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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: BURIALS Matches Found: 292 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "DIRGE (TO THE MEMORY OF MISS ELLEN GREE, OF KEW ...)", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Peerless yet hapless maid of q! Last Line: Her dirge and leg Subject(s): Alphabets;bees;death;funerals;insects;language; "beekeeping;dead, The;burials;bugs;words;vocabulary; A DIRGE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mortal child, lay thee where / earth is gift and giver Last Line: Shall disturb thee never. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials A DIRGE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bell tolls on in my heart Last Line: Death gives thee at last good day. Subject(s): Bells; Death; Funerals; Grief; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness A DIRGE FOR MCPHERSON; KILLED IN FRONT OF ATLANTA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arms reversed and banners craped Last Line: Sarpedon of the mighty war. Subject(s): American Civil War; Atlanta Campaign (1864); Funerals; Mcpherson, James Birdseye (1828-1864); United States - History; Burials A FIFTH AVENUE PARADE, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What is this silent, dark crowd Last Line: Machines and armies sensitive as souls. Subject(s): Funerals; New York City; Parades; Triangle Factory Fire (1911); Women; Burials; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple A FRIEND'S PLEADING WORDS TO ANOTHER, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Before you should lose me Last Line: I may be the eyeball amplifying the drippings of the sap. Variant Title(s): A Friend's Pleading Words To A Second Person Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Nature; Reunions; Dead, The; Burials A FUNERAL, by HENRY ALFORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Slowly and softly let the music go Last Line: And streaks of orient light in time's horizon play. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials 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 FUNERAL, by FREDERIC LAWRENCE KNOWLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the darkness and chill of the night Last Line: And her breast was the tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Paget, R. L. Subject(s): Despair; Funerals; Love; Burials A FUNERAL, by WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So suddenly, who would've expected this' Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A FUNERAL CHANT FOR THE OLD YEAR, by E. JUSTINE BAYARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the death-night of the solemn old year! Last Line: But she is gone! Alternate Author Name(s): Cutting, E. Justine Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A FUNERAL THOUGHT, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the stern genius, to whose hollow tramp Last Line: My monument sublime. Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Kisses; Love; Thought; Dead, The; Burials; Thinking A GERMAN STUDENT'S FUNERAL HYMN, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With steady march across the daisy meadow Last Line: Call -- he will answer thee, god of the just. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A GIPSY FUNERAL, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: While seeking in a warwick lane Last Line: Or in a gipsies' camp. Subject(s): Funerals; Gypsies; Burials; Gipsies A GIRL'S FUNERAL IN MILAN, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There in the strange old gilded hearse Last Line: And thus do the friendless find a friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A GIRTONIAN FUNERAL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Let us begin and portion out these sweets Last Line: Gen us undying? Subject(s): "browning, Robert (1812-1889);funerals;poetry & Poets;" Burials A MEDITATION, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How often in the years that close Last Line: Silent the victors stood, scorning to raise a shout. Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; U.s. - History; Burials A MODEST FUNERAL, by KARL SHAPIRO Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death passed by on fervid rubber wheels Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A RHYME FROM LINCOLNSHIRE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sad is the burying in the sunshine Last Line: But bless'd is the corpse that goeth home om rain Subject(s): Funerals; Burials A WOMAN OF SIXTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The shock came when I went up to her coffin Last Line: That might have been immortal given place. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Faces; Funerals; Life; Women; Dead, The; Burials ACCIDIE, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light, robust buildings Last Line: Against the obstinate mark Subject(s): Funerals; Burials ACCUSATION, by HELEN PETKANICH Poem Text First Line: And so - you are afraid of death! Last Line: The palm fronds starched with surprise. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials AFTERWARDS, by DAVID BAKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A short ride in the van, then the eight of us Subject(s): Funerals; Burials ALCESTIS: SCENE 3. FUNERAL MARCH, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Thou'rt unhappy for thy daring's sake Last Line: Blessèd by hades' bride. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials AN ANATOMY OF THE WORLD: THE FIRST ANNIVERSARY. A FUNERALL ELEGIE, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis lost, to trust a tombe with such a guest Last Line: To see how well the good play her, on earth. Variant Title(s): A Funeral Elegy Subject(s): Drury, Elizabeth; Funerals; Burials AN INCIDENTAL REPORT ON MY GRANDMOTHER'S DIVINITY, by BOB HICOK Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My grandmother had 14 children Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grandparents; Dead, The; Burials; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AT A BURIAL, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord of all light and darkness Last Line: Lord of all life and death. