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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MORTALITY Matches Found: 381 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 27 YEARS, by ROQUE DALTON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a serious thing Subject(s): Mortality; Aging A CHILL BLANK WORLD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A chill blank world. Yet over the utmost sea Last Line: Forget not my life, o my lord, forget not my death Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): God; Prayer; Mortality A COMPARISON OF THE LIFE OF MAN, by RICHARD BARNFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life is well compared to a feast Last Line: Comes death, and takes the table clean away. Alternate Author Name(s): Barnefield, Richard Variant Title(s): Man's Life Subject(s): Mortality A DIRGE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now is done thy long day's work Last Line: Let them rave. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mortality; Rest; Nature A FAREWELL TO AMERICA, TO MRS. S. W., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, new-england's smiling meads Last Line: Of all its pow'r disarms! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Great Britain; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages; United States; America A FUNERAL POEM ON THE DEATH OF C.E., AN INFANT OF 12 MONTHS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through airy roads he wings his instant flight Last Line: In pleasures without measure, without end. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): A Poem On The Death Of Charles Eliot, Aged 12 Months Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies A LAMENTATION OF QUEEN ELIZABETH, by THOMAS MORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O ye that put your trust and confidence Last Line: My palace builded is, and lo now here I lie. Variant Title(s): A Rueful Lamentation Of The Death Of Queen Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Elizabeth, Queen Consort Of Henry Vii; Mortality; Dead, The A LITTLE WHILE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little while when I am gone Last Line: Back to the nothingness that is their home. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Variant Title(s): The Dark Cup: 5. Subject(s): Mortality A PRAYER FOR LIFE, by GEORGE SHEPARD BURLEIGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O father, let me not die young! Last Line: I cannot now die young! Subject(s): Mortality; Prayer; Youth A RECIPE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take a pinch of demi-god and half an ounce Last Line: With appetites like harpies, and there you have him—man! Subject(s): Mortality A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With rue my heart is laden Last Line: In fields where roses fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Graves; Mortality; Mourning; Remorse; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A TESTIMONY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said of laughter: it is vain Last Line: Witnessed that all are vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity AD ASTRA: 137, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Before our minds may mirror the divine Last Line: And in her solitudes find calmer faith. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mortality; Nature AD ASTRA: 65, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: How brief, how frail, the highest human love! Last Line: Doth break the chilly silence evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Mortality ADDRESS TO THE ATHEIST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Muse! Where shall I begin the spacious field Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ADDRESS TO THE DIEST, 1767, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you? Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AFTER MY LAST SONG, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where I shall rest when my last song is over Last Line: You'll sleep here on wan cheeks grown thin and old. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Poetry & Poets; World War I; Dead, The; First World War AGAIN, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was such darkness in him then. And I repeated Subject(s): Fathers; Illness; Mortality AMARANTHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet quiet of death, made quieter by the sound Last Line: Robed by his hand in immortality. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mortality; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New england first a wilderness was found Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN AUTOGRAPH (1), by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I write my name as one Last Line: "may god forgive him wholly!" Subject(s): Autographs; Memory; Mortality; Time AN ELEGIAC THOUGHT OF MRS. ANNE WARNER: MRS. WARNER ARRIVES ABOVE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold her ancestors (a pious race) Last Line: "die, and partake my bliss; we are for ever one." Subject(s): Fathers; Heaven; Mortality; Waiting; Paradise AN HYMN TO HUMANITY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! For this dark terrestrail ball Last Line: With ev'ry heav'nly art. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Humanity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN HYMN TO THE EVENING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Soon as the sun forsook the eastern main Last Line: Then cease, my song, till fair aurora rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Night; Bedtime AN HYMN TO THE MORNING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Attend my lays, ye ever honour'd nine Last Line: And scarce begun, concludes th' abortive song. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality AN IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Child of no mortal birth, that yet doth live Last Line: Twin torches flashing into fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Desire; Immortality; Love; Mortality; Childhood AND THEN?, by HELEN D. BASSETT Poem Text First Line: Why do we enter this queer world of ours Last Line: Surely, this is not all! Subject(s): Mortality ANSWER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! Sublimest of the nine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANSWER TO THE REBUS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The poet asks, and phillis can't refuse Last Line: And add new glory to her name. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War APRIL MORTALITY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion shook an ancient dust Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): April; Mortality APRIL MORTALITY, by LEONIE ADAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rebellion shook an ancient dust Last Line: Of wind made stir the pear-tree bough, %blew delicately down to earth Alternate Author Name(s): Troy, William, Mrs. Subject(s): April; Mortality AUNT JANE, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Aunt jane has little shiny feet Last Line: To think how soon aunt jane will die. Subject(s): Aunts; Mortality AZTEC SONG, by STEPHEN BERG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: We live on earth Last Line: A little while only Subject(s): Aztecs; Mortality BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And children with deep eyes grow up and stray Last Line: Like heavy honey from the honeycomb. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BALLAD OF THE OUTER LIFE, by HUGO VON HOFMANNSTHAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And deep-eyed children cannot long be children Last Line: Like heavy honey out of hollow combs. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The BARTER, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Now the winter seems a pseudonym Last Line: We possess the promise of the worm. Subject(s): Mortality; Seasons; Winter BEQUEST, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: From head to toe I know the bladed grass Last Line: Whatever I become to those who live. Subject(s): Legacies; Mortality BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Last Line: And death is our shepherd %and we die as the animals die Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds And Shepherdesses BRIEF LIFE, by ERNEST CHRISTOPHER DOWSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They are not long, the weeping and the laughter Last Line: Within a dream. Variant Title(s): Envoi;vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam Subject(s): Life; Life Change Events; Mortality BURY HOPE OUT OF SIGHT, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Alive in death's eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Hope; Death; Mortality CAN IT BE TRUE THAT ONE LIVES ON EARTH?, by NEZAHUALCOYOTL Poem Source Last Line: Not forever on earth; only a little while here Subject(s): Mortality CARDIOGRAM, by RANDY BLASING Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chances are good my number will be up Subject(s): Mortality 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 CHILD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In his little bed in Last Line: Be it is a terror to him Subject(s): Mortality CHORUS FROM OEDIPUS AT COLONOS, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is unwisdom but the lusting after Last Line: Thrashes his sides and breaks over his head Subject(s): Mortality COLOPHON, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than the beetles turned russet, Subject(s): Bees; Mortality; Beekeeping COMPLAINS OF THE SHORTNESS OF LIFE; AN IDYLLIUM, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' I had writ such poems, that my name Last Line: And the short time fate has for us decreed. Subject(s): Mortality; Time CONCLUDING VERSES, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM AN AUTUMNAL MORNING WALK, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is the very carnival of nature Last Line: "with borrow'd light from thee, for they are thine!" Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Homecoming; Nature; Autumn; Thanksgiving; Mortality; Fall CONDEMNED, by WILLIAM G. RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I sing a song to silence Last Line: Than others born to die. Subject(s): Mortality CONSTANCY, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows that companion me Last Line: Walk in immortal fields of earth. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The CRICKET, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cricket, chirring in the autumn twilight Last Line: Fare forth singing! Subject(s): Cricket (game); Mortality; Sports DARK ENCOUNTER, by EDWARD RALPH CHEYNEY Poem Text First Line: The grapes are mortal, the vintner divine Last Line: A man in a world with need of men. Alternate Author Name(s): Cheyney, Ralph Subject(s): Mortality DEAD FLY, by EILEAN NI CHUILLEANAIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Sparafucile fought his peasant war Last Line: As david, his kingdom sure, could not forget saul Alternate Author Name(s): Ni Chuilleanain, Eilean Subject(s): Mortality DEATH IS BEHIND US, by WILLIAM WITHERUP Poem Source Last Line: Because I am frozen in father Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mortality DEISM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Must ethiopians be imploy'd for you Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality DIE PARZEN, by JOHANN CHRISTIAN FRIEDRICH HOLDERLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, o you who have the power to do so Last Line: Nothing more than this was necessary Alternate Author Name(s): Holderlin, J. C. F.; Holderlin, Friedrich Subject(s): Life; Mortality DOUBT ME, MY DIM COMPANION!, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Oh, caviler, for you! Subject(s): Mortality DRYBURGH, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Here lies his battered armour, hacked and scarred Last Line: Naught is immortal but the god in men. Subject(s): Mortality DUALITY, by EMMA THOMAS SCOVILLE Poem Text First Line: While feet plod down dim paths of earth Last Line: Clay-bound, but destined to arise. Subject(s): Humanity; Mortality; Soul EARTH-MINDED, by ELLA LOUISE LUICK Poem Text First Line: Once more I touch the sweet green grass Last Line: The dust that holds a grassy knoll. Subject(s): Mortality ECHO, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, to be / mortal, and know our sad mortality! Last Line: But feigns a voice. Subject(s): Mortality ELEGY ON LEAVING, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewel! Ye friendly bowers, ye streams adieu Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ELEGY, SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF REVEREND DR. SAMUEL COOPER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou whose exit wraps in boundless woe Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality EMY'S BREATH, by ANN S. GOLDSMITH Poem Source First Line: What's the worst thing? I heard in the air Last Line: And now the galaxies open like fans Subject(s): Mortality ENVY, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As the grave and the cradle met one day Last Line: "your blankets and bottle attract a dozen!" Subject(s): Mortality EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Such as ye are such Last Line: Day and dyes tomorrow Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Behold the place wherein I lye Last Line: From lyfe to death follow me Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH: JOHN ROWLEY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: All you that are young prepare to die Last Line: Wait a while and you'll follow me Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EPITAPH: WILLIAM HOPKINS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O youth repent Last Line: Was tane away Subject(s): Epitaphs;mortality EUGENE WATTERS IS DEAD', by DESMOND EGAN Poem Source First Line: Somehow we presume our friends will survive Last Line: Having thought you just as immortal %I was wrong was I? Subject(s): Friendship; Mortality EVERYTHING THAT IS BORN MUST DIE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Everything Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Love FEAR OF DEATH, by JOHN ASHBERY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: What is it now with me Last Line: But the breeze has dropped and silence is the last word Subject(s): Old Age; Mortality FIRST PERSON, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One lies on one's back in the woods Last Line: The last one / to die Subject(s): Forests; Aging; Animals; Poetry & Poets; Mortality FIXED IS THE DOOM; AND TO THE LAST OF YEARS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And in her eyes still wear the dusky night Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Mortality FOR H., DEAD IN A CAR AT THIRTY-EIGHT, by MICHAEL BLUMENTHAL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today I blessed every little thing in the world Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Mortality FOR SHIRLEY AND CHRISTA, by PHIL WEIDMAN Poem Source First Line: A couple of years ago I Last Line: There ain't no roads, trusted friend Subject(s): Death; Malone, Marvin (d. 1996); Memory; Mortality FOR UNA, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I built her a tower when I was young Last Line: And when they vanish we’ll have spent the night well Subject(s): Transience; Mortality; Social Commentary; Decay; Love - Erotic; Impermanence; Rot; Decadence FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MAN'S GUARD AGAINST DEATH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Luckless man Last Line: As a sunbeam with motes. Subject(s): Death; Humanity; Mortality; Time; Dead, The FROM THE MISERY OF DON JOOST, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have finished my combat with the sun; Subject(s): Mortality FROZEN GODS, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dolmen and menhirs in mute conclave met Last Line: A moment, and then flutters after the stars. Subject(s): Mortality FUGUE, by DANIEL HALPERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A child asks endlessly about dying Subject(s): Mortality FURNITURE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, cleverer than chair Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Mortality GLIDER, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was supposed to have died Subject(s): Mortality GOLIATH OF GATH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye martial pow'rs, and all ye tuneful nine Last Line: "with me, nor quit my regal roof again." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality GONE TO HIS REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Would have it so Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Birds; Mortality; Death – Animals HAIKU, by ARAKIDA MORITAKE Poem Text First Line: My span of years Last Line: A morning-glory's hour. Subject(s): Mortality; Transience; Impermanence HALLOWEEN, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On bala lake the wind is high Last Line: On bala lake. Subject(s): Mortality; Shadows; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen HE POINTS OUT THE BREVITY OF LIFE, by FRANCISCO GOMEZ DE QUEVEDO Y VILLEGAS Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: My yesterday was dream, tomorrow earth Last Line: Digs out a monument from my brief day Alternate Author Name(s): Quevedo, Francisco Gomez De; Quevedo, Francisco De Subject(s): Mortality; Time; Transience HIDE AND SEEK, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As I sit and watch at the window-pane Last Line: As I waited them below. Subject(s): Mortality; Childhood Memories; Farm Life; Play HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial choir! Enthron'd in realms of light Last Line: With gold unfading, washington! Be thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): George Washington Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799) HOW GRASP GREEN, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Trees I have planted: an ash, Subject(s): Mortality HOW LONG, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My life is long - not so the angels say Last Line: That where thou art there thy beloved might be. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality HOW LONG?, by HORATIO (HORATIUS) BONAR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My god, it is not fretfulness Last Line: Of error and of wrong. Subject(s): Faith; Mortality; Religion; Belief; Creed; Theology HUMAN LIFE, by WILLIAM HURRELL MALLOCK Poem Text First Line: Like smoke I vanish though I burn like flame Last Line: Before a nothing and behind a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Mallock, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality HUMAN LIFE: ON THE DENIAL OF IMMORTALITY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If dead, we cease to be; if total gloom Last Line: Thy being's being is contradiction. Subject(s): Life; Mortality I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mortality; Mourning I REASON, EARTH IS SHORT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But what of that? Subject(s): Mortality IDYLL 5. LIFE TO BE ENJOYED, by BION Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If sweet my songs, or these sufficient be Last Line: How brief the life allotted us by fate! Subject(s): Mortality IMAGE OF THE ENGINE, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Likely as not a ruined head gasket Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race IMPERMANENCE OF HUMAN LIFE, by YAMANOUE NO OKURA Poem Source First Line: We are helpless in this world Last Line: But I am a man in time %and time must have no stop Alternate Author Name(s): Yamamoue Okura; Okura Subject(s): Mortality IMPROMPTU, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My mind is a puddle in the street reflecting green sirius Last Line: And a wine-cup reflecting sirius in the water held in my hands. Subject(s): Mortality; Plants; Planting; Planters IN THE END, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: With all thy gold, thou canst not make Last Line: Should call thy name. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality; Time IN THE TUNNEL OF SUMMERS, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moving from day into day Subject(s): Life; Summer; Mortality INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am only the phrase Last Line: To my winding-sheet haunt me! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Mortality IRONY, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why are the things that have no death Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Mortality ISAIAH: 63, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, heav'nly muse, what king, or mighty god' Last Line: Smiles at their arts, and all their force defies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality JAY A-PASS'D, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When leaves, in evenen winds, do vlee Last Line: When did my jaÿ all pass me by? Subject(s): Children; Home; Jays; Mortality; Time; Childhood JOHN O' DREAMS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What a world that was you planned us Last Line: John o' dreams. Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality JOURNEY'S END, by ANDERSON M. SCRUGGS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some day I shall return to this still soil Last Line: Speaking with silence more than words can say. Subject(s): Mortality LA VIE, by LEON LOUS MOREAU CONSTANT CORNEILLE MONTENAEKEN Poem Full Text First Line: Ah, brief is life Last Line: And then -- good-night! Subject(s): Mortality LARGE BOUNDS DOE BUT BURY US, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All things o'r-rul'd are here by chance Last Line: Serves but for place of buriall. Subject(s): Mortality LEAVES A-VALLEN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There the ash-tree leaves do vall Last Line: Voremost they that dropp'd behind. Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mortality; Seasons; Time; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The LIBERTY AND PEACE, A POEM, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo! Freedom comes. The prescient muse foretold Last Line: And heavenly freedom spread her golden ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Freedom; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Liberty LIFE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Whilst smoke arises from my pipe Last Line: Let's mingle dust to dust Subject(s): Mortality LIFE, by WILLIAM MERRILL VORIES Poem Text First Line: Life is too brief Last Line: Or soar on wings! Alternate Author Name(s): Vories, W. M. Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology LIFE AND DEATH, by WILLIAM DAVENANT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Frail life! In which, through mists Alternate Author Name(s): D'avenant, William Subject(s): Mortality LIFE THAT WAS BORN TODAY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thy blessed face to see Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Life; Mortality; Heaven LIFE'S DAY; TO ONE WHO ASKS ME FOR A MERRY SONG, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, could I know how long life's day Last Line: How long for me may be life's day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mortality LIKE A WORN GRAY-HAIRED MARINER WHOM THE SEA, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Leaving behind a waste where desolate I may die Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Solitude; Mortality LINES, by JOHN GIBSON LOCKHART Poem Text First Line: When youthful faith hath fled Last Line: Unless to waken so! Variant Title(s): Beyond Subject(s): Mortality LITTLE SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING HAIR IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cry, waking from a nightmare Subject(s): Daughters; Mortality LITTLE SLEEP'S-HEAD SPROUTING HAIR IN THE MOONLIGHT, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You cry, waking from a nightmare Last Line: The wages of dying is love Subject(s): Daughters; Mortality LONG NIGHT OF THE INCOMPLETE, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the brief light of the stolstice Last Line: Dying in the throat like the year Subject(s): Night; Mortality; Time LONGING, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not sorry for my soul Last Line: Without the joy it longed to know. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality; Religion; Theology LOST STARS, by ISABELLE A. L. KFOURY Poem Text First Line: It is the glory of ephemeral things Last Line: An empty shell that may have held a star. Subject(s): Mortality LULLABY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay your sleeping head, my love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): "song 11;""let Your Sleeping Head, My Love""; Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Love; Mortality; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men LULLABY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lay your sleeping head, my love Last Line: Nights of insults let you pass %watched by every human love Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Variant Title(s): Song 11; "let Your Sleeping Head, My Love Subject(s): Homosexuality; Love; Mortality LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lennavan-mo Last Line: Lennavan-mo. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The house is changed where mary lived Last Line: But dwells with us to-day. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MIMNERMUS IN CHURCH, by WILLIAM JOHNSON CORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You promise heavens free from strife Last Line: I clasp them, is because they die. Subject(s): Love; Mortality MORTAL, by CATE MARVIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do you find yourself in literature Subject(s): Mortality MORTAL, by CATE MARVIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How do you find yourself in literature Last Line: This won't be the last the world reads of you Subject(s): Mortality MORTAL GRAIN, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: When from the narrow cage Last Line: Its duplicate, awake, remembering pain. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The MORTALITY, by GAMALIEL BRADFORD Poem Text First Line: How could you believe that I Last Line: Tell me, how? -- god knows I do. Subject(s): Mortality MORTALITY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye dainty mosses, lichens gray Last Line: For god is also there. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Mortality MORTALITY, by ANTOINE FRANCOIS MARIE DESCHAMPS DE SAINT AMAND Poem Text First Line: Though still earth's guests, of quitting meditate Last Line: And its far flight to unknown regions take. Alternate Author Name(s): Deschamps, Anthony Subject(s): Mortality MORTALITY, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust Last Line: Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust! Subject(s): Mortality MORTALITY, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How many times have I lain down at night Last Line: Remained afraid to die! Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Death; Fear; Mortality; Sleep; Dead, The MORTALITY, by WILLIAM KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Last Line: O why should the spirit of mortal be proud? Subject(s): Death; Humility; Mortality; Dead, The MORTALITY ANECDOTES, by LINDA WING Poem Source First Line: At my brother's house and I'm in the rec room losing a game of trivial Last Line: Anyone.' Subject(s): Mortality MUJIN FLOWERS BLOSSOM ON THE ROLLING GRAVES, by JUAN CHI Poem Source Last Line: Our hearts know it. We should try our best to live Subject(s): Mortality MURMUR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little sibilance, as of dry leaves Last Line: Through the great crowds, “remember you are mortal” Subject(s): Mortality MURMUR, by ANTHONY HECHT Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little sibilance, as of dry leaves Subject(s): Mortality MY LIFE IS FULL OF WEARY DAYS, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And tell me if the woodbines blow Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mortality MY MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-busied man! Why shouldst thou take such care Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever. Subject(s): King, John. Bishop Of London (d. 1621); Mortality MY MIDNIGHT MEDITATION, by JOHN KING Poem Source First Line: Ill-busied man! Why shouldst thou take such care Last Line: There is but one, and that one ever Subject(s): Mortality MY NUMBER, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is death miles away from this house Last Line: I will ask, as I start talking myself out of this Subject(s): Mortality NATALITIUM: MARTIJ 13, 1643, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What rash & hasty things are yeares, wch run Last Line: Can swell so high, as is thy heavn, & thee. Subject(s): Aging; Mortality; Prayer; Time NIGHT OF MARVELS, by VIOLANTE DE CEO Poem Source First Line: In such a marvelous night, so fair Last Line: A mortal man becomes a god! Subject(s): God; Love; Mortality 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 NIOBE IN DISTRESS FOR HER CHILDREN SLAIN BY APOLLO, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Apollo's wrath to man the dreadful spring Last Line: "but from the marble steal the silent tears." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Mythology - Classical; Ovid (43 B.c.-17 A.d.); Paintings And Painters; Wilson, Richard (1714-1782) NOT FORGOTTEN, by TOI DERRICOTTE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I love the way the black ants use their dead. Subject(s): Mortality NOTES TO MY DAUGHTERS, by SHIRLEY KAUFMAN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: You were the reason for staying Last Line: Washing it away. Subject(s): Abandonment; Children; Family Life; Israel; Mortality; Mothers & Daughters; Parents; Desertion; Childhood; Relatives; Parenthood NOVEMBER, by ROYALL TYLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come old november, since again Last Line: To-morrow sees him swept away. Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S. Subject(s): Mortality; November NOVEMBER STARS, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Splendor of many stars and the unknown Last Line: You will shine -- I shall be gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality NOW WHEN THE NUMBER OF MY YEARS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Bury me low and let me lie Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Mortality; Funerals O DREAMS, O DESTINATIONS, by CECIL DAY LEWIS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For infants time is like a humming shell Last Line: We settle, but like feathers on time's flow. Alternate Author Name(s): Blake, Nicolas Subject(s): Mortality O LIVING ALWAYS, ALWAYS DYING!, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: To pass on, (o living! Always living!) and leave the corpses behind Subject(s): Mortality; Death O MOTHER I AM NOT REGRETTING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Mothers; Bereavement OBLIVION, by MAE EMERSON DINELLI JONES Poem Text First Line: From out of darkness emerges Last Line: "while the ""I"" goes out alone." Subject(s): Mortality ODE, by ANACREON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know that heaven ordains me here Alternate Author Name(s): Anakreon; Anacreontea Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Drinks & Drinking; Wine ODE ON A GRECIAN URN, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou still unravished bride of quietness Last Line: Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Beauty; Carpe Diem; Elgin Marbles; Mortality ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep? Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales ODE TO NEPTUNE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While raging tempests shake the shore Last Line: Not give my wishes to the empty air. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea; Ocean ODE UPON THE SHORTNESS OF MAN'S LIFE, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Marke that swifte arrow how it cuts the ayre Last Line: T' out-live nestor in a day. Variant Title(s): On The Shortness Of Life Subject(s): Mortality; Time ODES II, 14. DEATH INEVITABLE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The whirling year, ah, friend! The whirling year Last Line: Than ever pleas'd a pampered abbot's tooth Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mortality ODES II, 3. TO DELLIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dellius, when there blows an adverse wind Last Line: To endless exile and the boundless dark. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mortality ODES II, 3. TO DELLIUS, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Remember, entrapped in life's bitter maze Last Line: And we must step into the bark of eternal exile Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mortality OF MAN'S MORTALITY, by SIMON WASTELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like as the damask rose you see Last Line: The swan's near death, -- man's life is done! Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The OLD COUPLE, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Old Age; Togetherness; Mortality OLD SLIPPERS, by MARGUERITE E. ROSEBERY Poem Text First Line: I had not thought until today Last Line: Why have I never told you so? Subject(s): Marriage; Mortality; Shoes; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Boots; Sneakers; Shoemakers ON A CHILD WHO LIVED ONE MINUTE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Into a world where children shriek like suns Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Mortality ON A CHILD WHO LIVED ONE MINUTE, by X. J. KENNEDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Into a world where children shriek like suns Last Line: That, making light of mountainloads of logic, %so much could stay a moment in so little Alternate Author Name(s): Kennedy, Joseph Subject(s): Mortality ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA TO AMERICA, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Twas mercy brought me from my pagan land Last Line: May be refin'd, and join th' angelic train. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Africa; African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON DEATH, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why shouldst thou fear the death to come? Last Line: And make the parting less and less. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mortality; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Theology ON FRIENDSHIP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let amictia in her ample reign Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON IMAGINATION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Thy various works, imperial queen, we see Last Line: Cease then, my song, cease the unequal lay. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON MESSRS HUSSEY AND COFFIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did fear and danger so perplex you mind Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON RECOLLECTION, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mneme begin. Inspire, ye sacred nine Last Line: Feels himself shelter'd from the wrath divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE CAPTURE OF GENERAL LEE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The deed perfidious, and the hero's fate Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Lee, Henry (light-horse Harry); Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN OF GREAT PROMISE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who taught thee conflict with the pow'rs of night Last Line: And trace him to the bosom of his god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY OF FIVE YEARS OF AGE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dark abodes to fair etherial light Last Line: Shall join your happy babe to part no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF DR. SAMUEL MARSHALL, 1771, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through thickest glooms look back, immortal shade Last Line: The spouse, the sire, the universal friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The ON THE DEATH OF GENERAL WOOSTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From this the muse rich consolation draws Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF J.C., AN INFANT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more the flow'ry scenes of pleasure rise Last Line: Not at your bar must sov'reign wisdom stand. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies ON THE DEATH OF MR. SNIDER MURDER'D BY RICHARDSON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In heavens eternal court it was decreed Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV'D. DR. SEWALL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: E'er yet the morning heav'd its orient head Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. SEWELL, 1769, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ere yet the morn its lovely blushes spread Last Line: "when the same graces in our bosoms thrive." Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ON THE DEATH OF THE REV. MR. GEORGE WHITEFIELD, 1770, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail, happy saint, on thine immortal throne Last Line: Till life divine re-animates his dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): An Elegaic Poem Subject(s): Christianity; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Whitefield, George (1714-1770) ON THE SHORTNESS OF HUMAN LIFE, by JOHN JORTIN Poem Text First Line: Suns that set, and moons that wane Last Line: Still 'tis winter in the tomb. Subject(s): Mortality ON THE VANITY OF MAN'S LIFE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Vain is the fleeting wealth Subject(s): Mortality ON TIMELY DEATH, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it not better at an early hour Last Line: Than sit the fire out and go starv'd to bed? Variant Title(s): On Living Too Long Subject(s): Mortality ON VIRTUE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive Last Line: O thou, enthron'd with cherubs in the realms of day. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality ONE CERTAINTY, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity of vanities, the preacher saith Last Line: And morning shall be cold and twilight grey. