbor hate Last Line: Pity the fruit of your unhallowed seed! Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Mrs. Ralph; Glass, Mrs. Ernest Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Women; Dead, The WOODROW WILSON, by EMMA VORIES MEYER Poem Text First Line: That all the world might smile again, I gave Last Line: "and hear their clear glad voices: ""peace on earth!" Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Emma Voorhees Subject(s): Death; Pacifism; Peace; Presidents, United States; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Dead, The; Peace Movements WORDS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Words are lighter than the cloud-foam Last Line: Echoes in god's skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Language; Life; Dead, The; Words; Vocabulary WORDS IN A CERTAIN APPROPRIATE MODE, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not music, though one has tried music Last Line: It is not death, though one has often died Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Roses; Dead, The WORKS AND DAYS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Dare I this task? Ah! Mightier hands than / mine Last Line: "as stars do in the fulness of the day!" Subject(s): Anniversaries; Bowdoin College; Death; Prayer; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Educators; Professors WORLD'S BLISS, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The men & women sang & played Subject(s): Women Writers; Poetry & Poets; Death; Dead, The WORMS AND US, by RACHEL WETZSTEON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maggots in the food, maggots in the floorboards Subject(s): Death; Dead, The WORSHIP, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Broken and maimed and bruised Last Line: And the laughing lovers worship god. Subject(s): Death; God; Sea; Worship; Dead, The; Ocean WOUNDED, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not strange? A year ago today Last Line: Lead on! I'll live to fight another day. Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War 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 WRECK OF THE STEAMER MOHEGAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good people of high and low degree Last Line: And pray to god to protect him at night before ye sleep. Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Sea; Steamboats; Survival; Dead, The; Ocean WRITING IN THE AFTERLIFE, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I imagined the atmosphere would be clear Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WRITTEN AT PARIS. MDCC, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of all that william rules, or robe Last Line: And thy petitioner shall pray. Subject(s): Death; Gardens & Gardening; Life; Paris, France; Dead, The WRITTEN IN NORTHAMPTON COUNTY ASYLUM, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am: yet what I am none cares or knows Last Line: The grass below -- above the vaulted sky. Variant Title(s): His Last Verses Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Depression, Mental; Insanity; Religion; Solitude; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Madness; Mental Illness; Theology; Loneliness WRITTEN ON A BLANK LEAF OF HIS POEMS, FOR CHLORIS, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis friendship's pledge, my young, fair friend Last Line: These joys could he improve. Subject(s): Friendship; Death; Beauty; Dead, The WRITTEN ON THE DEATH OF OUR BELOVED GENERAL STONEWALL JACKSON, by CAROLINE AUGUSTA BALL Poem Text First Line: There's a wail of woe on the summer breeze Last Line: His last victory gained, his rest has won. Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Heroism; Jackson, Thomas (stonewall) (1824-1863); United States - History; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines WRITTEN TO GAALDINE PRISON CAVES TO A.G.A., by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy sun is near meridian height Last Line: This hell shall wring thy spirit too! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Dead, The WRITTEN WHEN THE MIND WAS OPPRESSED, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Wandering amid the horrors of the night Last Line: And every human bosom starts from death. Subject(s): Death; Oppression; Dead, The X-RAY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: What truth the doctor reads Last Line: And breath. Subject(s): Bones; Death; Medicine; Physicians; Skeletons; X-rays; Dead, The; Drugs, Prescription; Doctors YE WHO ARE TO SING, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O silence of all silences, where wait Last Line: If graves may listen then, I then shall listening be! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Time; Dead, The YEARS VANISH LIKE THE MORNING DEW, by MEI SHENG Poem Text First Line: I drive my chariot up to the eastern gate Last Line: And clothe our bodies in robes of satin and silk. Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.); Death; Dead, The YELLOW FLOWERS, by ANTONIN SOVA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fields of death grow sear in gloom Last Line: "they will not die. They answer ""no." Subject(s): Aging; Death; Dead, The YET A LITTLE WHILE (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These days are long before I die Last Line: And air vibrates with coming chimes. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Peace; Seasons; Dead, The YOU AND I, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Not he who lays it on the shelf Last Line: When sun and stars are quenched forever. Subject(s): Death; Love; Dead, The YOU HELPED GIVE A SHAPE TO SLIPSTREAMING TIME WITH A WAVE OF YOUR HAND', by ANDREW MOTION Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think of the failing body now Subject(s): Elizabeth, The Queen Mother (1900-2002); Death; Bowes-lyons, Elizabeth; Dead, The YOU WILL DIE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: You have coats and robes Last Line: And another will take your place Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);death; "dead, The; YOU: PART 1, by RON SILLIMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard dreams. The moment at which you recognize that your own death lies Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Death; Social Commentaries; Language Poetry; Dead, The YOUNG DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lying a-dying / such sweet things untasted Last Line: And god the temple. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life; Love; Soul; Voices; Dead, The YOUNG FELLOW MY LAD, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you going, young fellow my lad Last Line: "we will owe to our lads like you." Subject(s): Death; War; World War I; Dead, The; First World War YOUNG MAN, by JOHN HAINES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seemed always standing Subject(s): Youth; Death; Dead, The YOUNG MEN .. WERE FICKLE FOUND SINCE SUMMER TREES WERE LEAFY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go in peace my beloved; tho' never again Last Line: In thy far-distant country and sun-gladdened clime. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Love; Peace; Dead, The YOUR BIRTHDAY IN THE CALIFORNIA MOUNTAINS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A broken moon on the cold water Subject(s): Birthdays; California; Death; Memory; Mountains; Past; Dead, The; Hills; Downs (great Britain) YOUTH AND DEATH, by EDWARD MERRILL ROOT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is but life's escape: a rung Last Line: And god remains alive by death. Alternate Author Name(s): Root, E. Merrill Subject(s): Death; God; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH IN AGE, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was part of the music I heard Last Line: As it will for sheer love till the last long sigh. Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Death; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH IN ARMS, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Happy boy, happy boy Last Line: David of a thousand slings. Subject(s): Death; Soldiers; War; Youth; Dead, The YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: 'BEAUTY SHE HAD ...', by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Remember not my eyes when I am dead Last Line: Death set her free, and gave her life at last. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Dead, The YOUTH. A SONNET SEQUENCE: DEATH WILL NOT FRIGHTEN ME, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death will not frighten me, if death can send Last Line: Her wonder still, through hidden sun and rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dead, The YPRES 1919, by EDWIN BARLOW EVANS Poem Text First Line: These fields of bleak white crosses sear my eyes Last Line: And man, like gulliver, still eats the ground. Subject(s): Death; Sonnet (as Literary Form); War; Dead, The ZARA (3) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed that loving me he would love on Last Line: Oh love that gnaws and gnaws and cannot kill. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Life; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Nightmares ZION, by DONALD REVELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Suddenly copper roses glow on the deadwood. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life ZOPHIEL; OR THE BRIDE OF SEVEN: CANTO 2. DEATH OF ALTHEETOR, by MARIA GOWEN BROOKS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon over meles' grave the wild flower dropt Last Line: With all her house; and seeks her own acacia grove. Alternate Author Name(s): Del Occidente, Maria; Brooks, Maria A. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Jews; Love; Marriage; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Judaism; Weddings; Husbands; Wives [UNTITLED], by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: = Subject(s): Death; Dead, The |
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