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Subject: GRIEF Matches Found: 2563 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "FORTY YEARS AGO [OR, TWENTY YEARS AGO]", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I've wandered to the village, tom, I've sat beneath the tree" Last Line: "I hope they'll lay us where we play'd, just twenty years ago" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness "GO, SONG OF MINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dishevelled and in tears, go, song of mine" Last Line: To seek its maker at the heavenly shrine Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness "WALY, WALY (1)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o waly, waly, up the bank" Last Line: "amd I mysel were dead and gane, / and the green grass growing over me" Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twelve moneths agoe, what rate would I too dear Last Line: Dispair is better farr, than fruitless hope. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism Γενεθλιακον, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Whilst I behinde me cast my annual ey Last Line: Thy graces aid, at least now gin to live. Subject(s): England; Grief; Holidays; Hope; New Year; English; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism (HUSHED TONE OF VOICE), by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This story tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 18-AUG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They said the moon wasn't going to rise no no Last Line: Burr-like he closes over us Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 19-NOV-82, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Two crows in the pine are loud Last Line: Of brand new iris flowers Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 25-DEC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bill brown has discussed his christmas day Last Line: The wine is still unblighted Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 26-JUN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Unexpected gifts %that liven the moments Last Line: Brings your card and our collaboration %almost a year old Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 BURDENS, FR. STAGE LOVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The burden of fair women. Vain delight Last Line: This is the end of every man's desire. Variant Title(s): A Ballad Of Burden Subject(s): Grief; Life; Trials; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A BALLAD OF THE WAILING GHOST, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As I between the dusk and dark Last Line: "and know her secret grief," Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness A BALLAD SARK, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High beyond the granite portal arched across Last Line: On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 23. YET STILL I LIVE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No grave for woe, yet earth my watery tears devours Last Line: My day is night, my life my death, and all but sense of sorrow. Subject(s): Grief A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 27, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him that will be free and keep his heart from care Last Line: Load not your guilty souls with wrong, and heaven then will soon relent. Subject(s): Grief A BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cypress curtain of the night is spread Last Line: As this poor one, the worser part of me. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A BRIDE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O I am weary!' she sighed, as her billowy Last Line: To kneel in dumb agony down and weep near her! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A BRIEF FOR THE DEFENSE, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow everywhere. Slaughter everywhere. If babies Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A CASTLE IN THE AIR, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I built myself a castle Last Line: Only -- I looked beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Grief; Hope; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A CHILD IS WEEPING, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What can afflict the child thus weeping? Last Line: A child can weep itself to sleep. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness A COROT IN NATURE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunset sky burns deep and red beyond Last Line: That such dear pathos maketh almost glad? Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Happiness; Nature; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A CROWN OF SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sorrow, wet with early tears Last Line: Upon my brow. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness A CRY FROM THE CANADIAN HILLS, by LILIAN LEVERIDGE Poem Text First Line: Laddie, little laddie, come with me over the hills Last Line: Over the hills of god, laddie, the beautiful hills of home. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A DAUGHTER OF EVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A fool I was to sleep at noon Last Line: I sit alone with sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DESCRIPTION OF SUCH A ONE AS HE WOULD LOVE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A face that should content me wondrous well Last Line: And knit again the knot that should not slide. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Epigram;epigram: 29 Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Language; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary A DIALOGUE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I now will throw myself down Last Line: And die there / in sorrow Subject(s): Suicide; Grief A DIRGE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rough wind, that moanest loud Last Line: Wail, for the world's wrong. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 DREAM OF AUTUMN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mellow hazes, lowly trailing Last Line: Down the silence solemnly. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Autumn; Dreams; Grief; Harvest; Seasons; Fall; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A DREAM OF LIFE, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our time-career is yon dark cloud Last Line: God grant! Shall mock their glance. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Tears; Time; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness A FALSE GENIUS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I see a spirit by thy side Last Line: He is a demon in disguise! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Duplicity; Evil; Genius; God; Grief; Deceit; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FUNERAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We carried you one sullen winter day Last Line: Not lovely, friend of friends, for you were dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Winter; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness A GIRL'S SONGS: VINTAGE, by MARY CAROLYN DAVIES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heartbreak that is too new Last Line: Too new to pour is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Leland, Mrs.; Pawtuxie Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A HARVEST SONG, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the mellow days of autumn Last Line: And she sings the reaper's song. Subject(s): Army - United States; Grief; Marching & Marches; Memory; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness A HEAVY HEART, IF EVER HEART WAS HEAVY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Ah blessed heaviness if such they be! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; God A HIDDEN HAND - SOMEWHERE, by ALFRED JENNINGS FUNNELL Poem Text First Line: There is somewhere a hidden hand Last Line: Pure being without end. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A LAST COUNSEL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could you not in silence borrow Last Line: To the mother-bosom creeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Advice; Farewell; Grief; Solitude; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness A LENTEN ONE, by LUBOV STOLITZA Poem Text First Line: Noon in golden thaw is garbed with glory Last Line: But our shadowed eyes are our betrayer. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LETTER TO SARA HUTCHINSON, APRIL 4, 1802 -- SUNDAY EVENING, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weatherwise, who made Last Line: Thus may'st thou ever, evermore rejoice! Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness A LOOKING-GLASS FOR LONDON AND ENGLAND: USURY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Groaning in conscience, burdened with / my crimes Last Line: Die, reprobate, and hie thee hence to hell.' Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Repentance; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence A LOST EDEN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, it was a lonely place Last Line: Why should I be sad? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A LOST LEADER, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My head is wild with weeping for a grief Last Line: Among men's spirits should be cold and blind. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LYNMOUTH WIDOW, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: He was straight and strong, his eyes were blue Last Line: And the smell of the nets on the churchyard wall! Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness A MAN, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A man confronted by masks Last Line: And be cautious all the while. Subject(s): Grief 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 MISUNDERSTANDING (CONNEMARA), by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis my bitter grief,' she said Last Line: For they ne'er could understand.' Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 NEW BEING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know myself no more, my child Last Line: And many a weeping head. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Pity; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness A NEW MADRIGAL TO AN OLD MELODY, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As along a dark pine-bough, in slender white mystery Last Line: For marian, our clear may, so long laid in earth. Subject(s): Earth; Fools; Grief; Hope; Moon; Seasons; Time; World; Idiots; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism A NOCTURNE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon has gone to her rest Last Line: Then shall ye sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Night; Sleep; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Loneliness A NOCTURNE, by ALICE MILLIGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a night of sorrow I cried aloud her name Last Line: Than your own heart's gift of never-changing love. Alternate Author Name(s): Olkyrn, Iris Subject(s): Grief A PASTORAL OF TASSO, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy golden age Last Line: Comes once to set, it makes eternal night. Subject(s): Country Life; Grief; Life; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness A POEM ENTREATING OF SORROW, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My days' delight, my springtime joys fordone Last Line: Unto this widow land and people hopeless? Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A POETICAL VERSION OF A LETTER ON RESIGNATION, FROM JACOB BEHMEN, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear brother in our saviour christ - his grace Last Line: And christian love here dictates what I say. Subject(s): Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Sympathy; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy A PRAYER, by V. H. FRIEDLANDER Poem Text First Line: Leave not a veil before my eyes Last Line: A heart to understand. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism A PRAYER FOR A VERY NEW ANGEL, by VIOLET ALLEYN STOREY Poem Text First Line: God, god, be lenient her first night there Last Line: When she wakes up, do things for her my way! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness A PRAYER IN SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is at thy feet, - my helpless hear! Last Line: Save me -- o strong to save, as strong to smite! Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness A PRIEST OF HUMANITY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Of sorrows bitter-strange is wove his fate Last Line: More bitter is the grief that eats his heart! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A QUIET WINTER MORNING, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here peace and quiet reign in undisturbed dominion Last Line: And gentle winds of spring and summer. Subject(s): Grief; Peace; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A RAINY DAY, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All day, against the window pane Last Line: For days clear shining after rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery A RAMAGE FOR AWAKENING SORROW, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grackles stroll about on the black floor of sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A RETROSPECT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From this fair point of present bliss Last Line: And so rejoice my life may be all consecrated, dear, to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 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 SEASONABLE MORAL, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The woman sang her ballad to the sky Last Line: The chance is such as you ought not to take. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Begging & Beggars; Gifts & Giving; Good Samaritan; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 13, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was one-and-twenty Last Line: And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true; Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): The Cost Of Love Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Innocence; Love; Sorrow; Sadness A SIMILE, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Serenely smiled / the morning mild Last Line: With sorrows beyond measure. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG (1), by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All in an april wood Last Line: Bides with me yet. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG BEFORE GRIEF, by ROSE HAWTHORNE LATHROP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, my friend Last Line: A flaming torch thrown to the golden sea by your pale hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Alphonsa, Mother Mary Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG FOR TWO VOICES, by MAURICE HENRY HEWLETT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O mother, mother, isn't it fun Last Line: Sin and shame, sin and shame. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness 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 IN SEASON, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou whose beauty Last Line: And its roots bears fruit forever. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Love; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness A SONG OF SORROW; A LULLABYLET FOR A MAGAZINELET, by CHARLES BATTELL LOOMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wan from the wild and woeful west Last Line: (but it waked up, drat it!) Subject(s): Babies; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Infants; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs 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 SORROWFUL SIGH OF A PRISONER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord, comest thou to me Last Line: The place to lay thy head! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness 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 STORY OF THE SEA, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Were you ever told the legend old Last Line: "is alone the peace he craves." Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sea; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A SWEET NOSEGAY: IS. W. TO C.B. IN BEWAYLYNGE HER MISHAPPES, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If heavie hartes might serve to be a sacrifice for sinne Last Line: To the conducting of my friende, Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A TALE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He had been touched with grief, and on her cheek Last Line: Only to think of what had been, and grieve. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A THOUGHT FROM NIETSZCHE, by CHARLES JAMES Poem Text First Line: I have been dealt a cruel blow Last Line: Me stronger than I was. Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm (1844-1900); Strength; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness A TITANIC MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Och! 'tis come again, april, the same fine air Last Line: Of an april morn. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): April; Grief; Mothers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean A TRANSCRIPTION, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This young man comes from your way, tom Last Line: "there's nothen now for nobody, only sorrow." Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Home; Nostalgia; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness A VALENTINE, by WARREN K. BILLINGS Poem Text First Line: Life's joys and sorrows rise and ever wane Last Line: Just that, and nothing more. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Holidays; Keller, Helen (1880-1968); Life; Love; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight A VISION, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gloomy and black are the cypress-trees Last Line: The rain, and the rustling cyprus-trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Life; Pain; Vision; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Suffering; Misery A WEEPING CUPID, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, love! I thought you were gay and fair Last Line: Come, love! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WINTER REVERIE ON A WESTERN PLAIN, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No hills or mountains grace the vast expanse Last Line: Of earthly gain, the longest hope of many prayers. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness A WINTRY WASTE, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The boughs they blow across the pane Last Line: That waste is all I see. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN I KNEW, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mind me of a woman that I knew Last Line: "I envy her!"" the pale drab woman said." Subject(s): Aging; Envy; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN'S LOVE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A sentinel angel sitting high in glory Last Line: "was bitterer than a thousand years of fire!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness A WOMAN'S SONNETS: 11, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild words I write, and lettered in deep pain Last Line: My tumults and my joys I may proclaim. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness A YEAR'S CAROLS: NOVEMBER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, soft november, though thy pale Last Line: How fair thy faint wan face may be. Subject(s): Grief; November; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness AA MEETING, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One after another they rise in this basement Last Line: We might live in it, from day to day Subject(s): Death; Grief ABANDONED SELECTIONS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the crimson breast of the sunset Last Line: Is watching you break your own! Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Nostalgia; Property; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness; Possessions ABER STATIONS: STATIO SECUNDA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Just listen to the blackbird -- what a note Last Line: I hope he won't go mad. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness ABOVE ALL GREAT AND PUBLIC GRIEF, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know how you will turn abruptly from the lilacs and cry? Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ABOVE SHELTON LAUREL, by RON RASH Poem Source First Line: Fog never lifts, though the days Last Line: Leading back to tennessee Subject(s): Absence; American Civil War; Grief; Soldiers; U.s. - History; War 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 ACCURSED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Pallid white the moonlight gloweth Last Line: List to my despairing cry! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness ACME, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, unforgotten sorrow, sleep awhile Last Line: The toughest oak groans long but rends at length. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ACQUAINTED WITH GRIEF, by HELEN MARIA HUNT FISKE JACKSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dost know grief well? Hast known her long? Last Line: "who walked beside you yesterday?" Alternate Author Name(s): H. H.; Holm, Saxe; Jackson, Helen Hunt Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Smiles; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs ACROBOT OF PAIN, by JOAO DA CRUZ E SOUSA Poem Source First Line: Chortle, laugh, in a laughter of storm Last Line: Laugh! Heart, saddest of clowns Subject(s): Grief ACROSS THE ROAD, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A donkey wobbles ears, shakes tail Last Line: At the fenced-in field %with apples in her hands Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AD ASTRA: 105, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O breaking hearts! O smiles that fain would hide Last Line: If that far crown of thorns availeth naught? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Crucifixion; Cruelty; Grief; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness AD ASTRA: 115, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And sorrow serves not only to refine Last Line: Shows grief to have been god's hallowing means of grace. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness AD ASTRA: 14, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: But have we never found her kinship vain Last Line: And just as lightly will she weep to-morrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AD ASTRA: 45, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: And shall I cry for ever, and in vain? Last Line: And every gleam augmenteth my despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness AD FRATREM, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot let this perfect morning pass Last Line: Her garden slopes, and fruitful orchard vales. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Nature; Oaths; Sea; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ADIEU, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu! Adieu! / bright eye of blue Last Line: To know the future god may give. Subject(s): Future; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ADONIS IS OLDER THAN JESUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever heard of a place called byblus? Last Line: Tender life again. Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Loss; Mythology; Religion ADVENT STANZAS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are we always creating you, as rilke said Last Line: I am too imperfect to bear Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Poetry And Poets; Rebirth ADVICE TO AMANDA, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amanda, since thy lovely frame Last Line: A prize to faithful love Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love AFTER A LONG SADNESS, MORNING SONG, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: In the dream an old silversmith from the tribes Last Line: My father raised once more before I woke Subject(s): Grief AFTER A SOUTHERN VISIT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: My aunt is epiphyte. She needs a tree Last Line: When life dries up she waits a coming of the rains Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AFTER EULOGIES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Tired of praising the dead Last Line: Of dark pines %beside the water Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: First — chill — then stupor — then the letting go Subject(s): Grief; Pain AFTER GREAT PAIN A FORMAL FEELING COMES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: As freezing persons recollect the snow- %first chill, then stupor, then the letting go Variant Title(s): Poem: 341; Poem: 37 Subject(s): Grief; Pain AFTER LONG YEARS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They told me then that time would heal my heart Last Line: They do not know! Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness AFTER THE BURIAL, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, faith is a goodly anchor Last Line: And argues your wisdom down. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness AFTER THE FUNERAL, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As if some force we did not recognize Last Line: Him, time and time again, their whole %sleepless lives Subject(s): Death; Grief 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 SYMPHONY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last finale had crashed Last Line: Then slow sleep muted all to oblivion. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Musical Instruments; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight AFTER TRAVELING IN KYOTO, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Through the barrier gate Last Line: And the calm house rocks like a boat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AFTER-LIFE, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O boon and curse in one - this ceaseless need Last Line: Born but to bloom a summer time and die. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Life; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness AFTERWARD, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I said, 'the bitterness of grief is gone' Last Line: This little pillow -- must I brave them too? Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AGAIN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: The blackbird in the april grass Last Line: When it sings again Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Singing And Singers AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Life has a repetitious feel Last Line: Precious, rare and mundane, where we live Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss AGAIN RECOGNIZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: We had to leave that beautiful place Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AGATHA, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She wanders in the april woods Last Line: Envies the dying year. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness 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 AH IT'S SOCKED IN TODAY BOYS HEAVY METAL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And soft grasses Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AH PHOOEY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grafted apples for an entry. Empty Last Line: By merely listening, you add your sound Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AIDEEN'S GRAVE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They heaved the stone; they heap'd the cairn Last Line: Ben edar to the dead. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALEXANDRINE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas the morning of palm sunday, in village adair Last Line: Alexandrine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Palm Sunday; Sorrow; Sadness ALIEN, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark glowed the vales of amethyst Last Line: Rolled on above our tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Light; Sorrow; Sadness ALL FLESH IS GRASS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So brief a life, and then an endless life Last Line: "dies away ""alas!" Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Transience; Grief ALL INFLUENCES WERE IN VAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The creature kept so well to heel! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Regret ALL IS GONE NOW', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They break silently %into many pieces Subject(s): Grief; Solitude ALL THE WOMEN CAUGHT IN FLARING LIGHT, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Imagine a big room of women doing anything Subject(s): Women; Mothers; Gays & Lesbians; Children; Grief; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness ALL THIS EVERYDAY, SELS., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When I used to focus on the worries Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ALL THOSE SLEEP SHAPES, CRYSTALLINE, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My grief, I can see, %is deserting to you Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Grief ALLELUIA! OR ALAS! MY HEART IS CRYING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Life descending soon to be ascending Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Heaven ALLEN BROOKE, OF WINDERMERE, by AMELIA OPIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, have you in the valley seen Last Line: My allen brooke, of windermere. Alternate Author Name(s): Alderson, Amelia Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 1, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Matthew met richard, when or where Last Line: Not to be thought expert in both. Subject(s): Aristotle (384-322 B.c.); Grief; Love; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness ALMA: OR, THE PROGRESS OF THE MIND: CANTO 3, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Richard, who now was half asleep Last Line: Here! Jonathan, your master's bottle. Subject(s): Fate; Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Sleep; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness ALONE (2), by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The abode of the nightingale is bare Last Line: It is winter. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness AMORETTI: 42, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love which me so cruelly tormenteth Last Line: And doe me not before my time to dy. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Pain; Grief AMORETTI: 52, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So oft as homeward I from her depart Last Line: That of her presens I my meed may take. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Grief; Reconciliation AMPHORA, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In an amphora brightly patterned Last Line: Fearful some hand, touching it unawar, %may on my bosom its wine spill Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) Subject(s): Grief AN ADIEU, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES Poem Text First Line: Sorrow, quit me for a while! Last Line: I shall not forget thee! Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ELEGY OCCASIONED BY SICKNESS, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well did the prophet ask, lord, what is man? Last Line: Shall death's black night to endless lustre turn. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY ON THE LADY PEN; SENT TO MY MISTRESS OUT OF FRANCE, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let him who from his tyrant mistress did Last Line: In either eye a tear, each hand a verse. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief; Separation 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 OCTOBER AFTERNOON, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never again / the world all gold Last Line: Never again! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ORDER FOR A SONG, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make me a song of all good Last Line: And heaven lean to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ANAESTHETICS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: I dreamt I saw a healer stand Last Line: "upsteals the saintly moon!" Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Soul; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ANCIENT BALLAD: DEATH OF DURANDARTE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Closed in death lies durandarte %montesinos sees him die Last Line: To distract her gentle bosom %and afflict her soul with woe s Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heroism; Memory AND SOMETIMES I APPROACH THE BORDERS OF INSOMNIA, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source Last Line: Like a talisman of my sorrows Subject(s): Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina; Insomnia; Photography And Photographers; Pictures AND THEY ARE DUMB, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have been across the bridges of the years wet with tears Last Line: And they are dumb! Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Tears; Truth; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness AND WITH MARCH A DECADE IN BOLINAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just sitting around smoking, drinking and telling stories Last Line: Great breath, I give you, great breath! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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: KING RIVER CANYON, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My sorrow is so wide Last Line: Over the cobbles, in a lost spring Subject(s): Canyons; Death; Grief; Love; Solitude ANGER, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were arguing Last Line: I am committed %fully %intentionally %to you Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of ANGUISH, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Why does anguish scrape me to the bone? Last Line: Now all is gone that was tiger, poppy Subject(s): Grief ANN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: That next morning, after she died Last Line: Do not be afraid Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of 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 ANNIE (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Annie is fairer than her kith Last Line: For many a weary day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Hearts; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 ANTHRO INFO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The immortals are so old Last Line: When you first started remembering them Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grief; Loss ANTICIPATORY GRIEVING, by JANE BAILEY Poem Source First Line: Second to the last day of the workshop Last Line: We will, I mutter. Tomorrow, we will Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Vacation ANTS, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: To warm life passing singing with the grace Last Line: Them to me on the graveyard's critical threshold, %their bread and perfume, venom and cautery Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of ANY WIFE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nobody knows but you and I, my dear Last Line: Love by its pangs, love that endures for love. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; God; Grief; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives ANYTHING THAT IS CREATED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And its own empty space Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss APPLE, AN ORANGE, AND A FLASHLIGHT FULL MOON ECLIPSE WITH COMET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Glowing full in eastern sky Last Line: A final ghostly marble in relief Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss APPLES, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Before she went from grieving Last Line: Of the apples dropping down. Subject(s): Apples; Fruit; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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; ARABIC (JORDAN, 1992), by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man with laughing eyes stopped smiling Last Line: In every language and opened its doors. Subject(s): Arabic Language; Arabs - Women; Grief; Jordan; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ARBASTO: SONG, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Whereat erewhile I wept, I laugh Last Line: Through her I weep, at her I smile. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ARCHITECTURE, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone - gone the spires, and pinnacles, and fanes Last Line: And all my necromancy is a tomb—my heart. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness ARE YOU NAPPING?, by IM JE Poem Source First Line: Are you napping or just hiding, lying Last Line: That I cannot raise to my sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude ARIADNE WATCHING THE SAE AFTER THE DEPARTURE OF THESEUS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely - lonely on the shore Last Line: Loving, but beloved no more! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Ariadne; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness ARIZONA MIDNIGHT, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grief of the coyote seeems to make Last Line: Its own necessary beauty Subject(s): Night; Grief; Coyotes ARLES IN THE RAIN, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: The rain like an old woman with silken steps Last Line: And of my father's footsteps haunting me Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Solitude ARMGART, by MARY ANN EVANS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Good morning, fraulein Last Line: T is better that our griefs should not spread far. Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, George; Cross, Marian Lewes; Evans, Marian; Ann, Mary Subject(s): Germany; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Philosophy & Philosophers; Sickness; Singing & Singers; Germans; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Illness; Songs 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 ARTHUR OKAMURA'S PIPUL TREE'S BODHI LEAF, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All these sentient questions Last Line: From every tree Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ARTIST IN A NEW SEASON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Black stoneware plate. Orange segments Last Line: Your mouth that takes my tongue Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AS A FATHER SHOULD BE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You came %rushing against the clock Last Line: I love you dad Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of AS I WALKED FORTH, by ROBERT JOHNSON (1555-1626) Poem Text First Line: As I walked forth one summer's day Last Line: Alas, alas! With love her heart did break. Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AS OLD AS WOE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Can human nature hide Variant Title(s): Poem: 1168; Poem: 125 Subject(s): Grief; Happiness AS REAL AS LIFE, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say to the mild melancholy of regret Subject(s): Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AS THE SPARKS FLY UPWARDS, by JOHN HOLLANDER Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of an ungrounded grief Last Line: The great, grass-skinned ground, will say Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ASHES OF ROSES, by ELAINE GOODALE EASTMAN Poem Text First Line: Soft on the sunset sky Last Line: Ashes of roses. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness ASHES TO ASHES, by HARRIET WINTON DAVIS Poem Text First Line: Ashes to ashes, and one by one Last Line: We search for it long, with tears? Subject(s): Grief; Worry; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 1, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw thee in the streets, so wan and pale Last Line: For, through the racking fire, she winged her upward flight. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like jove's great eagle, who on giant wings Last Line: Swallowed and lost my life in vast whirlpools of light. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 11, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Blossoms rain upon the lea Last Line: And thou standest in thy height. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 12, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Creature of moods and changes manifold Last Line: Soul, like a star, wilt thou pursue thy way? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Each word that falleth from thy lips Last Line: And buds and blossoms forth in song. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 3, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weeping, weary, did I wander Last Line: See the vaulting skies appear. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Am I, indeed, th' aeolian harp Last Line: And flaming grandly on and on. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Harps; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres ASPIRATIONS: 5, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I move amid a golden cloud Last Line: In hushed and reverential prayer. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 6, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My soul is like a fragile flower Last Line: And overbrims in tears of joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight ASPIRATIONS: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the echoes, clear and light Last Line: To steep their being in the infinite skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 8, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is hushed and holy Last Line: That twilight soul of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASPIRATIONS: 9, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes, in the summer night Last Line: O'er me dazzling doth it roll. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; God; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness ASTAPOVO, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In his last years, tolstoy believed Last Line: Forming on his lips, holding him there Subject(s): Death; Grief AT A FUNERAL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her too, this woman who is dead Last Line: Who do not weep. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DAWN, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children, my children, the daylight is breaking Last Line: Anoint with your love or arraign with your pardon? Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AT EUSTON STATION, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Yon is the train I used to take Last Line: But I go home no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Grief; Home; Homecoming; Ireland; Longing; Railroads; Sorrow; Sadness; Irish; Railways; Trains AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 1 WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh rainbow %charges the channeling Last Line: A whole flock of meadow larks have arrived Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 15 WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The phone is constantly busy Last Line: Lushness is returning water Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Post valentine - dee dee & diana Last Line: Dwell on it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 16 THURSDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's like regular now the weather Last Line: Back to you later Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 17 FRIDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Mist - on the orchids Last Line: Sun at the door - come in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 6 MONDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's soo cold the garden hose if full Last Line: For the day which is sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: FEBRUARY 7 TUESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The phoebe in the icy cold wind darts quickly Last Line: For long they are gone Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 3, 1989, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the impending muse - phew Last Line: Blossoms of the winter new year Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 5, 1989, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ridge line silver mist Last Line: In the same sun's dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANAURY 6, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hot morning sun after frost Last Line: You just come here and take the cream off the top Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 16 MONDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's that curling over there Last Line: Words, they're very __. %evaluating Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 24 TUESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Risky show-off shows internal bending. After the superbowl Last Line: Ruffles the light silk garment %of this lone sitter Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: JANUARY 26 THURSDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sheer impudence of just Last Line: Their presence was a guarantee of calm, an antibody to agitation Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT JON'S HOUSE: SATURDAY FEBRUARY 4, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: White sheen on open bolinas ridge top Last Line: Gleaming, silver, white. Happy birthday Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT PARTYING, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The night is silent, love, and here beside thee Last Line: Ah, holy, holy moment of farewell! Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Love; Silence; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness AT POOL POINT, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pool point is where the cumberland Last Line: "forgive, forgive thy child." Subject(s): Forgiveness; Grief; Rivers; Clemency; Sorrow; Sadness AT PT. REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Break water '85 %and still alive Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss AT SUNSET, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The robin warbles in the dusk Last Line: And know the glories of thy will. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature; Robins; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ASCENSION, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And wouldst thou, holy shepherd, leave Last Line: How beggared wilt thou leave us, how %obscure! Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Ascension Day; Grief AT THE LUXEMBOURG, by GUY-CHARLES CROS Poem Text First Line: I remember a maiden Last Line: And is the author of a baker's dozen volumes of light or delicate verse. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Household Employees; Luxembourg; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids AT THE STEVENSON FOUNTAIN (PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO), by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Perhaps from out the thousands passing by Last Line: And draw contentment from a cup of tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Fountains; Grief; San Francisco; Sorrow; Sadness AT THE TABLE FOR NO REASON, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The hummingbird is christmas, red throat Last Line: I leave to get on with coming back Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Hummingbirds ATTA TROLL; A SUMMER-NIGHT'S DREAM: CAPUT 8, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many a very virtuous burgher Last Line: "dance before the master's throne?" Subject(s): Creation; Grief; Religion; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology AUBURN POEM, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A book I was reading this morning Last Line: Glance. This, so late, the crisis of our lives. Subject(s): Children; Divorce; Grief; Life; Marriage; Parents; Sickness; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood; Illness AULD ROBIN GRAY, by ANNE LINDSAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the sheep are in the fauld, when the kye [or, cows] at hame Last Line: For auld robin gray, he is kind unto me. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnard, Lady Anne Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness AULD SCOTLAND AT THE ABBEY CRAIG IN NOVEMBER, 1864, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As white as a ghaist, wi' a tear in her e'e Last Line: "wi' the will there's a way, wi' the means there's a power." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness AURORA, OR THE MAD TALE MADLY TOLD, by ELIZABETH TREFUSIS Poem Text First Line: Tis night. And this the fearful hour Last Line: This maniac had been dead a year, a month, and day! Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations AUTUMN, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The air is sad and still. A bright transparency! Last Line: Down to the wintry regions soon to darkness fated. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMN, by ALBERT SAMAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly we go with the old dog close behind us Last Line: Of dead illusions as of children that have died. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMN FRUIT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I'm learning now to wait and not to rush Last Line: Force the sour unready meat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AUTUMN ON THE PRAIRIE, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER Poem Text First Line: There's a hush upon the prairie Last Line: I am home this year. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Homecoming; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness AUTUMNAL SONNET, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods Last Line: Poor earth, where we were wont to live and grieve. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Autumn; Desertion & Nonsupport; Grief; Leaves; Melancholy; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection AVA GARDNER AFTER CHRISTMAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cold air rushing under door Last Line: Browsing: a semi-contented mind Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Motion Pictures; Stars AWAKE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: When the wind sleeps Last Line: I watch %the new moon Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature AWAKENING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lights shone down the street Last Line: He had won for himself that day. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness AWAY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot say, and I will not say Last Line: He is not dead -- he is just away. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): He Is Not Dead Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology 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 AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It is so hard Last Line: No happiness on the earth %for me Subject(s): Aztecs; Grief AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now you revive us Last Line: From this weeping Subject(s): Aztecs; Grief AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Because I cry Last Line: I am bitter Subject(s): Aztecs; Grief AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see eagles tigers I see glory Last Line: That we have here Subject(s): Aztecs; Grief BABEL, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet home of no style, fabricated Last Line: And other times she just starts to cry! Subject(s): Grief 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 BACHELOR HALL, by EUGENE FIELD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems like a dream - that sweet wooing Last Line: To the dead and the dying of bachelor hall. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Single People; Sorrow; Sadness; Bachelors; Unmarried People BACK FROM BISBEE: OR CLEAN UP TIME IN BOLINAS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For one thing the sun has appeared as bobbie louise Last Line: Steps. 'did you bring the beer?' she said Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK TO SCHOOL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm off to work Last Line: This same old self become mindful again and well Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BACK TO THE LIFE OF NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's ghastly. It's been %going on for some time Last Line: And goes back to his silent sitting Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BAD WORD, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The next door neighbor has bought one of those above-ground pools Last Line: For the back yard; it is what he wants his love to mean Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Family Life; Grief; Love; Neighbors BALEFUL RETURN, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: It is better not to go back to the village Last Line: And the intimate responsive sadness Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of BALLAD, by MARGARET GROSVENOR Poem Text First Line: Love met sorrow on the road Last Line: Love had grown a man. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness BALLAD TO THE ITALIAN TUNE, CALLED 'GIROMETTA', by PATRICK CAREY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O permit that my sadness Last Line: That my grace has thy grant. Subject(s): Grief BALLADE: 17, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The joy so short, alas, the pain so near Last Line: That undeserved, causeless to remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Happiness; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 19, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And if an eye may save or slay Last Line: Then fear not the eye to show the heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Betrayal; Eyes; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness BALLADE: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, how I seek and sue to have Last Line: In joy or pain for to endure. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BALLADE: 3, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The restful place, reviver of my smart Last Line: Wherefore with tears, my bed, I thee forsake. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Bodies; Grief; Hearts; Labor & Laborers; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; 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: 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 BAMBOO BRANCH SONG', by LIU YU-HSI Poem Source First Line: Red blossoms of mountain peach crowd uplands Last Line: Flowing waters so endless, like the sorrow I feel Subject(s): Grief BANISH SORROW, by GEORGE OGLE Poem Text First Line: Banish sorrow, grief's a folly Last Line: There's no drinking in the grave. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness BAR GIAMAICA 1959-60, by CHARLES PENZEL WRIGHT JR. Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grace is the focal point, %the tip ends of her loosed hair Last Line: With its small gravel and metal tables and passers by Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Charles Subject(s): Bars And Bartenders; Grief BARTLEBY AT THE WALL, by JACK GILBERT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wall/is the side of the building Subject(s): Walls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BBC, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Here is the news, and someone is reading it Last Line: Here is grump's grievance, and grump himself growling it. Subject(s): British Broadcasting Company; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; B.b.c.; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dappled big leaf maple light Last Line: And enlightenment is creative' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BEAUTIFUL RAIN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Rain, rain, beautiful rain Last Line: Weep for the orphan girl, beautiful rain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mothers; Rain; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness BEAUTIFUL SNOW, by MAJOR SIGOURNEY Poem Text First Line: Beautiful snow! Beautiful snow! Last Line: Pity the homeless exposed to the cold, icy snow. Subject(s): Beauty; Cold; Grief; Happiness; Homeless; Poverty; Snow; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight BEAUTY SHOPPE, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, girl. He was fine. All night he'd groan I love you Last Line: He's not worth it. Girl, that nigger broke my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): African Americans; Love – Unrequited; Deception; Grief BECAUSE I LOVE YOU, by MURRAY L. MARSHALL Poem Text First Line: It is because I love you I am sad Last Line: And I be poor -- were you not cause for living. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness BEETHOVEN, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That midnight pause, when the deep forest / hushes Last Line: Shakes the wet boughs of the dark—again—again. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nature; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BEETHOVEN IN CENTRAL PARK, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The thousand-windowed towers were all alight Last Line: With his own grief, and his own majesty. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Central Park, New York City; Composers; Dreams; Grief; Music & Musicians; Nations; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness BEGINNING GRIEF, by MARYANN FRANTA Poem Source First Line: Solitaire, %the flutter-slap Last Line: On the animals %too small to be brave Subject(s): Grief; Self BEHOLD, LORD, THOU DIDST TEAR FROM ME WHAT I MOST DID LOVE, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And now, lord, are we, my heart and the sea all alone Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude BEIJING, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mao wanted to get rid of birds Last Line: A watery eye is its only home Subject(s): Grief; Tears BELLS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In the air always Last Line: Are just ending, their %imprint left behind in air Subject(s): Death; Grief BENEATH A PLACID BROW, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Fit for eternity! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Grief; Unfaithfulness 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 BENEFACTION, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou the lives of men wouldst bless Last Line: For him who treads it after thee. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness BEOWULF, SELS., by UNKNOWN+184 Poem Source First Line: Such is the grief of the grey-haired man Last Line: The one he has lost; there is too much room %in castle & country Subject(s): Civilization, Germanic; Death; Dragons; Grief; Heroism; Legends, Norse; Monsters BEREFT, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As when her calf is taken, far and near Last Line: Bring them to birth again? Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BERNARDO AND ALPHONSO, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: With some good ten of his chosen men, bernardo hath appeared Last Line: Long rued alphonso and his realm the jesting of that day Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Hate; Revenge BEYOND, by ALLAN MUNIER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the prison cell Last Line: In peace without you? Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hunger; Prisons & Prisoners; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness 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 BHAGAVAD-GITA: BOOK 1, SELS., by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Arjuna, his war flag a rampant monkey Last Line: His mind tormented by grief Subject(s): Grief BILL BROWN IS TOO SHORT OF BREATH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I'm bill brown and I'm looking at a final spot Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BIRD, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Why do clear, clean sky Last Line: But my heart is still bound Subject(s): Birds; Freedom; Grief; Tears; Wings BITTER COLD, by CAO CAO Poem Source First Line: Northward we climbed the tai-hang range Last Line: Sad is that poem 'eastern mountains': %it makes my heart always grieve Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Travel BLACK APRIL, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Could god have meant the spring to hurt us so Last Line: Just one black night of agony? Subject(s): April; Depression, Mental; Grief; Spring; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness BLACK CUP, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night's a cup of evil. The shrill whistle Last Line: Stamp their hooves in my flesh! Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love 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 WATER GOING UNDER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: There are lights you can't reach alone Last Line: Into the splintered oar, pull your weight %toward the light Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature BLIGHTED LOVE, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Flowers are fresh, and bushes green Last Line: Blighted love shall never blow! Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness BLOWN APART, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blown apart by loss, she let herself go Last Line: Serves her right, the old mare Subject(s): Literary Form; Grief BLUE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Standin' at de winder Last Line: Chile, I's sholy blue. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BLUE EYES, by FROYLAN TURCIOS Poem Source First Line: Blue eyes, that charmed my soul with your Last Line: Two stars that light my soul forevermore! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Soul BLUE RIDGE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there on the mountain road, the fireworks Subject(s): Fireworks; Man-woman Relationships; Middle Age; Grief; Male-female Relations; Sorrow; Sadness BOB, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I fell asleep for a brief moment Last Line: You let me know %thank you bob Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of BOB CREELEY HAS DIED AND HE IS TO HAVE A TIBETAN CEREMONY., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I look at him emotionally, %sexually Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER OLD FRIEND LOST HIM SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At rca beach with his notebook and hand Last Line: Hard impudent and thrifty Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB GRENIER'S BLACKBERRY PIE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What else do you want Last Line: Of the pie down the road take me there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BOB MARLEY NIGHT SATURDAY DOWNTOWN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dream like the lights have a dark smoky glow and the street Last Line: They told me there would be people like you here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BODY, by MARILYN KRYSL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: My body is too many children, they are all hungry at once. As I write Last Line: Sleep Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Solitude 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 BRAVE BEN HALL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all australian sons with me Last Line: "the widow's friend in poverty - / bold ben hall, good-bye" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hero-worship;heroism;murder; Sorrow;sadness;heroes;heroines 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 BREAKFAST. HE ASSURED ME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the blue california sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRIDAL OF ANDALLA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Rise up, rise up, xarifa! Lay the golden cushion down Last Line: To gaze on false andalla with all the gazing town! Subject(s): Granada, Spain; Grief; Love - Complaints; Marriage - Forced BRIDGE OF SORROW, by MARY LOUISE MORGAN Poem Text First Line: There is a bridge of sorrow Last Line: That maybe love can heal. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BRILLIANT GRIEF, SILENT SNOW, by TERUKO ANDERSON-JONES Poem Source First Line: You mentioned how grief Last Line: Light %enough to fall %on unborn buds Subject(s): Grief; Snow BRING YOUR JUNGLE ALONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Full of sledge hammers and compassion Last Line: So we remember. And how were you to know Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BRISK WIND IS BLOWING THOUGHTS TO PHILIP ON THE PHONE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The new york times says I'm a language poet Last Line: Well if you don't, I won't keep trying Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss BROODING GRIEF, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A yellow leaf from the darkness Last Line: Of leaves and lamps and traffic mingled before me. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness BROOK 2, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: Last night he came Last Line: Man is not an animal!' Subject(s): Grief; Prisons And Prisoners; Sensibility; Tears BU SUANZI: SPRING SORROW, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Light rain breeds spring sorrow Last Line: When spring is gone, the flowers will lose their ground Subject(s): Grief; Spring BURNED, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have to go back into the forge room Subject(s): Labor & Laborers; Factories; Jews; World War Ii; Farewell; Fathers; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Work; Workers; Judaism; Second World War; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness BURNING THE DOLLS, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: That last night, unable to sleep Last Line: I burned and burned and burned. Subject(s): Dolls; Fire; Grief; Loss; Toys; Sorrow; Sadness BUTTERFLY UPON THE SKY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And that's the way to grieve Variant Title(s): Poem: 152 Subject(s): Grief BY CELIA'S ARBOUR, by ANACREON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By celia's arbour all the night Last Line: But tears of sorrow shed by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery BY NIGHT AND DAY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I find you in the amber evening glow Last Line: But home-returning to your smile, -- your smile. Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Secrets; Smiles; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime BY THE ENTRANCE TO CORDOVA HALL, I SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Inside my overheated car, where no one Subject(s): Songs; Memory; Grief; Driving; Sorrow; Sadness BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON WE SAT DOWN AND WEPT, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat down and wept by the waters Last Line: With the voice of the spoiler by me! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Psalm 137 Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism CALM & COOL ECONOMICS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm the world economy Last Line: And I don't want %to be stimulated Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CALUMNY, by FRANCES SARGENT OSGOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A whisper woke the air Last Line: And that -- it broke! Alternate Author Name(s): Vane, Violet Variant Title(s): Slander Subject(s): Defamation; Grief; Slander; Libel; Sorrow; Sadness CAN'T WE REST ANOTHER DAY?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Keep the fire %banked Last Line: At the end of the year Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CANCION, by JUAN DE MENA Poem Source First Line: As I upon my pallet lie Last Line: To the breast I'm loving so Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Memory CANCRI: THE FOURTH HOUSE, by ERIKA MUELLER Poem Source First Line: This is what I have done Last Line: Eyes that drift across skins, blink starred, blink done Subject(s): Grief; Love CANTE HONDO, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I was meditating, absorbed, winding Last Line: The dust sweeps away and the ash expels Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Death; Grief; Meditation; Memory; Solitude CANZONE: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since love will needs that I shall love Last Line: To serve and suffer patiently. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Hate; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CAPTION FOR A MINIATURE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Outside where the storm goes cracked Last Line: And get all crummy and muddy Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CARDINAL, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: For a week of mornings, the cardinal came Last Line: The mirror of themselves and begin, here, now Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cardinals (birds); Death; Grief CARE NOT FOR KEYS, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Care not for keys: no stranger can intrude Last Line: But never tongue of man to mortal ear. Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness CAROLINE, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: The air is thin here %nothing moves Last Line: You always end up in the kitchen crying Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Self-pity CAROUSEL, by GLORIA CATHERINE ODEN Poem Source First Line: An empty carousel in a deserted park Last Line: That will not let you up %or down, %but keeps your grinding through %a granite air Subject(s): Grief 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 CASIDA OF SOBBING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have shut my balcony door Last Line: All there is to hear is sobbing Subject(s): Grief; Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) CAUGHT IN THE UNDERTOW, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colin, worshipping some frail Last Line: Quite implicitly believes him. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Grief; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness CECILY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She had a laugh Last Line: Vile -- they're vile!' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Laughter; Women; Sorrow; Sadness CELEBRATE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were there when I was sad and blue Last Line: We were on our way Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of CERTAIN VERSES...UPON THE KINGS COMING INTO SCOTLAND: 3, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Turne the agayne o phebus fayre Last Line: Earths sole delight and heauens care. Subject(s): Apollo; Earth; Faces; Grief; Mythology - Classical; Sun; World; Sorrow; Sadness CHAMBER MUSIC: 19, by JAMES JOYCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Be not sad because all men Last Line: As they deny, deny. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness CHANGES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, o rejoicing heart! Last Line: The hours fly fast! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Change; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness CHANSON D'AUTOMNE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The autumn wind wails thin, / like a sobbing violin Last Line: When the winter gusts begin to and fro Subject(s): Wind; Grief; Winter 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 CHARM OF THE RAINS, by FRANCISCO CONTRERAS Poem Source First Line: It rains, and rains, and rains. The clouds hang low Last Line: Meanwhile it rains, rains, rains, and does not tire Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Memory; Tears 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 AFTER WAR, by KATHARINE LEE BATES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall misery make mirth Last Line: Their bethlehem. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; War; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness CINQUAINS, by GEORGE NOBBE Poem Text First Line: A mischievous wind / blew a swirl of leaves Last Line: In infinity? Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection CITY BLOOD AND COUNTRY JAY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Clarence percy smith de vere / was a youth of high degree Last Line: Pays to learn his name is mud Subject(s): Country Life;grief;pity;sports; Sorrow;sadness CLEANSING FIRES, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let thy gold be cast in the furnace Last Line: And the furnace of living pain! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fire; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness CLEVEDON VERSES: 4. CUI BONO?, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What comes Last Line: Who cuts it cuts but rock, or digs the sapless sand. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Clevedon, Great Britain; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness CLOWN AND KING, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hoop-la, hey! Cried the clown in the ring Last Line: Life's woven good-and-ill. Subject(s): Clowns; Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; Life; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness CLUB NIGHT, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man had a broken hat Last Line: "and we'll dance all the village to its knees." Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When does the transmission come Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Loss; Zen Buddhism COLD NIGHT, by CH'EN SHIH-TAO Poem Source First Line: A long time in one place and I always thinking of moving Last Line: I know well what writing should avoid, %but thoughts come, and sorrow just somehow appears Subject(s): Grief; Writing And Writers COLD NIGHT, by NAKAHARA CHUYA Poem Source First Line: On a winter night Last Line: My heart smoulders Subject(s): Grief COMBINATIONS, by CATHERINE CATE COBLENTZ Poem Text First Line: Heartache and a crimson rose Last Line: But sorrow twists the mouth. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Wind; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness COMFORT, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark head by the fireside brooding Last Line: Waits the throne for you. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness COMFORT IN TEARS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why art thou sad, when all around Last Line: "while I have heart to weep." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness COMFORT IN TEARS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How is it that thou art so sad Last Line: "the while it is away." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness COMPANION PIECE FOR XIE JING'S 'TERRACE OF THE BROWN SPARROW', by HSIEH T'IAO Poem Source First Line: Lace curtains flap on the open frame Last Line: Desolate still is his throne of jade, %even more, our bodies of such small worth Alternate Author Name(s): Hsuan-hui; Xie Tiao Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief COMPASSION IS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The endless dimensions of this moment.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss COMPENSATION, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once, in 'merrie england' Last Line: Cruel ones are brief. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery COMPLAINT, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: Not that grief will sear with so much pain Last Line: He makes complaint . . . . But that it leaves a callus. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness COMPLAINT OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The count don sancho diaz, the signior of saldane Last Line: When thou shalt weep in dungeon deep, and none thy weeping see Subject(s): Absence; Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Old Age; Prisoners Of War CONCLUSION, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I didn't expect Last Line: There will never be enough %for everyone Subject(s): Grief; Life CONSIDERING COLDLY, IMPARTIALLY, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: So what! Moved . . . Moved . . . Subject(s): Grief; Conduct Of Life CONSOLATIN TO M. DU PERIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And must thy grief, du perier, knowe no end? Last Line: Can lead us unto peace. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL Poem Text First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying Last Line: You'll forget him after a while. Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery CONSTANTLY OPENING UP THOSE DARK ARMS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Belonged to everyone who read his poems, listened Last Line: #name? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss CONSULTING THE BOK OF CHANGES: RADIATION, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each morning you will cup Last Line: If you do, you will cry forever Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Cancer, Breast; Grief; Self-pity; Women CONTINUING ADVENTURES IN THE LIFE OF NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So %he gets fired up and burnt up Last Line: No second helpings here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Perseverance CORALIE, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pale water flowers Last Line: And my little girl and I cry softly together. Subject(s): Girls; Death; Flowers; Grief CORE OF WOE, by KENNETH SCAMBRAY Poem Source First Line: Did the sirens sing to you in a garbled letter Last Line: The mine became your rood Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory CORNET; MANNER OF LOVING & DYING OF CHRISTOPHER RILKE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Riding, riding, riding, day and night in the saddle Last Line: There he saw an old woman's tears Subject(s): Death; Fire; Flags; Flowers; Friendship; Grief; Love; Melancholy; Mothers And Sons; Roses; Sex; Soldiers; Travel; War CORTEGE, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If the sea could dream, and if the sea Subject(s): Life; Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness CORYDON'S LAMENT AND RESOLUTION, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have wept and I have sighed Last Line: Nor one tear for chloe shed. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Love; Marriage; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives COSMISM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea asleep like a dreamer sighs Last Line: But never refute its innocence. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sea; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Ocean CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food & Eating; Grief; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love CRAZY MENU, by TESS GALLAGHER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last of his toothpaste, last of his wheat chex, last Last Line: Every artery and nerve of us, into the rest %of our commemorative lives Subject(s): Carver, Raymond (1939-1988); Food And Eating; Grief; Love - Marital CROSS, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight %I left a white cross Last Line: So little I care Subject(s): Grief CROSSED SONG, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The days slid away in june's longest light Last Line: Of iris unfolded and glistened in the sun Subject(s): Death; Grief CUMNOR HALL, by WILLIAM JULIUS MICKLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dews of summer night did fall Last Line: The haunted towers of cumnor hall. Alternate Author Name(s): Meikle, William Subject(s): Abandonment; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Desertion; Sorrow; Sadness CUP, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What longing you had to be nothing more Last Line: Your suffering is too much for us to bear' Subject(s): Death; Grief CUPID IN AMBUSH, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: When I went down the autumn lane Last Line: I knew I should not laugh again. Subject(s): Cupid; Grief; Love; Love - Complaints; Eros; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DAILY MEDITATIONS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is going beyond behind the sunset upstairs Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DARK BLUE, by SANDRA M. GILBERT Poem Source First Line: To write every night in the dark blue Last Line: Dark blue %book of shining Subject(s): Grief; Writing And Writers DARK GALLEY, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Wouldst thou that she should quickly leave %thy waters Last Line: No life but shall fulfill its destiny! Subject(s): Grief; Patience DARK LINES, by VIRGINIA HAMILTON ADAIR Poem Source First Line: My line hold fast and do not break Last Line: I do this for my hunger's sake Subject(s): Grief DARRELL GRAY DIES WHEN I AM IN MEXICO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For the next hand to fill up Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DAVID'S GRIEF FOR HIS CHILD, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas daybreak, and the fingers of the dawn Last Line: "but he will not return to me." Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DAWN OUTSIDE THE CITY WALLS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: You can see the face of everything, and it is white Last Line: In the soul, as they say, not in time at all Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Soul DAWN SONG, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like tears of lead Last Line: The tiny bells of dawn %are tinkling through Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Dawn; Grief; Tears; Time DAY MY SISTER LEFT US, by DI BRANDT Poem Source Last Line: The family gibberish Subject(s): Abandonment; Grief; Sisters DAY OF GRIEF, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was forcing a wasp to the top of a window Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DAY OF SCATTERED RAIN, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: It is a day of scattered rain Last Line: And let me break open! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Memory DAY OF THE DEAD, by JOSE ASUNCION SILVA Poem Source First Line: The light is dim, the day opaque. The drizzle falls and Last Line: The mournful bells that speak to the living of the dead! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Melancholy; Peace DE PROFUNDIS; DEDICATED TO MY DEAR FRIEND MARY STRUDWICK NICOLSON, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sunshine faded from the room Last Line: To greet that resurrection morn! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise 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 GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like oceans swarming Last Line: Of what's full, dark with heavy drops Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning DEAD ORCHARD, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like seven birds sleeping on the plateau Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEAR DEAR LITTLE WRENTIT WITH WHITE CIRCLE AROUND YOUR EYE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: As all falls silent Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 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 IS A DOOR, by NANCY BYRD TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death is only an old door Last Line: In an old wall. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEATH IS THE MOTHER OF BEAUTY, by PETER DAVISON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Maples, my maples and cedars Last Line: Was long ago stricken %by an overdraft of grieving Subject(s): Grief DEATH VALLEY DESERT NOTES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With depressing & unexpected news Last Line: And awe majestic old time news Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Death Valley; Grief; Loss DECEMBER, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In a drear-nighted december Last Line: Was never said in rhyme. Variant Title(s): Happy Insensibility;stanzas Subject(s): December; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DECEMBER. 1919, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Last night I heard your voice, mother Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness DEEPER STILL, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Deep in my grief Last Line: Richard, was this your way of saying that you love me Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of DEEPER THAN DROUGHT, by MARION LOUISE BLISS Poem Full Text First Line: Now a long crowd of darknesses Subject(s): Drought; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEFERRED, by JAMES BINNEY Poem Text First Line: The knights of old are long since dead Last Line: To drink the tears of man. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DEFERRED, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will not grieve for you while autumn lingers Last Line: But, oh, the time comes ... When I must! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DEFINITELY RESISTANCE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The wind is in the light of the sun Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEFYING GRAVITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Rain storm late morning Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 DEJECTION, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sickness clouds the languid eye Last Line: With anguish more severe. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DEJECTION: AN ODE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well! If the bard was weather-wise, who made Last Line: Thus mayest thou ever, evermore rejoice. Variant Title(s): The New Moon;letter To Sara Hutchinson: 4 April 1802, Sunday Evening Subject(s): Grief; Hutchinson, Sara; Love - Complaints; Melancholy; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection 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 DENIAL, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: High heaven denies me to myself. No blame Last Line: That made them me. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Shame; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DEPARTURE, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The figs on the fig tree in the yard are green; Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness DEPRESSED ENNUI BEFORE 11 A.M., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now's the time to catch it in words, those pungent Last Line: Of the danger of the situation. He lays down and goes to sleep Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DESCRIPTION OF SPRING, by HENRY HOWARD Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings Last Line: Each care decays, and yet my sorrow springs. Alternate Author Name(s): Surrey, Earl Of Variant Title(s): "description Of Spring, Wherein Each Thing Renews Save Only The Lover;spring;summer;summer Is Come;sonnet;summer Is Gone;morte 42: Sonetto (imitated From Petrarch);spring, But;""the Soote Season, That Bud And Blome Furth Bringes""; Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness DESCRIPTIONS, by VIRGINIA A. ALLIN Poem Text First Line: The clouds pregnant with rain Last Line: At the slightest wind of annoyance. Subject(s): Grief; Old Age; Rain; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness DESDEMONA, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So the slim moon, a young girl, shines upon Last Line: And all that stays is grief for all that's gone. Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness DESERT WIFE, by NELLIE COOLEY ALDER Poem Text First Line: I have shed cold tears so sterile they were saltless Last Line: How can such fruitless years in any manner magnify my god? Subject(s): Deserts; Drought; Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DESERTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Cold! So cold! And the night looks down Last Line: And the spotless robe is the wing of death Subject(s): Cold;grief; Sorrow;sadness 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 DESPONDENCY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What hast thou done that makes thee despondent? Last Line: That it never will shine again. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DESTRUCTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness DESTRUCTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First of all do you remember the way a bear goes through Last Line: Of lsd, peyote, psilocybin, amanita, benzedrine, valium and aspirin Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DEW SWEET LAW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: All the food is his Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DHARMA: THE SUITCASE OF MANY MEANINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Amid all the blood of illusion, eating roast chicken Last Line: But cuts across the reflex of a star Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss; Pollution DIALOGUE ON PADERBORN HEATH, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear'st thou not far music ringing Last Line: What my bosom holds within it? Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness DICTIONARY'S GUARANTEED SUCCESS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There was no electgricity. Simone couldn't type Last Line: And lumbricoid. And finally, there was smiley's Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DID I CALL YOU?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was it you I called up Last Line: Last night? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DIGGING UP THE BONES, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: I am coming for you- %strong man Last Line: You with my wild words %until you weep Subject(s): Crying; Death; Grief; Love DINING OUT, by JOHN KRUMBERGER Poem Source First Line: A man sings romantic ballads in the piano lounge swaying like a bear Last Line: Cliff Subject(s): Dinners And Dining; Grief; Love - Complaints; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears DINNER AT BRIARCOMB, THAT ARTISTS' POSH RETREAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: My absolute best worst Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DINNER OF HERBS, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dined at a strange old inn with sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Pleasure; Food & Eating; Sorrow; Sadness DIRE: 7. CELENO, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The blind king hides his weeping eyeless head Last Line: That triple-headed hound of hell their god. Subject(s): Blindness; Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Hell; Nations; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness DIRGE, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there be any grief Last Line: Lie here, till morning come. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DIRGE AT THE END OF THE WOODS, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gold shed upon suckling gold Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Landscape; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 DISAPPOINTMENT, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, how can I live in a torture so wild? Last Line: And drink deep of god's pardoning love. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DISORDER OF MY HAIR, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My hollow eyes and gaunt cheeks %are your fault Subject(s): Grief; Weariness DISQUIET, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Foolish troubled heart Last Line: What aileth thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DISTRACTION, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O knit me, that am crumbled dust! The heap Last Line: Striving to save the whole, by parcells dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DIVIDED, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An empty sky, a world of heather Last Line: "are bridged by his thoughts that cross to me." Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness DIVINE PORTRAITURE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: An artist painted a fair scene Last Line: Till beauty overpowers each taint. Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Grief; Love; Soul; World; Sorrow; Sadness DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 1, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beloved, there is a sorrow in the world Last Line: Which beauty cannot lift from tired men. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DIVISIONS ON A GROUND: 2, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sorrowful, who have loved, I pity not Last Line: From earth made ready for eternity. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DO NOT BELIEVE, by EMILE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND Poem Text First Line: Lady, they will tell you, 'you are foolish to believe him! Last Line: But weep above my idle lute and loosen all the strings. Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Emile Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness DO NOT GRIEVE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you mourn too much Last Line: The old, sweet pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Variant Title(s): Dolour Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness; Clerks DOLOR, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have known the inexorable sadness of pencils Last Line: Dropping a fine film on nails and delicate eyebrows, %glazing the pale hair, the duplicate grey stan Variant Title(s): Dolou Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Office Employees; Social Protest 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 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 DOMESTIC LIFE: 3. BEFORE DAWN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your wife left before you woke Last Line: Burns less brightly. Subject(s): Domestic Relations; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DON'T, by JAMES JEFFREY ROCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Your eyes were made for laughter Last Line: Sweet phyllis, and love me. Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness DON'T HOPE TO GAIN BY WHAT HAS PRECEDED; LINCOLN'S BIRTHDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back to silent big soap flakes Last Line: Dreamed for, brain spinner, %garbage maker Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DON'T TELL ME THE FACE, by MYONGOK Poem Source First Line: Don't tell me the face I have now Last Line: Seeking will not find the end Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Thought DON'T WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELECTRONIC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Well no. The neighbor's doggy ate him Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DORA, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A waxing moon that, crescent yet Last Line: To learn that tears are obsolete. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Moon; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism 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 DOROTHY IN THE GARRET, by JOHN TOWNSEND TROWBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the low-raftered garret, stooping Last Line: And lifelong sorrow a breath on the pane. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Spinsters; Sorrow; Sadness; Old Maids DOST THOU ASK?, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou why in mine eyes / the tears so thickly spring? Last Line: But thou -- thou mayest not! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DOWNCAST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These roses are as perfect as of old Last Line: The very fountain of delight is dry. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness DRACULA ORCHID, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: Only a woman with black toenails Last Line: Some new pain opens Subject(s): Death; Grief; Murder; Pain; Women DRACULA'S WAKE, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Although I never liked cats much myself Last Line: How did you get so good at death? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Psychoanalysis; Relationships; Sympathy DREAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There's a big art show in a large auditorium Last Line: Words down the page. %'oh louie' I say Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm doing this poetry reading with simone Last Line: So please - bring me the light Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM IS DREAMING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On- - on- %off - off Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss DREAM-LIFE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Listen, friend, and I will tell you Last Line: And, indeed -- I never know. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DREAMS WITHIN DREAMS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have gone out and seen the lands of faery Last Line: And beauty and peace and sorrow are dreams within dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Beauty; Dreams; Fairies; Grief; Peace; Secrets; Wisdom; Nightmares; Elves; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DREGS, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This afternoon it rains, as never before; and I don't Last Line: This afternoon it rains, it pours. And I don't %want to live, heart! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Rain; Tears; Weather DRIED SHRIMP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When no alternatives are left Last Line: And our old father leaves us Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Mexico; Nostalgia DRIFTING DOWN, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wild desire throbbed in my breast Last Line: I wandered in a bitter dream. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery DRIFTWOOD, by DAISY DEAN BUTLER Poem Text First Line: Beyond the reach of the hungry tides, a storm-wind swept you / high Last Line: Merely stray bits of drift-wood by life's grim fate betrayed. Subject(s): Disasters; Driftwood; Grief; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Shipwrecks; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean DRINKING SONG, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I want to die in the saddle. An enemy of civilization Last Line: Chest, clouds above, she was in ny forever and I, fishing and drinking. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Loss; Singing & Singers; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs DRIVING HOME AFTER THE FUNERAL, by SUSAN FIRER Poem Source First Line: We stopped outside lake geneva Last Line: Held in the fields of pumpkins Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief 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 DURING THE WAR, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When my brother came home from war Subject(s): War; Grief; Social Commentaries; Sorrow; Sadness EACH LIFE HAS GRIEF, by MARIETTA ERVEN Poem Text First Line: Each life has grief, and yet each life must wear Last Line: That each with each may find grief less forlorn. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EAGLE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I stand %with my arms held aloft Last Line: I will make you proud Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of EARLY CANDLE-LIGHT, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The low sweet melody of ancient song Last Line: Kisses asleep the heavy eyes of grief. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs EARLY MORNING, THE COLD HOUSE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Though the taste of nightmares Last Line: That comes whether you ask or no Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature EASING MY HEART, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: Ill-fated, I carried wine Last Line: Only a drifting name Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Longing EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born Last Line: Time bowed before eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness ECHOES OF SPRING: 10, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With thousand gaps the earth is split Last Line: Will solace ever come to me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness ECHOES OF SPRING: 7, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, soft sweet air of early spring Last Line: I'd like to lay me down and die. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness ECLOGUE, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If in thy glorious home above Last Line: And joy's light spirit wakes no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief 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 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 EIGHTEEN SONGS OF A NOMAD FLUTE: 6, by CAI YAN Poem Source First Line: The ice and frost are shattering, my body bitterly cold Last Line: With sixth song sorrow comes -- I wish I could stop playing Subject(s): Grief EJACULATORY PRAYER, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is no grief on earth, however fell Last Line: Beyond my dreaming! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark inheritor of woe Last Line: Of saints, with fairies in loud antiphon. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, the disconsolate Last Line: Melusine's cries against the moaning of the saint. Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am bereavement, gloom and desolation Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Grief; Love EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark, the widowed, disconsolate one Last Line: Of a holy man with a wind-blown fairy's cries Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Grief EL DESDICHADO, by GERARD LABRUNIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am the dark one, - the widower, - the unconsoled Last Line: The sighs of the saint and the cries of the fay Alternate Author Name(s): Nerval, Gerard De Subject(s): Grief ELEGIAC SONNET: 24. BY THE SAME, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Make there my tomb, beneath the lime-tree's shade Last Line: Where her poor werter -- and his sorrows sleep! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGIAC SONNET: 68. WRITTEN AT EXMOUTH, MIDSUMMER, 1795, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fall, dews of heaven, upon my burning breast Last Line: To hearts o'erwhelm'd with grief, to eyes suffused with tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGIAC SONNET: 84. TO THE MUSE, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wilt thou forsake me who in life's bright may Last Line: Where pity and remembrance bend and weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: They will not remember how you looked sleeping Last Line: Will say they were your friend Subject(s): Books; Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets; Solitude ELEGY, by CARLOS DRUMMOND DE ANDRADE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I've won (lost) my day Last Line: Whether it's poetry still, or a mere game Subject(s): Grief; Love; Meditation 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 ANNE (DACRE) HOWARD Poem Text First Line: In sad and ashy weeds I sigh Last Line: Do all console my woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Arundell, Duchess Of Variant Title(s): Elegy On The Death Of Her Husband Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY FOR HASSAN NASIR; KILLED BY TORTURE IN THE LAHORE FORT, 1959, by FAIZ AHMED FAIZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today, all at once, when the thread of my vision snapped Last Line: The cry heard again on the lips of the saqi, when I am gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Faiz, Faiz Ahmad Subject(s): Grief; Lahore, Pakistan; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness 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 EARL OF ROCHESTER, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Deep waters silent roul, so grief like mine Last Line: For to make him she exhausted all her store. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Wilmot, John (1647-1680); Sorrow; Sadness; Rochester, 2nd Earl Of ELEGY WITH A CHIMNEYSWEEP FALLING INSIDE IT, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those twenty-six letters filling the blackboard Subject(s): Transience; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness ELEGY WRITTEN AFTER READING THE 'SORROWS OF WERTER', by ROBERT MERRY Poem Text First Line: Alas, poor werter! To himself a prey Last Line: He lost that charlotte, and he sought for rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Della Crusca Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Prejudice; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness; Bias; Intolerance 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 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 ELLIPTICAL AND IRREGULAR, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I mean learning Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ELMS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I tried to distinguish Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ELMS, by LOUISE ELIZABETH GLUCK Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All day I tried to distinguish Last Line: And have understood %it will make no forms but twisted forms Subject(s): Elm Trees; Grief 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 EMPTY SHRINE BUDDHA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: If you grow your hair you save on heating bills Last Line: Money can't buy Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ENCHANTMENT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who made me an immortal in the night! Last Line: When the mad sun's clear face is dimmed with rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness END OF A CENTURY, by JEAN FOLLAIN Poem Source First Line: A fly walked on the initial %of a heavy sheet with silence Last Line: The rain still falls %on a village Subject(s): Grief 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 ENDING IN THE DEFINITION OF THE ANCIENT GREEK WORD EION, by ZONA TETI Poem Source First Line: Dreams of eden swirl in thin smoke Last Line: That 'lower part of the face over which tears flow' Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists 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 ENORMOUS SIGH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bardo of continuing limbo equals no access Last Line: Is just that longing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EPICEDIUM, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nevermore! Ah, nevermore! Last Line: Ah, sweet word, never more! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness EPIGRAM: 42, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O miserable sorrow withouten cure! Last Line: As was my pleasure when she was present. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH ON A NEPHEW, IN CATWORTH CHURCH, HUNTINGDONSHIRE, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, stranger, stay, and drop one tear Last Line: His father's fifth, her only son. Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Grief; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness EPITAPH: 10, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My day has dawned and loud within my ears Last Line: Upon the field in france—jour de ma vie! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 EPITHALAMIUM, by EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The marriage bells have rung their peal Last Line: Here's to—success to her successor! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Marriage; Wedding Song; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Epithalamium ESCAPE OF GAYFEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Before her knee the boy did stand, within the dais so fair Last Line: Rise up - they've slain my father within my mother's bed Subject(s): Child Psychology; Crime And Criminals; Cruelty; Grief; Tragedy 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 EULOGY, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Better than all the tombstones' glosses sleek Last Line: Give me warm mention on the lips of men. Subject(s): Grief; Lips; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness EULOGY, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To allow silence Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EUPHORON, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nay, fold your arms, beloved friends Last Line: Till grief shall clasp the hand of joy! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness EURYDICE, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it that he sings to thee Last Line: O poor eurydice, o my beloved one! Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Loss; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness EURYDICE, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I linger, knowing you are eager (having seen Last Line: And was the way out for me, my love Subject(s): Greece; Eurydice (mythology); Orpheus; Love; Death; Grief; Greeks 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 EVA, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, I loved him all too well Last Line: Ye may meet at length in heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sin; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 EVENING, by KARLE WILSON BAKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, little sorrows! From the evening wood Last Line: Smiles tremulous as a bereavèd star. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Charlotte Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness EVENING AND MY DEAD ONCE HUSBAND, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It does not help to know Subject(s): Death; Grief; Marriage EVENING HYMN, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows of the evening hours Last Line: O give us now repose! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Religion; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology EVENING SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in sorrow, they dare not show it Last Line: They sing now, while sailing along. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness EVENTUALLY THEY COME ASHORE, by DEENA LINETT Poem Source First Line: The living and the dead %whether you wait for them or not Last Line: But it closes its blue eyes, %a shunning, so defeats us Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Grief; Saint Kilda (scotland) EVERY DAY I BURN A STICK OF INCENSE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The power of belief %is from me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Loss EVERYONE IS FLYING VERY WELL, EASILY IN THE SKY KITTY, POPPED OUT..., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: One would just like to fly out in pure invention Last Line: Never quite the same Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EVERYTHING THAT I MADE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Everything that I made I used to bring to you Last Line: And turn to you still with my tale, and there's no one to hear me. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness EXAGGERATION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We overstate the ills of life, and take Last Line: That by the grief of one came all our good. Subject(s): Grief; Discontent; Sorrow; Sadness; Dissatisfaction EXCERPT FROM THE REAL NEWS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Joe dunn's sweet laugh, 'kids, come to poetry' Last Line: I forget I can be here with you in the evening- %a full fragment Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss EXHIBITION OF GRIEF, by TIM SHEA Poem Source First Line: With the heavy step of a child Last Line: Between them now: a red %tulip Subject(s): Grief EXILED FROM THE LIGHT, by SEBASTIAN SALAZAR BONDY Poem Source First Line: The president caressed the mane of his favorite horse Last Line: Poor peruvians exiled from the light Subject(s): Assassination; Exiles; Grief; Peru; Social Protest EXTRACTS FROM LUCIENNE: 51, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: From a little violet wine at not too dear a fee, my love, I have de Last Line: Melancholy. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Love; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness EXTREMITIES, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yesterday I feared Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EYES, by ANTONIO GOMEZ RESTREPO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are eyes so full of dreams Last Line: Stars from a lost paradise. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness EYES, SAD EYES, WHAT WORDS THEY SPEAK!, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The eyes, thine eyes, sad eyes? Subject(s): Eyes; Grief FAINT MUSIC, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe you need to write a poem about grace. Last Line: First an ego, and then pain, and then the singing Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery FAIR INES, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O saw ye not fair ines? Last Line: Has broken many more! Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness FAIR JENNY, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where are the joys I have met in the morning Last Line: Enjoyment I'll seek in my woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FAIR ORIANA, by ROBERT JONES (1616-) Poem Text First Line: Fair oriana, seeming to wink at folly Last Line: Long live fair oriana!' Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness FAIR SINKS THE SUMMER EVENING NOW, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism FAITH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the thrush and blackbird sing Last Line: I must believe, I will believe. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; Faith; Grief; Pain; Spring; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery FALL EQUINOX, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A lone %hummingbird sits on the limb where there used to be Last Line: In fall's purple blossoms my sleeve sniff! Is wet Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FALL HAS ARRIVED WITH QUICK CLEAR BLUE SKIES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down the dusty night road Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FALLEN, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I placed the first wild wonder in her eyes Last Line: Lures the lost angels with his godlike wings. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FALLS RIVER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Some places intend quiet Last Line: Of the white morning glories Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FALSE LOVE AND TRUE LOGIC, by SAMUEL LAMAN BLANCHARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart will break - I'm sure it will Last Line: And now he's as he ought to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Blanchard, Laman Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Women; Sorrow; Sadness FAMILIAR GRIEF, INTIMATE JOY, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: When grief has gone a-maying Last Line: To dumb and earless night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FAMILY HISTORY, by SUNSHINE GLENSTONE Poem Source First Line: In response to his letter, I wrote back in longhand Last Line: His horse had accepted the departure Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief FANCIES, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er mountain and valley Last Line: By healing its sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness FAR AWAY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is weeping as is customary and good Last Line: Lover no children no poetry Subject(s): Cities; Grief; New York City; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FAREWELL TO HIS WIFE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fare thee well! And if forever Last Line: More than this I scarce can die. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Fare Thee Well Subject(s): Byron, George Gordon, Lord (1788-1824); Divorce; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Milbanke, Annabelle Isabella (1792-1860); Poetry & Poets; Byron, George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO THE COURT, by WALTER RALEIGH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Like truthless dreams, so are my joys expired Last Line: To haste me hence to find my fortune's fold. Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter Variant Title(s): Sonnet;sorrow Stays Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness FAREWELL TO THE OLD YEAR, 1863, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, old year 'the bourne' is near Last Line: To give new year good morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Civil War; Grief; Holidays; New Year; Peace; Time; United States; War; Sorrow; Sadness; America FASTASIA, by ROMA COOLIDGE MULVIHILL Poem Text First Line: Today / I have watched myriad blackbirds Last Line: Tears at my heart-strings! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER AND MOTHER: A MYSTERY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The father: 'now it is over.' Last Line: "the father: ""help me to believe!" Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness FATHER, I BRING THEE NOT MYSELF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is it too large for you? Subject(s): Hearts; God; Grief FEAST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking Last Line: Crying. She didn't know what she wanted Subject(s): Food And Eating; Grief FEBRUARY 27 SUNDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes were rolled up into his head Last Line: This is too hard Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FEEDER, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs soaked up rain and light and let go Last Line: He lived in, a world senseless with beauty, undeniable Subject(s): Death; Grief FEELINGS EVOKED BY AN AUTUMN NIGHT: 2, by CHU SHU-CHEN Poem Source First Line: Beyond the eaves the autumn chill penetrates the lattice window Last Line: And in response, my sorrow stretches as long as the night Subject(s): Grief FETES GALANTES: ROMANCES SANS PAROLE, SELECTION, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears in my heart that weeps Last Line: Why thou hast all this woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FEW DAYS LATER AT THE WASHTUB, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That the present has always existed Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIELD, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon is dying Last Line: In the distance, love's darkness waits for you Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Travel FIELD NOTES: THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Crossing the moon, the geese Last Line: Learning to say %what I see Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FIELDS OF SORROW, by DECIMUS MAGNUS AUSONIUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They wander in deep woods, in mournful light Last Line: Flowers that were once bewailed names of kings Subject(s): Grief FIRST CIRCLE, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The flat end of sorrow here Last Line: They were on new year's eve, %so very sad Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Grief; Prisons And Prisoners FIRST NATION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back in first nation time, morning of the world time Last Line: It's always been Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FIRST OR LAST (SONG), by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If grief come early Last Line: Aye, my dear and tender! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FIRST SIGHTING EVER OF GREY SQUIRREL ON MESA!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Party which holds power by deception %repression & fraud Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FLIGHT FROM GRANADA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: There was crying in granada Last Line: For what is life to leave when such a crown %is cast away? Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Farewell; Granada, Spain; Grief FLIGHT OF THE ITZAS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: They came with a fury Last Line: Just death and blood %and sorrow, sorrow, sorrow! Subject(s): Grief; Mayas; Mexico, Indians Of; Native Americans FLOATING OF THE SILVER CHINESE PAPER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Would you put this piece Last Line: And goes away out there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FLOW MY TEARES FAU FROM YOUR SPRINGS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Grief; Tears FLOW ON, THOU SHINING RIVER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Like those sweet flowers on thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness FLOWER OF THE SOUL, by BARTOLOME MITRE Poem Source First Line: I would give you a flower from the garden to desk your Last Line: But together they are two tears of honey Subject(s): Friendship; Grief FLOWERS UNDER THE LIGHTNING, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The flowers take hold of hands %they fly as the birds are flying Last Line: But cry as the birds are crying Subject(s): Crying; Fear; Grief; Lightning FLYING TO SAUSALITO WITH MY SISTER, by CATHY SMITH BOWERS Poem Source First Line: In a cloud above the badlands Last Line: En route to our %dying brother Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Travel FOLDED POWER, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow can wait Last Line: To a clearer light. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FOLLOWING THE RHYMES OF THE WOMAN WU FANGHUA WHO WROTE POEM ON WALL, by WU QI Poem Source First Line: With broken zither, divided incense marks immeasurable grief Last Line: Wilting grass covers the moat that separates you from this world Subject(s): Grief FOR A PICTURE WHERE A QUEEN LAMENTS OVER THE TOMB OF A SLAIN KNIGHT, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brave youth, to whom fate in one hour Last Line: I'll die thy valour's sacrifice. Subject(s): Courage; Grief; Valor; Bravery; Sorrow; Sadness 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 I AM SAD, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No usual words can bear the woe I feel Last Line: And find within this sadness something sweet. Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FOR KYRA GRAY O'DALY, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: Yellow maple leaves Last Line: Baby kyra's tears Subject(s): Grief; Tears 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 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 REX BRASHER, PAINTER OF BIRDS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This shortened day of wind-flickered yellow-oranges and golds Last Line: Moment brief as a life, and yet time enough for a life to change Subject(s): Death; Grief 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 SARAH WINCHESTER, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Days like this, when rain falls, hard Last Line: The house as if there were no walls Subject(s): Death; Grief FOR THE BODY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sea-gate to ancient waters Last Line: Be vapor in the air Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FOR THE PITTOSPORUM TENUIFOLIUM OUTSIDE THE STUDIO WINDOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Much too hard to understand all Last Line: In the attentive noon breeze Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): For The Pittasporum Tenuifolium Outside The Studio Windo Subject(s): Grief; Loss FOR THE SAKE OF STRANGERS, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No matter what the grief, its weight Last Line: And fall weightless, away from the world. Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Sorrow; Sadness FOR THE SAKE OF THE KAGYU TEACHINGS,, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On december 15, 1982 by chogyam trungpa Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 YOUR BIRTHDAY, PHILIP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A superabundance, an excess, a plethora of greetings Last Line: And those far off peaks shining pure and rare Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Change; Colorado (state); Grief; Leaves; Loss; Mountains; Seasons FOREIGN COUNTRY, HOME COUNTRY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: You know better. Italian summer will end. You Last Line: Backyard, the scraggy spirea bush, burning Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FORLORN, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Red roses, in the slender vases burning Last Line: Over the threshold, not the less, forever %he felt her going on his broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Grief FORLORN, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is fled - I wish him dead' Last Line: And while the moon was setting. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief FORSAKEN GIRL, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the cock has crowed Last Line: If only it were done! Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Grief FORWARD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dreamer, waiting for darkness with sorrowful, drooping eyes Last Line: The joy of the boundless future — nay, god himself — is thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): God; Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness FRA ANGELICO, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Was this beata's grief in thought of christ upon the cross Last Line: That brought his body up to where -- it had to turn its head? Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Jesus Christ; Soul; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness FRAGMENT, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pilgrim weary, toil-subdued Last Line: Appear'd to feel alarm, and fled. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mothers; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Songs FRAGMENTS, by ANNE EVANS Poem Source First Line: Up sprang the merry grasshoppers Last Line: That may remain to me? Subject(s): Grief FRAGMENTS (5), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Joy is fleet Last Line: Sorrow, be mine! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, lie still and wear Last Line: As the great earth and swelling sea— Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FRANCES, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She will not sleep, for fear of dreams Last Line: I'll leave behind, full many a mile. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FRATERNITY, by ANNE REEVE ALDRICH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I ask not how thy suffering came Last Line: "the solemn ""yea, I understand!" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FRESCO-SONNETS TO CHRISTIAN S.: 9, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fain would I weep, but, ah, I cannot weep Last Line: Their gentle loving arms around me throw. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FRESH EARLY MORNING LIGHT AND AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of very teeny pot plants Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FRIDAY 2:44 PM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is about to pass Last Line: It's here the moment begins Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Loss FRIDAY NIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In pale blue dusk sky moon Last Line: Up there friend moon %is getting larger Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moon FRIEND SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not cheat thy heart, and tell her Last Line: Sorrow always brings. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FRIENDSHIP, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No, wail of grief can equal answer win Last Line: And friendship mourns her still imperfect art. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FROM A CAR-WINDOW, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: Pines, and a blur of lithe young grasses Last Line: And thoughts of you thro' a mist of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness FROM HERE TO BERKELEY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: To kwan yin's yarrow patch Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 JATAKA TALES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He gave the king a charm Last Line: To the voice of the ants: so little - is so big Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 FULFILLMENT, by JAMES LARKIN PEARSON Poem Text First Line: I sought the doubtful comfort of my grief Last Line: The green creeps back along the wintered hedges. Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness FULL OF BIRDS IN THE FIRST, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In this rain, in the gather dome Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss FULL STOP IN THE DESERT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Whatever it is we're made for forces you off the freeway Last Line: To silence. Whatever it is we are made for Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature FUNERAL OF THE COUNT OF SALDANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: All in the centre of the choir bernardo's knees are bent Last Line: Still, father, thirsts that burning lance, and still thy son can wield it Subject(s): Bernardo Del Carpio; Courts And Courtiers; Death; Fathers And Sons; Funerals; Grief; Revenge FUNERAL SONG FOR THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE OF WALES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In its summer pride arrayed Last Line: Lays a garland on thy herse. Subject(s): Blessings; Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Epitaphs; Funerals; Grief; Henry V, King Of England (1387-1422); Honor; Wales; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Welshmen; Welshwomen FUTILITY, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have tried to laugh the pain away Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GABRIELLE, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: A griffin crouches on an oriel plinth Last Line: The lady couch'd thereby. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness GALE WAS UPON US IN A SECOND. WAS IT THE DOPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Down in an obligatory %engulfing swoosh Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GATHERING BLACKBERRIES: AUG. 6, 1988, FORESTVILLE, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source First Line: I wish I could spend three days grieving Last Line: One blackberry for each thousand [a-bomb] deaths Subject(s): Bombs; Death; Grief; Hiroshima, Japan GATHERING OF FRIENDS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: We were a gathering of friends Last Line: And I'm glad you were there Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GAUDEAMUS IGITUR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, no more of grief and dying! Last Line: We arise to be your masters. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Grief; Human Behavior; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature 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 GERALDINE, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas night; her comrades gathered all Last Line: As one who mourns the dead! Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GERMANY; A WINTER TALE: CAPUT 26, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cheeks of the goddess glow'd all-red Last Line: "methinks it by far the best place is." Subject(s): Future; Grief; Hamburg, Germany; Kisses; Love; Sorrow; Sadness GET UP THE SCREEN OF DRINKING HERONS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With silken shawls Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GETHSEMANE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into the garden of sorrow Last Line: In the hour that sorrow calls! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Gethsemane; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GETTING A WORD IN, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Very sad Last Line: Come out of nowhere) / very sad Subject(s): Grief; Language; Rain; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Words; Vocabulary GETTING READY TO MOVE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Before I go %to recognize each thing Last Line: The house sacramental in absence Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature 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 GHOST SHIP, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness GHOST SHIP, by MARY KINZIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A mother's love - my love for you - hurts at the core Last Line: Weh, weh, as she wails forth her grief, deeply %suspect, for all her scattered waifs Subject(s): Grief; Mothers GIFT, by JULIA EKLUND Poem Text First Line: My grief lies heavily upon my heart Last Line: Since it was dealt, with eager hands, by you Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness GIFT FROM RICK MORNING DREAM JUNE 14, 1999, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rick fields and I Last Line: Christ is a coyote Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIN JOHN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Michelle tells me Last Line: Grace! Copal! Iris! Eleusis Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GIRL IN THE BOOKSHOP, by JAMES KEIR BAXTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The sadness of the girl in the bookshop Last Line: Of that security we also die in Alternate Author Name(s): Hemi; Baxter, James K. Subject(s): Grief GIVERNY I AM FOR GEE VERR NEE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I try to talk numero uno Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLAD TO BE BACK TO YOU, NOW, SOFT FOG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its brittle way, in crisp windswept day, after day with poetry Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLIDING STEPS GLIDING STEPS WE ARE AT THE EDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Of the ocean & land and a fire Last Line: Goodbye so gracefully Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GLIMPSES OF CHILDHOOD: 3. THE DOLLS' HOSPITAL, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a little old building, up under the roof Last Line: But the mending of legs and arms! Subject(s): Children; Dancing & Dancers; Dolls; Grief; Hospitals; Life; Toys; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness GLOOMY RAIN, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: Gloomy rain, I hear you on my window pane Last Line: There's gladness in my domain. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Pain; Rain; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GLOSSES, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First light breaking the silence between Last Line: Of words incomplete in their praise Subject(s): Death; Grief GO! FORGET ME!, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go! Forget me, why should sorrow Last Line: Fancy and the poet's shell. Subject(s): Grief GOING OUT TO WATER THE GARDEN,, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Is all about at this moment of bamboo buckeye hesitation Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GOLDEN DAYS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Golden days -- where are they? Last Line: Golden days? Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness GOOD ADVICE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cease thy blushes and thy sorrow Last Line: And on earth to peace attain. Subject(s): Advice; Grief; Marriage; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GOOD FRIDAY, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Drab as the day itself,two phoebes Last Line: As if, again, it needed a voice to speak it Subject(s): Death; Grief GOOD FRYDAY, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: But now ye sceen is chang'd, chang'd is ye day Last Line: Who turnes ye crosse into so sweet a thing. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Pain; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery GOOD GRIEF, by CONRAD ARTHUR HILBERRY Poem Source First Line: Three of us are quoting father Last Line: Someday it may blur to this pale coin %we finger in the morning air Subject(s): Grief GOOD MANNERS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The bodhisattva waits Last Line: Before he excuses himself Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GRAFIK, by JUAN FELIPE HERRERA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cut / / / / / I multiply everyday images. I apply an aluminum point Last Line: C/////////////r/////////////I////////////m//////////////e//////////////s Subject(s): Social Commentary; Grief; Language GRATEFUL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After two months in mexico Last Line: And one woolly one.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss GRATITUDE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Filled with the clarity of ancient chinese poems Last Line: To answer for my life: what is it to you? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime GRAY WAVES, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: It rains above the sea in gentle murmurs Last Line: The rain would never stop Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Rain; Tears GREAT GRIEF, GREAT GLORY, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lesse our sorrowes here and suffrings cease Last Line: The more our crownes of glory there increase. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GREATER IS THE DEPTH OF SADNESS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Than is any height of gladness Subject(s): Grief GREEN ASH, RED MAPLE, BLACK GUM, by MICHAEL WATERS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: How often the names of trees consoled me Last Line: Black gum, black gum, black gum. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Marriage; Moving & Movers; Refugees; Trees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives GREEN AWNINGS, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leander walked over with a blanket of peonies Subject(s): Desire; Indifference; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GREEN POND IN APRIL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: If I go to a green pond in april Last Line: Hurts most. Answer spring with yes Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature GREY EYE WEEPING, by MICHAEL O'DONOVAN Poem Source First Line: That my old mournful heart was pierced in this black Alternate Author Name(s): O'connor, Frank Subject(s): Grief GRIEF, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless Last Line: If it could weep, it could arise and go. Variant Title(s): Hopeless Grief Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief reached across the world to get me Last Line: My head aches from crying %forever, goodbye Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Grief; Men GRIEF, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Exultant whirlwind wrung the branches Last Line: Inaudibly, remembering. Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs Last Line: Alas, my god! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Consider sorrowes, how they are aright Last Line: Griefe, if't be great, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I have ridden on waves of grief Last Line: Chisled of rough edges %and made new Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of GRIEF, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In toils and anguish, made betimes Last Line: And opes sublimer deeps of faith. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The darkness steals the forms of all the queens Last Line: Another torn red sunset come to pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Variant Title(s): Firelight And Nightfall Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hungry longing in the soul, Last Line: And recks not if she be to live or die. Subject(s): Grief; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by EMMA LAZARUS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a hungry longing in the soul Last Line: And recks not if she be to live or die. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a beam o'er the face of the waters may glow Last Line: It may smile in his light, but it blooms not again. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by MAY WEST OWEN Poem Text First Line: Alas, no home this side eternity Last Line: O haunting grief! Cruel mystery! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How did your grief Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is mad at the sun Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, by LLOYD SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My mother is mad at the sun Last Line: No room left in my house. %what am I going to do with my grief? Subject(s): Grief GRIEF, by CHRISTINE HAMILTON WATSON Poem Text First Line: A portion of cold grief has ever grown Last Line: Incessant fire that cannot find relief. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ENGROSS'D, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wherefore do thy sad numbers flow Last Line: Or blow my tears away or speak my death. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF IS A MOUSE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Since a rack couldn't coax a syllable - now Variant Title(s): Poem: 793; Poem: 75 Subject(s): Grief GRIEF OF THIS, by MICHELE HEATHER POLLOCK Poem Source First Line: The night I woke to find you just a dream Last Line: Not fast enough to save me from this grief Subject(s): Grief GRIEF OF TREES, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We returned at night, the autumn landscape Last Line: The evening grosbeak, like the storm, just passing through Subject(s): Grief; Trees GRIEF UNIVERSAL, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems the cost of living is not a local ill; all Last Line: The globe. Subject(s): Grief; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness GRIEF VANQUISHED, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Grief, since thou canst not rob me of god, what remains Last Line: Within me, grows more and more vast the longer I keep %on loving him Subject(s): Grief GRIEF WAS SENT THEE FOR THY GOOD, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some there are who seem exempted Last Line: Grief was sent thee for thy good. Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF'S ASPECTS, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Grief does not come alike to all, I know Last Line: At last, I have thee solely for my own.' Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF'S HARMONICS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At evening, when the lank and rigid trees Last Line: And in new pang old pang's incarnated. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF, FOR A LONG TIME SOUND, by MARY PINARD Poem Source First Line: A density Last Line: Thick with it, a billow in the squall Subject(s): Grief GRIEF, OF THE BLOODY HAND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In an immense wood in the south of kent Last Line: And left him there struggling hard to gain his liberty. Subject(s): Blood; Crime & Criminals; Discontent; Grief; Kidnapping; Dissatisfaction; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF-SONG, by FRANCES BARBER Poem Text First Line: Weave me a gorgeous garland Last Line: Past reach of circumstance! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEF-SONG, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: New grief, new tears Last Line: Whence the rain is falling. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEFE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrowes divided amongst many, lesse Last Line: Discruciate a man in deep distresse. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEFES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Jove may afford us thousands of reliefs Last Line: Since man expos'd is to a world of griefs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEFS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I measure every grief I meet / with analytic eyes Last Line: That some are like my own. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness GRIEVANCE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: One time I grieved; I shivered as in fright Last Line: "not in your wrath, god's noblest blessing spurn." Subject(s): Grief; Love; Passion; Sorrow; Sadness GROWLING ECLOGUE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Edwardus.- what makes you look so black, so glum, so cross? Last Line: And time restores a world of happier hours Subject(s): Grief 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 GUERDON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the white cheek of the cherub year I saw a tear Last Line: My sorrow's guerdon. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness GUILDER POND, by CHRISTINE BOYKA KLUGE Poem Source First Line: Sitting here on the rocks Last Line: Sinking like silver rings %into stillness Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Meditation GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: The crying of the guitar Last Line: Heart wounded, gravely %by five swords Subject(s): Death; Grief; Guitars; Mourning HAD YOU WEPT, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Had you wept; had you but neared me with a hazed uncertain ray Last Line: And hence our deep division, and our dark undying pain. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HAIKU FOR CHARLES BERRARD ON HIS 40TH BIRTHDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Man get relaxed Last Line: Women get permanent Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HALL, by EMOKE PULAY Poem Source First Line: Is where she first hears him Last Line: And tucked inside their gizzards Subject(s): Budapest, Hungary; Grief HANDS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You saw nothing but a face you could not recognize Last Line: Of passage between the living and the dead Subject(s): Death; Grief HAPPINESS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sitting on a bench in winter morning sun Last Line: Were quite enough to tip the scale toward ten Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature HARBOR, by KIM SANG-YONG Poem Source First Line: Sorrow is eternal Last Line: I wonder if peace %glows under the lanterns there Subject(s): Grief HARD WORK, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's hard to keep smiling when troubles are Last Line: Like a smile. Subject(s): Grief; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Fatigue HARRIET STREET, by CAROL FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fadedness of stone Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HAT LADY IN THE PARLOR WINDOW, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upper-left corner of the parlor window broken Last Line: And luke dragging it out by a stiff front leg Subject(s): Grief; Old Age 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 HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: When I began Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Deja Vu; Grief; Loss HAVING A GRAND TIME WITH THE HOT SHOTS...OR HOW I RAN INTO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well I'm back from new york poetry trip now and raring to go Last Line: Bolinas store and caught up some more names with him. Um Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HE MAKES LOVE TO HER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Some clothes, some jewels %some food, some love Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HE NEVER SMILED AGAIN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bark that held a prince went down Last Line: He never smiled again! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grief; Henry I, King Of England (1068-1135); Sorrow; Sadness HE SAID TURN HERE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And then tony showed us the lake Subject(s): Lakes; Summer; Grief; Pools; Ponds; Sorrow; Sadness HE WILL MAKE SOME WOMEN, by DEBRA MARQUART Poem Source First Line: A trail of wringing hands leading back to mother Last Line: A solid reason %to wear back Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships HEADLAND, SELS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I stop to look back at the place I fled Last Line: Already vanishing in the incoming tide Subject(s): Death; Grief HEADY DAY OF SUN WADING IN BOLINAS LAGOON TOPS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I discover my own %particular habitual ennui Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HEAL-ALL: IN MEMORY OF KANA NAKAMA, by DEBRA KANG DEAN Poem Source First Line: Because the sky is a cipher Last Line: I've grown too pale and thin Alternate Author Name(s): Dean, Debi Kang Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Memory; Photography And Photographers; Pictures; Silence HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS, by ALINE MURRAY KILMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The heart knoweth? If this be true indeed Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief HEART, SAD HEART: A RONDEL, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart, sad heart, for what are you pleading? Last Line: Heart, sad heart, for what are you pleading? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 HEARTBURN, by SAKANOE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Like the sedge of naniwa Last Line: I should not have met %grief heavy as this Alternate Author Name(s): Otomo Of Sakanoe; Sakanoye Subject(s): Grief HEAVY DAUGHTER BLUES, by NATALIE KENVIN Poem Source First Line: I love her for the same reasons Last Line: She is heavy in her grief Subject(s): Grief; Mothers And Daughters HECUBA: A CHORUS, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soft, southern gale, whose whisp'ring breath Last Line: Shall bind in curst, disgraceful chains! Subject(s): Grief; Homecoming; Mythology; Mythology - Classical; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Seamen; Sails; Journeys; Trips HEIGHTS OF MACCHU PICCHU: 12, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rise up, brother, be born with me Last Line: Speak through my words and my blood Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Death; Grief HEIMWEH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: Just look,' said she, 'how blue the sky' Last Line: The other wept for paha sapa) Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement HEMISPHERES, by BARBARA CROW Poem Source First Line: I don't know where to go from here Last Line: From the west Subject(s): Death; Grief HENRY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In canossa's castle courtyard Last Line: "of my sorrows with his war-axe." Subject(s): Castles; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime 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 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 GIFT TO US, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Sometimes %when I am with you Last Line: Do you know how much she loved you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of HERBERT WHITE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I hit her on the head, it was good Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Divorce; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness HERE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's green, here's the tree Last Line: What we are. Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness HERE IS MUSIC: 14. RONDEAU, by AUSTIN PHILIPS Poem Text First Line: Were you but here, this wan, unhappy west Last Line: Were you but here. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Lament; Memory; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness HERMAE...WHITAKERI, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Binde ye my browes with mourning cyparisse Last Line: A double life: that neither liu'd afore? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Poplar Trees; Soul; Sun HERODIADE, by JOSEPH AUSLANDER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Should I grieve with much grieving Last Line: Need of you -- you! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HI! IT'S TOM', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: No more phone calls ever again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HIDDEN SORROW, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone at last; yet I could not see Last Line: Keeps sobbing on in its sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HIS CROWN OF SHAME (ON THE SINKING OF THE 'LUSITANIA'), by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Another gem to deck your crown of shame Last Line: Hell's horrors pale before a prussian brain. Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Grief; Heaven; Lusitania (ship); Shipwrecks; William Ii, Kaiser Of Germany (1859-1941; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise HIS GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With my words / I'll make rocks Last Line: To make them sing. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness HIS RETIREMENT, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A purling brook glides by this place away Last Line: The waters murmur too in sympathy. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HIS WEAKNESSE IN WOES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot suffer; and in this, my part Last Line: Of patience wants. Grief breaks the stoutest heart. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HOLDING ON TO THE EDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Too good for you, kid. %kid Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOLY, by NICOLE BLACKMAN Poem Source First Line: I eat only sleep and air Last Line: And I will be so slight that I will pass through all of you %silently %like wind Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Self-consciousness; Selflessness HOLY INNOCENTS, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Us herod slew, / willing to slay the infant christ, our lord Last Line: As babies trembling in the tears of her. Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T. Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness HOME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am home Last Line: (like here dog! Here dog!) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Loss 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 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 HORRENDOUS PREFERENCES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: With the awareness of death: quel probleme Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOURS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the bright stars came out last night Last Line: And passed into the skies Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Life; Time; Sorrow; Sadness HOW COULD YOU NOT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Remember the road to belvedere Last Line: The cathedral of the world? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature HOW DOES ONE ATTAIN THAT POPULAR NARRATIVE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the late afternoon Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss HOW GREAT MY GRIEF; TRIOLET, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How great my grief, my joys how few Last Line: Since first it was my fate to know thee? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HOW GREY THE WORLD WAS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How grey the world was with its memories Last Line: The news that you are here, in psalm and shout! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness HOW IT GOES ON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Opening: the door, the box, the womb, the mouth Last Line: The mouth and eyes, the heart Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature 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 LONG THIS NIGHT IS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mirie it, while sumer ilast Last Line: Soregh and murne and fast Subject(s): Grief; Time HOW MY HEART SINKS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How my heart sinks when I behold the sad reflection of my face Last Line: That I may gather strength to fuse from agony, a smile! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness HUM, by ANN LAUTERBACH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The days are beautiful Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 HUMAN SORROWS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our happy bathers, - pardon my romance! Last Line: We count from woe to woe, with no glad hearts between! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 I AM NOT GOING TO BE INTIMIDATED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I can just enjoy breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I AM NOT SAD!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not sad, though sadness seems Last Line: The darkness of a nameless tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness I AM THE AUTUMNAL SUN, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is the constant music of my grief Subject(s): Autumn; Sun; Grief I BLINKED MY EYES, LOOKED UP AND EVERYONE WAS 25 YEARS OLDER-, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When you're alive you get to Last Line: An hour and a half late for lunch Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I CALL FOR FATHER, by EBELEH ONDAH Poem Source Last Line: The fire on twigs, %the heart is decomposed Subject(s): Ancestors And Ancestry; Grief; Igede (african People) I CAN WADE GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They'll carry — him! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness I CAN WADE GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They'll carry — him! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness I DANCE WITH MY CAT, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dance with my cat in the kitchen Last Line: Snuggled into my breast Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude I FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UTTER A MEANINGFUL UTTERANCE BUT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I can take the lightweight branch of a tree from a window Last Line: Land.... Plenty of room there Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I GO SINGING, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I go singing a song under my breath Last Line: And this is mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness I HAVE FOLDED MY SORROWS, by BOB KAUFMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have folded my sorrows into the mantle of summer night Last Line: The revisited soul is wrapped in the aura of familiarity Subject(s): Grief I HAVE NO STRENGTH FOR MINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stay clear. %I won't listen Last Line: Arrows in their stiff form laid in sleep %and the moons stacked up like shields Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I NEED SOME TEA TO WAKE TO BEAUTIFUL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Clear warm evening on the way to alice's reading Last Line: As a perfect gift Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I NEVER LOST AS MUCH BUT TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I am poor once more! Subject(s): Death; Grief; God I SAW RED EVENING THROUGH THE RAIN, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And lonely was the forward way Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Persistence I SHALL NOT MURMUR IF AT LAST, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But mine dispels in tears Variant Title(s): Poem: 1410; Poem: 142 Subject(s): Grief I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In those last days Last Line: I should have known Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I SMILE, BUT OH! MY HEART IS BREAKING, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I mingle with the young and gay Last Line: I smile, but oh, my heart is breaking. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness I THOUGHT, I'LL MAKE IT SO SIMPLE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Anyone can get it understand Last Line: Who's not so wild anymore Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I WANDER IN DARKNESS AND SORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The fall of the leaves at my feet!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief; Death I WANT A SMALLER THING IN MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: They happen to me all the time Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss I WILL NOT BE CLAIMED, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am happy, nothing can divide me Last Line: I see the white stuff and the black stuff and decide Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Humanity; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight I WISH YOU COULD HAVE BEEN HERE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: You were miles away Last Line: I wish you could have been here Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of I WONDER IF YOU CAN KNOW, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: How utterly banished I am Subject(s): Grief I'M CROSS WITH GOD WHO HAS WRECKED THIS GENERATION, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: The son survives; my wife died Last Line: Fruit from high branches, but how short-sighted %is banging the apple tree? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love - Marital I'M GOING TO SLEEP, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Teeth of flowers, coif of dew Last Line: Tell him not to keep trying, tell him I've gone out Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude I'M SADDEST WHEN I SING, by THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You think I have a merry heart Last Line: I'm saddest when I sing! Alternate Author Name(s): Bayly, Nathaniel Thomas Haynes Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs I'VE KNOWN GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That cold wind into song Subject(s): Grief 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 ICE CANNOT CRY, by FLORENCE STEINBERG Poem Text First Line: Tears drop / splashing the heart Last Line: Melt. Subject(s): Cold; Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ICE-CROWNED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Glancing in armor of crystal Last Line: Into what peace are ye borne! Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness 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 IDYLL 1. LAMENT FOR ADONIS, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wail, wail, ah for adonis! He is lost to us, lovely Last Line: Thou must lament him again, and again shed tears in a new year. Subject(s): Aphrodite; Cythera (greek Island); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Sorrow; Sadness 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. 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 BIRD GETS NOISY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Bird! Queen of the night! Last Line: Put sarong over cage) Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Loss; Nature; Parrots; Silence IF GRIEF COULD BURN OUT, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The flames have left, %and grief stirs, and the deft %heart lies impotent Subject(s): Grief IF I COULD ONLY WRITE, by RAMON DE CAMPOAMOR Poem Source First Line: Please, senor cura write a line for me Last Line: To know my greek, and latin, after all! Subject(s): Grief; Illiteracy; Love Letters 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 ONLY THE DREAMS ABIDE, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If the things of earth must pass Last Line: If only the dreams abide. Subject(s): Change; Dreams; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness IF PHYLLIS DENIES ME RELIEF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: And be drunk with nothing but love Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking;grief; Sorrow;sadness IF TEARS WERE PEARLS, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: If tears were pearls, I would have Last Line: That is my new sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Tears IF TO THE SIGHING BREEZE OF SUMMER-HOURS, by PETRARCH Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose eyes but open'd, when they seemed to lose Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Grief II, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Muso soseki %companion on the beach Last Line: Silver inlets %down the coast Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Seashore IL PLEUT DOUCEMENT SUR LA VILLE, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears fall within mine heart Last Line: Mine heart is desolate. Subject(s): Desolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 IMPROMPTU, by FRANCES ANNE KEMBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You say you're glad I write - oh, say not so! Last Line: To me, it flows a sullen stream of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Butler, Frances Anne; Kemble, Fanny Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness IMPROMPTU, IN REPLY TO A FRIEND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, from the heart where sorrow sits Last Line: And droop within their silent cell. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 GARRET, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In deep twilight / the rain taps upon the skylight Last Line: Hath but now disclosed the shadowy flood of death. Subject(s): Grief; Success; Writing & Writers; Sorrow; Sadness IN A JAM, by HARRIET LEVIN Poem Source First Line: Driving one hour through rush Last Line: Then release may, %in good turn, be received Subject(s): Grief; Solitude IN ABSENCE, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wide-stretching plains, and mountain-peaks farseen Last Line: "hills, valleys, groves, say for me, ""fare thee well." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Nature; Singing & Singers; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DEATH VALLEY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came long stretches of volcanic plains Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN DEATH VALLEY, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There came long stretches of volcanic plains Last Line: It was the mark of some ancestral grief - %grief that began before the ancient flood Subject(s): Grief IN DUNGEONS DARK, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dungeons dark I cannot sing Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: Don't do it!' I begged her. But she was determined Last Line: Shining, silvery depths Subject(s): Bodies; Death; Grief; Suicide 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 GRIEF AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When she was alive, now a memory Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru Subject(s): Grief 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 HOWARD PARK, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call me away not yet a vagrant while! Last Line: Here will I come and dream again my dreams. Subject(s): Grief; Parks; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness IN MEMORIAM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: First, there were the first people Last Line: Want to move, they didn't want to move Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Grief; Loss 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.: 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.: 67, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my bed the moonlight falls Last Line: Thy tablet glimmers in the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MY DREAM LAST NIGHT DEER LADY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Of land outside the door Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IN NEW YORK, by CLIFFORD BAX Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood with men upon the crowded curb Subject(s): New York City; Grief; Mankind; Crowds; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race 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 OUR YARD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the late may rain Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IN PATIENCE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not faint, but trust in god Last Line: But re-awakening on the morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Grief; Jesus Christ; Life; Patience; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness IN PRAISE OF REGRET, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Somehow the longing we speak of Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness IN PRISON, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In prison / without being accused Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN PURSUIT OF THE DREAM, by DIEGO URIBE Poem Source First Line: We are wooed by the rainbow light of eve Last Line: Cease weeping, and hope anew! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Silence; Sleep 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 SORROW, by THOMAS HASTINGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gently, lord, oh, gently lead us Last Line: We awake among the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROW, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This my comfort is in sorrow Last Line: Let no heart have bled in vain! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROW, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not my own sorrow that opens my mouth Last Line: Even my life? Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROW, by CLEMENT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon the thoughtless vandal Last Line: How long before men end them? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROW'S HOUR, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The brambles blow without you, - at the door Last Line: Oh, that you were but here with me again! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROW'S NAME, by JULIA SARGENT VISHER Poem Text First Line: Our friendship should endure forever Last Line: Is this, that we have wept together. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN SORROWES DROWN'D I WAST MY WEARY DAYES, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Grief IN TEARS, THE HEART OPPREST WITH GRIEF, by PIETRO METASTASIO Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Like sorrow—in a tear? Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Tears; Grief IN TENEBRIS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the lights have been extinguished Last Line: And moves gently toward the deep. Subject(s): Envy; Evil; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To the moon Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THAT HOUR I HAVE SEEN', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In a mirror of %ice Subject(s): Affliction; Grief IN THE BLACK FOREST, by AMY LEVY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lay beneath the pine trees Last Line: For joy it never had. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE BLUE RIDGE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain night is shining, jim of tellico Last Line: And beg him bless you, bless you ever, jim of tellico! Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE HUMMINGBIRD AVIARY, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: South of here, %cortes' soldiers also went still Last Line: Now emerald, now ruby, now sapphire blue Subject(s): Death; Grief IN THE LONG RUN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the long run fame finds the deserving man Last Line: In the long run. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Love; Night; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime 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 MEDICI CHAPEL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The tourist carriages stand by outside. Horses Last Line: Flowering all together, praising god? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature IN THE NIGHT, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, o my little ones, sleep Last Line: Rich with the tears that we weep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Sleep; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS, by FLORENCE COPLEY WHITE Poem Text First Line: Last night the wind went singing Last Line: Upon the harp. Subject(s): Grief; Shadows; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS: 27, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the impassable sorrow, mother mine! Last Line: Since I, too, wear away like the unenduring snow. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE SHADOWS: 9, by DAVID GRAY (1838-1861) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A vale of tears, a wilderness of woe Last Line: Doth the impression evermore inherit. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN THE STREETS, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Boy, my boy, it is lonely in the city Last Line: Oh boy—god help her! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grief; Streets; Sorrow; Sadness; Avenues IN THE VALLEY OF WATERS, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the valley of waters we wept o'er the day Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief IN THE WOOD, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood Last Line: A brooklet flows beneath the vaulted wood. Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Nature; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness IN THIS LIGHT, by CARL PHILLIPS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sure, I used to say his name like a truth that, just Subject(s): Language; Grief; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness IN TIME OF GRIEF, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark, thinned, beside the wall of stone Last Line: After a fall of rain. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IN VINCULIS; SONNETS WRITTEN IN AN IRISH PRISON: I WILL SMILE NO MORE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, I will smile no more. If but for pride Last Line: But silence only to my end of days. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness INCARNATION, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day a woman stands in her kitchen Last Line: For the house to fall down. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness INCENSE FOR THE BUDDHA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Boy do I burn Last Line: A lot & that's about all %I do Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Buddhism; Grief; Incense-trees; Loss INFELICE, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They say the skies are tinted blue Last Line: Ah, woe is me! Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness INFLECTION, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Rita was mad at me. At lynn's opening she was wearing Last Line: Again was the hit word, gwenn told me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss INFLUENCES IN POETRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dream: %in a room - getting ready for a party Last Line: Duncan looks pretty strange himself Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss INHERITANCE: A LAMENTATION, by MICHAEL CHITWOOD Poem Source First Line: Here it is at last, the indistinguishable thing Last Line: Which I was, as we all are, in memory, %a love story Subject(s): Grief; Inheritance And Succession INHIBITED, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could not pity your pain but I pitied the branches Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Mind, The; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 INSTINCT, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Big, baggy clouds and a small breeze Last Line: A fish, quivering now like something essential %the mind comes back to Subject(s): Death; Grief INTERIOR, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her mind lives in a quiet room, Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness INTRUSION, by MAXWELL BODENHEIM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lilies sag with rain-drops Last Line: Your silence and the mist of soft words breaking it. ... Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Lilies; Silence; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 IRIS, HER BOOK, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee by the soul of her that bore thee Last Line: No more! She leaves her memory in thy keeping. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness IS THERE ANY WAY I CAN DO THIS ANY BETTER?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No, this is fine Last Line: And feed as we've done? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT CANNOT BE WISDOM, by TANIA BROOK Poem Text First Line: This swift overture that beauty plays Last Line: Inviolate and numb. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness IT CEASED TO HURT ME, THOUGH SO SLOW, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It's better -- almost peace Variant Title(s): Poem: 584; Poem: 42 Subject(s): Grief IT CERTAINLY WAS DIVINE RUNNING INTO YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, just a momentary good idea as your form Last Line: New moon %has hardly seemed to grow Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Conventions; Environment; Grief; Loss IT IS THE FOLLOWING, by RUTH KNOWLES Poem Text First Line: No doubt it is the greater honor to the Last Line: Not back into the ark again with somewhere land ahead. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism IT IS TRUE, THERE IS POWER WITHIN US. BUT I AM SO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh it's all passed, gone, gone, gone Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT JUST SO HAPPENS, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You fingered the white top Last Line: That knocks the wind out of the ground Subject(s): Anxiety; Conversation; Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness IT MATTERS, SEPTEMBER'S DALLIANCE, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Wedge-wood sky, its lengthy avenue. The air, itself Last Line: Light. The whole sky is listening. %listening Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory; Poetry And Poets IT WAS A FINE FEAST, JOY SUDDENLY LEFT, by CH'EN LIN Poem Source Last Line: Lost in sad thought I forgot to turn home, %and tears fell with sighs and soaked my robes Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Fasts And Feasts; Grief IT WAS NIGHT, AND ON THE MOUNTAINS, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Time; Grief; Death - Animals; Sorrow; Sadness IT'S A GREAT DAY. LAST NIGHT I VISITED MY OLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Air, the best teacher is alive Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S BEEN A LONG TIME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: On what only: the song that girl sang the song that girl sang Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S DIFFERENT HERE NOW HAVING BEEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: To the other coast and returned to hit Last Line: At the table Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S LONELY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh no %oh no Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's so hot and sleepy at two this afternoon Last Line: O go to the beach drag yourself to the shore Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss IT'S SO QUIET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In the courtyard fountain Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ITALIAN SUMMER, THINKING OF BLUEBERRIES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Ripening in august beside the front porch Last Line: Their wrinkles and tongues %turning blue Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ITSY BITSY POLKA DOT REVIEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Well, I'll never sell myself Last Line: Darn hard to come by Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss JAIME SABINES; XIV, by CHRISTOPHER MERRILL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The glass you drank from hasn't broken, Last Line: Nothing you were, we were, us and you, %is like what's living in your hell. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Grief JAPANESE WOMAN BESIDE THE WATER, by CHARLES LAURENCE NORTH Poem Source First Line: As rain is bending the urgent pine needles Last Line: And later we live for the sky in her arms Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water JE SAIS, by CHARLES T. DAVIS Poem Text First Line: If knowledge is of lovely things Last Line: That said, goodbye. Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, C. T. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness JEANNE BRAS; A BALLAD OF SORROW, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Jeanne bras! Jeanne bras! Arise and let me in Last Line: She seeks what she never will find. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 JOB'S WIFE, A TWENTIETH-CENTURY CASTING SCRIPT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Job's wife, bereft, without Last Line: And it was not of god they spoke. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Torture; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 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 JOY, by LISEL MUELLER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't cry, it's only music Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Lisel Subject(s): Happiness; Grief; Love - Erotic; Joy; Delight; Sorrow; Sadness JOY AND SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sullen skies today Last Line: Come sweeter for past sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight JOY AND SORROW, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall we let joy go by Last Line: But lo, he lingers, bidden not to stay! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight JOY IS BUT SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: For fair thou art as moonrise after rain Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Joy; Grief; Pain JULIANA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Off! Off! Ye hounds! - in madness an ill death be your doom Last Line: While her moor lord beside her slept, the tears fell on his face Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Knights And Knighthood; Love - Loss Of JULY '92 AT NAROPA, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With the term 'counter-poetics' we might ask Last Line: Eruption of the marvelous into everyday life' --p.L. Wilson Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Poetry And Poets JUST WHERE DID THESE THOUGHTS GO?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Ride bicycle out into the night Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Idealism; Loss K'U-KIANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Because the sun like a chinese lantern Last Line: Set in a temple of clouds. Subject(s): China; Grief; Temples; Sorrow; Sadness; Mosques KAFKA: LILACS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Even yogurt diluted with water is too much Last Line: For him, to wash down the taste of the fruit Subject(s): Death; Grief KARMAPA SPOKE TO ME FROM A CENTER OF LIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lay low Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss KATHLEEN MAVOURNEEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kathleen mavourneen! / the song is still ringing Last Line: Oh, why are we silent, kathleen mavourneen! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime 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 KISSING THE ROD, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O heart of mine, we shouldn't worry so! Last Line: Just be glad. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Variant Title(s): Just To Be Glad Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness KORNER AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest Last Line: Lyre, sword, and flower, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Grave Of Korner Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Sisters; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness KYRIE ELEISON, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In joy, in pain, in sorrow Last Line: Kyrie eleison! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Pain; Prayer; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Theology L'ENVOI, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've passed the grim and threatening warders Last Line: I know my songs are nearest fame. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Seasons; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness L.T.N., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Happy winds whose wings caress Last Line: For thine and love's sake, sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Love - Loss Of; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness LA TRISTESSE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And pound in his despair in the army prison camp at pisa Last Line: La tristesse, tard, tres tard je t'ai connue Subject(s): Grief; Poetry And Poets; Pound, Ezra (1885-1972) 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 LACRIMAE RERUM, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Rossetti walked his sorrow to a field Last Line: And sorrow, and this cause for sorrow, die. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery LADY ANNE BOTHWELL'S LAMENT; A SCOTTISH SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "balow, my babe, ly [lie] still and sleipe [sleep]!" Last Line: It grieves me sair to see thee weipe Subject(s): Disappointment;grief;love; Sorrow;sadness LADY BYRON'S REPLY TO LORD BYRON'S FARE THEE WELL, by ANNE ISABELLA MILBANKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, farewell, farewell forever Last Line: If thou canst -- be happy still. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lady; Milbanke, Annabella Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LADY CLARA VERE DE VERE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady clara vere de vere / of me you shall not win renown Last Line: And let the foolish yeoman go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love - Materialism; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LADY MONTREVOR (SEE MATURIN'S 'WILD IRISH BOY'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not look for love that is a dream Last Line: No man shall mock me after this my day. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love; Seasons; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LAMENT, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All is far %and long gone by Last Line: Stands like a white city Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Lament; Solitude LAMENT FOR JAMES, EARL OF GLENCAIRN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind blew hollow frae the hills Last Line: "and a' that thou hast done for me!" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LAMENT FOR THE SAILING OF THE CRUSADE, by RINALDO D' AQUINO Poem Source First Line: Past comfort, all despairing Last Line: To lands across the sea Alternate Author Name(s): Rinaldo D'aquino Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lament; Love - Complaints; Sailors And Sailing LAMENT OF A DESPISED LOVER, by JUAN RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Say, lovelorn heart, that art condemned upon despair to feed Last Line: And thou, poor tortured body, thou art wasted with thy pain Alternate Author Name(s): Archpriest Of Hita; Arcipreste De Hita Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Lament; Love - Complaints; Tears LAMENTATIONS, by ALTER BRODY Poem Source First Line: In a dingy kitchen %facing a ghetto backyard Last Line: The bits of a photograph lie on the dresser Subject(s): Grief LAMENTS, SELS., by JAN KOCHANOWSKI Poem Source First Line: Where is that gate for grief which, long ago Last Line: But lose my soul to find peace there below Subject(s): Grief LANDSCAPE RISING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: These people may not be everybody's cup of tea Last Line: Of marin county and the golden gate bridge Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 LARGESSE, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Dreams; Rain; Grief; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LASSITUDE, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I laid me down beside the sea Last Line: My heart itself was cast away. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LAST AND WORST, by FRANCES EKIN ALLISON Poem Text First Line: Upon life's highway I was hastening, when Last Line: Your banner of despair. Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LAST LETTER, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: A proper interval, and then Subject(s): Divorce; Remarriage; Grief; Second Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness LATE AFTERNOON RAINBOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Coyote's bow Last Line: Somebody is getting born Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LATE AUTUMN, by CHUNG HAN-MO Poem Source First Line: Sorrow is eternally %silent as stone Last Line: People go homeward %cossetting their wind-swept hearts Subject(s): Grief LATER HISTORY OF THE OWL AND THE PUSSY-CAT, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear miss violet Last Line: Believe me, %yours sincerely, %edward lear Subject(s): Animals; Boats; Grief; Sailors And Sailing; Tourists; Travel LAURA WEEPING; ODE, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Chaste, lovely laura, 'gan disclose Last Line: And to eclipse one hour be sin. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LAURENCE BLOOMFIELD IN IRELAND: 8. THE EVICTION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In early morning twilight, raw and chill Last Line: And firesides buried under fallen thatch. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Landlords & Tenants; Orphans; Police; Poverty; Strikes; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings; Labor Disputes; Lockouts LAWN TENNIS, by JAROSLAV SEIFERT Poem Source First Line: Forget your dark thoughts Last Line: Sitting in the wicker easy chair Subject(s): Grief; Tennis LAY IT TO REST WHERE YOU ARE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After agate beach reef Last Line: Over compost heap %in our garden Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LAY OF THE CID: THE BANISHMENT OF THE CID, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He turned and looked upon them, and he wept very sore Last Line: That he lacked the king's favor now well the cid might see Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Enemies; Exiles; Grief LAY OF THE CID: THE FAREWELL, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: And now the prayer is over and the mass in its due course Last Line: The god who gave us spirits shall give us aid also Subject(s): Absence; Cid, El (1043-1099); Exiles; Grief; Travel LE MAUDIT, by RICHARD ALDINGTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women’s tears are but water Last Line: Awaiting the tardy finish Subject(s): Grief; Solitude LEAVING HOME, by ALAN C. FOX Poem Source First Line: In the morning %I wake again Last Line: It is difficult for me %to leave my home Subject(s): Grief; Mourning LEFT IN LIFE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a dream. What then? Are dreams untrue? Last Line: Pleased with the folly of thy straining hands. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Passion; Solitude; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LEFT ON THE BATTLE-FIELD, by LAURA C. REDDEN Poem Text First Line: Oh, my darling! My darling! Never to feel Last Line: Out of the hateful light. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; U.s. - History; Sorrow; Sadness LENINGRAD SYMPHONY, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: The theater's swollen and static with winter Last Line: How soon will the war end? Will it end %soon? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; War; Winter LET ME WALK ALONE WHERE BREAKS THE SEA, by LUIS DE GONGORA Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The loveliest girl in all the country-side Alternate Author Name(s): Argote Y Gongora, Luis De Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude LET US BREAK DOWN THE BARRIERS OF CRYING, by ORMOND THOMAS Poem Source Subject(s): Grief LETTER TO CAREL FABRITIUS, SEPTEMBER 1643, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: I groan when I think of you in that low spot Last Line: Oh, carel, your loss winters the night Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief LETTING IN THE DAY, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not yet a month Last Line: Between us and what lives outside %our lives, disappears Subject(s): Death; Grief LEWIS D. HAYES, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the midmost glee of the christmas Last Line: Gave it again to him. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Guests; Holidays; New Year; Voices; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting LI HO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Li ho of the province of honan Last Line: He hears a child cry. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): China; Grief; Loss; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To exalt thyself all life exalted deem Last Line: That holds the trembling universe in awe. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Soul; Universe; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE GOES ON, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wade ross turned from vesta his wife to the window Last Line: On the beach-curve by a flood-tide spent and forgotten. Subject(s): Grief; Guilt; Life; Love; Marriage; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives LIFE IS THUS, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Never look behind Last Line: Behind. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Life; Parents; Poverty; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood LIFE OF NAROPA FOR TED BERRIGAN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dream land where I am sitting on evergreen road, the fly Last Line: Uncover the wish-fulfilling gem, the hidden home of the dikini Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LIFE WORK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The softening underfoot, a perceptible shift Last Line: Opens through dirt and duff, last year's leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature 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 LESSON, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are times in one's life when all the world seems Last Line: Wrong's darkness comes the welcome strength of right Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief LIFE'S PATTERN, by VERDA BORISFIELD Poem Text First Line: I wove a pattern for my life Last Line: Grey threads of pain. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Strength; Sorrow; Sadness LIFE'S SONGS, by ELETHA MAE TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: In her youth she wrote of pain Last Line: Few know her heart is sad. Subject(s): Grief; Women - Writers; Sorrow; Sadness LIGHT WIND, by FLOYD SKLOOT Poem Source First Line: The wind is light and smells of summer rain Last Line: Is gone, and time, and then the sound of rain Subject(s): Grief; Memory LIGHT-BORN SORROWS, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hath wisdom made thee weep? Be yet more wise Last Line: "my soul shall glory in perfected life." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LIGHT-YEARS, by PATRICIA GOEDICKE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Under my hand mere Last Line: The sudden flare of feeling we almost touch Subject(s): Death; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Mothers; Sympathy LIGHT: AN EPICEDE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love will not weep because the seal is broken Last Line: Yet light like thine is ours, if love be light. Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness LIGHTS THROUGH THE MIST, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some for the sadness and sweetness of far evening bells Last Line: Lights through the mist! Subject(s): Comfort; Evening; God; Grief; Hope; Light; Mist; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism LIKE BARLEY BENDING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "change my sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Barley; Grief; Song LIKE BROTHER AND SISTER, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: Like brother with dear sister, hand in hand Last Line: I say, 'of which we ne'er shall know who sheds them!' Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships LIKE EMPTY BEER CANS, by ERNESTO CARDENAL Poem Source First Line: Like empty beer cans, like empty Last Line: They swept out the bars Variant Title(s): Gethsemani, Ky: Subject(s): Grief; Past LINE IS SLACK, by JANICE N. HARRINGTON Poem Source First Line: I know tonight what I've always known Last Line: The line is slack, and the dark waters ripple over Subject(s): Fathers And Daughters; Grief LINES, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou camest with the coming spring! Last Line: Death falls one day like falling snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love; Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness LINES AT NIGHT, by JULIET H. CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have wander'd in the moonlight Last Line: "come away, then, come away!" Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Juliet H. Subject(s): Grief LINES BY A PERSON OF QUALITY, by JOHN BOWYER BUCHANAN NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loves that doubted, the loves that dissembled Last Line: What should they do but weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Nichols, Bowyer Subject(s): Doubt; Grief; Skepticism; Sorrow; Sadness 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 GIVEN TO M. AT CHRISTMAS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shall I give thee, dear, to-day Last Line: The anguish of the lifted cross. Subject(s): Christmas; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness LINES TO A GROTESQUE INKSTAND, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Who fashioned thy form Last Line: To bewitch and control. Subject(s): Grief; Inkstands; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WRITTEN BENEATH A PICTURE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear object of defeated care! Last Line: My memory immortal grew. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief LINKED TO AN EXPERIENCE A FEELING DEEP DOWN, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Be moved and lived in all over again. Same old blunders on a different hill Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Death; Grief 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 LISTEN, by ALICIA SUSKIN OSTRIKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Having lost you, I attract substitutes Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness LITE PENDENTE, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: The leaves lie dead about my feet Last Line: Or art thou, as thou seemest, dead? Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE LOVER, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You made your little lover kind Last Line: Left you to grieve to heights again. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LITTLE THINGS, by GERTRUDE GORE Poem Text First Line: I had almost forgotten you were gone Last Line: Like pity we knew watching a petal fall. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness LIVING A SPIRITUAL LIFE IN THE 'WOODS', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At least it's simple %to mind the wild Last Line: The red fuchsia %has just gone has just gone to the dump Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOBELIA, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Sometimes all you need is an opening: lobelia, for instance Last Line: The right sort of shade Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature LOCKSLEY HALL, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Comrades, leave me here a little, while as yet 'tis early morn Last Line: For the mighty wind arises, roaring seaward, and I go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Disappointment; Freedom; Grief; Holidays; Love; Religion; Veterans Day; War; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology 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 LOGICIANS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: If light ripples the soft edges of air Last Line: Our weight, uneasy on the stone Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature LONELINESS, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have known loneliness; - the mountain peak Last Line: (oh, blinding tears!) whereto she comes no more. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness LONG CHERISHED GRIEF, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: Out of a cloud I came one day Last Line: I had forgotten how to see. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LONG WAY OFF, I SEE MEN IN THE DIRT, by UNKNOWN+125 Poem Source Last Line: I can remember the taste of that dirt Subject(s): Grief; Zen Buddhism LONGING, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: All flowers of language Last Line: As in a nightmare, %one clear vision penetrates my whole being Subject(s): Grief LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY PIERCED, AND MOURN, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Infinite grief! Amazing woe! Last Line: And deep repentance drown mine eyes %in undissembled woe Subject(s): Grief LOOKS LIKE IT'S GOING TO RAIN ANY MINUTE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's been four months since my mother died, aged 92 Last Line: Separated according to color Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LORD OF MY LIFE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He laid his dear face next to mine Last Line: My grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Loss; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOST, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women of dark houses Last Line: Dim fiery pain Subject(s): Women; Houses; Grief LOST COUNTRY, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: This desperate sorrow is now so shared of all Last Line: Our foreheads on the ground, a million strong? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LOST GIFTS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years we spent together - what are they Last Line: The joy divine that might have been our own. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOST LOVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes are quickened so with grief Last Line: Without relief seeking lost love. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LOTUS SUTRA REVISITED: TWO LETTERS TO KEIDA YUSUKE, by SAM HAMILL Poem Source First Line: The great dharma wheel Last Line: Only this gratitude endures Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Memory LOVE, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love, you come no longer to my dead eyes Last Line: And engenders without sensual pleasure! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Love 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 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 SORROW, by WILLIAM EDWARD HARTPOLE LECKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love in the country, sorrow in the town Last Line: The brightest sunshine casts the darkest shade. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love said one morn to sorrow Last Line: "he said; ""o ye who are broken-hearted." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND SORROW, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know not if the love be dead Last Line: And this kind sorrow bring back content? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE AND SORROW, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O maiden, fresher than the first green leaf Last Line: They never learned to love who never knew to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE BOAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Lynn doesn't want to miss the full moon tonight Last Line: - named tequila moonshine %light touched waters Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss LOVE IN EXILE I: 4, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou walkest with me as the spirit-light Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Walking; Love; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE NOT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love not, love not, ye hapless sons of clay! Last Line: Love not! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in the dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time LOVE UNKIND, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out upon the bleak hillside, the bleak Last Line: Wept the sweet morn her crystal tears that love should prove unkind! Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S CYNICISM, by GRANT HYDE CODE Poem Text First Line: Wisely you smile at love's sad corollary Last Line: Frail hours with sentiment; think this, and smile. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Romance; Sorrow; Sadness LOVE'S STRICKEN 'WHY', by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The hugest hearts that break Variant Title(s): Poem: 1368; Poem: 139 Subject(s): Grief 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/SNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When people say they love me I tell them/I wish I could stop thinking of robert Last Line: Give me a loaf of bread -- I loaf you!/frost whenever it snows Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Frost; Grief; Loss; Puns; Winter LUCASIA, ROSANIA, AND ORINDA PARTING AT A FOUNTAIN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, here are our enjoyments done Last Line: The fears and sorrows of this day. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Gays & Lesbians; Love; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LUCASTA WEEPING; SONG, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lucasta wept, and still the bright Last Line: Kindled again his fires. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LUMBER WAGONS, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: The lumber wagons are already there Last Line: On the road to pueblo nuevo Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief 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 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 LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 39, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My little songs do I utter Last Line: What they in her bosom discover'd. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 45, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hearing the strains enthralling Last Line: I quench my anguish and grief. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs 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 LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 51, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her dark attire thus wearing Last Line: Is ended as soon as you please. Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 61, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night in vision behold I thee Last Line: And the word is forgotten completely. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 65, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dream-god brought me to a castle vast Last Line: Blended with sternness, I awoke from sleep. Subject(s): Castles; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 70, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The numbers old and evil Last Line: And in it placed my love. Subject(s): Coffins; Dreams; Grief; Love; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness LYRICS OF LOVE AND SORROW: 5, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are brilliant heights of sorrow Last Line: "from weeping on ""heart-break hill." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MAD SONG, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wild winds weep Last Line: With frantic pain. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Insanity; Mythology; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness MADAME LA FLEURIE, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weight him down, o side-stars, with the great weightings of the end. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MAKE WINE, by B. J. BUHROW Poem Source First Line: Let the grapes grow in the backyard Last Line: Stand the upright %beautiful bottles in blood red rows Subject(s): Divorce; Drinks And Drinking; Grief; Marriage MALLEABILITY OF SORROW, by HANS LODEIZEN Poem Source First Line: How lovely the russian lady is Last Line: And listen to what she says Subject(s): Grief MALZAH SPEAKS, FR. SAUL, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, weary! I am called the laughing devil Last Line: More gloomy than a trinity of ravens. Subject(s): Bible; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Grief; Saul (11th Century B.c.); Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness MAN BY HIMSELF, by ROBERT NATHAN Poem Text First Line: Because my grief is quiet and apart Last Line: Certain and unbefriended and alone. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness MANTRA, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am sad / I sing, remembering Last Line: When I forget. Subject(s): Forgetfulness; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MANZANAR: 1. THE PHOTOGRAPH: FROM MANZANAR LOOKING TO MT. WILLIAMSON, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A hard landscape for the heart, manzanar Last Line: Rocks that take such light years to wear down Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MANZANAR: 2. GRANDFATHER KATAOKA: HIS STORY, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Mariko is making a garden for us at manzanar Last Line: In owens valley the heat is heavy. The light burns Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MARCELIA; A TRAGICOMEDY, SELECTION, by FRANCES BOOTHBY Poem Text First Line: What strange effects of fortune do I prove! Last Line: The brave, their bodies, makes their troubles urn. Subject(s): Fortune; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MARIA MINOR, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I conceived. And sorrow Last Line: To mash my head. Subject(s): Birth; Conception; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness MARIA, THE VILLAGE GIRL, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I knew a pleasant village, in a lone Last Line: Could trace her, through the silent wood withdrew. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness MARY ROCKWELL TALKS TO HER SON IN THE HOSPITAL AFTER HE'S BEEN....., by JULIANNA BAGGOTT Poem Source First Line: There was no button on the tip? Last Line: In the light of this rosy day Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Mothers And Sons; Sympathy 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 MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow Last Line: And where the stars are led. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight MATER DOLOROSA, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aw, billy, good sowl! Don't cuss! Don't cuss! Last Line: O illiam, the sweet it'd be to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MATER DOLOROSA, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He raised the latch in his father's door Last Line: For mary, mother, hears an' sees. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Prayer; Solitude; Women - Bible; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Loneliness 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 MAUREEN ASHORE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My lovely wife, who yestermorn didst bring Last Line: 08/12/09 Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Grief; Love; Marriage; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MAXIMIAN, ELEGY 5, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is perfectly clear Last Line: Ever lived, had stepped across my grave Subject(s): Chaos; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Social Protest MAY 2 MUSINGS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm spaced after the liturgy of it all, the very Last Line: On the mesa ghetto Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MAY LAMENT, by NAOMI LONG (WITHERSPOON) MADGETT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do the tears start? Last Line: How can I say? Subject(s): Grief MAY YOU ALWAYS BE THE DARLING OF FORTUNE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: March 10th and the snow flees like eloping brides Last Line: Vigilant. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Spring; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MAYTIME IN MIDWINTER, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new year gleams on us, tearful Last Line: And life, through love of you, love. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Seasons; Sorrow; Sadness MAZE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the %dead bird on the sidewalk Last Line: To the walls Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness ME, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bleeding hearts in the garden Last Line: I float in the plunging year Subject(s): Grief; Self-pity MEDEA (2), by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Grief dwells with life Last Line: As immortal beauty recovers from pain Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Grief MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Maid marjory sits at the castle gate Last Line: And men will say they were true lovers sweet Subject(s): Grief;love - Loss Of; Sorrow;sadness MEDIEVAL NORMAN SONG: 8, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "o love, my love, and perfect bliss!" Last Line: The sweet winds at their play Subject(s): Grief;prayer; Sorrow;sadness MEDITATION CABIN: THE POET STUDIES THE WALLS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I want to be ordinary, my words Last Line: Cross-grained, rough-cut Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MEED OF SORROW, by GEORGE H. SOULE JR. Poem Text First Line: Upon the nearer bank of that dark shore Last Line: She smiled a smile of utter tenderness. Subject(s): Grief; Yale University; Sorrow; Sadness MEJNUN AND LAILI (AFTER THE PERSIC), by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Drugged at the breast of anguish, nursed Last Line: And toward the desert ran. Subject(s): Arabia; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Grief; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations MELANCHOLIE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Out hideous monster; in thy name Last Line: Which can be sober, yet not dull. Subject(s): Grief; Hell; Self-pity; Sorrow; Sadness MELANCHOLY TOWERS, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: The slaves had huge hands and they built gloomy towers Last Line: Where swallows weave out in great sweeps in the air %like the silent strokes of a whip Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy; Slavery 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 MELISENDRA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: At sansuena, in the tower, fair melisendra lies Last Line: Saint denis speed the milk-white steed! - no moor their path shall find Subject(s): Grief; Knights And Knighthood; Romance MEMENTO MORI, by J. PATRICK LEWIS Poem Source First Line: This morning's mountain riffs Last Line: Before it hit the fin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory MEMENTO MORI, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Poor the pleasure Last Line: What ends to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORANDUM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If distraught shall be the word or not Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORANDUM, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If distraught shall be the word or not Last Line: Distraught or not, the iron at the throat Subject(s): Grief MEMORIAL DAY FOR THE WAR DEAD, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Memorial day for the war dead. Add now Last Line: Behind all this some great happiness is hiding Subject(s): Grief; Memorial Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Declaration Day MEMORIES WRITTEN IN THE STORMY MONTHS OF THE OPENING OF THE YEAR, 1868, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely musing, sadly thinking Last Line: "just to god and man." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Memory; Nature; New Year; Past; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY, by ABRAHAM LINCOLN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My childhood's home I see again Last Line: And feel I'm part of thee! Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Home; Memory; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness MEMORY TRAIN, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: To reach the past is not easy, you go Last Line: Destination: here and now, the present Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MENAPHON'S SONG IN HIS BED, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You restless cares, companions of the night Last Line: "welcome sweet grief, the subject of my lays." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MENAPHON: MENAPHON'S DITTY, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair fields, proud flora's vaunt, why is 't you smile when I lanquish Last Line: Till proud she repent. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MENAPHON: SEPHESTIA'S [CRADLE] SONG TO HER CHILD, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee Last Line: When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. Variant Title(s): Sephestia's Lullaby Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood MENDICANT, by JAN LEE ANDE Poem Source First Line: Coming down san pasqual mountain on a day Last Line: Those damp wooden beads Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Jesus Christ; Prayer MERCY, by OLGA BROUMAS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out in the harbor breaths of smoke Last Line: A wrinkle on the water. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Mythology - Classical; Seashore; Sickness; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Beach; Coast; Shore; Illness; Feminism MIDNIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Phone call from cass Last Line: You gave to me %to encourage phenomenology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Singing And Singers MIDNIGHT, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dank earth reeks with three days' rain Last Line: O love's unutterable stings! Subject(s): Youth; Longing; Grief MIDNIGHT: 1917, by MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I drink my blood in secret grief, I weep Last Line: When hate has loosed its hounds of hell and death! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinclair, Upton, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hate; Social Protest; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; War; Sorrow; Sadness MIDSUMMER, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: You loved me for a little Last Line: The kiss I never had. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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; MINNIE AND HER DOVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two days she miss'd her dove, and then alas Last Line: Eclipse thy memory of the kite and dove. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MIRROR, BACKED IN BLACK, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And grief behind each face Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Grief; Mirrors; Nature MISS MANIAC, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around my brain there is a chain, and o'er my fevered soul Last Line: Ah-ha!-it was a deadly touch-but it never cooled again! Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Fear; Grief MISSING, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: To watch you wave away Last Line: Not one loose button %not one frayed thread Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Thought MISSING, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Your house keys really are somewhere, your papers Last Line: Over there. At the edge of the world Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MISSING YOU, by GONG PEIYU Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A multicolored chart without a boundary Last Line: Only this. Alternate Author Name(s): Shu Ting; Shu Ding Subject(s): Absence; China - Democracy; Chinese Literature; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MISSING YOU, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: Susan, susan I am missing you Last Line: And susan, susan I am missing you Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of MIWOK MANDARIN BOLINAS BAMBOO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's that fur rug hanging over there Last Line: Deer passing thru Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 MOAN, MOAN, YE DYING GALES, by HENRY NEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Whose cup of grief runs o’er Subject(s): Grief 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 MOMENTS THAT COME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I am dancing around the plaza with a policeman Last Line: Who passes through softly %on her journey Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Dreams; Fantasy; Grief; Loss; Sin MONDAY AFTERNOON MAY 14, 1984:, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now we've gotten that out of the way Last Line: On 6 o'clock - tv tonight Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MONODY, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To have known him, to have loved him Last Line: That hid the shyest grape. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hawthorne, Nathaniel (1804-1864); Sorrow; Sadness MONODY, by OVRO'OM RAISIN Poem Text First Line: She is playing Last Line: I'm the dark ... Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness MONUMENT MOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou who wouldst see the lovely and the wild Last Line: Is call the mountain of the monument. Subject(s): Berkshire Hills, Massachusetts; Great Barrington, Massachusetts; Grief; Incest; Legends; Native Americans; Suicide; Sorrow; Sadness; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America 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; MOON-WROUGHT TIDES, by CHARLOTTE BLAKE LORING Poem Text First Line: How often have I prayed that I might cease Last Line: I almost long to live and love again. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery MOONLIGHT NIGHT, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This evening in fu-chou my wife Last Line: And the moon shine on our dried tears Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China; Grief; Marriage MOONLIGHT: CHICKENS ON THE ROAD, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Called out of dream by the pitch and screech Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Chickens; Grief; Ozarks (mountains); Sorrow; Sadness MOORED ON THE CH'IN-HUAI RIVER, by TU MU Poem Source First Line: Smoke-mist blankets cold water Last Line: Across the river she still sings % flower of the inner courtyard Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Ignorance MORAL, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: The moral is this: when we rob friend or foe Last Line: Dyspepsia would never have brought him to grief! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MORAL ALCHEMY, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The toils of alchemists, whose vain pursuit Last Line: And man's most welcome hymn is grateful cheerfulness. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Alchemy & Alchemists; Grief; Morality; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Ethics MORNING IS SUCH A WELCOME TIME. IT DOESN'T DEMAND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Are my startled guests as this morning proceeds normally out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MORNING SORROWS, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad memory wakes anew at morning's touch Last Line: And, when we bow, we help our climbing hope. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MORTALITIES MEMORANDUM, WITH A DREAME PREFIXED, SELS., by RACHEL SPEGHT Poem Source First Line: My griefe, quoth I is called ignorance Last Line: The profit may and will the paines requite Subject(s): Death; Grief; Ignorance; Longing; Wisdom MOTETS: 7, by EUGENIO MONTALE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The black and white ups and downs of the Subject(s): Grief; Absence; Sorrow; Sadness; Separation; Isolation MOTHER AND CHILD, by EUGENE MANUEL Poem Text First Line: On my way homewards through the soft night's calms Last Line: And I believed, as you too would have done. Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHER GOOSE, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: Girl, I think we're through' Subject(s): Affliction; Grief MOTHER GOOSE (4), by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Do not pick my rosemary Last Line: And throw them after me Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHER TO HER STARVING CHILD, by ANN HAWKSHAW Poem Source First Line: Oh! Sleep; I dread to see those eyes Last Line: And such, ay such, will be my grief! Alternate Author Name(s): Aunt Effie; Hawkshawe, Ann; Jackson, Ann Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Poverty MOTHER'S FAREWELL, by JUAN ZORILLA DE SAN MARTIN Poem Source First Line: Sleep, sleep, my child! Behold, among the Last Line: And, while the clouds half opened, heaven smiled Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mothers; Sleep MOTHER'S GRIEF, by HILDEGARD OTT RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Dry-eyed she sat up waiting through the night Last Line: A poignant pain is dumb and gnaws the bone. Subject(s): Boys; Grief; Loss; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness MOTHERS, by JANE URQUHART Poem Text First Line: As once that stoic boy of sparta old Last Line: To keep from men the heritage of fear. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mothers; Sons; Sparta, Greece; Sorrow; Sadness MOTLEY: THE GHOST, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful Last Line: The sweet cheat gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Love; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness MOUNTAIN STREAM, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I am like this stream Last Line: And yet %the same Subject(s): Brooks; Grief; Love - Loss Of MOURNING, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You, that decipher out the fate Last Line: It is to be suppos'd they grieve. Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MOUTH OF GRIEF, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I remember how we stood there, straining Last Line: Something we must have understood even before %we could speak it Subject(s): Death; Grief MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: So much loving, so much loving Last Line: Eyes that once were gay are saddened %and cruelly aching Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: What shall I do, my mother? Last Line: My beloved is at the door Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Presence MOZARABIC SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart, my heart goes from me, lord Last Line: He is ill, when will he be well? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints; Sickness 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 MUNDUS MOROSUS (THE WORLD MOROSE), by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild beasts in the woods complain Last Line: None love us, trust us, welcome us, but thou. Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Mourning; Strikes; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Labor Disputes; Lockouts MUSA MARINA, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Dancing waves! Still the moan Last Line: Tossing this side of eternity's shore? Subject(s): Earth; Future Life; Grief; Love; Nature; World; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness MUSIC AT THE VILLA MARINA, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From some abiding central source of power Last Line: O even wings of music, bear my soul! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Past; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness MUTABILITY, by EVELYN HAZLETT HUNT Poem Text First Line: Into the pewter cup of life / pour agony Last Line: Ere long. Subject(s): Grief; Mutability; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness MY BABY'S GONE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I paw at you Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of 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 CLOUD, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a cloud, a private little cloud Last Line: The thicker is its shadow over me! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FATHER DIED THIS SPRING', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And an old man. It's impossible to know %but strange how blood brings curiosity Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY GRIEF ON THE SEA, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: His mouth to my mouth Subject(s): Grief;sea;sea Voyages; Sorrow;sadness;ocean MY HEART, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is like a prisoned bird Last Line: At last, my mission is fulfilled! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness MY HEART IS HEAVY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is heavy with many a song Last Line: Take it, no one will know. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MY HEART IS SAD, MY HARP IS STILL, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Source Poet's Biography Subject(s): Grief MY HEART TOO FIRMLY TRUSTED, FONDLY GAVE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And let the fire consume my life away Subject(s): Grief MY HEART WAS A MIRROR, THAT SHOWED EVERY TREASURE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: All the beauty that mary threw carelessly there Subject(s): Grief MY HEID IS LIKE TO REND, WILLIE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Grief MY HOW THE DAYS FLY BY IN LIFE TIME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So now the sun shines Last Line: Of being born human, once again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MY LEMAN ON THE ROAD, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: When I see by the road Last Line: If only I can, %if only I can Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ - Suffering And Sacrifice; Nostalgia; Tears MY LOVE LIES DEAD, by EUGENE FOSTER MCSPEDDEN Poem Text Last Line: The sun must set but day-dawn never fails! Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness MY LUTE AND I, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At most mischief / I suffer grief Last Line: To sigh and moan. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 31 Subject(s): Grief; Lutes; Sorrow; Sadness MY PORTION, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not what a day may bring Last Line: And one the boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MY SHIP, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down to the wharves, as the sun goes down Last Line: And watch to see if my ship comes in. Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; Sorrow; Sadness MY SISTER'S FUNERAL, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there was no mother for the peach tree we did it Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Funerals; Grief; Death - Babies; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness MY SON, by JAMES D. HUGHES Poem Text First Line: God gave my son in trust to me Last Line: And cheer for him whose work is done. Subject(s): Grief; Patriotism; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War 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 THREE GUESTS: GRIEF, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A storm is raging and a fierce wind blows Last Line: Destroying rest at night and happy days. Subject(s): Grief; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness MY THREE GUESTS: SORROW, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There came another guest unto my door Last Line: As long as life may last the scars are worn. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MY TRUNDLE BED, by J. G. BAKER Poem Text First Line: As I rummaged through the attic Last Line: "father, do thou bless my child." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MY VISION IS A LARGE GOLDEN ROOM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You're there to move out %from the source. %god's mountain, sun street Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss MYSTERIES IN SPOLETO, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: When swallows fly in the courtyard, who knows the answer? Last Line: Ask the swallows circling the courtyard. Ask the swallows Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature MYSTERY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Why does this sudden passion smite me? Last Line: "till sorrow die from you." Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness MYTHICAL MANY ANTLERED WHITE BUCK, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Nibbling new green grass %stop the car! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NAME FOR GRIEF, by HELEN BRYANT Poem Text First Line: Tell me any, any, tell me your name for grief Last Line: Of a young girl shakes in the withered crone. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Names; Sorrow; Sadness NARCISSUS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Credit %I never get any credit Last Line: I am so lonely. I've never been so lonely Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NAROPA APPROACHES HIS TEACHER: INSTRUCTION TIME AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How's it going boss? Last Line: Here, I'll kiss it and make it better Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Naropa Approaches His Teacher Instruction Time Agai Subject(s): Grief; Loss NARRATIVE AS ATTENTION ON A RAINY SUNDAY'S PHENOMENOLOGY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sweet sly good nights Last Line: Of enlightened harmony a week later Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NATURE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The paradise of man has varied in its claims Last Line: Still lingers far beyond the shadows of the grave. Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Nature; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise NEUROLOGICAL PATHWAYS VERY RAPIDLY SENSITIVELY MOVING OVER THE BODY..., by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The mystic heat is tuned up in naropa's awareness Last Line: A continent away Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEVER TOO LATE: AN ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the valley gan he track Last Line: Weeds and sorrow were for love. Variant Title(s): Palmer's Ode;the Palmer Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness NEVER TOO LATE: FRANCESCO'S ODE, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I look about the place Last Line: "nothing grief-full grows from love." Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Man-woman Relationships; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Convicts NEW BULLETIN FROM KEITH LAMPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: This applies to both greater vehicles and lesser vehicles Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEW GRIEF, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where two had walked awhile, now only one Last Line: Or wholly perish. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness NEW SMELL IN THE WRITING ROOM, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After nine years these walls are painted white; again Last Line: On still sagging shelves Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NEW SPRING: 38, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spring is solemn, mournful only Last Line: To kiss a tear from off thy face. Subject(s): Grief; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness NEW TALE, by ALICE MONKS MEARS Poem Text First Line: The bells rang for a king inevitably winning Last Line: Under black roofs lonely spinners. No gold. No bride. Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Love; Marriage; Old Age; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore! Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime NIGHT AT THE TOWER, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At year's end, yin and yang Last Line: ...Be still and hushed Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): China; Grief; Night NIGHT OF STARS, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: When I behold the sky Last Line: Deep valleys with a thousand blessings dight Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Blessings; Grief; Mortality; Oppression; Tears 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: 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, AND THE HOUSE HAS A VOICE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Before falling asleep, and pretending Last Line: The neglected phone call, dishes in the sink Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NO ESCAPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A form of aggression towards yourself %--pema chodron Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Escapes; Grief; Loss; Self NO FUNERAL GLOOM, by ELLEN TERRY Poem Text Last Line: And so to where I wait come gently on. Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology NO MORE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sad no more! O sweet no more! Last Line: No more! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief NO SORROW PECULIAR TO THE SUFFERER, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lover, in melodious verses Last Line: Nor thou alone hast lost thy wits. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness NO USE CREEPING THRU THE FOG WITH A DRIVER WHO WON'T, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Attempting meditation this morning mind jumps all Last Line: Ball back and forth three miles to town bye-bye Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NO!, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness NO!, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have closed my ears, I refuse Last Line: The past you want. You are wrong Subject(s): Grief; Past NO. IT WORST. DESTROYS. NONE. POSSIBILITY. PITCHED. OF, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Its shepherd. And. What. Is. What is. The thing. Keeping. It. Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grief NOCTURNO DE WASHINGTON: 1, by PABLO MEDINA Poem Source First Line: They called forth the train whistle at midnight Last Line: Blinking and defecating Variant Title(s): Nocturno De Washingto Subject(s): Grief; Railroads; Tourists; Travel; U.s. - History; United States; Washington Monument NONSTOP, by BOB HICOK Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did you notice the herding instinct of grief? Last Line: For solace, who wails for no one, whose flesh %is useless words Subject(s): Grief NORTHWEST WINTER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Light-dazed moments %send me to my knees Last Line: Slantwise %through the rain Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NOSTALGIA, by GWENDOLEN HASTE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He brought the record home with sheepish pride Last Line: With great buttes shouldering the windy skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Hennessey, Martin Douglas, Mrs Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness NOT A GREEN WILLOW, by JOSEPHINE WINSLOW JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a green willow, veiled to hide her weeping, Last Line: Rest after labor, quiet after strife! Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness NOT FOREVER, by MAGDALENE BURMEISTER Poem Text First Line: There is an end to grief! Last Line: Of the mouldering leaf! Subject(s): Grief NOT LOST, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The bells sounding the hours know Last Line: Who knows no place and has no name Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature NOT MUCH TIME LEFT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Or relocation breath like me interested %in prolonging history Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOT REALLY APRIL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ever see robins sumo wrestle? Last Line: Know how to call you up Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 YET, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Not tomorrow night Last Line: Then the moon will be full Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss NOTE OF GRIEF, by GERALD W. THOMSON Poem Text First Line: The dreamy freshness of a mid-pacific day and I are one Last Line: Made for an endless day toward the deepest night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness NOTHING BUT STONES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think I never passed so sad an hour Last Line: In blaze of gorgeous light. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Churches; Grief; Stones; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness; Granite; Rocks NOVEMBER 19: 50 YEARS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This year's birthday Last Line: The buddha %gets enlightened %tomorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 NOVEMBER, UNREDEMPTIVE, IN THE PAUSING, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: In each sorrowful hour of %after Last Line: There are no more rules %here Subject(s): Death; Grief; Memory NOW, by LAURA STILL Poem Source First Line: Now it is our turn Last Line: Send us love-send us power- %send us grace Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Tears NOW SILENCE REIGNETH OVER EARTH AND SKY, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: So far away doth my salvation lie! Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Grief; Love – Loss Of O HADA CIBERNETICA: 5, by CARLOS GERMAN BELLI Poem Source First Line: I find myself -- shinbones Last Line: And fewer days ahead Subject(s): Grief; Sickness O VALLEY, FILLED WITH MY DESPAIRFUL WORDS, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: Whilst upon earth her lovely body lies Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Subject(s): Grief O, IN A WORLD OF MEN AND WOMEN, by ISAAC ROSENBERG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: In my world sorrow is their name Subject(s): Grief OBBLIGATO, by BRUCE SMITH Poem Source First Line: Late august was a pressure drop Last Line: Made in the ratio %of bruise for bruise Subject(s): Depressions, Economic; Grief OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 16. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TWELFTH EPIGRAM, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why droopst thou, trefeild? Will hurst the banker Last Line: They're all grown so pocky and so rotten. Subject(s): Grief OBSERVE THE LACYPINK CORALINE ALGAE ON THE ROCKS AT LOW TIDE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A stately form proceeds Last Line: Voice over again %voice over Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OCEAN PARKWAY GAZING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ocean up %against cliff Last Line: The sea closes in %up to the edge %of mythology Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Environment; Forests; Grief; Loss; Nature; Sea; Trees OCTOBER 29, 1963, WEDNESDAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In a crowd of people I am suddenly elevated. No matter that Last Line: As much as a foot, two feet, grind. In my tibetan bathrobe. %silence Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 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 TO A LONG SORROW, by RICARDO MOLINARI Poem Source First Line: I would like to tell about an enduring sorrow I have Last Line: But, oh, I feel the sea arriving in my mouth! Subject(s): Grief; Melancholy ODE TO A THISTLE, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Naught in fell or field, I trow Last Line: And salute thee reigning. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Love; Sin; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness OF ALL THINGS FOR YOU TO GO AWAY MAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: You read a lot of books Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OF BEAUTY, by EVA K. ANGLESBURG Poem Text First Line: There is a love so passionate it tears Last Line: To loveliness that we should be denied? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Nature Of; Pain; Passion; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery OF EACH SAD WORD WHICH IS MORE SORROWFUL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Of each sad word Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief OF FEATHERS, by BETTINA T. BARRETT Poem Source First Line: Cindy is dying and all day Last Line: Of the air I can feel on my skin Subject(s): Grief; Tears OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement OF TIME AND LIGHT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We swim in waters deeper than we know Last Line: Who swim in waters deeper than we know Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature OFFER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I narrow eyes and double night Last Line: If I supply the sorrow felt, %will they supply the tears? Subject(s): Grief OFT WE ENHANCE OUR ILLS BY DISCONTENT, by PHILEMON Poem Full Text Last Line: And leaving reason's remedy behind Alternate Author Name(s): Philemon (athenian Comic Poet B.c. 330 Subject(s): Grief OH GOODY THIS AFTERNOON WE'RE GOING TO THE HOLY FOREST, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I want to find the place Last Line: Of content content and form Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH MAN IS THE HIGHEST TYPE OF ANIMAL EXISTING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That man about town gone again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OH NO, IT WASN'T YOU I LOVED, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But your image, your righteous deed %I will preserve until the hour of death Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Grief OH SAD, SAD WAS MY SOUL, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: We were exiled far and long ago? Subject(s): Grief; Love – Complaints OH! THOSE ALONE WHOSE SEVERED HEARTS, by ; Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: The presence of delight! Alternate Author Name(s): Trapassi, Pietro Antonio Domenico Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Perseverance; Fate OH, THE WEATHER, THE WEATHER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And calm drastic winds of change Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Change; Grief; Loss; Weather OLD AGE, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the days and years that pass Last Line: Upon the silver wings of peace. Subject(s): Aging; Freedom; Grief; Memory; Past; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness OLD KING COLE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In tilbury town did old king cole Last Line: "that's good. The sun will soon be rising." Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness OLD POEM: 17, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: At fifteen I went with the army Last Line: While tears fell and wetted my clothes Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief;homecoming; Sorrow;sadness 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 GRAVE IN CHRIST-CHURCH, HANTS, by OSCAR FAY ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Turning from shelley's sculptured face aside Last Line: Of sorrow kills as oft as frost the leaf. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ON A LADY WHO P-SSED AT THE TRAGEDY OF CATO, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While maudlin whigs deplored their cato's fate Last Line: For that road leads directly to the heart. Subject(s): Cato The Younger (95-46 B.c.); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ON ANOTHER'S SORROW, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I see another's woe Last Line: He doth sit by us and moan. Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Mythology; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology ON BEING FORCED TO PART WITH HIS LIBRARY FOR BENEFIT OF HIS CREDITORS, by WILLIAM STANLEY ROSCOE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one who destined from his friends to part Last Line: And kindred spirits meet to part no more. Subject(s): Books; Debt; Grief; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness ON BEING TOLD THAT' TIME CURES SORROW, by RUTH SHEPARD PHELPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grief has vanquished me Last Line: "ah, that was years ago." Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness ON FAILING THE EXAMINATION, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: The dawn moon struggles to shine its light Last Line: These thoughts like wounds from a knife! Subject(s): Civil Service - Examinations; Grief ON HER ENDEAVOURING TO CONCEAL HER GRIEF AT PARTING, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Wherefore should my weeping maid suppress Last Line: Nor think it weakness what we feel to show. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness 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 JOY AND SORROW, by KAHLIL GIBRAN Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: Then a woman said, speak to us of joy Last Line: Your sorrow rise or fall Subject(s): Grief; Happiness ON LEAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have reached a green, green island Last Line: I have touched at the isle of the blest. Subject(s): Grief; Islands; Rivers; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean ON MOVING TO THE NAROPA CAMPUS FALL 1991, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This for the tuesday morning Last Line: Snow %on the way in the foothills Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Moving And Movers; Rooms; Universities & Colleges ON MY BOY HENRY, by JANE CAVENDISH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes a boy ye finest child from me Last Line: I mourne not for thy birth, nor cry. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Hearts; Soul; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 READING ENOUGH SAID, FOR JOANNE (AS PER USUAL), by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Calm down! %white crown sparrow pop-pop-pop-pop Last Line: Generous fearlessness & skillfull compassion with the flame tree Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ON RECEIVING A BRANCH OF MEZEREON WHICH FLOWERED AT WOODSTOCK, by MARY TIGHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Odours of spring, my sense ye charm Last Line: Who asks your lingering thoughts. Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON RESIGNATION, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, know this, that he who gave thee breath Last Line: And trust in god thro' his beloved son. Subject(s): Affliction; Friends, Religious Society Of; Grief; Pain; Quakers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ON REVISITING CINTRA AFTER THE DEATH OF CATARINA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apparel of green woods and meadows gay Last Line: Sere with herb that suits the %broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Mourning ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF A 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 FAVOURITE OLD SPANIEL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And they have drowned thee then at last! Poor phillis Last Line: Of their own charity, may envy thee! Subject(s): Aging; Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Drowning; Future Life; Grief; Loss; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For that my son hath lost his mortal shrine Last Line: Sons of the ruffians who did murder thee. Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Sons; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE DEATH OF JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green be the turf above thee Last Line: That mourns a man like thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker Variant Title(s): Elegy In Memory Of Joseph Rodman Drake;joseph Rodman Drake, Died In New York, September, 1820;joseph Rodman Drake Subject(s): Drake, Joseph Rodman (1795-1820); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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. WILLIAM HERVEY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dismal and a fearful night Last Line: Where grief and misery can be joyn'd with verse. Subject(s): Grief; Hervey, William; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF 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 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 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 RICHARD WEST, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine Last Line: And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West;on The Death Of Mr.richard West Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; West, Richard (1716-1742); Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF 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 EARL OF ESSEX, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Essex, twice made unhappy by a wife Last Line: Contracted be into a span of dust. Subject(s): Divorce; Essex, Robert Devereaux, 3d Earl Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE OTHER SIDE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the other side of the sliding glass door Last Line: Vanishes in the out of doors Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ON THE PORCH, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: The wolf of evening comes to my door Last Line: That finds my house, 'it's time to come in' Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ON THE THRESHOLD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am standing on the threshold of eternity at last Last Line: "I'll let you know which shortly -- farewell, a long farewell" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness ONCE, by ERIC N. BATTERHAM Poem Source First Line: He sees them pass Last Line: These strong and fair shall be as 'I' Subject(s): Grief ONCE AGAIN ANOTHER CENTURY AHEAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Again. Is this happening again? Last Line: Does this include even what you don't like? %oh ick Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ONCE AND FUTURE DEAD, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Weep for their history. We call it %rain Subject(s): Death; Grief; History; Tears ONE LIFE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I am hurt to death, my love Last Line: But not for me, -- 't is not for me. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WAY OR ANOTHER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: That stranger's smoke, then memory, accessible Last Line: Will have me after all Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ONLY ONE JAY LEFT AFTER NOISY CONFERENCE OF TWO, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: For springtime garnering Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OOOLD MAN TOLSTOY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I need a bitter taste a tonic Last Line: For spring %lightness Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Grief; Loss; Spring OPEN AMARYLLIS SALMON PINK & WHITE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A varied thrush arrives Last Line: Buried underground Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss OPERATIONS: DESERT SHIELD, DESERT STORM, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who / are these two women, walking Last Line: America, welcome home. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Deserts; Food & Eating; Grief; Gulf War (1991); History; Sorrow; Sadness; Operation Desert Storm (1991); Historians ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness ORGAN SONGS: COME UNTO ME, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come unto me, the master says Last Line: And that will make thee well. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Jesus Christ; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures; Suffering; Misery ORGAN SONGS: RONDEL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I follow, tottering, in the funeral train Last Line: Outworn necessities to the welcoming grave! Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ORGAN SONGS: SYMPATHY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grief held me silent in my seat Last Line: Smile in my infant's smile. Subject(s): Children; Christianity; God; Grief; Sympathy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy ORIGINALLY CALLED 7/20/96, by MICHAEL COFFEY Poem Source First Line: Days without sentiment %as the occasion for a poem Last Line: As the gas pump dings, dings, dings Subject(s): Death; Drowning; Emotions; Grief; Memory; New York City; Poetry And Poets ORINDA UPON LITTLE HECTOR PHILIPS, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice forty months of wedlock I did stay Last Line: The last of thy unhappy mothers verse. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): On The Death Of My First And Dearest Child Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Loss; Tears; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness OTHER EARLY LIMERICKS, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man who forgot Last Line: Which he very soon filled full of tears Subject(s): Grief; Nonsense; Old Age OUR DAILY PATHS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's beauty all around our paths, if but our watchful eyes Last Line: By the beauty and the grief alike, we are training for the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness OUR LITTLE DAUGHTER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Our merry little daughter Last Line: To give my mother sorrow! Subject(s): Daughters;girls;grief;mothers & Daughters;parents; Sorrow;sadness;parenthood OURSELVES ALONE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: One morning, when dreaming in deep meditation Last Line: "standing together, ourselves — and alone." Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; War; Sorrow; Sadness OUT, by JAY MEEK Poem Source First Line: Out here, the nights Last Line: And ache to break out Subject(s): Grief OUT AND BACK ON THE FIFTEENTH NIGHT OF THE FIRST MONTH, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: If I don't go out I'll only mope Last Line: I push the lamp aside, lie facing the wall, %a hundred worries cramped in my chest Subject(s): Grief OUT OF DISCONTENT, by GLENNYS RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: Somewhere, I know, is peace for weary eyes Last Line: Distill our griefs to dissipate our fears. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism OUT OF THE SHADOWS: AN UNFINISHED SONNET-SEQUENCE 6, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: These are the little things that stir the heart Last Line: I have the vision and it shall not fade. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness OVER, by ROBERT FINCH Poem Text First Line: It is over, the ceaseless search is over Last Line: Nothing to lose when what is lost was all. Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Loss; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness OVER THE MONTH OF JUNE THE RAIN IS FALLING, by HOMERO ARIDJIS Poem Source Last Line: The lights of the city come on for further exploits Variant Title(s): The Rain Is Fallin Subject(s): Death; Grief; Rain; Tears; Water OVER THE WATER, by LUCILE ENLOW Poem Text First Line: Sailing out to sea. Hark! Last Line: And sailing into dawn! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PACKING THE WEIGHT, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: It's easy when you breeze along Last Line: Can you still pack weight and win? Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Life Change Events; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight PAGE 39, by HARRYETTE MULLEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrives early for the date Subject(s): Abortion; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PALE INKE, THOU ART NOT BLACK ENOUGH OF HEW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source Subject(s): Grief PALMISTRY, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You gave me a geranium leaf Last Line: When I am in the valley sleeping. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PAMPHILIA TO AMPHILANTHUS: GRIEF, by MARY SIDNEY WROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Griefe, killing griefe, have nott my torments binn Last Line: Burning my hart who had him kindly warmd. Alternate Author Name(s): Wroth, Mary, Lady; Montgomery, Countess Of Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PAN AS THE SON OF PENELOPE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Refresh my thoughts of penelope again Last Line: About waking up the world Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Penelope (mythology) PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PART OF ME, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Part of me believes in this white candle I take to the altar Last Line: The great incoming breakers heavy with salt Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PART OF MY SEMINAL GROUND WORK, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Help %the gold crown song returned today Last Line: This is the very best I can do %achoo Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Allergies; Grief; Loss PARTING, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed the setting sun would rise no more Last Line: With longing deep as everlasting night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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, CELIA WEEPS, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not, my dear, for I shall go Last Line: Thou wert thus loth to part with me. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting PASSING AND PERMANENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stately boats, with happy crowds Last Line: Do not drain your glass! Subject(s): Boats; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PASSING THROUGH THE GARDEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jim anderson phones to tell me max did not Last Line: As we watch. %vast Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Memory PAST AND PRESENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Linger,' I cried, 'o radiant time!' Last Line: I prize the past much, but the present more. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Love; Past; Time; Sorrow; Sadness PAST LIVES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We were in the world before, do you remember that common life Last Line: Deceived by time, memory that escapes us, stays Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PAST SORROWS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: As tangled driftwood barring up a stream Last Line: Forgets the old griefs, and heals their deepest scars. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Islands; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PATHOS, by KIM KWANG-SUP Poem Source First Line: The sea at night is endlessly dark Last Line: Let the sorrow-chained poet go with you %to the sea of the night Subject(s): Grief PATIENCE MUST DWELL WITH LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Love only will be near Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love; Grief; Patience 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, PEACE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Peace, peace, broken heart, peace! Last Line: A dead thing beneath a dead sky. Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Peace; Sorrow; Sadness PEACE-YEARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let thy wounds bleed on, and let Last Line: Our loving mothers never bore us. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Peace; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness PEBBLES, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One whined, o why into this wide and / lonely Last Line: Of voices in a wood of april buds. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PENANG, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I want to go back to singapore Last Line: I want to go back to penang! I want to go back! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Peace; Singapore; Sorrow; Sadness PENELOPE TO ULYSSES, SELECTION, by ANNE WHARTON Poem Text First Line: Penelope this slow epistle sends Last Line: Would troy were glorious still, so I had you... Subject(s): Grief; Homer (10th Century B.c.); Love; Mythology - Classical; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness; Iliad; Odyssey PENIEL, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: My rachel and my benjamin, o lord Last Line: "my heart and flesh cry, ""god of bethel, come!" Subject(s): God; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness PENSIVE MOODS, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Still watching near the swards of eden Last Line: And grasp all human interest and pain. Subject(s): Eden; Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness PERFECT GRIEF, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wandering, wise, outcast sons Last Line: The haughty silence of my love. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PETALS RAINED, by KYERANG Poem Source First Line: Petals rained from the pear trees Last Line: And return weary of travel Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Tears; Travel PHANTOMS, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Back, ye phantoms of the past Last Line: Call upon me still! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Future; Ghosts; Grief; Hearts; Past; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PHILIP WHALEN'S HAT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I woke up about 2:30 this morning and thought about philip's hat Last Line: You can just play with the beads Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hats; Loss PHONE CALL FROM MILOSZ, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: American poetry equals an enormous collection Last Line: And that's the end of the day again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PHOTOGRAPH OF DELMORE SCHWARTZ, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young king Subject(s): Schwartz, Delmore (1913-1966); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PHYLLIS, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phyllis, ah, phyllis, my life is a gray day Last Line: Phyllis, ah, phyllis, my life is a gray day. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PHYLLIS THE FAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While larks with little wing Last Line: Phillis the fair. Subject(s): Grief PICOMEGAN, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stars of gold the green sod fretting Last Line: Or the wisdom of its grief. Subject(s): Rivers; Wisdom; Grief PICTURES IN THE FIRE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is it you ask me, darling? Last Line: And the fire had died away. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Tears; Travel; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips PICTURES OF TRAVEL: THE BALTIC, PART 1: 2. SUNSET, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The glowing ruddy sun descends Last Line: I sorrow no longer. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Moon; Stars; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness PIERROT IN HALF-MOURNING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, that am pierrot, pray you pity me Last Line: All, but she'll love me yet, she'll love me yet! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PIETA, by ALLEN AFTERMAN Poem Source First Line: I leave it for you to say why it is Last Line: Why is it that every moment we are awake we do not weep? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Human Rights; Tears PIGS FOR CIRCE IN MAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I almost ruined the stew and where Last Line: And the great pigs waddle off in the sky Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PILGRIMAGE, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: They are born for this: to leave Last Line: With the ache of something missing Subject(s): Death; Grief PINK DAISIES, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: A couple av childer played out in a field Last Line: Ay, an' trudged the lone boreen!— Subject(s): Children; Daisies; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Memory; Solitude; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness PITTOSPORUM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: In the schoolyard garden the scarecrow's beet-shaped head Last Line: From pittosporum scent in the air, an absurd %scarecrow in a school garden Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PITTSBURGH, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And my beautiful daughter Last Line: Pain, in the love of daughter and father. Subject(s): Cancer (disease); Children; Grief; Love; Parents; Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood PITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The twinkling mists of green and gold Last Line: From unknown hollows blew. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy PLAINT, by LUCIEN PATE Poem Text First Line: I have told my pain to the wood Last Line: My heart so a-fevered with woe? Subject(s): Flowers; Forests; Grief; Nature; Pain; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery PLAYMATES, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: That is your little playmate, jane Last Line: Would any child not die!' Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness PLEASE DON'T LEAVE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I lay right down beside her Last Line: Right here by my side Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of 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 PLOWING, by YANG LIAN Poem Source First Line: I am a plow Last Line: And submerge into new green during a radiant season Subject(s): Grief; Human Rights; Love; Plowing And Plowmen PLUM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Though it is early to talk of autumn Last Line: The unforgotten taste of desire Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature POEM, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A mule kicked out in the trees. An early Last Line: And drove some more — unable to sleep in missouri. Subject(s): Dolls; Funerals; Girls; Grief; Missouri; Toys; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness POEM ABOUT NOTHING, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young / I fell in love / with nothing Last Line: And we lack for nothing. Subject(s): Grief; Nothingness; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Nihilism; Voids POEM ENDING WITH A LINE FROM DANTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow coming in parallel to the street Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Anger; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness POEM ENDING WITH A LINE FROM DANTE, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Snow coming in parallel to the street Last Line: And I have told you this to make you grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Anger; Grief POEM IN RHYME-PROSE FORM, by PAN CHIEH-YU Poem Source First Line: Virtue of ancestors handed down Last Line: Green robe' - 'white flower' - in ancient times as now Subject(s): Grief POEM OF THE GIRL FROM VELAZQUEZ, by RICARDO MOLINARI Poem Source First Line: Ah, if only the village were so small Last Line: Some day, she comes to hear me Subject(s): Children; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Girls; Grief POEM: 4, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Edward our comely king Last Line: And keþed him in þe berde. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Exiles; France; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 5, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Minot with mowth had menid to make Last Line: God assoyle þaire sawls, sais all, amen. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; God; Grief; War; Sorrow; Sadness POEM: 9, by LAURENCE MINOT Poem Text First Line: Sir david pe bruse -- was at distance Last Line: Pus was dauid þe bruse -- into þe toure tane. Subject(s): England; Grief; War; English; Sorrow; Sadness POEMS ON THE DEATH OF SIR HORATIO PALLAVICINO: AN EPITAPH, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some leave their home for private discontent Last Line: Which was thy good, and true religion. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Exiles; Grief; Home; Knights & Knighthood; Sorrow; Sadness 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 POESY, by WILLIAM FINLAYSON Poem Text First Line: O poesy! How often hast thou sooth'd Last Line: And all the vain contempt a scoffing world can show. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness POETIC EPIGRAMS: 3. AUTUMN SADNESS, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From grief no hope could numb Last Line: Does autumn sadness come. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness POISON OAK FOR ALLEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here I am reading about your trip to india again Last Line: The bear? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss POLLY PERKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "I am a broken - hearted milkman, in grief I'm arrayed" Last Line: It was a bow - legged conductor of a twopenny bus Subject(s): Grief;love;marriage; Sorrow;sadness;weddings;husbands;wives POOR MARY, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay stranger - see yon drooping fair Last Line: Poor mary. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness POP-UP BOOK, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here the world Last Line: Page after page, %until we reach the end Subject(s): Death; Grief POPULAR BALLAD: NEVER FORGET YOUR PARENTS, by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A young man once was sitting Last Line: You would not have been born. Alternate Author Name(s): F. P. A. Subject(s): Gratitude; Grief; Parents; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood POST CONSCIOUSNESS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Implausible thoughts around very real spring flowers Last Line: Now move those awful blue glass bunnies Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 POSTPONED NIGHTMARE, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting in the sunshine Last Line: Your breath from down below, perhaps. Subject(s): Absence; Dreams; Grief; Loss; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Pain; Summer; Separation; Isolation; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Suffering; Misery POTLUCK, by FLORA SHUFELT RIVOLA Poem Text First Line: You came one day when all I had a-stew Last Line: Was that dark dish from my rose-garland plate? Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Love; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness POTOMAC PHOTOGRAPH, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: That afternoon, %just hours before your plane Last Line: Continuous motion is her hand, waving, %waving Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Potomac River; Rivers PRAISE OF LOVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And shall love cease? Ask thine own heart, o woman Last Line: And leads to endless glory. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Passion; Praise; Sorrow; Sadness PRAISE WHAT COMES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Surprising as unplanned kisses, all you haven't deserved Last Line: Did I catch the smallest glimpse of the holy? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PRAYER, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: October, the air filmed as if with tears, and time Last Line: Perhaps stone by stone rolled away, we raise our dead Subject(s): Death; Grief; Religion PRAYER IN FOUR VERSES: 1, by PARK MOK-WOL Poem Source First Line: The lord has shown me Last Line: Like snow-laden boughs of an evergreen Subject(s): Grief PRELUDE, by EDMOND MCKENNA Poem Text First Line: Embracing the woman I love, I stood by the stream Last Line: Long grass. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Jesus Christ; Love; Morning; Nature - Religious Aspects; Night; Pain; War; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Suffering; Misery PRESCIENCE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The new moon hung in the sky Last Line: And a sorrow that was to be! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PRESENT AND FUTURE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is life that we should love it Last Line: Ever glowing more and more. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Future; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sun; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight 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 PROMISE, by VIRGINIA KEATING ORTON Poem Text First Line: We laughed together in the quiet glade Last Line: And tried to freshen it with tears. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PROPERTIES OF LIGHT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A field of light, and my need to say Last Line: Pointing out the properties of light Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature PROUD OF MY BROKEN HEART SINCE THOU DIDST BREAK IT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See! I usurped thy crucifix to honor mine! Subject(s): Hearts; Grief PROVERBIAL FRIDAY THE 13TH: BOLINAS MYSTERIES UNREVEALED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Katherine mansfield's life unfolds on the pages of Last Line: Is to have obtained the highest realization in mahamudra Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss PSALM 137. 'BY THE RIVERS OF BABYLON', by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE Poem Text First Line: We sat us down and wept Last Line: And lay it in the sleep of death beside its father's grave. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness PSALM: 9, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thee & thy wondrous deeds, o god Last Line: They been but men of mortall kind. Subject(s): Fear; God; Grief; Hope; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism PSYCHOLOGY FIVE, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: No more of despair you poets Last Line: "only means sanitation and health." Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PUPILS, by MARJORIE AGOSIN Poem Source First Line: Light overflowing and melodious Last Line: A wound that makes its nest %amid the sadness Subject(s): Absence; Disappeared Persons - Argentina; Grief; Human Rights - Argentina QINGMING FESTIVAL, 1646, by HUANG YUANJIE Poem Source First Line: Leaning against a pillar, I am overwhelmed with worries about the state Last Line: My small heart is overwhelmed with grief Subject(s): Festivals; Grief QUARREL, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you were small and loud and cruel Last Line: And the night you were leaving Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grief; Quarrels QUATORZAINS: 4. TO SOUND, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit, who steals from silence's embrace Last Line: Or sleep for ever in my charmed ear. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Sound; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAIN: SILENCE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Her weary head poised on one upraised hand Last Line: What thought is hidden in her aching heart. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAINS (FOR FOUR DRAWINGS BY JORGE PALOMINO): 3. SORROW, by CHARLES PHILLIPS (1880-1933) Poem Text First Line: Nay, look again, and up, blind eyes of fear Last Line: The stricken soul still rises and aspires. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness QUATRAINS: THE FRIENDS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Share not thy joy with me, o friend the best Last Line: And mine own grief would be too great to bear. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness QUERY, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who can alleviate Last Line: The sorrows of the poor? Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight QUESTION TO ANNE WALDMAN AFTER BEING INTERVIEWED BY BILL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Joanne kyger is 'ok' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss QUESTIONS BEFORE DARK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Day ends, and before sleep Last Line: Carry you downstream? Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature RAGE, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: In a flash %I am out of the car Last Line: Bring her back to me Subject(s): Anger; Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of RAIN, by CHI-HA KIM Poem Source First Line: A bird, %a small bird Last Line: And piles %on the hollyhocks Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Prisons And Prisoners; Tears RAIN, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In lima...In lima it's raining Last Line: Where I gnaw my bones for you Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints RAIN ON FALL NIGHTS, by MILDRED TELFORD BARNWELL Poem Text First Line: It rained the night we buried him Last Line: Leaving some room for laughter? Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness RAISING THE TREE, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit music, though no melody in the sounds Last Line: To a lost story I keep trying to reinvent Subject(s): Death; Grief READING EMERSON, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Waking in the night, I rise and pad old boards Last Line: Thrown by the apple trees on which the sun falls Subject(s): Death; Grief REAP THE WILD WIND, by WILLIAM KLOEFKORN Poem Source First Line: In the drugstore Last Line: Carlos heads south, I north Subject(s): Children; Grief; Memory REBUS, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You work with what you are given Last Line: How can I enter this question the clay has asked? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RECENTLY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Recently, this life of mine, likes to stay 'home' more Last Line: One hundred percent pure Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RED DUST, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This harpie with dry red curls Subject(s): Self-pity; Grief; Conduct Of Life; Sorrow; Sadness REDBREAST EARLY IN THE MORNING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness REFLECTIONS ON MY OWN SITUATION, WRITTEN IN T-TT-NGST-NE HOUSE, by ANN CANDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many years are past and gone Last Line: But guide me with thy care. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness REFRIGERIUM, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let them lie, - their day is over Last Line: In a slumber sweet and cold. Subject(s): Death; Grief RELAX THY HEAD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I go to get the velvet seat %ande heater Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss REMEMBER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In thy time, and times of mourning Last Line: "through rocks he cutteth out rivers." Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBERED MUSIC, by SARAH HELEN POWER WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, lonely heart! Why do thy pulses beat Last Line: Shall with glad seraphs sing, in god's great light. Subject(s): Earth; God; Grief; Hearts; Voices; World; Sorrow; Sadness REMEMBERING GOLDEN BELLS, by PO CHU-YI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ruined and ill, - a man of two score Last Line: Because, in the road, I met her foster-nurse. Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Daughters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 REMORSE, by JOHN MILTON HAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad is the thought of sunniest days Last Line: With the virgin dew upon them. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness REMORSE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrote my remorse on a forest-leaf Last Line: I shall never know! Subject(s): Egypt; Grief; Remorse; Sea; Sphinx; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean REMORSE IS MEMORY AWAKE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: The complement of hell Subject(s): Grief REPENTANCE, by FLORENCE RALSTON WERUM Poem Text First Line: When heavy sorrow weighs the heart Last Line: Too blind to see god's brooding eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence REPLACEMENT BUDDHAS', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What do all those buddhas mean Last Line: Translucent like last night's dream Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RESIGNATION, by JAMES HERVEY HYSLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sadder moments of a wearied hope Last Line: Into the calm majestic life of god. Subject(s): Dreams; God; Grief; Pain; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery RESPITE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Lo, to-night / pity lords it over pain Last Line: Let your sleeping sorrow say. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness 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 RESPONSES, by OTAKAR BREZINA Poem Source First Line: With a curse we are laden Subject(s): Death; Grief; Solitude REST AT EVENING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the weariness of life is ended Last Line: O how poor a day to be so blest! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Life; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness RETIREMENT', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: An unfamiliar warble 9 times more Last Line: Of under and over tones Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETRIBUTION, by HELEN MARGUERITE PERRI Poem Text First Line: Teardrops splash the windows of the soul Last Line: To prove a heart has broken—died—and bled! Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness RETROSPECTIONS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To-night she will dance at the palace Last Line: With fresh wild-flowers in her hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Memory; Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RETURN, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Walking through the quiet house, we Last Line: The very words we wanted Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature RETURN OF REX AND ETHEL, by ARNOLD ADOFF Poem Source First Line: In our town there is a quiet street that runs to the edge of open fields Last Line: Pepper and belle get on their bus to school. %another day begins Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Grief RETURN TO THAT FAMILIAR, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The quail love to eat %so much Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss RETURNED FROM THE WAR, by HENRY ABBEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shrouded by his country's flag Last Line: He was all the world to her. Subject(s): American Civil War; Grief; Marriage; United States - History; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives RETURNING HOME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Great to be back to beauty Last Line: Lone when the story gets going. Hang on Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss REVERIE AT TWILIGHT, by ROYALL HENDERSON SNOW Poem Text First Line: The past is shadowy with mist Last Line: And the night is frosted delicately with grief. Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness REVERSIBLE BRIDGES, by GUY BENNETT Poem Source Last Line: Accomplished, one pool %of automatic light appears Subject(s): Grief; Tears RICHARD II FORTY, by LOUIS ARAGON Poem Source First Line: My country now is like a barge Last Line: The light was pallis on the leaf %still am I king of all my grief Subject(s): France; Grief; Richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400); World War Ii RITUALS AT THE FARM, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Climbing between ruts in the road to the upper field Last Line: The tough warty pods of milkweed, %empty of seeds Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature RIVER OF SCLEROSIS, by DAVID CITINO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I stand near the confluence of two tame gods Last Line: With reflection, accept what sins we pour Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief RIVERTALK, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Is whatever comes along Last Line: And nothing asks to be fixed Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature ROADSIDE POEMS: A DREAM OF WAKING, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child was born in sin and shame Last Line: And melt the earthly dream. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Grief; Mothers; Childhood; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness ROBIN BLASER'S OLD PLASTER OF PARIS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now residing in our back guest shed Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ROGUE WAVE, by RICHARD FOERSTER Poem Source First Line: This morning near my house, a wave swept up Last Line: Struck, lit only by a klieg-lamp's narrow gaze Subject(s): Death - Children; Disappeared Persons; Grief; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Storms; Waves ROMAN STRIPES, by BARBARA GUEST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is new in the fostering world Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANCERO: BOOK 1. HISTORIES: THE MOORISH KING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To the alpuxarres' exile Last Line: In the land of andalusia. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Moors (people); Tears; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness ROMANTIC LANDSCAPE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To gireve, always to suffer Subject(s): Grief; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence RONDEAU OF SECRET SORROW, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Text First Line: Howe hard a thynge it is to dree Last Line: How hard a thynge it is to dree. Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Grief; Secrets; Sorrow; Sadness RONDEAU: 5, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Help me to seek for I lost it there Last Line: Help me to seek. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 17 Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RONDEL, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The lilacs are in bloom Last Line: The lilacs are in bloom. Subject(s): Decay; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Summer; Time; Rot; Decadence; Sorrow; Sadness RONDEL, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kissing her hair I sat against her feet Last Line: Kissing her hair. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness ROOM 301, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: #name? Last Line: Clip-clop. That's how %a life ends Subject(s): Brides; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of ROSALIE, by WASHINGTON ALLSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O pour upon my soul again Last Line: In music to her soul. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 GRIEF, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I fasted, prayed and scourged myself Last Line: An angel in god's sight. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness ROSE DOLORES, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The moan of rose dolores, she made Last Line: "I know whose kiss was in the wind—o jailer, set me free!" Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Women - Captives; Sorrow; Sadness ROSESUCKER RETABLO: 2, by CAROLYN D. WRIGHT Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And though my birds be torn to rags of smoke Last Line: Come in from distant penetralia blasted immaculacy Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, C. D. Subject(s): Grief ROY ORBISON AND JOHN MILTON ARE STILL DREAMING, by APRIL BERNARD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You know what I mean: in the instant Subject(s): Separation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness RUMORS: A FAMILY MATTER, by CLARENCE MAJOR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dates escape me. At any rate aunt thelma lived on in grief Last Line: Not too late to remember with kindness Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Problems; Rumors RUTH, by H. HYMAN Poem Text First Line: Leave thee alone in sorrow! Ask me not Last Line: And whither thou goest will I also go. Subject(s): Grief; Jews; Love - Loss Of; Ruth (bible); Solitude; Women In The Bible; Women In The Bible; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism; Loneliness SACRED EPIGRAM: AND THEY LAUGHED HIM TO SCORN, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In such great grief, was there time to laugh at christ? Last Line: Believe me, deserved to be your greatest grief Subject(s): Grief SAD MADRIGAL, SELECTION, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What care I that you be wise? Last Line: With the storm the bloom appears. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Storms; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sad one, must you weep alway? Last Line: "pray you, let it be!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Melancholy; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection SAD SESTINA, by ROBIN BECKER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Today's sadness is different from yesterday's Last Line: No wisdom absent yesterday. Still, a saint would find this awful: %a standing date with change, a se Subject(s): Grief SAD SONG, by MARIA ENRIQUETA Poem Source First Line: The hermit's lane, how said it is Last Line: The coffin for my dear! Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Grief SAD SONNET DONE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes a halo, sometimes Last Line: Down where yours had been Subject(s): Grief; Absense SAD VOICES, by RICARDO JAIMES FREYRE Poem Source First Line: Over the white steppes Last Line: The sun advances %in the icy twilight of winter Subject(s): Grief SAD! SAD!, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sad, when grass is green Last Line: Sad! Sad! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SADNESS, by PAUL ANTSCHEL Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreams, morning glory of dusk-dawn. In the sinking Last Line: To whom shall I offer the dew? The tear - to whom? Alternate Author Name(s): Celan, Paul; Anczel, Paul Subject(s): Grief SADNESS, by ALIKI BARNSTONE Poem Source First Line: Rilke says sadness is the moment the future enters Last Line: We know each other through that unknown surprise Subject(s): Grief SADNESS, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh, mr. Jackson swept the court Last Line: And all on account of the beautiful dirt. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SADNESS, by TANIKAWA SHUNTARO Poem Source First Line: Sadness %a half-peeled apple Last Line: The things of today Subject(s): Grief SADNESS AND MIRTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye met at the stately feasts of old Last Line: And joy reigns alone, as the lonely sun! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SADNESS IS THERE TOO, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: What would we drink? Subject(s): Grief; Death SALT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is as salt Last Line: What he needs Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SALT, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is as salt Last Line: Strain the ocean for and %what he needs Subject(s): Grief; Tears SALT WATER, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Small as a snail in the shell of my hand Last Line: Pulled under and under, away Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SALUTATION, by PAUL CLAUDEL Poem Source First Line: And again I am permitted to salute Last Line: The beat of the music, his eye on his score Subject(s): Grief; Nature SANTOS VEGA: THE DEATH OF THE SINGER, by RAFAEL OBLIGADO Poem Source First Line: Under the broad-girthed ombu, beloved by the turtle-doves Last Line: Said sighing, 'because the devil overcame him' Subject(s): Argentina; Death; Grief; Peace; Poetry And Poets 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 SARA, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sara stays at home. / her looks are plain Last Line: A white cloth against the glass Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Insanity; Paintings & Painters; Suicide; Voices; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness 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 SATURDAY NIGHT CHICKEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You are empty at this moment Last Line: More than enough Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SATURDAY NIGHT IN FLEET STREET, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, where for six long days the traffic whirled Last Line: The hair of sorrow falls, in long, dark streams. Subject(s): City Traffic; Fleet Street, London; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SAUCE FOR SORROWES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Although our suffering meet with no reliefe Last Line: An equall mind is the best sauce for griefe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SAVONAROLA BURNING, by ALFRED FRANCIS KREYMBORG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And there are no more emperors in rome Last Line: Each time a monk believes in liberty! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Grief; Peace; Rome, Italy; War; Sorrow; Sadness SAVORING THE PAST, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am savoring the past Last Line: As it breaks my heart again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Past; Sorrow; Sadness SAYING THINGS LIKE, IF YOU COULD ONLY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And I wish all well %I do, I really do Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SCANDAL VANDALS, by NEVA MCFARLAND WADHAMS Poem Text First Line: Ruthlessly tearing a rose apart Last Line: Stripping a soul and beauty -- bare. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SCARCELY..., by ALFONSO REYES Poem Source First Line: Sometimes an effluence rises, %made of nothing, from the ground Last Line: Sunlight seems to fall %upon me from your memory! Subject(s): Grief; Memory SCARLET, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit a queen, and am no widow, and shall see no sorrow Last Line: Bethink thee: today must end; there is no end of tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SCHADENFREUDE, by DAVID M. PERKINS Poem Source First Line: I hope your grief is deep, raw, and not too brief Last Line: I'll know, when I go, I'll have a companion in the end Subject(s): Grief SCHOLAR AND CARPENTER, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While ripening corn grew thick and deep Last Line: "but god go with the carpenter." Subject(s): Carpenters; Grief; Love; Scholarship & Scholars; Sorrow; Sadness SCHOOL FOR FLOWERS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gold nasturtium - %five petals Last Line: To one who is on her journey %outward Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SCHUBERT IN FLORIDA, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When you slunk across my dream Subject(s): Divorce; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness SCULPTURE, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If there is an end Last Line: Whittled my sleep with a rasp. Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Mothers & Daughters; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness SEA IN MOURNING, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: There outside your window, adela, the Last Line: And you can't watch it from sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Tears 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 SEA VOICES, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O'er the wintry sea Last Line: Claim me evermore. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SEASONS: NO. 1, by LOREN KLEINMAN Poem Source First Line: Under the bridge %I gather Last Line: Making room %for the fall Subject(s): Grief SECOND BOOK OF AIRS: TO THE READER, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That holy hymns with lovers' cares are knit Last Line: And some matched worse. Yet none of him complain. Subject(s): Grief SEDGE SONGS: 3, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Angry sunset sky Last Line: Thy long tresses fly. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Longing; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds SELF LOATHING & SELF PITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Away, maybe %a robbery Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SELF PORTRAIT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ere I grow over prissy groves Last Line: Once more in heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SELF-COMMUNING, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be wise, my sorrow, quit thy vain unrest Last Line: The soft night draws her long shroud down the skies. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SELF-COMMUNING, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be wise, my sorrow! Keep thee now more still Last Line: Hear, hear, dear friend, the steps of welcome night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SELICHOTH, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the pride of the rose is the image of sorrow Last Line: So prayeth the jew with the genius of sorrow! Subject(s): Grief; Israel; Jews; Synagogues; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism SEND SOME KIND OF SIGN AT LEAST', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Nothing matters. You do not matter, you are not Last Line: Be so good, am I recognized? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SENT TO ZI'AN, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Drunk at parting: a thousand goblets of wine won't wash away my sorrow Last Line: But I'm not willing to stay languidly drunk in my jade tower Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Farewell; Grief SEPTEMBER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The grasses are light brown Last Line: And whose skin is made dusky by stars Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SEPTEMBER, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were so good to me, that night Last Line: The pools of this night in december Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints SEPTEMBER DAY I TELL TO NO ONE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: For months after he died, so ardent I was Last Line: All day listening to music nobody hears Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SEPTEMBER NIGHT, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The fields were dark already, the night Last Line: A silence I knew would be my end %and of which everything I loved was made Subject(s): Death; Grief SEPULCHRE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have mounded the corpse of my sorrow Last Line: May know what lies buried there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SERAPHINA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When at evening in the forest Last Line: Each in the other's love blest. Subject(s): Grief; Kisses; Moon; Night; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SEVEN LAMENTS FOR THE WAR-DEAD: 6, by YEHUDA AMICHAI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is all of this / sorrow? I don't know Last Line: Or where it comes from Subject(s): Middle East – Conflicts; Cemeteries; Israel; Patriotism; Grief; Arab-israeli Conflict SEVEN SORROWS: 1, by WANG CAN Poem Source First Line: In chang-an the fighting was out of control Last Line: I gasped and felt the pain within Subject(s): Absence; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; War SEWING MACHINE, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: A fair head over a sewing machine Last Line: And there's nothing urgent anymore, %not for you or for me Subject(s): Grief; Nostalgia SHADOW ON THE SAND, by DEDIE HUFFMAN WILSON Poem Text First Line: Here where old sea-trails Last Line: Wailing at night. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SHADOWED SOULS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She died indeed, but to him her breath Last Line: "the soul thou didst thy most to have slain." Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Life; Silence; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness SHADOWING IN THE GROUND, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What I had witnessed had been lived through Last Line: I have forgotten her name Subject(s): Grief SHAME, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ask for justice but do not release Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mothers & Sons; Divorce; Grief; Loss; Shame; Guilt; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Sorrow; Sadness SHAPES, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the longer view it doesn't matter Last Line: At the farthest edge; accepting that blur. Subject(s): Grief; Homeless; Loss; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy SHARP KNIFE AND THE THE SOFT NIGHT IS GONE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The raccoons last night sounded Last Line: See the lights %come on again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Shark Knife And The Soft Night Is Gon Subject(s): Grief; Loss SHE GRIEVES IN THE DUSK, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, he was white and slender Last Line: Thinking him true. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SHE WHO UNDERSTANDS, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: Her dark head fallen forward in her grief Last Line: Lord, do not let my child be born a woman!' Subject(s): Grief; Women SHEEPIEKNOWE: A BALLAD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Aul' sheepieknowe! How dear the name! Last Line: Rest, weary heart! Peace, peace to thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cousins; Grief; Scotland; Sorrow; Sadness SHENG SHENG MAN, by LI CH'ING-CHAO Poem Source First Line: Search -- seek Last Line: How can one word -- 'grief' -- say it all? Subject(s): Grief SHIPMATE SORROW, by CICELY FOX SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I was shipmates with sorrow in a day gone by Last Line: And it's old sorrow singing out of times gone by! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SHORT FAREWELLS, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A toast is the right length, I think Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Toasts; Farewell; Grief; Aging; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SICK FACE AT THE BASE OF THE EARTH, by HAGIWARA SAKUTARO Poem Source First Line: At the base of the earth, a face Last Line: A sick and lonely face Subject(s): Grief SIDNEY'S ASTROPHEL AND STELLA: CANTO QUINTO. CONTENT, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A day, a night, an hour of sweet content Last Line: But hast thou bliss in youth? O sweet estate! Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness SILENCES, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: The three-year-old seemed puzzled Last Line: Your teeth are clenched Subject(s): Child Molesting; Grief; Silence; Speech Disorders; Tragedy SILENCES, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a world of silences. I gave a cry Last Line: With even a sigh. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SILENT SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If she unclosed her lips and made her moan Last Line: And, meeting them, we silently salute. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SILVER AND LAVENDER, by WILLIAM SHATTUCK Poem Text First Line: The asters now put on the lavender Last Line: Silver and lavender clothes earth and sky. Subject(s): Asters; Clothing & Dress; Flowers; Grief; Lavender; Silver; Sorrow; Sadness SILVER TEARS, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Many tributes life hath brought me Last Line: For my wild heart's suffering. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Melancholy; Tears; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection 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 SIMONE, by REMY DE GOURMONT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Simone, white as your neck is the snow I see Last Line: Your brow is sad beneath your auburn hair. Subject(s): Cold; Grief; Snow; White (color); Sorrow; Sadness SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SIMPLE VERSES, by JOSE MARTI Poem Source First Line: I am an honest man Last Line: And the awesome owl Subject(s): Death; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SINCE NELLIE GOT THE HOOK, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: A cloud of sorrow darks the house Last Line: (chorus) Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness SINGING ROSE, by DULCE MARIA BORRERO Poem Source First Line: There is an enchanted rose in a solitary garden; in its Last Line: How could you bloom, merciful rose, in the garden of %grief? Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens And Gardening; Grief; Roses SISTER MADELEINE, by CLARE EVEREST Poem Text First Line: The blessed hush of eventide Last Line: "into the ""silent land." Subject(s): Absence; Farewell; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SISTER SORROW, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I found her walking in a lonely place Last Line: May I not reach some blessedness untold? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SKETCH OF AN OCCURRENCE ON BOARD A BRIG, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun's beam and the moon's beam check the sea Last Line: Where sank, and died alone, the broken-hearted maid. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SKID ROW, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the depths have I cried, o lord, Last Line: The bruised reed breaks and the sparrow falls. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness SKY-DIVERS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, near day's end, they enter our view, at ease Last Line: Until, in the dry fields, they send up footfalls of dust Subject(s): Death; Grief SLAVE, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nude, sordid, frightful, offal-fed, a slave Last Line: Objectivity, its careful workmanship, and its reserve. Subject(s): Grief; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Serfs SLAVE TRADE: NEW ORLEANS, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To begin with, the slaves had to wash themselves well Subject(s): Slavery; Mothers; Grief; Serfs; Sorrow; Sadness SLEEP (A WOMAN SPEAKS), by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sleep, we are beholden to thee, sleep Last Line: Never to want, never to wish for thee! Subject(s): Grief; Light; Love; Man-woman Relationships; Night; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations; Bedtime SMALL ELEGY, by MORRIS WEISENTHAL Poem Source First Line: Say that she was young, awkward and bold Last Line: It. Now the riderless seasons %race and change, shrouded in speed Subject(s): Grief SMALL PRAYER, by WELDON KEES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Change, move, dead clock, that this fresh day Last Line: After the healing ends Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SNAPSHOT FOR LEW WELCH; 25 YEARS LATER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Hold on to the bright Last Line: White furry rump Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SNOW FALL, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On green leaves %eye is twitching quite dreadfully Last Line: And pity I have in my heart Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Loss; Seasons SNOW-FLAKE, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: To soothe my pain because thou canst not love me Last Line: Whose burning lava-depths beneath it spread! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love - Loss Of SNOWMAN, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This is a poem for tom Last Line: For all of the good providers Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Labor And Laborers; Men; Murder; Self-doubt; Snow SO, WELL, NOW, YOU'VE GOT IT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: New york school stuck on their typewriters Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOCCORO, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: After a day of driving, of wanting Last Line: And there like boats at sea Subject(s): Death; Grief SOLITARY GRIEF, by WANG SU Poem Source First Line: At dusk I listen sadly to the sawing of the rain Last Line: The fragrance from the brazier has gone cold - the fire is out Subject(s): Grief SOLITUDE, by HAROLD MONRO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you have tidied all things for the night Last Line: Solitude walks one heavy step more near. Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness SOLSTICE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just living in the dark time night time Last Line: Onto the back of time waving Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME CHOICE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With joanne it's the fact that she has Last Line: This really interesting and colloquial way in the woods.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SOME FRIVOLITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Crazed the baby tape cassette Last Line: Distinctly piqued, mostly graceful Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dancing And Dancers; Grief; Loss SOME PART OF THE LYRIC, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some part of the lyric wants to exclude Last Line: Reflects the world it meant to exclude. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Poetry & Poets; World; Sorrow; Sadness SOME SLIPPERY AFTERNOON, by DANIELA GIOSEFFI Poem Source First Line: A silver watch you've worn for years Last Line: A blank oval peers back at you %too mouthless to cry out Subject(s): Change; Grief SOME SORROWS, by ELENI FLORATOU-PAIDOUSSI Poem Source First Line: Some sorrows don't hurt Last Line: Those hours %when all else is silenced Subject(s): Grief 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 SONATINA, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The princess is sad. What ails the princess? Last Line: To kindle your lips with a kiss of true love! Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Romance SONG, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "flow not so fast, ye fountains" Last Line: Must still fall dropping from their spheres Subject(s): Grief;tears; Sorrow;sadness SONG, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To hide my sorrow's secret smart Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart, my heart is heavy Last Line: I wish he would shoot me dead! Subject(s): Grief; Soldiers; Sorrow; Sadness 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, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love laid his sleepless head Last Line: But day shall bring back delight. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Bedtime SONG, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the world's asleep Last Line: Or fly within and bid them close the gate? Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Tears; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness 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 (3), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her among the flower Last Line: Fair, with the selfsame smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Flowers; Funerals; Grief; Tears; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (3), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A spirit haunts the year's last hours Last Line: Heavily hangs the tiger-lily. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONG (5), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sat and sang alway Last Line: Her songs died on the air. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 AND SONNET ON SORROW, by AUBREY DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young, I said to sorrow Subject(s): Grief SONG AT LATE SPRING, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: Spring days are long, the spring grass is lush Last Line: Who is playing the flute to add to my grief? Subject(s): Grief; Spring SONG AT MORNING, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The weeping rose in her dark night of leaves Last Line: Nor sorrow darker than her night of leaves Subject(s): Grief 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 BY THE WAY, by FRANCISCO A. DE ICAZA Poem Source First Line: A solitary pilgrim I Last Line: A song along the way! Subject(s): Grief; Solitude 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 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 SORROW, by LU QINGZI Poem Source First Line: On the path of a great endeavor Last Line: Let it be on beimang mountain Subject(s): Grief SONG OF SORROW, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My family has married me Last Line: Oh to be the yellow crane %winging home again! Subject(s): Grief SONG OF THE BOWMEN OF SHU, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "here we are, picking the first fern-shoots" Last Line: "our mind is full of sorrow, who will know of our grief" Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness SONG OF THE DESPERATE ONE, by CHARLES VILDRAC Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down the days and down the years Last Line: Over every joy. Alternate Author Name(s): Messager, Charle Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG OF THE EVERLASTING SORROW, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The emperor prized beauty, and longed for a woman to topple a kingdom Last Line: This sorrow everlasting will go on forever Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Grief SONG OF THE PINES, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O pines,o brothers of the earth and air Last Line: From far away, and towards the future goes Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SONG OF THE ROUND MEN, by PALMER. MICHAEL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The round and sad-eyed man puffed cigars as if Subject(s): Grief; Identity; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, FR. MEASURE FOR MEASURE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take, o, take those lips away Last Line: Bound in those icy chains by thee. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, FR. SYLVIA (OPERA), by GEORGE LILLO Poem Text First Line: The sweet and blushing rose Last Line: And grief on joy attends. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SONG, FR. THE RIVAL FRIENDS, by PETER HAUSTED Poem Source First Line: Have pity (griefe) I can not pay Subject(s): Grief SONG: 10, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To wish and want and not obtain Last Line: What may it avail me? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Despair; Fortune; Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 105, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now all of change / must be my song Last Line: To quit the craft that me beguiled. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Pain; Singing & Singers; Time; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 106, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone musing / remember Last Line: From her never to depart? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Life; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 23, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So unwarely was never no man caught Last Line: This restless life I may not lead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Life; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 24, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since you will needs that I shall sing Last Line: Within my heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By nought but sorrow attended Last Line: On your friendship I cannot rely. Subject(s): Birds; Friendship; Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy SONG: 35, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, what it is to love! Last Line: Who now doth slander love, &c. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 87 Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 46, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All heavy minds / do seek to ease their charge Last Line: Is clean in vain. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SONG: 5, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beauteous cradle of my sorrow Last Line: In a chilly distant tomb. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Hearts; Love; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 53, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, the grief and deadly woful smart Last Line: To whomsoever lust for to proffer most. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 55, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the wind with raging blast Last Line: Of evil sown seed such is the fruit. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Of Love Subject(s): Beauty; Desire; Grief; Life; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 58, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love, loved, and so doth she Last Line: To love so well and leave in smart. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Love; Pain; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery; Songs SONG: 59, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Suffering in sorrow, in hope to attain Last Line: Content to serve and suffer still I must. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery SONG: 62, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometime I sigh, sometime I sing Last Line: And never to change you for no new. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Love; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Songs SONG: 68, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my heart, ah, what aileth thee Last Line: Ah! My heart, ah! What aileth thee? Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): To His Heart Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Hearts; Love; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 75, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Desire to sorrow doth me constrain Last Line: By patience. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism SONG: 77. THE ANSWER, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even when you lust, ye may refrain Last Line: I am not ruled by fantasy. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Fantasy; Grief; Love; Lust; Sorrow; Sadness SONG: 81, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, what undeserved cruelty Last Line: Till my careful life may turn contrary. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Cruelty; Fortune; Grief; Happiness; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SONG: UGLY SLAVE, by XIN QIJI Poem Source First Line: In my distant younger days Last Line: Is this cooling autumn weather! Subject(s): Grief; Poetry And Poets; Youth SONGS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus I said to my heart in a pet t'other day Last Line: And vows I shall never possess him again. Subject(s): Deception; Desire; Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations SONGS BY THE LAKE: 1, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the sky the sun is falling Last Line: Gleams the mirrored evening star. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Grief; Lakes; Sorrow; Sadness; Pools; Ponds 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 AUTUMN NIGHTS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O night, send up the harvest moon Last Line: Till I am old no more. Subject(s): Autumn; Corn; God; Grief; Night; Old Age; Seasons; Youth; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime SONGS OF THE NIGHT WATCHES: MORNING WATCH. COMING IN OF THE MERMAIDEN, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moon is bleached as white as wool Last Line: Promised them 'to-morrow.' Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Moon; Morning; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 13, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: In the house of my own father Last Line: "I shall have to dry you, o ruddy tresses, / in the longing of my grief" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OF THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE: 7, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "whither shall I, the fair maiden, flee from sorrow?" Last Line: "I have driven, I have driven, the maiden into the damp earth" Subject(s): Grief;russia; Sorrow;sadness;soviet Union;russians SONGS OUT OF SORROW: MASTERY, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have a god come in Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS OUT OF SORROW: SPIRIT'S HOUSE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From naked stones of agony Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology SONGS OUT OF SORROW: WISDOM, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I have ceased to break my wings Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS TO A.H.R.: 14. LAST LINES, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could only go back and find you there Last Line: "never, oh never more!" Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 10, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why, harry, what ails you, why look you so sad? Last Line: For one it relieves, and it strengthens the other. Subject(s): Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Thought; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Thinking SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 24, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Well! I will never more complain Last Line: Without the least regret. Subject(s): Fates (mythology); Grief; Wisdom; Sorrow; Sadness SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 4, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, weep no more, for 'tis in vain Last Line: We've paid already with our eyes. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Heaven; Love; Tears; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise SONNET, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unhappy muse, that nothing pleasest me Last Line: Till tears and words are spent for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me, all sweet refrains my lip hath made Last Line: Who wilt, by killing, finally release. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Death SONNET, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Black pitchy night, companion of my woe Last Line: Which still torments me in day's burning fire Subject(s): Grief SONNET TO G. H. B., by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You comfort me as one that, knowing fate Last Line: Some demon works unseen, and saps the pile. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Beauty; Boker, George Henry (1823-1890); Fate; Grief; Love; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO JULIET: WHO WOULD COMFORT HIM, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I did not ask your pity, dear. Your zeal Subject(s): Pity; Grief; Comfort; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO MANON: ON FALLING ILL THROUGH GRIEF, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Truce to thee, soul! I have a debt to pay Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO THE CURLEW, by HELEN MARIA WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soothed by the murmurs on the sea-beat shore Last Line: And seem the symbol of my present woe. Subject(s): Birds; Curlews; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET TO THE NIGHTINGALE, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad songstress of the night, no more I hear Last Line: No more responsive to the lay of love. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Nightingales; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 1, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Go, valentine, and tell that lovely maid Last Line: And heave the sigh of memory and of love. Subject(s): Desire; Grief; Longing; Love; Memory; Messengers; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 10, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How darkly o'er yon far-off mountain frowns Last Line: Sigh for the crimes and miseries of mankind! Subject(s): Grief; Humanity; Mountains; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Hills; Downs (great Britain) SONNET: 15. WRITTEN ON RISING GROUND NEAR LICHFIELD, by ANNA SEWARD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The evening shines in may's luxuriant pride Last Line: Poetic minds to life, with all her ills. Alternate Author Name(s): Seward, Nancy Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 18, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though I myself be bridled of my mind Last Line: Whereby his absence turneth him to sorrow.' Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Egerton Manuscript: 27 Subject(s): Grief; Honor; Love; Time; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 181, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall I find some desert-scene so rude Last Line: And days of gloom shall soothe me to repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief SONNET: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think, valentine, as speeding on thy way Last Line: Who loathes the lingering road, yet has no home of rest! Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; Life; Love; Memory; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Travel; Valentine's Day; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips SONNET: 2, 33, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One still dark night, I sat alone and wrote Last Line: And left me listening to the sinking sound. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night. Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement SONNET: 282, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrapt in sad musings, by euphrates' stream Last Line: The mourner's cure is not to sing -- but die. Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Death SONNET: 3, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou, whose stern command and precepts pure Last Line: Remembering the sorrows of mankind. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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: COLD COMFORT, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is no comfort underneath the sun Subject(s): Transience; Life; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness 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: ONE MORE BRUISED HEART, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more bruised heart laid bare! One victim more! Last Line: I cannot cure; I may in part express. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: POOR LISA, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor lisa! Oft her folly has been sung Last Line: To tell of lisa's weeping afterward. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: SMALL GRIEFS AND GREAT, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How oft by trivial griefs our spirits tossed Last Line: A dreary watcher on a blasted height! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: THE AFTER-GLOW, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is a solemn evening, golden clear Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Evening; Love; Grief; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, by CONSTANCE CAROLINE WOODHILL NADEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the passions and desires of man Last Line: Soft with remembered grief and happiness. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Rainbows; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SONNET: TO ONE UNFORGOTTEN, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are not false perhaps, as lovers say Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: WRITTEN IN DISTRESS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sometimes sit in darkness. I long while Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 25, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A heavy heart, beloved, have I borne Last Line: Betwixt the stars and the unaccomplished fate. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 30, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I see thine image through my tears tonight Last Line: As now these tears come -- falling hot and real? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE: 5, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lift my heavy heart up solemnly Last Line: The hair beneath. Stand farther off then! Go. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ON ENGLISH DRAMATIC POETS: 16. ANONYMOUS PLAYS, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother whose womb brought forth our man of men Last Line: Clothed round with song forever as with fire. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Plays & Playwrights; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 131, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, so all things now do hold their peace Last Line: To live and lack the thing should rid my pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "a Complaint By Night Of The Lover Not Beloved;night;a Night Piece;""alas, So All Thinges Nowe Doe Holde Their Peace""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Unrequited; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS TO LAURA IN LIFE: 156, by PETRARCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My galley charged with forgetfulness Last Line: And I remain despairing of the port. Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco Variant Title(s): "sonnet: 19;the Lover Compareth His State To A Ship In Perilous Storm;the Lover Like To A Ship Tossed On The Sea;sonnet;sonnet: 189;rime 189;""my Galy Charged With Forgetfulnes""; Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sea; Ships & Shipping; Storms; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 2, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit among green shady valleys oft Last Line: What time the trees weep o'er me honeydew. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Nature; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 5, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I seek among the living, and I seek Last Line: Weep for a little ere we go & play. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness SONNETS WRITTEN TO BOUTS-RIMES: 8, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks the ills of life I fain would shun Last Line: And I shall sorrow that I must forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness SONOMA FIRE, by JANE HIRSHFIELD Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Large moon the deep orange of embers. Last Line: The griefs of others—beautiful, at a distance Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Count each affliction, whether light or grave Last Line: Great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end. Variant Title(s): Affliction Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What shape can I build of rhythm or melody Last Line: As the night, eternal and changeless, folds it about forever. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Has its wonders too which Last Line: This sorrow will remain Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief SORROW, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why does the thin grey strand Last Line: I watched them float up the dark chimney. Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by MARCELLE CHANCELLOR LEATH Poem Text First Line: This, then is sorrow. Many times before Last Line: Or to lie deep within her arms -- how sweet. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Heaven took my wife. Now it Last Line: Not even a shadow in the mirror Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief SORROW, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strength and life have fled afar Last Line: Eased my heart of tears. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by LAETITIA (VAN LEWEN) PILKINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While sunk in deepest solitude and woe Last Line: And lay me down in everlasting peace. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wrack is lapping in the pools, the sea's lip feels the sand Last Line: Or with dull thunders plunge from shore to shore.) Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Prayer; Salvation; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Ocean SORROW, by SHIN DONG-JIP Poem Source First Line: Before a sorrow is born Last Line: The stars glittering in the night sky %can tell Subject(s): Grief SORROW, by JOHANN SIGURJONSSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Woe, woe, unto the fallen city! Last Line: And bears new life, new sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, on wing through the world forever Last Line: Sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Roundels; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery SORROW AND FLOWERS; A MEMORIAL WREATH TO C. F., by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom Last Line: Than flash in royal diadems. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW AND JOY, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow and joy, two sisters coy Last Line: And not too much o' t'other. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SORROW AND NO SORROW, by RUTH STONE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We eat through tubes of time Last Line: On its indifferent tongue. Subject(s): Grief; Hunger; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW AND SONG, by JAMES HEDDERWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep not over poet's wrong; / mourn not his mischances Last Line: And of gentle fancies. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs SORROW FOR THE DEAD, by LEONIDUS S. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: Other sorrows we try to conceal Last Line: With never a lingering sorrow? Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement SORROW HATH A DOUBLE VOICE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Farewell to sorrow! Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Pleasure; Grief SORROW IN FRENCH, by GARY SOTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Piaf, just what are you saying? Last Line: Birds who, like us, share the green, %make noises in pairs, and then, without so much as a word, go Subject(s): Grief; Piaf, Edith (1915-1963) SORROW IN SPRING, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow knocked at my door Last Line: She smiles! And she rises to go! Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW IN THE HAREM, by WANG CH'ANG-LING Poem Source First Line: Withered flowers fill the courtyard Last Line: The smell of perfume still lingers in the air Alternate Author Name(s): Wang Chang-ling Subject(s): Grief; Harems SORROW SHALL MAKE US KIN, by WILLIAM ARTHUR DUNKERLEY Poem Text First Line: The cark of care has bitten in Last Line: -- sorrow hath made us kin. Alternate Author Name(s): Oxenham, John Subject(s): Grief; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Theology SORROW SINGERS, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hear their viol-voices ringing Last Line: Through a mist of falling tears! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW SONG, by LUCILLE CLIFTON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For the eyes of the children Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW WITHOUT CONSOLATION, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, wherefore shouldst thou try Last Line: Thou'dst rather bid them weep, and seek their comfort so. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW'S DRESS, by GERALDINE CONNOLLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sorrow's Last Line: Like no happiness %could Subject(s): Grief SORROW'S SHADOW, by FANNIE STEARNS DAVIS GIFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some days, when I am dressed in shimmer-stuff Last Line: And take my hand, nor let me dance away? Alternate Author Name(s): Davis, Fannie Stearns Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW'S USES, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The uses of sorrow I comprehend Last Line: How sorrow ever would be our friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROW, MY SORROW, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow, my sorrow, I thought that you would be Last Line: Beyond yourself you must abide with me. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROWES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrowes our portion are: ere hence we goe Last Line: Crosses we must have; or, hereafter woe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROWS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sister sorrow! Sit beside me Last Line: The tide of ill. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROWS AND JOYS, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury thy sorrows, and they shall rise Last Line: And warned by yearning sympathies. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight SORROWS AND PLEASURES, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is an awful thing how we forget Last Line: That draw all life together. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 2, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pressed my baby to my throbbing breast Last Line: Some wish, the bitter grief he caused me, to console! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Children - Illegitimate; Grief; Mothers - Unwed; Seduction SORROWS OF ROSALIE: BOOK 3, SELS., by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On, on -- through many a dark and mounrful day Last Line: And, shrinking back, it turned to that kind one, and smiled Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Kindness; Mothers - Unwed SORROWS OF SMINDYRIDES, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is a delicate flower indeed Last Line: His wine too bitter to swallow Subject(s): Grief SORROWS SUCCEED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When one is past, another care we have Last Line: Thus woe succeeds a woe; as wave a wave. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SOULS IN THE BALANCE: 1. TO OUR LADY OF THE SEVEN SORROWS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lady of the seven sorrows which are love Last Line: You carry the seven sorrows of the earth. Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SONGS: 103, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The ewe lamb is white Last Line: Is dying with grief Subject(s): Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 106, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: How would you have me love you Last Line: And rivers the sea Subject(s): Grief; Love SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 109, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Loaded with hopes Last Line: Dead with disillusion Subject(s): Disillusion; Grief; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 110, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Weep, my eyes, weep Last Line: That a man should cry Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 111, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: To the sea I must go Last Line: In a wind-mill Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 115, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grief and that which is not grief Last Line: To-day, your presence grieves me Subject(s): Absence; Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 116, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Now my husband lies dead Last Line: Little velvet eyes' Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Sympathy SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 133, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I know not which is more deep Last Line: Or else the grief we weep Subject(s): Crying; Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 137, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You did not want when I wanted Last Line: Just as I did before you Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Complaints SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 148, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: He who would care to sing well Last Line: Grief will take the place of art Subject(s): Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 158, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Why would you, prisoners Last Line: Your grief remains Subject(s): Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 159, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My heart breaks Last Line: And that you are dead for me Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 161, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Yesterday in the fountain Last Line: And you were weeping Subject(s): Grief SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 93, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: You look at me, you kill me Last Line: I want to die Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love SPEAK NOT, LET NO WORD BREAK', by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With the silence I have placed on them Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Loss; Relationships; Silence; Weariness SPECIALLY FOR YOUR EYES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Calm the torrent of breathing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Hiking; Loss SPECTRES THAT GRIEVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is not death that harrows us,' they lipped Last Line: Until the new-year's dawn strode up the air. Subject(s): Grief; Holidays; New Year; Sorrow; Sadness SPEECH' IS A PRANK OF PARLIAMENT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Doesn't always move Variant Title(s): Poem: 193; Poem: 68 Subject(s): Grief 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 SPEEDWELLS, by DOLLIE CAROLINE MAITLAND RADFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I came to lay my sorrow in the wood Last Line: I had not strength to name. Alternate Author Name(s): Radford, Ernest, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SPIRIT, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I watched her Last Line: My baby's gone Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of SPIRITS OF LIGHT! SPIRITS OF SHADE!, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: "tranquilly, Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Grief SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement SPRING MELT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Crackle of breaking snowcrust Last Line: Uneasy with questions, holding on Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SPRING ON THE WOODLAND PATH, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: So long a winter such an arctic night Last Line: With the old hearts in this forgotten way? Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Love; Relationships; Spring; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness SPRING VIEW, by TU FU Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The nation is broken, but hills and rivers remain. Last Line: So scarce that I try in vain to fasten them with a pin Alternate Author Name(s): Du Fu Subject(s): Grief; Spring 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 STARTING TO RAIN, by ELAINE EQUI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Distracted, I leave %the therapist's office Last Line: How did they manage %to make themselves heard? Subject(s): Grief; Psychoanalysis; Rain; Tears 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 STEALING THE RELIGIOUS RELIC, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why was it so important to steal it away form the family Last Line: Spotlight shows the passionate couple in a yabyum embrace Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STEW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: California lilac, ceanothus, embraced Last Line: And looking towards the stew Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Guests; Identity; Loss STILLBIRTH, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: On a platform, I heard someone call out your name: Subject(s): Grief; Stillbirth; Sorrow; Sadness; Death - Childbirth STILLNESS, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: It is especially strong Last Line: The spirit is among us %now Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of 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 STORM IS UPON US, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Did I throw it out the door last night? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORMS OF THE SEASON MAKE ME LOOSE MY REASON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I never have been able to spell 'lose' correctly- Last Line: I refuse to rewrite this, but I did Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STORY FROM EASTER: HE HAS RISEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: There is a mouse under the sink Last Line: Buries mouse next day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Easter; Grief; Holidays; Jesus Christ; Loss; Resurrection, The STRIPES OF RED, BLACK, AND GOLD, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Fire, and the excitement of ending this day Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss STUPIDLY INSPIRED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It's true %the cricket ate the lace curtain of the studio, not Last Line: No-no, thats right, you got it right, believe it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 SUDDENLY!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The same moon in the next century! Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUFFERING: A GAME, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: Let's imagine an ordinary man Last Line: Into its enviable, incriminating silence Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Pain SUGGESTIONS BY STEAM, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When woman is in rags, and poor Last Line: "to that small voice that crieth—""stop her!" Subject(s): Despair; Grief; Hunger; Poverty; Women; Sorrow; Sadness SUMMER IS SHORTER THAN ANY ONE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Equally retain him Variant Title(s): Poem: 1506; Poem: 148 Subject(s): Grief SUMMONS, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Wasting time as I do Last Line: Making music while we can Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS! MELANCHOLY STAR!, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Stars; Grief SUNBATHING, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor's new store-bought dog yaps again Subject(s): Dogs; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SUNDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2000, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Struggle through the morning Last Line: Of the day is put on Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY BAY LOOKOUT CHECK UP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A few party %boats looking for labor Last Line: False pacific jungle makes no sound Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Bicycles; Grief; Loss; Seasons SUNDAY IT RAINED ALL NIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed liz tuomi got married all of a sudden Last Line: What do you expect from an 'I' this morning? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNDAY'S GRACES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Are at war, swimming down a river Last Line: They won't sit still Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SUNSET SONG, by WANG WEI+(3) Poem Source First Line: The sun longs to set, the birds to return Last Line: My heart is sad, but you do not know Subject(s): Grief SUNSET, THE SIERRA, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: A bruised expanse of sky, evergreens Last Line: From another until the moon comes up, and the stars Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature SUPPOSE, by ZILLA VOLLMER TIETGEN Poem Text First Line: I ask you dear, if I should die Last Line: My tears through life would never dry. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness SURPRISINGLY SHE FELL BACK INTO A LINE THAT WAS SURELY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: In a friendly sinuous manner. It's getting freezing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss SURRENDER, by OLIVE W. BURT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the rain in my garden Last Line: Peace in my heart again. Subject(s): Grief; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness SUSPIRIUM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Life of my soule, bright lord of love Last Line: To thee ye easier shall I swimm. Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Love; Soul; Vision; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness SWALLOWING MY MOTHER, by CATHERINE MOSS Poem Source First Line: A child's throat won't open Last Line: The position the tongue takes %before tears Subject(s): Grief SWEEPING EQUATION, by DORY L. HUDSPETH Poem Source First Line: When bad news comes I sweep Last Line: The worse the news %the more I sweep Subject(s): Grief 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 SWEPT, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When we say I Last Line: Swept away to / gone Subject(s): Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness SYLVANDER TO CLARINDA, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When dear clarinda, matchless fair Last Line: I'll write whatever I've to do. Subject(s): Love; Grief; Friendship SYLVIA, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Across a space peopled with stars I am Subject(s): Sisters; Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TA SUO XING, by SHEN YIXIU Poem Source First Line: Dream broken, hope abandoned Last Line: Orion slides, the moon falls, the darkness goes on forever Subject(s): Absence; Brothers; Dreams; Grief TABULA SECUNDA IN NAUFRAGIO, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Poore heart, what is this poorer world to thee? Last Line: Unlesse omnipotencie can be crost. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness TAKE IT O MOON ON THE RUN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That's fine. For me Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TALKING TO GRIEF, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, grief, I should not treat you Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TALKNG AMONG OURSELVES, by CHARLIE SMITH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the rental cottage it comes to me, Subject(s): Brothers; Family Life; Divorce; Grief; Half-brothers; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness TANGO, by JOHN MINCZESKI Poem Source First Line: Just outside chicago, at the home of a dead architect, three of us sat at Last Line: Earth beneath us continued falling through its orbit into fall and beyond Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Music And Musicians TAXI AFTER AN EVENING SHOWER, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This man saying no no Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TEARING UP MY MOTHER'S LETTERS, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The rain of summer thunders down past the sweet peas Subject(s): Mothers & Daughters; Letters; Grief; Self-hate; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank god, bless god, all ye who suffer not Last Line: And leave the vision clear for stars and sun. Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by JOHN DOWLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep you no more, sad fountains Last Line: Sleeping. Variant Title(s): Lute Song Set By John Dowland (6);sleep;a Song For Music Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by RICARDO GUTIERREZ Poem Source First Line: Angel of my earthly paradise, star of my gloomy night Last Line: My soul been left without thine! Subject(s): Angels; Graves; Grief; Tears 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 TEARS, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I consider life and its few years - Last Line: Homer his sight, david his little lad ! Subject(s): Grief; Life; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: Tears born of wild emotion Last Line: And all is stainless gold! Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Memory; Tears; World; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: When I have seen you weep, I hear the drum Last Line: And we take hands and leap into the dark. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS, by RONALD STUART THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man weeps Last Line: Get away with it, the %women, and are not happy Alternate Author Name(s): Thomas, R. S. Subject(s): Grief TEARS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tears! Tears! Tears! / in the night, in solitude, tears Last Line: Of tears! Tears! Tears! Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS ARE BUT SPINDRIFT, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER Poem Text First Line: When little leaves are leaning to the light Last Line: Tears are but spindrift in the face of this. Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart is so full if pain Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Love – Absence Of; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: My heart has such pain! Subject(s): Grief TEARS FALL IN MY HEART, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Why my grief is so great Subject(s): Grief TEARS OF THE EXCAVATOR, by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI Poem Source First Line: Only loving, only knowing Last Line: And, as then, they disappear, singing Subject(s): Grief; Tears TEASING WAS ONLY THE BEGINNING, by CORTNEY DAVIS Poem Source First Line: In this picture my son's face Last Line: Fork poised over the meat Subject(s): Children; Family Life; Grief TEMPORARY JOB, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Women - Employment; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Professional Women; Women In Business; Women's Careers TERRACE ROADS SLUMPS INTO THE CANYON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Just one access to the mesa now Last Line: Undulating, casual Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THANKSGIVING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On birch road is a large gathering including anselm Last Line: Both decide the other is from the c.I.A Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THAT THIS, by SUSAN HOWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Day is a type when visible Last Line: Age or century for a day is Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE 'CLOSED-INS', by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Doomed to be 'compassed by four walls Last Line: Hell has no part in this. Subject(s): Conformity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 AGE, by HERBERT EDWIN CLARKE Poem Text First Line: A pale, and soul-sick woman with wan Last Line: Two things alone they lack, peace and content. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE AMPHORA, by FEODOR KUZMICH TETERNIKOV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a gay jar upon his shoulder Last Line: Its bitterness upon my breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Sologub, Fedor (fyodor) Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!" Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE ARMLESS ARTIST: CATASTROPHE, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Alas!' the father said Last Line: "this armless boy will ruin me." Subject(s): Grief; Mercy; Physical Disabilities; Tragedy; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE ASH POOL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The wet wind sobs o'er the sodden leas Last Line: A curse hangs over the great ash pool Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness THE AWAKENING, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me sleep on! I would not waken yet Last Line: The quiet land of dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Life; Memory; Soul; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness 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 BAD SEASON MAKES THE POET SAD, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dull to my selfe, and almost dead to these Last Line: Knock at a starre with my exalted head. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BALLAD OF THE HOPELESS MAN, by HENRI MURGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who knocks for entrance at this hour?' Last Line: "for—so—one friend shall mourn my fate!" Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Life; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism THE BANKS O' DOON, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye flowery banks and braes o' bonnie doon Last Line: But ah! He left the thorn wi' me. Variant Title(s): Bonie Doon Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE BARD, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be, the baffled heart, in vain Last Line: And ye, charmed with the voice, gave but a stone instead. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Poetry & Poets; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE BASTARD, SELECTION, by RICHARD SAVAGE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: In gayer hours, when high my fancy ran Last Line: The raptures languish, and the numbers groan. Subject(s): Grief; Muses; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE BEAUTIFUL NAMES, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Francis, you realize, from loving ile-de-france, how a country or a Last Line: The road for mortcerf of fair name. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BIRD OF SADNESS, by CHRISTIAN MORGENSTERN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little black bird flies over the world Last Line: And again it flies fluting over the world. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BLEST, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: The vision came, all grey and cold Last Line: And the dew on its skin was a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Grief; Rest; Sorrow; Sadness THE BLIND GIRL, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Kind christians, pray list to me Last Line: From drinking either whisky, rum, or gin. Subject(s): Blindness; Child Molesting; Drinks & Drinking; Grief; Human Behavior; Visually Handicapped; Child Abuse; Wine; Sorrow; Sadness; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature THE BLOODY FIELD OF WHEOGO, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The moon rides high in a starry sky Last Line: So we'll take the boy instead!' Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;fields;grief;hunting; Pastures;meadows;leas;sorrow;sadness;hunters THE BLUE BIRD, by LAWRENCE ALMA-TADEMA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A blue-bird built his nest Last Line: My name is grief. Subject(s): Birds; Bluebirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BRAES O' GLENIFFER, by ROBERT TANNAHILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keen blaws the wind o'er the braes o' gleniffer Last Line: The dark days o' winter were summer to me! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Winter; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE BRIDE'S TRAGEDY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now eve has strewn the sun's wide billowy couch Last Line: Dies. Subject(s): Betrayal; Bigamy; Brides; Capital Punishment; Conscience; Courts & Courtiers; Debt; Deception; Family Life; Grief; Guilt; Insanity; Love; Marriage; Murder; Secrets; Suicide; Tragedy; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Q THE BROKEN HEART, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He has gone to the land where the dead are still Last Line: And he sleeps with the dead for ever. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE BROOK: AUTUMN, by LAURA ABELL Poem Text First Line: Scarlet dogwood berries bring Last Line: In the pageant everywhere. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE BURTHEN OF THE TIDE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The tide was dark and heavy with the burden that it bore Last Line: For more. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Tides; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE CAGED EAGLE, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: One thrilling sweep from out the fastness Last Line: And walked back to his cage. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Wings; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts 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 SORROW, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved! In thine adversity there is Last Line: Oh! Why does thy bleeding compact cover all? Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE CATTLE THIEF, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They were coming across the prairie Last Line: And blame, if you dare, the hunger that drove him to be a thief. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Grief; Murder; Native Americans - Wars; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHEVALIER'S LAMENT, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The small birds rejoice in the green leaves returning Last Line: Alas! I can make it no better return! Subject(s): Birds; Grief THE CHIEFEST AMONG TEN THOUSAND (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sick of life and all the world Last Line: For god shall reign and god is love. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto The Hills Subject(s): God; Grief; Hearts; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHRIST-SWORD, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The while my mad brain whirled around Last Line: With terrible yet tender breath. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Nature Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE CHRISTIAN'S CONFIDENCE, by CHARLES H. MCLEAN Poem Text First Line: I sought him and found him Last Line: Flooded my soul. Subject(s): Christianity; Grief; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE CIRCLE, by GLADYS CROMWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My grief comes back after an interval Last Line: And feel the weight of my old sorrow's chain. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Failure; Grief; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Sorrow; Sadness THE CLAIM, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grief sate upon a rock and sighed one day Last Line: And eke my life out with the breath she sigheth.' Subject(s): Grief; Joy; Sorrow; Sadness THE CLOSED DOOR, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never crossed your threshold with a grief Last Line: Whereby I pass and may not enter in. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 CONGREGATION, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: The ghosts of night's long hours depart Last Line: To dissipate great sorrows. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE CONSOLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Time comes to grief as sleep to weariness Last Line: At twilight, or when april boughs are spread. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, by WILLIAM MCKENDREE CARLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a gathering in the village, that has never been outdone Last Line: Is entitled to a furlough for his brain and for his heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Carleton, Will Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVE, FR. A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For aught that ever I could read Last Line: So quick bright things come to confusion. Variant Title(s): Reading Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE CROWDS CHEERED AS GLOOM GALLOPED AWAY, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Last Line: Larger horses’ faces. Gloom, #341, with those big black eyes, was almost sure to win Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 CRY ETERNAL, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Last eve and through the night I heard a cry Last Line: What woman's heart can bear it through the night? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DARK OF THE MOON, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE Poem Text First Line: Diana's crescent ship, / by silver chain and lock Last Line: While hermes has his tryst. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAUGHTER, by MATILDA BARBARA BETHAM-EDWARDS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, mournful lute! Dear echo of my woe! Last Line: Pausing forgetful as he pass'd along. Alternate Author Name(s): Betham, Mary Matilda; Edwards, Matilda B.; Edwards, B. M. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE DAY YOU WERE LEAVING, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lock stuck on the attic door Last Line: And the night you were leaving. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 DEATH OF MORGAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Throughout australian history no tongue or pen can tell Last Line: "remember this, how true it is, bushranging hath no charms!" Subject(s): Crimes & Criminals;grief;hunting;murder; Sorrow;sadness;hunters 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 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-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 DEATH-SONG OF TURANN, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Low lie your heads this day Last Line: And with it I lie low! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DIAMOND POINT, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Use the diamond point of grief Last Line: Incise a clear hibiscus in the windowpane. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE DIRGE OF 'CLAN SIUBHAIL' (THE WANDERING FOLK), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road Last Line: Sorrow upon me on the grass and on the wandering road. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Day; Grief; Night; Wandering & Wanderers; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime; Fatigue THE DIRTY OLD MAN, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a dirty old house lived a dirty old man Last Line: To that dirty old house and that dirty old man. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Aging; Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE DOUBLE CROWNING, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Lavish roses carpeted the ways for him Last Line: The shouting of the people -- the silence of the king! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our life is two-fold: sleep hath its own world Last Line: To end in madness -- both in misery Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Variant Title(s): Sleep Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE DREAM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I woke to find my pillow wet Last Line: Was I thy captive all o'erthrown? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Love - Complaints; Tears; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness 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 DRUM-MAJOR, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The old drum-major it is that we see Last Line: The old man is your father! Subject(s): Drums; Grief; Musical Instruments; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE DRUNKEN SONG, by FRIEDRICH WILHELM NIETZSCHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O man, what seem Last Line: "would have deep, deep eternity!" Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight 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 EASTERN GATE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I went out at the eastern gate Last Line: One cannot put things off Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);grief; Sorrow;sadness THE EDGE OF DOOM, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heartsick, homeless, weak, and weary Last Line: Even as leah, to the land. Subject(s): Women; Homeless; Grief THE EEGRASS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With stricken heart, and melting mood Last Line: But this bright-bladed eegrass. Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness THE EMPTY CUP, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fly away, bark Last Line: Mine emptiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE END OF AODH-OF-THE-SONGS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The swift years slip and slide adown the steep Last Line: Pain that alone survives, gaunt hound of the shadowy years. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE END OF LAUGHTER, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O never laugh again! Last Line: Ours but to pray. Subject(s): Grief; Laughter; Sorrow; Sadness THE FADED FACE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How was this I did not see Last Line: Sorrow-wrung! Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAIR HANDS, by HENRI FRANCOIS JOSEPH DE REGNIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Showing the whiteness of flesh faint and fair Last Line: By sordid toil, by barren tasks unhurt. Subject(s): Grief; Hands; Kisses; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAIRY OF THE DELL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The house lay snug as a robin's nest Last Line: "nor sighed for her lad that was lost, ""ah me!" Variant Title(s): Selfish Sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAITHLESS KNIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lady she sate in her bower alone Last Line: Ere that steed and its rider return again! Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Grief; Knights & Knighthood; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE FAN BLUES, by WILLIAM A. PHELON Poem Text First Line: They say that the winter is gentle and mild Last Line: Oh, misery! Subject(s): Baseball; Grief; Sports; Sorrow; Sadness THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FEAR OF MADNESS; FRAGMENT, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is something which I dread Last Line: (final poem) Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Insanity; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness; Illness THE FEAST, by ROBERT HASS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lovers loitered on the deck talking Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FEAST OF ST. JOHN, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man goes twanging a mandoline down in the valley Last Line: Pales with the sick renewal of a sorrow.) Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There whispered in my ear Last Line: That shall the old loss mend. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE FIRST CIRCLE, by KOFI AWOONOR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The flat end of sorrow here Alternate Author Name(s): Awoonor-williams, George Subject(s): Grief; Prisons & Prisoners; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts THE FIRST SORROW, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Arise! This day shall shine Last Line: Thy soul to-day! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): God; Grief; Soul; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE FORSAKEN, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The dead are in their silent graves Last Line: In sorrow that I send to thee! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE FOUNTAIN OF TEARS, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If you go over desert and mountain Last Line: May he find a place for the tears! Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE FOUR BRIDGES, by JEAN INGELOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love this grey old church, the low, long nave Last Line: Nor sleep so sweet: -- the word was -- eglantine. Subject(s): Churches; God; Grief; Landscape; Love; Soul; Tears; Cathedrals; Sorrow; Sadness 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 GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE GODS' TWILIGHT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair may has come with her bright golden radiance Last Line: Headlong together, and old night is lord. Subject(s): Earth; Evening; Grief; May (month); Poetry & Poets; World; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness THE GOLDEN DREAM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: She sleeps; her head is pillowed where Last Line: Break not her golden vision's spell! Subject(s): Grief;sleep;youth; Sorrow;sadness THE GOLDFINCHES, by RICHARD JAGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To you, whose groves protect the feather'd quires Last Line: And there in silent sadness inly mourned. Subject(s): Goldfinches; Grief; Shenstone, William (1714-1763); Sorrow; Sadness THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 1. THE MOTHER MARY, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mary, to thee the heart was given Last Line: His life from hers he drew. Subject(s): Bible; Drinks & Drinking; Family Life; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Mothers; Women - Bible; Wine; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary THE GOSPEL WOMEN: 5. THE WIDOW OF NAIN, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Forth from the city, with the load Last Line: And life is yet our fate! Subject(s): Bible; Grief; Jesus Christ; Mothers; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 GRIEF OF A GIRL'S HEART, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is late last night the dog was speaking of you Last Line: And my fear is great that you have taken god from me! Variant Title(s): Donal Og Subject(s): Grief;holidays;love;love - Loss Of;new Year; Sorrow;sadness 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 GRIEF OF OTHERS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once more I see the happy young Last Line: To charm me with new power. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Grief; 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 GROATSWORLD OF WIT: VERSES, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deceiving world, that with alluring toys Last Line: My time is loosely spent, and I undone. Variant Title(s): A Palinode;a Death-bed Lament;miserrimus Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Regret; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE GROATSWORTH OF WIT: VERSES AGAINST ENTICING COURTEZANS, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What mean the poets in invective verse Last Line: Till waste brings woe, and sorrow hastes despair. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE GROUND-ROBIN, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a low birch-tree just outside my window Last Line: Sing on, ground-robin, sing! Subject(s): Faith; Grief; June; Love; New Hampshire; Robins; Summer; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness THE HARDEST TIME OF ALL, by SARAH DOUDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are days of silent sorrow Last Line: That he taught us how to wait. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE HARP OF THE MINSTREL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The harp of the minstrel has never a tone Last Line: Can not waken the echoes that breathe it aright. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Light; Minstrels; Musical Instruments; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres THE HAUNTED PALACE, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: In the greenest of our valleys / by good angels tenanted Last Line: And laugh -- but smile no more. Subject(s): Castles; Ghosts; Grief; Haunted Houses; Insanity; Mysticism; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE HEART KNOWETH ITS OWN BITTERNESS' (1), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep yet a while Last Line: Who died below, who lives for thee above Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Tears; God; Grief THE HEART RECALCITRANT, by LEONORA SPEYER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the heart grieve on Last Line: Across its own oblivion? Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE HEART-CRY, by FRANCIS WILLIAM BOURDILLON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She turned the page of wounds and death Last Line: Rests to face life as fearlessly. Subject(s): Grief; Women & War; World War I - Casualties; Sorrow; Sadness THE HERMIT'S SPEECH TO QUEEN ELIZABETH AT THEOBALD'S, by GEORGE PEELE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My sovereign lady, and most gracious queen Last Line: Than any one of silver or of gold. Subject(s): Cecil, William, 1st Baron Burleigh; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOLLY THORNS, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Oh, love is the soul of christmas Last Line: Where christmas is one of tears. Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Happiness; Holly; Love; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE HOLY TIDE, by FREDERICK TENNYSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The days are sad, it is the holy tide Last Line: Till the lamp flickers, and the memory fails. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 HOUSE OF LIFE: 97. A SUPERSCRIPTION, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in my face; my name is might-have-been Last Line: Sleepless with cold commemorative eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Variant Title(s): The Nevermore;a Superscription Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOUSE OF SORROWS, by FRANCIS THOMPSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of the white purity Last Line: Where any blow were pity, to this it struck before! Subject(s): Assassination; Elizabeth. Empress Of Austria (1837-98); Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE HOUSE WITH NOBODY IN IT, by ALFRED JOYCE KILMER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whenever I walk to suffern along the erie track Last Line: With a broken heart. Alternate Author Name(s): Kilmer, Joyce Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Sorrow; Sadness 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 INCURABLE; A SONG, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One, amongst flowers, green leaves, and the cool grass Last Line: Flowers, leaves, grass, cave, grove, wars, the air, nor spring. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE INDIAN GIRL'S LAMENT, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An indian girl was sitting where Last Line: The rustling of my footsteps near. Subject(s): Native Americans - Women; Grief; Squaws; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ISLAND OF DREAMS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Tis a close-shelter'd island-the island of dreams! Last Line: Where hearts that are broken, again are made blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE JOY IN SORROW, by CHAUNCEY HARE TOWNSHEND Poem Text First Line: Give me thy joy in sorrow, gracious lord Last Line: That I may feel no touches save of thee. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE KING OF THE CROCODILES, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, woman, why without your veil? Last Line: And I will make a meal of thee. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Courts & Courtiers; Crocodiles; Egypt; Grief; Mothers; Trust; Sorrow; Sadness THE KNOCKING AT THE DOOR, by STUART MERRILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The falling snow, like grief for one just dead Last Line: Ah, do you hear the knocking at the door? Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Sin; Sorrow; Sadness THE KNOWN GRIEF, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I've known grief. I don't Last Line: That cold wind into song Subject(s): Grief THE LAGGARD SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had no heart to write to thee in prose Last Line: O winter of my heart! O nightingale! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Hearts; Love; Nightingales; Singing & Singers; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE LAMENT OF IAN THE PROUD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this crying that I hear in the wind? Last Line: And wind crying to me who am old and blind! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Old Age; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ROSE OF SUMMER, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the last rose of summer Last Line: This bleak world alone? Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Autumn; Flowers; Grief; Roses; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE LAST TIME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the last time we shall sit and see Last Line: Because of the last time that's yet to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LEADING OF SORROW, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through a twilight land, a moaning region Last Line: With the eternal shining though his eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 LESSON OF GRIEF, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not ere the bitter herb we taste Last Line: For not my own. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE LIGHT OF OTHER DAYS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oft in the stilly night Last Line: Of other days around me. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Variant Title(s): Scotch Air Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Life Change Events; Memory; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE LITTLE THINGS, by FRANCIS T. KIMBALL Poem Text First Line: Ah, how I have loved the little best things / of love Last Line: And the soft swelling of your breasts against me when I quieted you to sleep. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Hearts; Kisses; Love; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LONELY, by RENEE VIVIEN Poem Text First Line: The lonely who are lapped in winding sheets of moan Last Line: Know that ecstatic joy of sorrow lived alone. Alternate Author Name(s): Tarn, Mary Pauline Subject(s): Grief; Life; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE LONG AGO, by BENJAMIN FRANKLIN TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Oh! A wonderful stream is the river of time Last Line: May that greenwood of soul be in sight! Subject(s): Grief; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOST BIRD, by CAROLINA CORONADO DE PERRY Poem Text First Line: My bird has flown away Last Line: My heart in utter sadness faints away. Alternate Author Name(s): Perry, Horatio J., Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MOMENTS OF A. DALMAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The solemn bell for me is tolling Last Line: "dalmas, you must prepare to go" Subject(s): Bells;capital Punishment;crimes & Criminals;grief; Hanging;executions;death Penalty;sorrow;sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 36, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am sad this morning Last Line: As you passed my shoji Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 40, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the wheel follows the hoof Last Line: As you leave me in thr dawn Subject(s): Grief; Relationships; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 50, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the park a crow awakes Last Line: For the years that are gone Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness THE LOVE POEMS OF MARICHIKO: 58, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Half in a dream Last Line: Grows fainter and fades away Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Time; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness THE MACHINATIONS OF THE MIND, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The car crash we passed when I was five Last Line: What spins and claws in our rearview mirrors. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Habits; Housekeeping; Memory; Order; Reason; Selectivity; Violence; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE MAID IN LOW-MOON LAND, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know not where she be, and yet Last Line: But only I sit here and moan. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Spring; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MAIDEN'S SORROW, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seven long years has the desert rain Last Line: I shall feel it no more again. Subject(s): Death - Fathers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MAIN REGRET, by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Seen, too clear and historic within us, our sins of omission Last Line: Back to a half-sloughed life cheered by the mere human tone. Subject(s): Grief; Regret; Sorrow; Sadness THE MAN AND THE CENTAUR; THE MAN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon the mountain-heights thou goest Last Line: The shadow of woe? Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Centaurs; Grief; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE MANIAC, by AGNES STRICKLAND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet summer flowers were braided in her hair Last Line: Remembrance beamed, and tears would slowly rise. Subject(s): Grief; Unfaithfulness; Sorrow; Sadness; Infidelity; Adultery; Inconstancy THE MASK, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a smiling face, she said Last Line: Whom sadder can I say? She said. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE MASK OF MIRTH, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: Ho! This is mirth, fat-cheeked and laughing-eyed Last Line: Ah, mirth, a truce; that grin may mask distress! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight 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 MIDNIGHT VIGIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mournful, sighing, sadly weeping Last Line: Youth from guilt and crime. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Night; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime 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 MISSED SUNSET, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At dusk in my spacious garden Last Line: Had vanished the sunset glow. Subject(s): Beauty; Evening; Grief; Life; Youth; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MOON-CHILD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lonely child am I Last Line: For me but sighs. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Grief; Mermaids & Mermen; Moon; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE MOOR'S SERENADE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To my sleeping dear zuleima's Last Line: And blood from the heart's wounds flowing. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Moors (people); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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'S MISTAKE, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Heard you that piercing shriek -- the throe Last Line: Outgushing tears, and gasping sobs. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Errors; Fear; Grief; Kisses; Mothers; Tears; Mistakes; Fallacies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MOURNING MOTHER, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What woe is thine, pale mother? - say Last Line: To moloch offered up. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Alcoholism & Alcoholics; Grief; Mothers & Sons; Temperance; Temptation; Youth; Drunkards; Alcohol Abuse; Sorrow; Sadness; Prohibition 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 MUSES' COMFORTING, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Meseems I scarce could live, but for the muse Last Line: On which high minds may feed and never tire. Subject(s): Gifts & Giving; Grief; Muses; Sisters; Sorrow; Sadness THE NAIADS' MUSIC, by ROBERT MALISE BOWYER NICHOLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, ye sorrowful, and steep Last Line: Your tired brows in a nectarous sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE NATIVE LAND, by FRANCISCO DE ALDANA Poem Text First Line: Clear fount of light! My native land on high Last Line: That, whither love aspires, there shall my dwelling be. Variant Title(s): My Native Land Subject(s): Exiles; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEST, by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day the birds were lifted from my shoulders Last Line: It killed me — and almost cost me a life... Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Life; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness THE NEW BOY, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He never knew before how heavenly the places Last Line: He strangles with his sobs till the grey day. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Boys; Children; Grief; Loss; Orphans; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Foundlings THE NEW MAGDALENE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: She turns her with sick heart Last Line: Can work her no more harm. Subject(s): Grief; Hair; Hearts; Tears; Worship; Sorrow; Sadness 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 OUR DARLING DIED, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm thinking of an evening, a weary time ago Last Line: In the hours of weary watching, that night our darling died. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Grief; Heaven; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise 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 NOVEL, by RICHARD JONES Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: For two days I've been crying Last Line: So astonished was he by her beauty. Subject(s): Beauty; Books; Grief; Italy; Novels & Novelists; Story-telling; Travel; Reading; Sorrow; Sadness; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE NUN AND THE HARP, by HARRIET PRESCOTT SPOFFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What memory fired her pallid face Last Line: "and I will pledge with mine!" Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Nuns; Sorrow; Sadness THE OFFER, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I narrow eyes and double night Last Line: Will they supply the tears? Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE OLD CONSERVATIVE, by E. S. EMERSON Poem Text First Line: The old bush-whacker bowed his head Last Line: "orstralier is comin' to." Alternate Author Name(s): White, Milky Subject(s): Grief; Idleness; Nostalgia; Sorrow; Sadness; Laziness; Sloth; Indolence THE OLD COOLGARDIE ROAD, by DORHAM DOOLETTE Poem Text First Line: A flitting shadow follows Last Line: Back to her breast again! Alternate Author Name(s): Prodigal, The Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Horses; Nostalgia; Roads; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD FOOL IN THE WOOD, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could whisper you all I know Last Line: "that's what you'd say." Subject(s): Eyes; Fools; Forests; Grief; Hearts; Idiots; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 MAID'S STORY, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ay, many and many a year's gone by Last Line: But it was too late to weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Spinsters; Grief THE ONE GRIEF, by EDITH WHARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One grief there is, the helpmeet of my heart Last Line: From desolate whirlings of the desert sand. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE OUTCAST, by MARY LOUISE RITTER Poem Text First Line: Bleak winds of the winter, sobbing and moaning Last Line: I will knock at the gate of his home in the sky! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE PAIN OF EARTH, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Does the earth grow grey with grief Last Line: In our hearts the tears are shed. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Earth; Grief; World; Sorrow; Sadness THE PALM-TREE AND THE PINE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath an indian palm a girl Last Line: Renew their early vows. Variant Title(s): Shadows: 3 Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PARADOX, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I am the mother of sorrows Last Line: Down where the dream woman dwells. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE PARTY'S OVER, by DAVID ST. JOHN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So it's daylight on the street Last Line: As she goes & comes & goes Subject(s): Parties; Grief THE PATH OF TEARS: 3. THE MENACE OF LOVE, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How long, o love, shall ruthless pride avail you Last Line: As you lie spent and broken at my feet! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 6. SUPPLICATION, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, it were not such deep unmeasured wrong Last Line: A gift of tears to save my stricken soul! Subject(s): Compassion; Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PATH OF TEARS: 7. THE SLAYER, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love, if at dawn some passer-by should say Last Line: "with the swift spear of grief." Subject(s): Grief; Love; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pause—and ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PEASANT'S APOLOGY, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down near the earth Last Line: Bitterness and blackness from the earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Grief; Peasantry; Sorrow; Sadness THE PINES OF MONTEREY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O shadow in a maiden's eye Last Line: Through the pines of monterey. Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness 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 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 PLAINT HUMAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Season of snows, and season of Last Line: And much too much of the other. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Brothers; Flowers; Grief; Seasons; Snow; Half-brothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 138, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man lives less than a hundred years Last Line: He still won't stop till they hit bottom Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 148, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once we're born we're confused Last Line: This is why I grieve Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Birth; Chaos; Chinese Literature; Grief; Child Birth; Midwifery; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 172, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm poor alas and I'm sick Last Line: All these cares wear a man down Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 178, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When birds sang this spring Last Line: Recalling the capital hurts Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 249, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why am I so troubled Last Line: Entrust myself to the hills for good Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 27, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man who lives on rose-colored clouds Last Line: He forgets a whole lifetime of sorrow Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forgetfulness; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 296, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As humans we have needs Last Line: The heartbreak never ends Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 34, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where white clouds form high rugged crags Last Line: How else could they pierce my walls Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Fish & Fishing; Grief; Singing & Singers; Anglers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 36, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What makes a young man grieve Last Line: These words pain an old man Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 37, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: People say cares never depart Last Line: Is someone plagued by old cares Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 46, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The beautiful lady lu Last Line: She couldn't avoid ending up in the hills Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 53, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once I reached cold mountain Last Line: Suddenly both eyes filled with tears Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Grief; Guests; Mountains; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Visiting; Hills; Downs (great Britain); Loneliness THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 70, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A hermit's heart is heavy Last Line: The cinnamon trees detain him Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Duty; Grief; Hermits; Sorrow; Sadness 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 POET, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sing, sing - poet, sing! Last Line: Though it pierce, shall give thee rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET, by HENRY A. WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: He begged a bit of gladness from the skies Last Line: And loosed his tears upon a flood of song. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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: MARAH, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The waters of my life were sweet Last Line: But, weeping, turn my head away! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE POET'S TEAR, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A tear welled up from a poet heart Last Line: Who knows? Who knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness THE POET'S TRUST IN HIS SORROW, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O god! How sad a doom is mine Last Line: My last great blessing! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POINT OF VIEW, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: You think it noblest to refrain Last Line: The bridegroom's pearls? Subject(s): Brides; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POOR, by EMILE VERHAEREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There are poor souls Last Line: Wherever men are born. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Grief; Tears; Graveyards; Sorrow; Sadness THE PORTRAIT, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is her picture as she was Last Line: About the holy sepulchre. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE POSTERN GATE, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I chose me a lovely garden Last Line: "is gilding the postern gate." Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Grief; Life; Sleep; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRAYER OF THE SORROWING, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: God! Hear my prayer! Last Line: Amen! My heart repeats, amen! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRAYER WAY, by R. ANNA MORRIS CLARK Poem Text First Line: My friend, I know you are not near Last Line: Until I kneel and for you pray. Subject(s): Friendship; Grief; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE PRECEPT OF SILENCE, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I know you: solitary griefs Last Line: Save to one man, and unto god. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE PREFACE TO DIVINE SONGS AND MEDITACIONS, by ANNE COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Being through weakness to the house confin'd Last Line: Will his and all their works for him defend. Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, An Subject(s): Activity; Evil; Grief; Reason; Exercise; Sorrow; Sadness; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals THE PRINCESS, by BJORNSTJERNE MARTINIUS BJORNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The princess sat alone in her maiden bower Last Line: "now the sun has gone down." Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROPHECY: 1. TO A LADY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Let me gaze awhile on that marble brow Last Line: And think on my last sad prophecy. Subject(s): Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sorrow; Sadness THE PROPHECY: 3. TO ANOTHER LADY, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: Wilt thou rashly unveil the dark volume of fate? Last Line: I will veil the page, maiden, in pity to thee. Subject(s): Grief; Prophecy & Prophets; Sorrow; Sadness THE QUEEN'S LAST RIDE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The queen is taking a drive today Last Line: The queen in silence is driving by. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE QUIET PILGRIM, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on my soul in nakedness Last Line: Lord, I go softly all my years! Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE REFLECTION, by EDITH MATILDA THOMAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was the eve my mother died Last Line: With lines of sorrow drawn! Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness 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 RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness 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: 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 RIVER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still glides the stream, slow drops the boat Last Line: And dead to hopes of future joy. Subject(s): Grief; Rivers; Sorrow; Sadness THE ROAD TO CABINTEELY, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, the lonely road, the road to cabinteely! Last Line: Though my poor heart should break. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Loss; Love - Loss Of; Roads; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness; Paths; Trails 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 RUNE OF THE SORROW OF WOMEN, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the rune of the women who bear in sorrow Last Line: Bitter the sorrow of bearing only to end with the parting. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Farewell; God; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Pain; Pregnancy; Weariness; Women; Women - Bible; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary; Suffering; Misery; Fatigue THE SAD SHEPHERD, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was a man whom sorrow named his friend Last Line: Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE SADDEST SIGHT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As one that leadeth a blind man Last Line: Unorphaned orphanage. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SADNESS OF PARENTS, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sadness of fruit is like the sadness Subject(s): Mothers; Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness THE SADNESS OF PUPPIES, by BARBARA RAS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Up there, squirrels, teasing and clacking Subject(s): Grief; Dogs; Sorrow; Sadness THE SAILOR'S MOTHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, for the love of god, some small relief Last Line: It only leads me to that rest the sooner. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Travel; Weariness; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Fatigue THE SAME OLD STORY, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The same old story told again Last Line: "till ""time shall be no more." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE SATURDAY AFTERNOON BLUES, by WANDA COLEMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can kill you Alternate Author Name(s): Coleman-straus, Wanda Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SCHOOL GIRL: AN IDYLL, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind that all the day had scarcely clashed Last Line: Still shook and jingled in my dream. Subject(s): Girls; Walking; Grief 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 SECRET, by GREGOIRE LE ROY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If thou wouldst speak unto my grief, be wary Last Line: Is shape and sound of beauteous things gone by. Subject(s): Beauty; Grief; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness THE SECRET DEWS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Poor little songs, children of sorrow, go Last Line: The secret dews fall under the evening-star. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Comfort; Grief; Secrets; Singing & Singers; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHADOW, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a dell that's sunny enough for laughing joy Last Line: In silence stumbling through the glade. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHADOW OF SILENCE, by HAROLD TROWBRIDGE PULSIFER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind no longer sings to me Last Line: Is the one grief I know. Subject(s): Grief; Silence; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHADOW ROSE, by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A noisette on my garden path Last Line: To leave your shadow lingering there? Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE SHIPS OF GRIEF, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On seas where every pilot fails Last Line: There is a sun will strike the sea. Subject(s): Grief; Ships & Shipping; World War I; Sorrow; Sadness; First World War THE SHRINE, by MINNIE BRUCE PRATT Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At noon the veiled woman sat and wailed on the curb Last Line: Intentions and goals Subject(s): Women; Cities; Grief; Childhood Memories THE SHRUBBERY, WRITTEN IN A TIME OF AFFLICTION, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O happy shades! To me unblest! Last Line: And those of sorrows yet to come. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SILENT TOWN, by RICHARD DEHMEL Poem Text First Line: A town lies in the valley Last Line: Begin a gentle hymn of praise. Subject(s): Grief; Towns; Travel; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes 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 IN THE WOODS, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where moongrey-thistled dunes divide the woods from the sea Last Line: In the silence I hear my heart sobbing its old woe. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Forests; Grief; Lament; Singing & Singers; Strangers; Woods; Sorrow; Sadness THE SISTER OF MERCY, by MARCUS S. C. RICKARDS Poem Text First Line: She has shone, as glows dawn's fairest blush Last Line: Fond memory will cherish. Subject(s): Grief; Heaven; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE SIX SORROWS, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: There are six sorrows in my heart Last Line: Six sorrows all my own. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Children; Grief; Parents; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 34, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: He takes his leave,-and all her sun of life Last Line: Love's plaint alone the brooding silence grieves. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 62, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Ah, fortunate that leagues of foam divide Last Line: Aloof, afar, his sentinel watch he kept. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Emotions; Grief; Hearts; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 86, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Day after day went by, and still he fed Last Line: Am I not shamed—thus long to be denied?' Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 93, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Straight was she gather'd to that gentle breast Last Line: Neath veiling lids her own dull ache did screen. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOLDIER GENERATION, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are the sons of disaster Last Line: Will yield of our strivings, god. Subject(s): Faith; Grief; Lies; Soldiers; Truth; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PLUTO, by PHILIPPE QUINAULT Poem Text First Line: All men this path must tread Last Line: The ship unto her port. Subject(s): Grief; Sea; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean THE SONG OF REPENTANCE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sir ulrich rides in the forest so green Last Line: "he'll repeat it sentence by sentence." Subject(s): Grief; Repentance; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Penitence; Songs THE SONG OF THE RAIN, by AUGUSTE GAUD Poem Text First Line: I have drunk of rains that drench Last Line: They weep aloud. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you sorrow, child? There is loud cheer Last Line: "and that is why it pines and will not break." Subject(s): Banshees; Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE SORROWFUL MASQUERADE, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Even as to a music, stately and sad Last Line: She needs must cover up her face and weep. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Girls; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SORROWS OF SUNDAY; AN ELEGY, SELECTION, by JOHN WOLCOTT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Susan, the constant slave to mop and broom Last Line: And ride themselves an airing with the devil. Alternate Author Name(s): Pindar, Peter; Wolcot, John Subject(s): Grief; Household Employees; Labor & Laborers; Sabbath; Slavery; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Work; Workers; Sunday; Serfs THE SORROWS OF THE BLIND, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pity the sorrows of the poor blind Last Line: And remember us at the judgment day. Subject(s): Blindness; Grief; Physical Disabilities; Visually Handicapped; Sorrow; Sadness; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SOUL'S CRY (THE HIGHER ANTHROPOMORPHISM), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father, let thy little child Last Line: "to land, by the hushed wondering sea!" Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Fathers & Daughters; Grief; Soul; Tears; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOUTH-WEST WIND, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We stood by the idle weir Last Line: Now all is still as death. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness THE SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE SPANISH WAR, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Come all young men and maidens of high and low degree Last Line: Their precious lives to venture all for the queen of spain Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers;grief;spanish-american War (1898); Sorrow;sadness THE SPINNER, by MARY AINGE DE VERE Poem Text First Line: The spinner twisted her slender thread Last Line: "in a winding-sheet!" Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Madeline Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Spinning; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPIRIT OF THE GAY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With the glamour of the gay Last Line: Overhung with starry tears. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Deception; Grief; Life; Self-reliance; Sorrow; Sadness 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 STATUE OF THE EMPRESS ELIZABETH. MERAN, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She is seated by the river Last Line: Where all rivers wend their way. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Soul; Tears; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness THE STORY OF PRINCE AGIB, by WILLIAM SCHWENCK GILBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strike the concertina's melancholy string! Last Line: When a yesterday has faded from its page. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilbert, W. S. Subject(s): Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness THE STRANGER, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I often wonder with what blood doth beat Last Line: Who veils the glory of his land and blood. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Grief; Strangers; Sorrow; Sadness THE STRAYED REVELLER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faster, faster / o circe, goddess Last Line: Sweep through my soul! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE STREET LAMP, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Homes stand in slumber. Sleep broods shadowingly Last Line: Sadly you wane. How sad, and oh, how wise! Subject(s): Abandonment; Cities; Grief; Homeless; Poverty; Desertion; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness THE STREETS OF FORBES, by JOHN MCGUIRE Poem Text First Line: Come all you lachlan men Last Line: To show the prize they had! Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Hero-worship; Heroism; Murder; Sorrow; Sadness; Heroes; Heroines THE STRING DIAMOND, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An apricot blossom opens to five petals Last Line: Sensing in slow seconds the tilt of the milky way. Subject(s): Grief; Metamorphosis; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUICIDE, by JOHN WIENERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I put her away. Subject(s): Suicide; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUMMER-TIME THAT WAS, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The swallow is not come yet Last Line: And the summer-time that was. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Summer; Transience; Grief; Impermanence; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUN-THIEF, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A desolate mountain region. Snow and Last Line: Cold and clear in the moonlight. Unbroken silence.] Subject(s): Earth; Escapes; Fire; Grief; Hermes (mythology); Humanity; Love; Mythology; Prisons & Prisoners; Prometheus; Religion; Sun; Zeus; World; Fugitives; Sorrow; Sadness; Convicts; Theology THE SUNDERLAND CALAMITY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the town of sunderland, and in the year of 1883 Last Line: To aid and comfort the bereaved parents in their grief. Subject(s): Charity; Children; Despair; Grief; Pity; Philanthropy; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness THE SUNDIAL, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis an old dial, dark with many a stain Last Line: A small gray spot, -- the record of a tear. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sundials; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWAGMAN'S FAREWELL TO MATILDA, by JACY HILL Poem Text First Line: The swagman sat upon a log beside a waterhole Last Line: "matilda's ghost!"" he gasped, and fled, a madman through the night." Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWANS' LAMENT FOR THE DESOLATION OF LIR, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: A lost dream to us now is our home Last Line: A lost dream to us now is our home! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness THE SWEETS OF PILLAGE CAN BE KNOWN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is his divinest grief Subject(s): Crime & Criminals; Grief; Integrity THE SYMBOL OF MADNESS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll now begin to sing the song Last Line: "above the reach of vulgarity." Subject(s): Grief; Insanity; Nations; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Madness; Mental Illness THE TEAR OF HEAVEN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Heaven's blue eye tender a tear-drop wept Last Line: "my pearl, my pearl fore'er remain'" Subject(s): Grief;heaven; Sorrow;sadness;paradise THE TEARS OF PSSAMENITUS, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Say ye I wept? I do not know Last Line: The tears of him—who will not weep again. Subject(s): Csmbyses Ii, King Of Persia (d. 522 B.c); Grief; Psamtik Iii, King Of Egypt; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Psammenitus Iii THE THATCH, by ROBERT FROST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out alone in the winter rain Last Line: In on to the upper chamber floors. Subject(s): Birds' Nests; Grief; Rain; Roofing & Roofers; Straw; Sorrow; Sadness THE THREE SAD SHEPPARDESSES, GOE TO A LITTLE TABLE, WHERE THEY SINGE, by ELIZABETH BRACKLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When once the presence of a friend is gone Last Line: Your welcome, when wee owne him as our day. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE THREE SORROWS, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two blooms of the rose, one cypress spray Last Line: His flower; thy soul shall ne'er decay.' Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE TIDE OF SORROW, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the twilight-burnished hills I lie and long and gaze Last Line: What voice for the world of men? Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE TIME OF WAITING, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life is fleeting, joy is fleeting Last Line: For meek patience, let us pray. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Religion; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Theology THE TRANSIT OF THE GODS, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange that the self's continuum should outlast Last Line: To dance my dust at last into the tomb. Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Grief; Love; Mythology; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness THE TREES WILL UNDERSTAND, by MATTIE RICHARDS TYLER Poem Text First Line: How still a house can be on such a night! Last Line: For they and I have lost our all, my dear! Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Houses; Seasons; Soul; Trees; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness 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 TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: It was the christmas of the year Last Line: At christmas in the baron's hall Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Christmas; Grief; Nativity, The; Sorrow; Sadness THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 1. TRAGEDY MARGAIDA AND TROUBADOUR, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet margarida, dreaming in her bower Last Line: The hound's sleek head that on his knee did rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Man-woman Relationships; Tragedy; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness; Male-female Relations THE TROUBADOUR: THE HARPER'S STORY: 2. CRUEL END OF THE LOVERS' TALE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How quick breeds scandal. In some danksome place Last Line: His weeping lady, kneeling there. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Harps; Love; Musical Instruments; Passion; Story-telling; Sorrow; Sadness; Lyres 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 TWO, by PHILIP LEVINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When he gets off work at packard, they meet Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Restaurants; Language; Past; Grief; Male-female Relations; Cafes; Diners; Words; Vocabulary; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNANSWERING CORRESPONDENCES, by KENNETH PATCHEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Intensification of compassion, extraordinary, incalculable Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNATTAINABLE, by HARRY ROMAINE Poem Text First Line: Tom's album was filled with the pictures of belles Last Line: "for ""the girl we couldn't kiss." Subject(s): Girls; Grief; Hearts; Longing; Women; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNCHANGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sun-swept beaches with a light wind blowing Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 UNIVERSALITY OF GRIEF; DRAMATIC SKETCH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I grant you that our fate is terrible Last Line: Wherein he rules hath murmurous caves of sleep. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE UNLEARNED, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not admit her! I could not endure Last Line: Who is unlearned in all but happiness! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight 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 UNVEILING, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In that spring week of sacred memories Last Line: Unveils the crucified. Subject(s): God; Grief; Mankind; Religion; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Theology THE VAICES THAT BE GONE, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When evenen sheades o' trees do hide Last Line: Do miss the vaïces gone. Subject(s): Children; Evening; Grief; Memory; Night; Voices; Childhood; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime THE VIRGIN MARY TO CHRIST ON THE CROSS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What mist hath dimmed that glorious face Last Line: Let sorrow string my heavy lute. Subject(s): Crucifixion; Grief; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women - Bible; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Sorrow; Sadness; Virgin Mary 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 VOICE, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As the kindling glances Last Line: Yet could not break it. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE VOWS OF SUNNY WEATHER, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not ours the vows of such as plight Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE WAIF, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my luxurious chair Last Line: And cries in agony to god! Subject(s): God; Grief; Life; Pain; Past; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THE WAITHMAN'S WAIL, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My heart is sick! My heart is sick! Last Line: In this my dying dream. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Grief; Hunting; Sorrow; Sadness; Hunters THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: SONG, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If sorrow have taught me anything Last Line: For truth, these tears are true! Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): France; Grief; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE PORTRAIT, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Midnight past! Not a sound of aught Last Line: For each pearl my eyes have wept. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Disappointment; France; Grief; Love; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Journeys; Trips THE WARNING WAIL, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A minstrel old, in feudal hall Last Line: Shut ye the flood-gates, never! Never! Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Grief; Lament; Minstrels; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness; Songs THE WATCHERS, by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two women on the lone wet strand Last Line: (and heaven on the long reach home.) Subject(s): Sea; Grief; Ocean; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATCHERS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She fell asleep among the flowers Last Line: May they all meet in heaven. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Angels; Crosses; Grief; Love; Prayer; Sorrow; Sadness THE WATER-BEARER, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the middle of summer Last Line: With a pail upon her head. Subject(s): Grief THE WAVES, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Children are we Last Line: Sorrows and hopes of earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Earth; Grief; Heaven; Sea; Waves; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Ocean THE WAY OF THE WORLD, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A youth would marry a maiden Last Line: And so it was two hearts were broken. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE WEARY WEDDING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O daughter, why do ye laugh and weep, one with another? Last Line: Mother, my mother. Subject(s): Daughters; Earth; Grief; Marriage; World; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives 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 WEDDING, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: Ah, day of joy! The sound of pipe and flute with sweetly blending Last Line: Of sweet-voiced instruments! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Marriage; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WEDGE, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When there were two of us Last Line: Will only bruise. Subject(s): Eurydice (nymph); Grief; Love - Loss Of; Mythology - Classical; Orpheus; Sorrow; Sadness THE WELL OF ALL-HEALING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a cure for sorrow in the well at ballylee Last Line: While the heart of the earth is full. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Healing; Sorrow; Sadness; Cures THE WIDOW, by ISABELLA LICKBARROW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How dreary is winter to me Last Line: My loss a sweet infant will mourn. Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LAMENT IN SPRINGTIME, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Sorrow is my own yard Last Line: And sink into the marsh near them. Subject(s): Grief; Widows & Widowers; Sorrow; Sadness THE WIND, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it some shade from paradise Last Line: What answer to thy passion? Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Grief; Wind; Sorrow; Sadness THE WIND OF SORROW, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The fire of love was burning, yet so low Last Line: And fanned the fire of love to clearest flame. Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE WINDOW JUST OVER THE STREET, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sit in my sorrow a-weary, alone Last Line: When darkness is darkest, and sorrow most sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THE WITHERED ROSE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go, fading rose, a present to my fair Last Line: With water of my tears, or with my blood. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Transience; Sorrow; Sadness; Impermanence THE WOLD WALL, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, jeane, we vu'st did meet below Last Line: The wall is wold, my grief is new. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Memory; Walls; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOLF CALL, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: The cry of the wolf in the forest brings me comfort Last Line: And cry out my own loneliness. Subject(s): Animals; Grief; Hunger; Solitude; Wilderness; Wolves; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness THE WOODSPURGE, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind flapped loose, the wind was still Last Line: The woodspurge has a cup of three. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Plants; Sorrow; Sadness; Planting; Planters THE WORD OF THE WIND, by LOUISE DRISCOLL Poem Text First Line: Wind that carries the sound of bells Last Line: And one white word for peace! Subject(s): Freedom; Grief; Peace; War; Wind; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness THE WORDS UNDER THE WORDS, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother's hands recognize grapes Subject(s): Grandparents; Grief; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers; Sorrow; Sadness THE WORLD AND I, by NELLY M. HUTCHINSON Poem Text First Line: Whether my heart be glad or no Last Line: Nelly m. Hutchinson. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness THE WOUNDED VULTURE, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A kingly vulture sat alone Last Line: Lost in the infinite. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Time; Vultures; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness 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 YEAR OUTGROWS THE SPRING, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who lends new zest, and interest to my days. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Passion; Soul; Summer; Sorrow; Sadness THE YEARS TO BE, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cried to them in the twilight, in the shadowy places Last Line: They are robed now in light, now in night -- but I have not seen their faces! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ZEGRI LADY'S VIGIL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever sits the lady weeping Last Line: Of the ladye weeping there. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THEIR SWEET SORROW, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They meet to say farewell: their Last Line: Sweet as the dew's lip to the rose's. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Kisses; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WAS AN OLD PERSON OF CROWLE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That depressing old person of crowle Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Owls THERE'S A TIME TO BE JOLLY, by CHARLES GODFREY LELAND Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a time to be jolly, a time to repent Last Line: It was best, after all, to have flirted with both. Alternate Author Name(s): Breitmann, Hans Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Love; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight THESE HOURS LIKE MAKING LOVE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Living this day is like making love after Last Line: Besotted by birdsong, giddy with leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature THEY ARE ALIVE ALTHOUGH CELADON, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The house is lightly lived in Last Line: But he lives here, he really lives here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Abandonment; Emptiness; Grief; Loss THEY DO NOT KNOW, by ALBERT MOCKEL Poem Text First Line: Far in the meadow, through the fountainrain Last Line: I had known my own kisses again. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Solitude; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Loneliness THEY SAID, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They said of her, she never can have felt Last Line: What if her smiles concealed from you her dead? Subject(s): Grief; Life; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery THINK OF THE SOUL, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: See, hear, and am silent Subject(s): Men; Women; Soul; Racism; Past; Death; Social Commentaries; Grief; Conduct Of Life THINKING OF LADY YANG AT MIDNIGHT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Watching alone by the ancient city wall Last Line: I find my white robe spangled with tears for her Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 24, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could my heart more tongues employ Last Line: Than to lose all at the best. Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 5, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So tired are all my thoughts, that sense and spirits fail Last Line: Virtue dies with too much rest. Subject(s): Grief THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 9, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O never to be moved Last Line: Some pity show, though you relief deny! Subject(s): Grief THIS MAN CRIES, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source Last Line: Will this pain ever cease Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of THIS POEM IS MORE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving these words for you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THIS YEAR HAS BEEN DIFFICULT TO REMEMBER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Now, this instant after their previous form demises Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss THIS-THAT, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: It scratches on the door Last Line: Rocked in the wind's cradle Subject(s): Emptiness; Grief; Rain; Storms; Water; Wind THORN-TREE, by LUCILA GODOY ALCAYAGA Poem Source First Line: The thorn-tree fastens to a sterile rock Last Line: Because, alas! It rather is despair! Subject(s): Grief; Pain; Thorns THOSE EVENING BELLS, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Those evening bells! Those evening bells! Last Line: And sing your praise, sweet evening bells. Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Bells; Grief; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness 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 EGRETS, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Seen from this unprotected openness, that summer morning Last Line: For something more %than what must simply be remembered Subject(s): Grief; Mortality; World Trade Center Tragedy (9/11/2001) THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 1, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, it looked dark and dreary Last Line: Down on his golden hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Art & Artists; Future; Grief; Heaven; Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THREE EVENINGS IN A LIFE: 3, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The house is all deserted Last Line: God, and her own true heart! Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Grief; Life; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness THREE VOICES, by LISA FURMANSKI Poem Source First Line: Noise %I hear air warm, a warping din Last Line: As I break end from end do you bind me in petals in tears Subject(s): Grief; Medicine; Physicians; Sickness; Voices 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 RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: There's a grass-grown road from the valley Last Line: Who lies so far from home. Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THRO' THE PASS OF LLANBERIS, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: You...At the end of the valley! Last Line: Must I wrestle with despair! Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH AGONY: 1, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All night, through the eternity of night, Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Complaints; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness THROUGH AGONY: 2, by CLAUDE MCKAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not fear to face the fact and say Alternate Author Name(s): Edwards, Eli Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 TEARS, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An artist toiled over his pictures Last Line: Of a world that looks on through its tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Tears; Time; Sorrow; Sadness THROW AWAY MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: What's the use etc. Do they have classes Last Line: For a diagnosis for joy, for the first fresh steps Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TIME, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I think sometimes of old griefs I had Last Line: And the old grief so light. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TIME, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ticking-ticking-ticking of Last Line: As hoarsely sad at throat as sobs. . . . Pray on! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Grief; Morning; Prayer; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME AND LIFE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Time, thy name is sorrow, says the stricken Last Line: Nay, but rest. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Roundels; Time; Sorrow; Sadness TIME ROCKING ON, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fell far from tribe Last Line: & raise to ear Subject(s): Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TIN CUP, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here's a tin cup Last Line: And even hell is holy. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TINY TOKENS, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The murmur of a waterfall Last Line: To make it well! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 TIS GOOD THE LOOKING BACK ON GRIEF, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: They're water equally Variant Title(s): Poem: 472; Poem: 66 Subject(s): Grief TO A BEREAVED MOTHER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Text First Line: Oh, say not that your little son is dead Last Line: Is your ambassador. Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 LADY WEEPING, by WILLIAM CARTWRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O now the certain cause I know Last Line: This from your cheeks, that from your eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This unphilosophic sight Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Women; Sorrow; Sadness TO A LADY'S COUNTENANCE, by ELINOR WYLIE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This unphilosophic sight Last Line: In lines of noble heritage; %and so, you do not show your age Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Women TO A MOCKING-BIRD, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy taunting happiness Last Line: Beareth the blue, homeric, star-entangled tide! Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Mockingbirds; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO A MODERN POET (WITH A COPY OF SHAKESPEARE'S SONNETS), by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take thou these words thine elder brother writ Last Line: Until death healed thine elder brother's grief. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Dramatists; Grief; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Sorrow; Sadness 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 PORTRAIT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A pensive photograph Last Line: And lost it, she and I. Subject(s): Disappointment; Grief; Love; Portraits; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WOUNDED BIRD, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shalt feel no more the wind on thy wing Last Line: Shall hold me as dear as the rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Birds; God; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO AN ADOLESCENT WEEPING WILLOW, by MARVIN BELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know what you think you're doing Last Line: It means you are a boy. Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Grief; Willow Trees; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness TO AN INFANT EXPIRING THE SECOND DAY OF ITS BIRTH, by HETTY WRIGHT Poem Text First Line: Tender softness, infant mild Last Line: Partner in thy destiny! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief; Mothers; Pain; Infants; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery 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 CAROLINE (1), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Think'st thou I saw thy beauteous eyes Last Line: Our only hope is to forget! Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Grief TO CLOE WEEPING, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See, whilst thou weep'st, fair cloe, see Last Line: But that dear breast on which they fall. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Love; Singing & Singers; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness TO CONTEMPLATION, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Faint gleams the evening radiance through the sky Last Line: And the calmed spirit loves the joy of grief. Subject(s): Contentment; Gifts & Giving; Grief; Happiness; Introspection; Life; Memory; Nature - Religious Aspects; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO DELIA: 17, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since the first look that led me to this error Last Line: And that with tears, yet all this will not move her. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO DELIA: 22, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: False hope prolongs my ever certain grief Last Line: Hopes are unsure when certain is my pain. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO DELIA: 23, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Look in my griefs, and blame me not to mourn Last Line: Her for disdain, and me for loving thus. Subject(s): Faces; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO DELIA: 36, by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, be not grieved that these my papers should Last Line: Yet count it no disgrace that I have loved thee. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO DELIA: 43 (2), by SAMUEL DANIEL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, whither (poor forsaken) wilt thou go Last Line: Bearing the wound, I needs must feel the pain. Subject(s): Comfort; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO DIANE DE POITIERS, by CLEMENT MAROT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell! Since vain is all my care Last Line: One far less fond, perchance, had won ye! Subject(s): Diane De Poitiers (1499-1566); Disappointment; Grief; Love; Sorrow; Sadness TO EACH HIS SORROW, by ANNA SPENCER TWITCHELL Poem Text First Line: Three ghosts stood looking from a hill Last Line: "not if one lives,"" I said." Subject(s): Ghosts; Grief; Supernatural; Sorrow; Sadness TO EDGAR ALLAN POE, by HOWARD ELSMERE FULLER Poem Text First Line: Thou art a thing of death Last Line: Pay thee homage at thy shrine. Subject(s): Grief; Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849); Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness 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 FRIEND, ON THE UNTUNEABLE TIMES, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Play I co'd once; but (gentle friend) you see Last Line: Wither'd my hand, and palsie-struck my tongue. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO HIS WIFE (1), by QIN JIA Poem Source First Line: Liken man's life to morning dew Last Line: Sorrow comes like tracing a ring - %the heart is no mat to be rolled away Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Grief; Longing; Love - Marital TO LIVE IN THIS WORLD AGAIN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You must hide yourself Last Line: Entertainment. You are camouflaged %with simplicity Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TO LUNA, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sister of the earliest light Last Line: As endymion once drew thee. Subject(s): Grief; Moon; Sorrow; Sadness TO LYCON, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On yon wild waste of ruin thron'd, what form Last Line: So let me live unknown, so let me die forgot. Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Pain; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism; Suffering; Misery; Journeys; Trips TO MARY, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The twentieth year is well nigh past, / since first our sky was overcast Last Line: My mary! Variant Title(s): My Mary;to The Same (mary Unwin) Subject(s): Grief; Love; Sickness; Unwin, Mary; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness TO MARY (2), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The world is dreary Last Line: And't is gone, when I should be gone too, mary. Subject(s): Grief; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness TO MARY SHELLEY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dearest mary, wherefore hast thou gone Last Line: For thine own sake I cannot follow thee. Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Shelley, Mary Wollenstonecraft Godwin; Sorrow; Sadness 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 MR. MCG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We were all sad and could not weep Last Line: To any threat'ning fears. Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Music & Musicians; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TO MR. RENTON, BERWICK, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your billet, sir, I grant receipt Last Line: And to his goodness I commend ye. Subject(s): Grief; Death TO MRS. B. FROM A LADY WHO HAD A DESIRE TO SEE HER, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Send me your pity bounteous shepherdess Last Line: But yet at your command shall always be Subject(s): "behn, Aphra (1640-1689);grief;shepherds & Shepherdesses;treason & Traitors;" Sorrow;sadness TO MRS. MARY AWBREY, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soule of my soule, my joy, my crown, my friend Last Line: Which they and all the sullen world have lost. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Variant Title(s): L'amitie: To Mrs. M. Awbrey Subject(s): Envy; Grief; Love; Soul; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY ANTENOR, MARCH 16, 1661/2, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dear antenor, now give o'er Last Line: Believe that providence will do so too. Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Grief; Innocence; Love - Marital; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love 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 FIRST-BORN, by EMMA CATHERINE (MANLY) EMBURY Poem Text First Line: My own, my child, with strange delight I look upon thy face Last Line: To shield thy heart from passion's strife and fix its hope on heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Ianthe Subject(s): Children; Grief; Hearts; Life; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness TO MY SOUL, by PAUL FLEMING Poem Source First Line: Grieve not with sighing Subject(s): Grief TO ONE BEREAVED, by ETHEL KNIGHT FISHER Poem Text First Line: My dear, I know you understood Last Line: Were written on my face. Subject(s): Grief; Sympathy; Sorrow; Sadness; Empathy 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 GRIEF, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the years, the empty years, you fear Last Line: "oh, brave heart, bear it just another day!" Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE MOST UNHAPPY, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I should see thee, most unhappy, dead Last Line: And know them mocked, at last, by thee and death? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE WEEPING, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Maiden, these are sacred tears Last Line: In my heart at singing time. Subject(s): Blackbirds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO ONE WHO ASKS, by MARY REYNOLDS ALDIS Poem Text First Line: Curious you should not see my feet are weary Last Line: Kisses from the dead? Subject(s): Curiosities & Wonders; Grief; Enigmas; Oddities; Sorrow; Sadness TO PITY, by SALVADOR DIAZ MIRON Poem Source First Line: You come to me in pride of gentle beauty Last Line: I love the desert for its green oasis! Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of TO PRIMROSES FILLED WITH MORNING DEW, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do ye weep, sweet babes? Can tears Last Line: Conceiv'd with grief are, and with teares brought forth. Subject(s): Grief; Primroses; Sorrow; Sadness TO RUIN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All hail! Inexorable lord Last Line: Within thy cold embrace! Subject(s): Poverty; Grief; Social Classes 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 BERNHARDT, by EDMOND ROSTAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In this scarred age thine own is beauty's bust Last Line: The lips of shakespeare on thy fingers press. Subject(s): Beauty; Bernhardt, Sarah (1844-1923); Courts & Courtiers; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO SING A HAPPY SONG WITH A SAD HEART, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source Last Line: The common talk. It is a bitter art %to sing a happy song with a sad heart Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Grief 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 SLEEP; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MOODY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep expand thy downy wing Last Line: That parts my soul from love—and you. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenly, Elizabeth Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Love - Complaints; Sleep; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness 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 SOME VIOLETS, by ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ GRANADOS Poem Source First Line: O sweet violets, blue as heaven Last Line: And her eyes their heavenly hue! Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Grief TO SORROW, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dark-eyed goddess of the marble brow Last Line: That all loved things must die. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO STELLA, WRITTEN ON THE DAY OF HER BIRTH...WHEN I WAS SICK, by JONATHAN SWIFT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tormented with incessant pains Last Line: Admiring you, you pitying us. Variant Title(s): To Stella, March 13, Mdccxxiii-iv Subject(s): Absence; Admiration; Grief; Pain; Passion; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery 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 CLOUD, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: The neck of the swan resembles the first letter of Last Line: The stormy blast should change me anew! Subject(s): Grief TO THE FORGET-ME-NOTS; ON THE PASS OF THE MAIDEN, JAPAN, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Fujiyama's snowy cone / the green horizon bounds Last Line: These alien hills I tread. Subject(s): Forget-me-nots; Grief; Japan; Memory; Sorrow; Sadness; Japanese 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 TWO BEREAVED, by THOMAS ASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You must be sad; for thought it is to heaven Last Line: Fair flowers thrive round the little grave, I pray. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TO VICTOR HUGO (2), by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He had no children, who for love of men Last Line: 01/03/76 Subject(s): Children; God; Grief; Hugo, Victor (1802-1885); Love; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness 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-MORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Passing away the bliss Last Line: Tomorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Passing Subject(s): Grief; Past; Sorrow; Sadness TODAY'S GOT THE BRIGHT, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cool awareness of fall and be careful Last Line: Nine town drunks %drinking Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOEING THE LINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: So hot! %okay everybody take off your toes Last Line: The full moon leftover air Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TOO LATE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hush! Speak low; tread softly Last Line: Came a day too late. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TOO MUCH OF JOY IS SORROWFUL, by ALICE CARY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Happiness; Grief; Moderation TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937); Sorrow; Sadness TORCH SONGS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would speak of that grief Last Line: Of someone you might always love Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Blues (music); Grief; Holiday, Billie (1915-1959); Jazz; Love; Music And Musicians; Singing And Singers; Smith, Bessie (1894-1937) TOUCH-ME-NOT, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Touch-me-not, we call it, as if unnerved Last Line: Spotted like the hands of the very old Subject(s): Death; Grief TOWARD DANCE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: So in love we are Last Line: We never in this world could have chosen Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. AFTER ALL SUFFERING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After all suffering, after all weariness and denial Last Line: I pass all doors, and am where I would be. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Sorrow; Sadness TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. I SAW A FAIR HOUSE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw a fair house standing in a garden, but no one moved about it Last Line: Others a sound of weeping. Subject(s): Grief; Houses; Selfishness; Solitude; Women - Secluding; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TOWERS, by JOSE MARIA EGUREN Poem Source First Line: Dark brown, distant Last Line: Alas!, the dead towers Subject(s): Death; Grief TOWN HALL READING WITH BEAT POETS, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ed sanders onstage telephones william burroughs Last Line: And it's my big dusty footprint on the cover Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TRACKING THE DEAD, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Everything comes from and goes Last Line: Sing to the snow %still coming down Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TRAGEDIES: 4, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: And I was a full-leaved, full-bough'd tree Last Line: Tranquil, and trembling, and deep in the night. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Moon; Night; Trees; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime TRAIN, by RAFAEL ESTRADA Poem Source First Line: He was never really sure why he had taken that train. He Last Line: And along with the hangover would come the certainty that no station %would ever be his Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Commuters; Grief; Railroads TRANSFIGURATION OF THE RAIN, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: The rain with its hair glided by the sun Last Line: Till you become an eternal eye of stone Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Tears TREIZAINE, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If in the world there be more woe Last Line: My poor true heart, all comfortless. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Variant Title(s): Song: 47 Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TRIAD, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the silence of time, time's silence borrow Last Line: The builders of joy are the children of sorrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Grief; Happiness; Silence; Time; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight TRIESTE - CIAO TO ITALY, by SANDRA CISNEROS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maybe we should've fallen in love Last Line: This sad deservesa nothing / but a stony memory Subject(s): Italy; Disappointment; Grief; Farewell; Love – Complaints; Trieste TRILCE: 56, by CESAR VALLEJO Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Every day I blindly get up at dawn Last Line: Tear after tear in a cloud of dust Subject(s): Grief TRIO, by CAROLYN KIZER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some say sorrow fades Last Line: And a third, who had no song. Subject(s): Aging; Grief; Happiness; Women; Women's Rights; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Feminism TRIUMPHALIS, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soul, art thou sad again Last Line: Never surrender! Subject(s): Grief; Hope; Sorrow; Sadness; Optimism TROPICAL AFTERNOON, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The afternoon is sad and gray Last Line: Hurls into the wind Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben Subject(s): Grief TROUBLE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One folds the little white hands, and lays a flower Last Line: God wot,—a living grief is worse than the peace that folds the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness TRUTH AND SORROW, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths Last Line: And we are fools, and there's an end of us. Subject(s): Grief; Truth; Sorrow; Sadness TRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Daytime mind find %teachings in many realms Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TRY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Very hard. See Last Line: Teachings in many realms Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY MAY 7, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The wind thru a field of wild oats Last Line: Fades into early summer Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUESDAY OCTOBER 27, '87, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Finest - first rain Last Line: Over that little silver beach Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TUSCAN CYPRESS: RISPETTO 16, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come away sorrow, sorrow come away Last Line: Nor, when I slumber, wake me up again. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Grief; Tuscany, Italy; Sorrow; Sadness TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Last Line: For nothing now can ever come to any good Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning TWICE SMITTEN, by PHOEBE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O doubly-bowed and bruised reed Last Line: Thou art of his beloved now! Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TWILIGHT APRIL RAIN, by MADELEINE MOSCHENROSS Poem Text First Line: Comes a sudden rush of music in a melting minor strain Last Line: And the sting that every spring brings when there's twilight april rain! Subject(s): Grief; Solitude; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness TWILIGHT TERROR, by GEORGIANA RICE Poem Text First Line: Evening comes with peace to some Last Line: Oh, comfort me! Subject(s): Evening; Grief; Shadows; Sunset; Twilight; Sorrow; Sadness TWILIGHT, A ROOM ON RUSSIAN HILL, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: White orchids in the goldrose light Last Line: At the heart, a white perfection of petals Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature TWO FOR ROBIN BLASER, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He is pruning the privet Last Line: Which look real enough in the damp late morning air Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss TWO MOTHERS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One night two lonely women met Last Line: "would god that mine were dead!" Subject(s): Grief; Mothers; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Ocean TWO PICTURES, by NICHOLAS MARTIN Poem Text First Line: High on a snow-clad branch a gloomy bird Last Line: Oh! Would that again I might hear his lays! Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness TWO PICTURES (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Somebody's heart is gay Last Line: With hope and sorrow allied! Subject(s): Grief;hope; Sorrow;sadness;optimism TWO SONGS OF AUTUMN, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind has whipped the willows bare Last Line: To your deep unrest. Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs. Subject(s): Autumn; Grief; Seasons; Fall; Sorrow; Sadness 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 UNDER THE BARK IS INDIAN WRITING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: On the francisco mesa Last Line: Under the bark is indian writing Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss UNDER THE STARS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The breath of summer stirs the trees Last Line: Grow lovely in life's afterglow. Subject(s): Grief; Life; Stars; Summer; Upper Classes; Sorrow; Sadness UNDER THE STORYTELLER'S HAT, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Are many heads, all troubled Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Affliction; Grief; Nature; Story-telling UNDINE: SONG, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Fisherman, fisherman, why do you weep Last Line: Or else that your child were dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Fish & Fishing; Grief; Love; Mortality; Sorrow; Sadness UNFINISHED SAMPLER, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: In dark y's two trees divide Last Line: Her grief never finished, an emptiness %she had to start over in each day Subject(s): Death; Grief UNFINISHED SONG, by ESTHER REINECKE Poem Text First Line: It hangs unfinished in the air Last Line: My unshed tears. Subject(s): Grief; Self; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness UNHAPPY FATHER, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It makes poor father's spirit sad, when he Last Line: "thy victory, oh, death, where is thy sting?" Subject(s): Family Life; Fathers; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness UNQUIET GRAVE (2), by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I'll do so much for my sweetheart Last Line: And if you kiss my lily-white lips %your time will not be long Subject(s): Death; Grief UNREST, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the youth of the year, when the birds were building Last Line: O where is the treasure which men call rest? Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Soul; Summer; Youth; Sorrow; Sadness UNSPEAKABLE SORROW!, by LI YU+(1) Poem Source Last Line: Blossoms by moonlight, and just then a spring breeze Subject(s): Grief 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 UPON A MISER THAT MADE A GREAT FEAST; THE NEXT DAY HE DIED FOR GRIEF, by JOHN CLEVELAND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nor 'scapes he so; our dinner was so good Last Line: Throughout all ovid's metamorphoses.] Subject(s): Food & Eating; Grief; Misers; Sorrow; Sadness UPON MY FATHERS SUDDEN & DANGEROUS SICKNESS, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Though sad this lesson be to me Last Line: Deaths ev'n shall be the dawn of life to me. Subject(s): Fathers; Grief; Mortality; Sickness; Sorrow; Sadness; Illness UPON PRUE, HIS MAID, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this little urn is laid Last Line: Spring the purple violet. Variant Title(s): Upon Prew His Maid Subject(s): Cremation; Devonshire, England; Grief; Household Employees; Sorrow; Sadness; Servants; Domestics; Maids 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 YOUNG MASTER ROGERS, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Of gentle blood, his parents only treasure Last Line: He leap'd o'er age, and took the shortest way. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness VAIN TEARS, FR. THE QUEEN OF CORINTH, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan Last Line: Gentlest fair, mourn, mourn no moe. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness VALENTINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Valentine' is flat on his back being hurt Last Line: Hummingbird looking %for nectar, dead flowers %after frost Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Jealousy; Loss; Love; Relationships VANITY, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! I have suffered deeply Last Line: From out the fruit of pain. Subject(s): Grief; Vanity; Sorrow; Sadness 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 VERA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear child, I know not if thy poor old father Last Line: I could not keep her here, nor lose her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Love; Memory; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WRITTEN BY MRS. HUTCHINSON, by LUCY HUTCHINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All sorts of men through various labours presse Last Line: Or where is man soe uncontroul'd a lord? Subject(s): Dreams; Freedom; Grief; Life; Nightmares; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness VESPERS, by LOUIS MERCIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a sunday at home Last Line: Vespers sound. Subject(s): Calm; Grief; Peace; Silence; Winter; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility; Sorrow; Sadness VESTA, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O christ of god! Whose life and death Last Line: To thee shall point the way! Subject(s): Grief; Jesus Christ; Sorrow; Sadness 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 VICTORY IN DEFEAT, by EDWIN MARKHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Defeat may serve as well as victory Last Line: To stretch our spaces in the heart for joy. Subject(s): Defeat; Grief; Happiness; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight VIDE COLLINS HASSAN-OR THE CAMEL DRIVER, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In dreary silence down the bustling road Last Line: When first from bowman's lodge they bent their way Subject(s): Grief; London; Nonsense; Poverty VIEW NORTH, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Back dropped %blue-grey clouds Last Line: Low tide, windless Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss VILLANELLE OF RAINFALL, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: He will not come again Last Line: Merciless falls the rain. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Complaints; Rain; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN AND VIOLA, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At times, when, with an anguish all too keen Last Line: The grave viola plaining of old loves. Subject(s): Doves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Music & Musicians; Violins; Sorrow; Sadness VIOLIN PLAYS A SPRIGHTLY 10 NOTE THEME, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Practicing footwork for the tennis court Last Line: If not puzzled Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss VIOLIN SONGS: HARD TIMES, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary, and very lonely Last Line: Awake thy life in me. Subject(s): God; Grief; Solitude; Thirst; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness VISIONS: 1, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sitting one day beside the banks of mole Last Line: As need another joseph to expound. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Mole, River, England' Time; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WAITING, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah yes, I see the sunshine play Last Line: That we may find right meanings out. Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Grief WAITING, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: When the dawn comes forth I wonder Last Line: We will gaze on it with weeping. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Grief; Waiting; Sorrow; Sadness WAKE UP, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Wake up this morning and gingerly open the door Last Line: In the whole of clear new space %for you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WALKING MY LIFE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Striding away from my house when the sun was hot and high Last Line: In my lungs this steady exultant breathing in %and breathing out Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WANDERING, by SAMUEL ROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Little man of sorrows, whither would you wander? Last Line: "I am going to the country where my fathers ruled of old." Subject(s): Cities; Grief; Homecoming; Jews; Zionism; Urban Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Judaism WANDERING WILLIE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here awa, there awa, wandering willie Last Line: But, dying, believe that my willie's my ain! Subject(s): Love; Grief WASHING THE BODY, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At the end of your life, you are all weight Last Line: To will, now there is only this washing to do Subject(s): Death; Grief WASHING THE ROOTS OF THE MIND, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: They come up dangling, with the dirt Last Line: Is the way the forest grows %without distraction Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WATCHING TV, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Ahoy! Electronic nightmare ... Last Line: With tiny frightful screams Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WATER SONGS, by JACQUELINE JOHNSON Poem Source First Line: A disconnected connection Last Line: And everything is alright Variant Title(s): March Water Songs Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Grief; Reality; Singing And Singers; Tears WAYS TO BE UNIMPORTANT, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Helped this morning by the large soggy leaves Last Line: And the flat, disintegrating leaves Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WE ARE ALL TWENTY-THREE, 1957, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We're all 23, 1957. The lantz dresses Last Line: She's an innocent, she really means the bread Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WE ARE STRONG, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Was this a test? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Aids (disease); Grief; Loss; Sickness WE WEAR THE MASK, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: We wear the mask that grins and lies Last Line: We wear the mask! Subject(s): African Americans; Grief; Hypocrisy; Racism; Negroes; American Blacks; Sorrow; Sadness; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry WEARY, by MARY J. REED Poem Text First Line: Father! I'm sad and weary - give me rest! Last Line: Till ends its toilsome pilgrimage below Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WEARYIN' FOR YOU, by FRANK LEBBY STANTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jes' a - wearyin' for you Last Line: Jes' a-wearyin' for you! Subject(s): Absence; Emptiness; Grief; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness WEDDING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Young pine tips & forgwet-me-nots Last Line: Cow parsnips hercules plant %lupine Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WEEKEND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: 11 o'clock on a fog Last Line: Watching for the red gold line of morning to rise Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss 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 WEEPING, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: I have shut my window Last Line: Nothing is heard but the weeping Subject(s): Grief WEEPING FOR MY HUSBAND, by CHEN DEYI Poem Source First Line: For four decades you were an accomplished minister Last Line: Many times I grieve and bitter tears fall Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WELCOME, by DOROTHY HARIMAN SUTTON Poem Text First Line: When sorrow came on tip - toe to my door Last Line: Amazed to find me waiting him dry-eyed. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WELL, by JAIME TORRES BODET Poem Source First Line: I know not why, but in the night I hear mysterious Last Line: Salty and of a bitter savor! Subject(s): Crying; Grief; Tears WELL YOU KNOW, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: If you know what I mean Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Variant Title(s): Well, You Kno Subject(s): Grief; Loss WEST CITY WILLOWS SPORT SPRING'S SUPPLENESS, by QIN GUAN Poem Source Last Line: So much sorrow Subject(s): Grief WET EARTH, by RAMON LOPEZ VELARDE Poem Source First Line: Wet earth of liquid evenings when the rain Last Line: An acolyte of camphor, %slightly swordfish, slightly %saint isador labrador... Subject(s): Angels; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Tears WHAT BRINGS YOU TEARS?, by PAMELA GEMIN Poem Source First Line: Today on the road that brought me here Last Line: So what brings you here today? %what brings these tears? Subject(s): Grief; Music And Musicians; Musical Instruments; Pianos; Tears WHAT GREAT GRIEF HAS MADE THE EMPRESS MUTE, by JUNE JORDAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Because it was raining outside the palace Last Line: Because there was no rain in her vicinity Subject(s): Grief; Loss; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT GRIEVING WAS, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That was not the summer of aspic Subject(s): Family Life; Grief; Relatives; Sorrow; Sadness WHAT HELPED, by THOMAS CENTOLELLA Poem Source First Line: What helped was also what hurt Last Line: To resolution - I was only %too happy to finish Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love WHAT I WANTED TO SAY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: I am everybody Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT IS ONE TO DO...WITH WHAT ONE...PERCEIVES...AS ACTUALITY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dunno %a mirror look today say Last Line: Today in muted light greens, warm browns and rose of fall again Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT IS SORROW FOR?, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What is sorrow for? It is a storehouse Last Line: Or in the valley of sorrows spread your wings Subject(s): Grief WHAT IS UNUSUAL IN THIS COLD FRESHNESS OF HANGING, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The light lavender sharpness of cloth Last Line: I'm not going to kiss and tell are you crazy? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, poet - you, who sing Last Line: When they take away our tears. Subject(s): Grief; Night; Poetry & Poets; Singing & Singers; Sleep; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime WHAT STARTS OUT AS A HALLOWEEN BUDDHIST LOVE POEM FOR JOHN D, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: It takes so long to do things. For example Last Line: Was definitely accepted in my backyard, and I wanted more of it Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHAT STRUCK ME, by UNKNOWN+299 Poem Source First Line: What struck me from the sound Last Line: As though tears rose from green Subject(s): Absence; Emotions; Grief; Love; Tears WHAT THE DAY GIVES, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Suddenly, sun. Over my shoulder Last Line: And to that most beautiful form of courage, %to be happy Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WHAT THE TRAMP SAID, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we live when living is a pain Last Line: Ten million miles away from this damned world! Subject(s): Grief; Wandering & Wanderers; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WANTS TO CONTINUE, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Sometimes the door remains bolted Subject(s): Arabs; Grief; Jerusalem; Jews; Love; Middle East - Conflicts; Palestine WHAT WAS THAT? SOME FINE LINES FOR YOU, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Spiders, on light blue paisley Last Line: To learn. Being sentimentally engaged Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN I WALK ALONE, FR. THE POET IN THE DESERT, by CHARLES ERSKINE SCOTT WOOD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I walk alone and look into the sky Last Line: Than the wail of the curlew in the night. Subject(s): Grief; Poverty; Sorrow; Sadness 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 WAS WELL INTO BEING SAVORED, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh lord, the possible %bells ringing, to bring me out of here Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN I'M CRYING, I'M NOT SPEAKING, by SUSAN STEWART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Barred back from the glare Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness 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 PAY DAY COMES, by RAY CLARKE ROSE Poem Text First Line: When pay day comes what transports thrill Last Line: When pay day comes! Subject(s): Greed; Grief; Happiness; Money; Wages; Avarice; Cupidity; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight; Salaries WHEN PHILIP WHALEN HAD HEART SURGERY, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dreaming, a lot of us are lying down together. Philip Last Line: He answers, how're you doing, you ok? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHEN SHALL WE ALL MEET AGAIN?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: There shall we all meet again Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow;sadness WHEN SHE LEFT ME, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It missed, first left, then right Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Lightning; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Nature; Storms WHEN THE DIM DAY, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the dim day is buried Last Line: Will part nevermore! Subject(s): Rivers; Grief; Nature 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 WHERE IT LISTETH, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love came / but when or how I do not know Last Line: Told me so. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WHERE LOVE IS, THERE COMES SORROW, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Then such a long to-morrow Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Love – Nature Of; Grief WHERE WE WENT WHEN WE KNEW ONE OF US WOULD DIE, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: We went to european cathedrals because she Last Line: The hospital. Or speak of the empty boat Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WHILST THE IMPEACHMENT PROCEEDS GUZZLE RED WINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And the dear companion climbs the tree Last Line: For the equinox Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHISPERING FROM THE TREES, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Did you ever hear the voices Last Line: "in the breeze, ""good night! Good night!" Subject(s): Farewell; Grief; Parting; Sorrow; Sadness WHITE CLAW, by ALFONSINA STORNI Poem Source First Line: In this splendor of white sky Last Line: The white claw Subject(s): Grief WHITE IBIS, by JR. ORVAL A. LUND Poem Source First Line: The first white ibis ever recorded in minnesota was reported Last Line: He imagined it all white and shocking in the sun. %no ibis. No sun Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Teaching And Teachers WHITE MOUNTAINS, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At times they nested above use Last Line: The day gone by so unaccountably fast Subject(s): Death; Grief WHITE ROSES, by ADELE BABBITT Poem Text First Line: White roses speak to me Last Line: And sorrows healed of pain. Subject(s): Flowers; Grief; Roses; Sorrow; Sadness WHO HAS NOT HID A SORROW, by GERTRUDE B. GUNDERSON Poem Text First Line: Who has not hid a sorrow in his soul Last Line: Except a tender spot ... A time-worn scar. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WHO IS CONTENT?, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: Who is content? Surely not I Last Line: The sluggard? Yes,—he is content. Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WHO'D WANT TO BE A MAN, by GREGORY ORR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With his heart Last Line: And where is the rain? Subject(s): Character; Grief; Men; Sorrow; Sadness WHY ARE YOUR POEMS SO DARK?, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't the moon dark too, / most of the time? Subject(s): Grief; Poetry & Poets; Sorrow; Sadness WHY ARE YOUR POEMS SO DARK?, by LINDA PASTAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Isn't the moon dark too, %most of the time? Last Line: Ask what it has witnessed Subject(s): Grief; Poetry And Poets WHY DID SHE ASK US TO WRITE THIS WAY ANYWAY THE MOOD MOVES, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Why do we even practice this craft while the radio is on Last Line: Homage to kerouac Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WHY DID SHE LEAVE HIM?, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "why did she leave him, they grew up together" Last Line: Why did she leave him? - because he was poor Subject(s): Beauty;grief;poverty; Sorrow;sadness WHY LAUREL STOPPED PERFORMING AFTER HARDY DIED, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How could I go on without ollie's howling tenor -- ohhh-hoo-hoo! -- Last Line: To thin-&-whimpering, a duet of cuckoo clocks tooting %our wedding march, now and forever off-key. A Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Music And Musicians WHY SHOULDST THOU FILL TODAY WITH SORROW, by PAUL FLEMING Poem Source Subject(s): Grief WIDE MIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Occupies a wide mind, a wide consciousness Last Line: I was thinking the same thing.' Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WIFE, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: That's how it felt, that I was wind Last Line: No hope of going out. Subject(s): Desire; Dreams; Grief; Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I sing of myself, a sorrowful woman Last Line: Hard is the lot of one that longs for love in vain Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I make this song sadly about myself Last Line: A joyful floor. Grief for them %who wait longing for love Subject(s): Grief; Marriage WIFE'S LAMENT, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: A song I sing of sorrow unceasing Subject(s): Grief; Love - Marital; Marriage WINDOW LEDGE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Tiny light grey moth Last Line: Light grey moth Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss WINGS OF ADVERSITY, by ROSE JANE WARD Poem Text First Line: Adversity confronts the weary world Last Line: Resist, america! Resist its clutch! Subject(s): Adversity; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER BRANCH, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When I see you Last Line: Of agony. Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER DAY, by LEON DIERX Poem Text First Line: This morning not one beam cleaves the cloud-blind Last Line: Then ponder on sleep and dark funerëal! Subject(s): Grief; Soul; Winter; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER LIGHT, by LINDA GREGG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The way you fell asleep Last Line: (if I had made a garden. If I had stayed happy.) Subject(s): Marriage; Absence; Grief WINTER RAIN, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Falling upon the frozen world last night Last Line: I look straight in the world's bold eyes, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Grief; Rain; Winter; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness WINTER REMEMBERED, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two evils, monstrous either one apart, Subject(s): Winter; Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WISH, by GAYLE ELEN HARVEY Poem Source First Line: Weeks %since leaves fell, august outlived, licks of Last Line: The dim surround, night breaking free, relinquishing %its dark cloth Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Winter WITCHCRAFT, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: I did not hear when you came in. Dark in the shadow Last Line: Fireflies-dreams glittered, as before the latest of my griefs Subject(s): Grief; Magic; Thought WITH THE TIDE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Wave by wave o'er the sandy bar Last Line: Fell on the night -- and the tide was out Subject(s): Grief;happiness; Sorrow;sadness;joy;delight WOMAN KNITTING, by HOANG THI Y NHI Poem Source First Line: In the cold afternoon %a woman sits by a window knitting Last Line: Slowly unravels its circles Subject(s): Grief; Knitting; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 WOMAN'S LOVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: They told me of her history - her love Last Line: Was as a home. Subject(s): Grief; Love - Loss Of; Women; Sorrow; Sadness WORD OF HONOR, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: I'll not be faithless in this way, assign Last Line: The heart, keep vision clear Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WORDS OPEN OUT UPON GRIEF, by ROBERT DUNCAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like windows in that house high Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WORDS THAT WAIT TO BE SAID, by JEANNE RUTH ACKLEY LOHMANN Poem Source First Line: Having come to the place where I Last Line: Told to air, lost along the way Subject(s): Death; Grief; Nature WOULD GOD IT WERE EVENING, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imprisoned in the soul and in the sin Last Line: A sadness as the sadness of to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Grief; Sorrow; Sadness WRITING OF MY SORROW, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: Heaven took my wife from me Last Line: This gaunt and worn ghost in the mirror Subject(s): China - Song Dynasty (960-1278); Death - Children; Grief WRITTEN, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: However high, however cold, the fair Last Line: Who must not speak, and therefore cannot live! Subject(s): Grief; Love; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Pity; Sorrow; Sadness WRITTEN AFTER LEAVING HER AT NEW BURNS, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How quick the change from joy to woe Last Line: You best may tell who feel the same. Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness WRITTEN FOR MY OWN AMUSEMENT, by WANG ANSHIH Poem Source First Line: I shut the door, hoping to drive off sorrow Last Line: I could beg sorrow to linger and sorrow would never stay Subject(s): Grief WRITTEN ON HEARING A LADY SING IN TOWER OF MONTEVIDEO, NEAR HARTFORD, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The soft dews of twilight are steeping th plain Last Line: Whose harp breathes her accent of sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Singing & Singers; Sorrow; Sadness XIMENA DEMANDS VENGEANCE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Within the court at burgos a clamor doth arise Last Line: But not a man durst follow; slow rode he through the crowd Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Grief; Justice; Knights And Knighthood; Vengeance YEAR THAT TREMBLED AND REEL'D BENEATH ME, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And sullen hymns of defeat? Subject(s): Grief YEAR'S END, by ELLEN BRYANT VOIGT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The fingers lie in the lap Subject(s): Illness; Death - Children; Grief; Fear; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness YES!, by II HENRY P. HOSEY Poem Source First Line: I said 'let's go rollerblading Last Line: Yes!,' I answered 'yes' Subject(s): Cancer, Breast; Grief; Love - Loss Of YESTERDAY MY SORROWS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Under the blows of a pickax Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Grief; Memory; Pain YESTERDAY WHEN DIANA DROPS ME OFF ON EVERGREEN, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: That's who he's interested in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slanting rain and a sky of gray Last Line: And you—at home! Subject(s): Absence; Grief; Love; Rain; Water; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness YOU BELIEVE THIS STASH OF WRITING IS 'SCHOLARLY'?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A heart-stopping glimpse of nature's larger grazer? %you fence it in Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT LOVE IS, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: But you know how to raise it in me Last Line: In black plastic. Let the mourners through Subject(s): Alcoholics And Alcoholism; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain YOU KNOW WHEN YOU WRITE POETRY YOU FIND, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Do I mean perfection? Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU LIKE IT HUH? YOU LIKE THAT DULCET STUFF, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Breath of air. See you Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOU MURMUR 'EARTH', by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: A return to this continuous story Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Loss YOU?, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Was that you whistling for me, the snake in the shower? Last Line: Look quickly Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOUR EYES, by KEN HUGHES Poem Text First Line: Two temples of beauty are Last Line: Lurk in those pools—your eyes. Subject(s): Eyes; Grief; Soul; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness YOUR HEART IS FINE, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Your heart is fine feeling the widest Last Line: In the mutual air %awake without defect Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss YOUR LEFT SHOE IS ALWAYS COLDER, THE SUN, by SIMON PERCHIK Poem Source Last Line: Born already grieving, one finally behind the other Subject(s): Grief; Shoes; Sun YOUR TREASURE, by LOUISA SARAH BEVINGTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Long years - you say - you had a quest Last Line: Your holy, high love victory. Alternate Author Name(s): Leigh, Arbor; Guggenberger, Mrs. Ignatz; Bevington, L. S. Subject(s): Wandering & Wanderers; Grief; Victory; Gime; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes; Sorrow; Sadness YUCCAS, by MARY ELIZABETH PEARCE Poem Text First Line: Pale and dim fell the moonlight Last Line: The yuccas witnessed my sorrow. Subject(s): Grief; Yucca Plants; Sorrow; Sadness YUPPY WITTGENSTEINS ARISE!, by JOANNE KYGER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And sleep again the puzzle Last Line: Rise upon its occasiona and all our normal body functions Alternate Author Name(s): Snyder, Gary, Mrs. Subject(s): Grief; Loss ZARA (1) (SEE MATURIN'S 'WOMEN'), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now the pain beginneth and the word is spoken Last Line: Knowing that I drink them, o my love, for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Fear; Grief; Hearts; Love; Pain; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery ZUNI FETISH, by ROBERT CORDING Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: This bear, its humped shoulders and backbone Last Line: But my ravenous bear waits, a relentless vision %of heavy grace lumbering where I used to be Subject(s): Death; Grief [THE DEAD GIRL BY THE BEAUTIFUL BARTLETT], by BECKMAN. 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