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Mortality; Vanity OTHERWISE, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I got out of bed Last Line: It will be otherwise Subject(s): Family Life; Mortality; Relatives OUR LONGER LIFE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Some little creatures have so short a life Last Line: Gives place to that new love whose name is death. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality PASSING AWAY, by LUCIAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world is fleeting; all things pass away Last Line: Or is it we that pass and they that stay? Alternate Author Name(s): Lucianus Subject(s): Mortality PASSING HUMANITY, by EMMA ZINKE HAASE Poem Text First Line: Tis not time that is passing Last Line: One the resurrection day. Subject(s): Mortality PASTIME OF PLEASURE, SELS., by STEPHEN HAWES Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mortality PEOPLE ARE, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We forget some things are only Last Line: Degradable. Subject(s): Mortality; Nature PHILIS'S REPLY TO THE ANSWER ... BY THE GENTLEMAN IN NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For one bright moment, heavenly goddess! Shine Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying / to make you hear Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth; Dead, The PIAZZA PIECE, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a gentleman in a dustcoat trying %to make you hear Last Line: I am a lady young in beauty waiting Subject(s): Carpe Diem; Death; Mortality; Old Age; Youth PLANNING THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THOSE WHO HAVE GONE, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Soon I will make my appearance Subject(s): Mortality PLAYED OUT, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As a bullock falls in the crooked ruts, he fell when / the day was over Last Line: From no particular where. Subject(s): Death; Hunger; Labor & Laborers; Mortality; Poverty; Dead, The; Work; Workers POEMS HAVE CHANTED MORTALITY, by RANSOM. JOHN CROWE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It had better been hidden Subject(s): Poetry & Poets; Mortality POEMS OF THIS SIZE, by STEPHEN DALE COREY Poem Source First Line: In poems of this size, so little Last Line: Most closely, at how quick and full an end can be Subject(s): Automobile Accidents; Children; Mortality POPULATION, by GEORGE OPPEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like a flat sea Subject(s): Mankind; Mortality; Human Race PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN, by MARGARET BENGSTON SEVERNS Poem Text First Line: She moves in her surrounding realm Last Line: With naught but tawdry gold and jade? Subject(s): Beauty; Mortality POST MORTEM, by WALT MASON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man goes his way, and cuts a narrow Last Line: To pay for pomp and fuss and foolish pride. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The PRAYER AFTER YOUTH, by MAXWELL ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Oh gods of all enchanting lies Last Line: That I am lost beyond devising. . . Subject(s): Mortality; Prayer; Youth PRESCIENCE, by MARIE AUSTIN MAJOR Poem Text First Line: The trees that were in summer decked Last Line: Imploring, saddened arms of eld. Subject(s): Autumn; Future Life; Mortality; Seasons; Fall; Retribution; Eternity; After Life QUICKNESS, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: False life! A foil and no more, when Last Line: A quickness which my god hath kissed. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mortality READING ALOUD TO MY FATHER, by JANE KENYON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I chose the book haphazard Last Line: And let them pull it free Subject(s): Books & Reading; Fathers & Daughters; Mortality REFLECTIONS, WRITTEN ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Deep in this grave her bones remain Last Line: We turn to dust, to sleep, to repose. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Friendship; Graves; Mortality; Tombs; Tombstones REPETITIVE HEART: 9, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The heavy bear who goes with me Last Line: Amid the hundred millions of his kind, %the scrimmage of appetite everywhere Variant Title(s): The Heavy Bea Subject(s): Animals; Bodies; Mortality RESPICE FINEM, by THOMAS PROCTOR Poem Source First Line: Lo, here the state of every mortal wight Subject(s): Mortality RESURREXI, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: From the throne of life eternal Last Line: Like an amulet of safety, to your heart forevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Mortality; Prayer; Spirituality RIDING TOGETHER, by WILLIAM MORRIS (1834-1896) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For many, many days together Last Line: The sweet saints grant I live not long. Subject(s): Horseback Riding; Mortality RIVERS AND WINDS AMONG THE TWISTED HILLS, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Life facing, death pursuing it Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Contentment; Mortality RUBAIYAT, 1859 EDITION: 12, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: How sweet is mortal sovranty!' - think some Last Line: Oh, the brave music of a distant drum! Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar Subject(s): Heaven; Mortality SHALL WE TAKE A SHOWER TOGETHER, by RUFINUS Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Comes old age and finally death Subject(s): Mortality SHE DEALT HER PRETTY WORDS LIKE BLADES, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Just locking up — to die Subject(s): Mortality SHORTNESS AND MISERY OF LIFE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Our days, alas! Our mortal days Last Line: And glory never dies Subject(s): Heaven; Mortality SIC VITA, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like to the falling of a star Last Line: The flight is past, -- and man forgot! Variant Title(s): Life;of Human Life;such Is Life Subject(s): Death; Life; Mankind; Mortality; Transience; Dead, The; Human Race; Impermanence SILT, by PAUL MARIANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How it steals up on you, this mortality Subject(s): Mortality; Ransience SINCE THERE IS NO ESCAPE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Since there is no escape, since at the end Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Life; Mortality SLEEP, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A reason's powers by day our god disclose Last Line: Our god forgetting, by our god forgot! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality SLEEPLESS NIGHT, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They love me, and I have not made them happy Last Line: And life is short and we shall soon be gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Mortality SMALLEST BLESSING, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A cold wind freezes me inside Last Line: Lost and long for its return Subject(s): Loss; Mortality SONG OF A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, life is so short Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters; Old Maids SONG OF A SPINSTER, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah me, life is so short Last Line: While I ... Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Mortality; Spinsters SONGS: 9. WHETHER SLEEPING, WHETHER WAKING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: While we lovers lean and mock them under. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Paradise SONNET, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Time and the mortal will stand never fast Last Line: Not chequered with rare blessing as of %yore Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Mortality SONNET TO DUNNINGTON CASTLE: 2, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As slow and solemn yonder deepening knell Last Line: Heeds how the faithless bauble melts away. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Youth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed SONNET: 35, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We needs must be divided in the tomb Last Line: And nothing of our heart ot earth returned. Subject(s): Mortality SONNET: ON THE SHORTNESS OF TIME, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If I could live without the thought of death Subject(s): Mortality; Transience; Impermanence SONNET: THE PRIDE OF UNBELIEF, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I complained that I had lost my hope Subject(s): Mortality SOON OUR FRIENDS PERISH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Lonely we hearken, as loud winds blow Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Mortality SPECULATION, by ERON DUNBAR ROWLAND Poem Text First Line: It would not be so painful Last Line: Of life aware. Subject(s): Mortality SPRING WALK, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My father and I go for a walk Last Line: Rotting in the green spring sun. Subject(s): Fathers; Mortality; Time STANZAS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I may sing; but minstrel's singing Last Line: Be it so! Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1787, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While thirteen moons saw smoothly run Last Line: "and answer all--""amen!" Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1788, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I, from heaven inspired, as sure presage Last Line: And the next opening grave may yawn for you. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1789, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O most delightful hour by man Last Line: "such only be your lives." Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1790, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who sits from day to day Last Line: Make us learn that we must die. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1792, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thankless for favours from on high Last Line: And calm descend to yours. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS PRINTED ON BILLS OF MORTALITY: 1793, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lives who lives to god alone Last Line: And mercy cast away. Subject(s): Mortality STANZAS WRITTEN WRITTEN ON THE FIRST OF JANUARY, 1794, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come melancholy moralizer, come Last Line: The grave the inn of rest. Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Happiness; Life; Morality; Mortality; Rest; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Joy; Delight; Ethics SUNLIGHT ON THE GARDEN, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And grateful too %for sunlight on the garden Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Contentment; Erotic Love; Love; Mortality; Transience SURETY, by WITTER BYNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We have each other's deathless love Last Line: How dear a thing is dust! Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love; Loyalty; Mortality; Dead, The SUSANS, by KATE NORTHROP Poem Source First Line: Some do not have the luck %to die young. Some become Last Line: Although I was not there. I felt finally %such sorrow for those living. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Mortality; Sex SYMBOLISM, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Now when the spirit in us wakes and broods Last Line: And sets the seal celestial on all mortal things. Alternate Author Name(s): A. E. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Longing; Love; Mortality; Dead, The; Paradise TETELESTAI, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall we praise the magnificence of the dead Last Line: A fanfare of glory. . . . And which of us dares to deny him! Subject(s): Mortality THAT IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Precisely opposite Subject(s): Mortality THE ALARM, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Twas fairly done, mortalitie Last Line: Not by surprize, my life I'd loose. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality; War THE ANODYNE, by SARAH NORCLIFFE CLEGHORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the late evening, when the house is still Last Line: The beaded forehead of mortality. Subject(s): Mortality THE BALANCE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The body said to the soul one day Last Line: "I have dusted your conscience. Call it quits!" Subject(s): Mortality; Soul THE BEAST OF BURDEN, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the scourge was made for men Last Line: We forfeit, he attains the goal. Subject(s): Mortality THE BLACK FACED SHEEP, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ruminant pillows! Gregarious soft boulders! Subject(s): Farm Life; Mortality; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Agriculture; Farmers THE BOUNDARIES OF HUMANITY, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the primeval father Last Line: Of human existence. Subject(s): Humanity; Mankind; Mortality; Human Race THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me Last Line: Were toward eternity-- Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology THE CLOSED GATE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thus wrote she when the heart in her was high Last Line: While on the joy she was, we close the gate. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Howells, Winifred (1863-1889); Mortality THE CLOUD CHAMBER, by ARTHUR SZE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A neighbor / rejects chemotherapy and the hospital Last Line: Is immortal. Subject(s): Mortality THE CRADLE OR COFFIN, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: The cradle or coffin, the robe or the shroud Last Line: Tell us, o mortals, which like ye the best? Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Mortality; Dead, The THE CRIMSON MOON, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behind the legions of the sun, the star battalions of the night Last Line: When the hidden people shall march out beneath the crimson moon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Future Life; Humanity; Moon; Mortality; Redemption; Salvation; Spiritual Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DARK HOUR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: And now, when merry winds do blow Last Line: I am aware. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality THE DEAD, by CHARLES HEAVYSEGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How great unto the living seem the dead! Last Line: And all is what imagination dreams. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The THE DEATH DEAL, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ever since that moment Subject(s): Mortality THE DEFIANCE; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Be not too proud, imperious dame Last Line: Th' usurper death will make thee lay it down. Subject(s): Mortality; Transience; Impermanence THE DIET, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: Last night my supper, as I fed Last Line: By thy sweet grace an endlesse feast shall reap. Subject(s): Dinners & Dining; Gluttony; Mortality; Temptation THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Last Line: And renowned be thy grave! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence THE END, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt clouds are piled athwart the sky Last Line: Is mourning for the mighty race. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE EVENING OF THE PYRAMIDS, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A summer night in the desert is as welcome Last Line: There was a dark room and an empty coffer for a king. Subject(s): Egypt; Mortality; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Pyramids THE EXTINCTION OF THE DINOSAURS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How much time? The old guys playing cribbage Subject(s): Mortality THE FEAR, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Oft have I thought the muse was dead Last Line: Each time you sleep and do not move. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fear; Mortality THE FORT OF RATHANGAN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The fort over against the oak-wood Last Line: And the kings asleep in the ground Subject(s): Mortality THE FOUR ERAS, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lark has sung his carol in the sky Last Line: He rests in holy earth with them that went before. Subject(s): Mortality THE FRAILTY OF MAN'S LIFE, by PHILIP AYRES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The life we strive to lengthen out Last Line: It drops to earth, the earth from whence it rose. Subject(s): Mortality THE GIFT OF A SKULL, by JOHN SKELTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your ugly token / my mind hath broken Last Line: Amen. Variant Title(s): Upon A Dead Man's Head Subject(s): Mortality; Skulls THE GNAT, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: One night all tyred wth ye weary day Last Line: All feare. Subject(s): Gnats; Mortality; Night; Bedtime THE GRANDMOTHERS, by ROBERT WRIGLEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He thought, this is the way they all are Last Line: The long, long night they must swim through Subject(s): Grandparents; Cancer (disease); Family Life; Mortality THE HAPPY DEAD, by JANE BARLOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When he for whom, through portals strangely wrought Last Line: As ways trod once through blinding mirk of night. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Memory; Mortality; Obituaries; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HEAVY BEAR WHO GOES WITH ME, by DELMORE SCHWARTZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography Subject(s): Bears; Mortality THE LAKE OF GAUBE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is lord and god, sublime, serene Last Line: For aught that a lie saith, fear. Subject(s): Mortality THE LIFE SO SHORT, by EAMON GRENNAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The wind colder even than march in maine, though the same sea Subject(s): Life; Transience; Mortality; Birds THE MARCH OF MORTALITY, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over the hills of time to the valley of endless years Last Line: That his soul shall know. Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie Subject(s): Mortality THE MISSION, by KEVIN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Back there then I lived Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life; Fathers THE MORTAL LIFE, by LAVINIA S. TYLER GOODWIN Poem Text First Line: A swallow poising in the candle-light Last Line: Such is our life—its measure coming, going. Subject(s): Mortality THE PEOPLE NEXT DOOR, by LOUIS SIMPSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He isn't a religious man Subject(s): Neighbors; Family Life; Fatners; Transience; Mortality; Happiness; Relatives; Impermanence; Joy; Delight THE PICTURE OF LITTLE T.C. IN A PROSPECT OF FLOWERS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: See with what simplicity / this nymph begins her golden days! Last Line: Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee. Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Mortality; Childhood THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 149, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If pleasures come be happy Last Line: Lays out the end in detail Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Mortality; Pleasure THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 18, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I spur my horse past ruins Last Line: Unnamed in the records of immortals Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Animals; Chinese Literature; Decay; Horses; Lament; Mortality; Ruins; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 233, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our lives are circumscribed by dust Last Line: Suddenly we're old men Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Aging; Chinese Literature; Life; Mortality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 262, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the people I see Last Line: Blooming at dawn gone by dusk Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Life; Mortality; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 288, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Deer live deep in the forest Last Line: And soon their loveliness fades Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Decay; Deer; Mortality; Rot; Decadence THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 294, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the flower among the leaves Last Line: Red cheeks don't last long Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Flowers; Mortality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 295, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Go ahead stockpile rhino horn Last Line: Trying to live forever is vain Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Death; Mortality; Vanity; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 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: 56, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Call friends over when you have wine Last Line: Haven't sent back any news Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Hospitality; Mortality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 57, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A likable excellent fellow Last Line: He doesn't pass on the eternal lamp Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Men; Mortality THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 8, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A fine young man on horseback Last Line: Mean nothing when you're dead Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Courage; Death; Mortality; Youth; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 94, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man isn't greedy Last Line: At all the mounds below the pines Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Greed; Mortality; Wisdom; Avarice; Cupidity THE PRIZE, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sinewy life and sinewy death Last Line: Caught unprepared, revealed the prize. Subject(s): Mortality THE REST IS SILENCE, by PALLADAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Soon wilt thou pass to earth; waste not thy breath Last Line: Hush, man! And while thou livest ponder death. Alternate Author Name(s): Pallades Subject(s): Mortality THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire! Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas THE ROUTINE, by DONALD HALL Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Marital Love; Mortality THE SKY ABOVE THE ROOFING LIES, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: With thy lost years? Subject(s): Time; Mortality; God; Sky THE SNOWFLAKE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When we are young and wake from sleep Last Line: Their happy tunes of careless ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Mortality THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the funeral march. I did not think Last Line: A mere machine of murder. Subject(s): Fate; Funerals; God; Mortality; Murder; Religion; Soldiers; Destiny; Burials; Theology THE SPIRIT'S FLIGHT, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: There is a flight much greater far Last Line: Forever pass away. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mortality; Soul; Supernatural THE STWONEN STEPS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thease stwonen steps a-zet so true Last Line: O' veet trod vu'st the steäirs? Subject(s): Family Life; History; Mortality; Stairs; Time; Relatives; Historians THE THINGS THAT DIE, by MARY BETH LEWIS Poem Text First Line: A tune so softly whistled in the street Last Line: To mind the things that die! Subject(s): Mortality THE THREE HERMITS, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Three old hermits took the air Last Line: Sang unnoticed like a bird. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Hermits; Imagination; Mortality; Old Age; Vision; Fancy THE WATCH, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never Last Line: And mans pulse stopt, all passions sleep in peace. Subject(s): Mortality; Watches THE WORLD'S A BUBBLE, by POSEIDIPPUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The world's a bubble, and the life of man Last Line: Not to be borne, or being borne to dye. Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos Subject(s): Human Behavior; Life; Marriage; Mortality; Peace; War; Conduct Of Life; Human Nature; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE WORLDS IN THIS WORLD, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doors were left open in heaven again Last Line: That's the curse, that's the miracle -- Subject(s): Change; Experience; Faith; Fate; Heaven; Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Life; Mortality; Permanence; Rilke, Rainer Maria (1875-1926); Time; Transience; Belief; Creed; Destiny; Paradise; Shoah; Judaism; Impermanence THIS QUIET DUST, by JOHN HALL WHEELOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here in my curving hands I cup Last Line: Between two vigils fallen asleep. Subject(s): Mortality THOUGHTS ON THE WORKS OF PROVIDENCE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arise, my soul, on wings enraptur'd, rise Last Line: What songs should rise, how constant, how divine! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality 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 SONGS: 1, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A heart as deep as the sea Last Line: In the few short years of a life? Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Mortality TIME, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this vast serene of sky Last Line: The humming of the bees that pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Mortality TIME NOT TO BE RECALLED, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Mark that swift arrow, how it cuts the air Subject(s): Mortality; Time TIS HE WHOSE YESTER-EVENING'S HIGH DISDAIN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Who meet most feelingly the calls of sadness Subject(s): Mortality; Time TO A CLERGYMAN ON THE DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where contemplation finds her sacred spring Last Line: To dry thy tears how longs the heav'nly muse! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A DYING ROSE, by SARAH ORSHANSKY Poem Text First Line: Fading petal of a dying rose! Last Line: The wind bloweth past . . . A sigh! . . . Good-bye. Subject(s): Flowers; Mortality; Roses TO A GENTLEMAN & LADY ON THE DEATH ... CHILD NAMED AVIS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: On death's domain intent I fix my eyes Last Line: And seek beatitude beyond the skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A GENTLEMAN OF THE NAVY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Celestial muse! For sweetness fam'd inspire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A GENTLEMAN ON HIS VOYAGE TO GREAT-BRITAIN, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While others chant the gay elysian scenes Last Line: And own thy work, great ruler of the skies! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Sea Voyages TO A LADY AND HER CHILDREN, ON THE DEATH OF HER SON ..., by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O'erwhelming sorrow now demands my song Last Line: And to your god immortal anthems raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO A LADY ON HER COMING TO NORTH-AMERICAN WITH HER SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Indulgent muse! My grov'ling mind inspire Last Line: With shouts of joy the country rings around. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LADY ON HER REMARKABLE PRESERVATION IN AN HURRICANE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou did'st hear the tempest from afar Last Line: And what the blessings of maternal care! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Hurricanes; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; America TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF THREE RELATIONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We trace the pow'r of death from tomb to tomb Last Line: And to thy father tune the praise divine. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO A LADY PUTTING OFF HER VEIL, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Keep on your veil and hide your eye Last Line: When life is done, where shall I go? Subject(s): Mortality TO A SWEET PEA, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, little fairy, with your outstretched / wings Last Line: And know it bloweth from immortal bloom. Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Mortality; Dead, The; Parting TO CAPTAIN H--D, OF THE 65TH REGIMENT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say, muse divine, can hostile scenes delight Last Line: Britannia glories in no son like you. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO EDITH, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: Edith, it seems to me life is so brief Last Line: Through memory. Subject(s): Mortality TO HIS HONOUR THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR, ON DEATH OF HIS LADY, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All-conquering death! By thy resistless pow'r Last Line: That fain thy soul to heav'nly scenes would raise. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Dead, The TO MAECENAS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Maecenas, you, beneath the myrtle shade Last Line: Hear me propitious, and defend my lays. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MISS. MARY MOORHEAD, ON THE DEATH OF HER FATHER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Involv'd in clouds of wo, maria mourns Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MR. AND MRS. - , ON THE DEATH OF THEIR INFANT SON, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O death! Whose sceptre, trembling realsm obey Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO MRS. LEONARD, ON THE DEATH OF HER HUSBAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Grim monarch! See depriv'd of vital breath Last Line: And better suited to th' immortal mind. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To A Lady On The Death Of Her Husband Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Widows & Widowers TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: MAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life was once a span; now one of those Last Line: Since through a double mean nought right appears. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Bereavement TO S.M., A YOUNG AFRICAN PAINTER, ON SEEING HIS WORKS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: To show the lab'ring bosom's deep intent Last Line: Now seals the fair creation from my sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Love - Loss Of; Moorhead, Scipio (18th Century); Mortality; Paintings & Painters TO THE AUTHOR OF THE LONDON MAGAZINE, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sir, %as your magazine is a proper repository for any thing valuable or cusiou Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE HON. COMMODORE HOOD ON HIS PARDONING A DESERTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was thy noble soul and high desert Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE HONOURABLE T.H. ESQ; ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While deep you mourn beneath the cypress-shade Last Line: "converse with heav'n, and taste the promis'd joy" Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Death - Children; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; Death - Babies TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY ... AMERICAN STAMP ACT, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subjects hope Last Line: A monarch's smile can set his subjects free! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY, 1768, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your subject hope, dread sire Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE REV. DR. THOMAS AMORY ON READING HIS SERMONS, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To cultivate in ev'ry noble mind Last Line: A nobler title, and superior name! Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO THE RIGHT HON! WILLIAM EARL OF DARTMOUTH, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Hail! Happy day! When smiling like the morn Last Line: Where, like the prophet, thou shalt find thy god. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Subject(s): Americans; Freedom; Legge, William. 2d Earl Of Dartmouth; Love - Loss Of; Mortality; United States; Liberty; America TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE, IN NEW-ENGLAND, by PHILLIS WHEATLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: While an intrinsic ardor prompt [or, bids] me to write Last Line: And in immense perdition sinks the soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Peters, Phillis Variant Title(s): To The University Of Cambridge, Wrote In 1767 Subject(s): Harvard University; Love - Loss Of; Mortality TO VENERATE THE SIMPLE DAYS, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Termed mortality! Subject(s): Mortality; Conduct Of Life TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. THE MORTAL LOVER, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the little mortal lover in whose heart the low scorching flame Last Line: Eyes for a glimmer of light, but there is none. Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mortality TRAGEDY OF TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is that when we Last Line: Can take comfort Subject(s): Mortality; Time TWO VOICES, by GEORGE SANTAYANA Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The life that was is dead and lost Last Line: My fate is mine, and scorns the lie of time. Subject(s): Mortality; Time 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 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 THE IMAGE OF DEATH, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Before my face the picture hangs Last Line: My life may mend, sith I must die. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Dead, The URANIA, by ROBERT ANDREWS Poem Text First Line: Whence this impatience fluttering in my breast! Last Line: This cordial take.' I drank. Urania flew. Subject(s): Arabia; Heaven; Mortality; Transience; Wings; Paradise; Impermanence VALE, by MAURICE BARING Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am forever haunted by one dread Subject(s): Mortality VALLEY, by STANLEY MOSS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once I was jealous of lovers. Now I am Last Line: I am not sure that the hand of god %and the hand of man evertouch, even by chance Subject(s): Mortality; Religion VALUTA, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Have you ever noticed how, the Last Line: Illimitable bounties of %deathlessness Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Immortality; Mortality VANITAS VANITATUM, FR. THE DEVIL'S CASE LAW, by JOHN WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All the flowers of the spring Last Line: And weave but nets to catch the wind. Variant Title(s): All Is Vanity;dirge;the Burial Subject(s): Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Mortality; Burials VIGIL, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Our talk was quiet as an autumn vesper Last Line: And burning eyes the wax wane. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Wakes VINTAGE, by DEAN YOUNG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because I will die soon, I fall asleep Subject(s): Mortality VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright Last Line: Then chiefly lives. Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence WAIT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am a man and do not know why I was born. Last Line: I am patient and can wait Subject(s): Mortality WE CAN'T WRITE OURSELVES INTO ETERNAL LIFE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And share the earth with earth Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers; Truth WE DO NOT RECEIVE A SHORT LIFE BUT WE MAKE IT, by RICHARD CRASHAW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you mourn that too swift a life is Last Line: You make a thousand deaths for yourself. Indeed the more %years you waste, the more you demand Subject(s): Mortality WE KNEW NOT THAT WE WERE TO LIVE, by EMILY DICKINSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: It is the same with life Variant Title(s): Poem: 1462; Poem: 148 Subject(s): Mortality WHAT KEPT HORACE ALIVE, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men and women spend only a moment in paradise Subject(s): Mortality WHEN I AM WITH YOU, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am with you, two notes of the sarod Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Mortality WHEN I DIE, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: Every solitary bird will sing Last Line: Never to be the same the day I die Subject(s): Death; Mortality WHEN I WANDER WITH DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This life is a fleeting breath Last Line: Let me find love's long-lost day. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WISE MEN IN THEIR BAD HOURS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Wise men in their bad hours have envied Last Line: And a few dead men's thoughts have the same temper Subject(s): Mortality; Wisdom WITH THE CARAVAN, by INA DONNA COOLBRITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Closer the curtain. Still the sun is flame Last Line: Are the gates wide, hasán? Subject(s): Future Life; Mortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life WITNESS, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We can't write ourselves into eternal life Last Line: And shared the earth with earth Subject(s): Mortality; Writing & Writers YOU. THEREFORE, by REGINALD SHEPHERD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: You are like me, you will die too, but not today: Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mortality; Love; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men |
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