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Life; Religion; Dead, The; Burials; Theology AT A 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 POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT BEETHOVEN'S FUNERAL, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ev'ry tear that is shed by the mourner is holy Last Line: The grisly destroyer is distanced by him. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Funerals; Music & Musicians; Burials AT THE FUNERAL OF A MINOR POET, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Room in your heart for him, o mother earth Last Line: To flower and leaf in thine unending springs! Subject(s): Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Burials AT THE GRAVESIDE, by OU YANGXIU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Years since we last foregathered, o-man-ch'ing! Last Line: Peace to thy dust, man-ching! Alternate Author Name(s): Ou-yang Hsiu; Ou-yang Xiu Subject(s): Funerals; Burials AT THE TOMB OF WASHINGTON, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let the brows be bared Last Line: His laurels dim! Subject(s): Funerals; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Burials BALLADE, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: The pretty maid she died, she died, in love-bed as she lay Last Line: And they went off a-field to work, as they do every day. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials BELLS FOR JOHN WHITESIDE'S DAUGHTER, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: There was such speed in her little body Last Line: Lying so primly propped. Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers & Daughters; Funerals; Social Protest; Death - Babies; Burials BENEATH RED CLAY, by DORA SANDERS THOMPSON Poem Text First Line: The death-moth hovered over kan-neh-tee Last Line: And god -- in her heart. Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America BONES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sling me under the sea Last Line: Sling me . . . Under the sea. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BRIGHT BEADS, by MINNIE FAEGRE KNOX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep well, my child, and rest those baby feet Last Line: A fan-shaped group of little bones ... Bright beads. Subject(s): Babies; Death - Children; Fingers; Funerals; Infants; Death - Babies; Burials BROWNING'S FUNERAL, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now 'past they glide' and bear the flower-wreathed bier Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Funerals; Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Burials BURIAL, by MARTHA DOWNER Poem Text First Line: Low on a plain Last Line: Shepherd and don and wall. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials BURIAL, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is a body that should die at sea! Last Line: Not wait till I've been dead for a year! Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Burials; Ocean BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL ANTHEM, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Flesh of our flesh, bone of our bone Last Line: Beside that river blest. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Funerals; Hearts; Pain; Soul; Burials; Suffering; Misery BURIAL AT SEA, by JESSIE GODDARD BROMAN Poem Text First Line: In all the wide unrest that is the sea Last Line: Behind the soundless dark of final bars. Subject(s): Funerals; Sea; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Burials; Ocean BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL OF A FAIRY QUEEN, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On a verdant summer islet Last Line: Shone on me, and I woke. Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine Subject(s): Funerals; Burials BURIAL OF AN EMIGRANT'S CHILD IN THE FOREST, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The desolation and the agony Last Line: Kneel, and bow submitted hearts to god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Death - Children; Forests; Funerals; Death - Babies; Woods; Burials BURIAL OF BARBER, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bear him, comrades, to his grave Last Line: Of the freedom of the west! Subject(s): Barber, Thomas; Emancipation Movement & Proclamation; Funerals; Kansas; Slavery; Antislavery Movement - United States; Burials; Serfs BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On sunny slope and beechen swell Last Line: The rider grasps his steed again. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials BURIAL SONG: THE DEW ON THE GARLIC LEAF, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: How swiftly it dries Last Line: Will never more return Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);funerals; Burials BURIAL SONG: THE GRAVEYARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: What man's land is the graveyard Last Line: Man's fate knows no tarrying Subject(s): China - Early Period (to 200 B.c.);funerals; Burials BURIED TODAY, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Buried to-day. / when the soft green buds are bursting out Last Line: Trust him, and go your way. Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials BURY HER WITH HER SHINING HAIR, by CATHERINE ANNE WARFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bury her with her shining hair Last Line: Of her who sleeps in death. Alternate Author Name(s): Warfield, Catherine M. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials CAMPBELL'S FUNERAL, by HORACE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well to see these accidental great Last Line: This all-unworthy wreath on such a poet's bier. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Horatio Subject(s): Birth; Funerals; Nature; Poetry & Poets; Child Birth; Midwifery; Burials CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY OF BURIAL, by SHARON OLDS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking south, at the base of the year Subject(s): Funerals; Burials CHILD'S BURIAL IN SPRING, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where ocean's waves to the hollow caves murmur Last Line: A veil to be by eternity but ne'er by time with-drawn! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Children - Lost; Churchyards; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise CHRISTMAS BURIAL, by MARGARET HAZELWOOD Poem Text First Line: If I die in the spring / don't put anything Last Line: As life's promise. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials CORNEY'S HUT, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Old corney built in deadman's gap Last Line: Upon the dog that mourned his master Subject(s): Animals;death;dogs;funerals;solitude; "dead, The;burials;loneliness; CORTEGE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Four o'clock this afternoon Last Line: Fifteen hundred miles away. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials COTTON MILL FUNERAL, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Text First Line: Not without sorrow did she watch the sod Last Line: Later, like this sad one, they never weep. Subject(s): Cotton; Funerals; Mills & Millers; Burials COUNTING THE WINTER DEAD, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Off the oregon coast, thirty-three in storm and sudden Last Line: Voracious and benign, spare us o lord! Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Death; Fish & Fishing; Funerals - At Sea; Oregon; Dead, The; Anglers; Burials At Sea COUNTRY FUNERAL, by AMY LEE SPENCER Poem Text First Line: This is the greatest day you ever knew Last Line: You have known fame at last -- among the dead. Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Funerals; Life; Prayer; Dead, The; Burials COVER HER FACE, by THOMAS KINSELLA Poet's Biography First Line: They dither softly at her bedroom door Subject(s): Funerals; Burials CROSSROADS' BURIAL (SUGGESTED BY GALSWORTHY'S APPLE TREE), by MARY ATWATER TAYLOR Poem Text First Line: Green at the crossroads lifts the narrow mound Last Line: And her proud feet have found a pathway home. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Funerals; Roads; Suicide; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Paths; Trails CUPID SLAIN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I come from a burial Last Line: Let me weep to-day. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Burials DATUR HORA QUIETI, by ROBERT STEPHEN HAWKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At eve should be the time,' they said Last Line: We laid our hireling in his bed. Alternate Author Name(s): Hawker Of Morwenstow; Hawker, R. S. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials DAVID, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is young. The father is dead Last Line: The father is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Funerals; Mourning; Dead, The; Burials; Bereavement DEAD AT ELEVEN, by JOHN E. REINECKE Poem Text First Line: Make no threne! Last Line: Soldans surround him. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials DEAD JOYS, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Moan on with thy loud changeless wail Last Line: Or art thou pitiless as wind or sea? Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Disasters; Funerals - At Sea; Love - Loss Of; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Seamen; Sails DEATH AND BURIAL OF LORD TENNYSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone Last Line: And his name in gold letters written thereon! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Memory; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892); Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron DEATH AND MEMORY, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When poor women died Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Women; Hair; Burials DEBORARH YORK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: All along this fair 'foreside' Last Line: Deborah york, a queen art thou. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Saints; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise DIRGE AND HYMENAL, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woe! Woe! This is death's hour Last Line: Woe! Woe! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Happiness; Marriage; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DOMESDAY BOOK: MRS. GREGORY WENNER, by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gregory wenner's wife was by the sea Last Line: To the coroner and the jury in these words: -- Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Dead, The; Burials DRIFTWOOD, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From its burial at sea, a gray-white forest Last Line: Not one not beautiful Subject(s): Driftwood; Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea DUBLINESQUE, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down stucco sidestreets, Subject(s): Dublin, Ireland; Funerals; Burials DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ECCLESIASTICAL SONNETS: PART 3: 31. FUNERAL SERVICE, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the baptismal hour, thro' weal and woe Last Line: "where is thy sting? -- o grave, where is thy victory?" Subject(s): Funerals; Sacraments; Burials EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN (READ AT HIS FUNERAL, JANUARY 21, 1908), by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, quick to feel the lightest touch Last Line: Are true, -- and true, -- and true! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Funerals; Stedman, Edmund Clarence (1833-1908); Burials ELECTRA: A BURIAL-URN, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O sad memorial of the life I prized Last Line: I see, only the dead can feel no pain. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials 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 EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He who but yesterday would roam Last Line: Whose will the water's will! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Funerals; Sailing & Sailors; Burials EPITAPH ON LADY OSSORY'S BULLFINCH, by HORACE (HORATIO) WALPOLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All flesh is grass and so are feather too: / finches must die, as well as I & yo Last Line: What serves for one will serve for t' other. Alternate Author Name(s): Orford, 4th Earl Of Variant Title(s): Epitaph On Two Piping-bullfinches Of Lady Ossry's Subject(s): Epitaphs; Feathers; Finches; Funerals; Rest; Burials ERIC'S DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shon'st thou but to pass away Last Line: Flowers we strew above thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Soldiers; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ERIC'S FUNERAL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tired? Yes, a little, I believe. I'm not so very / strong Last Line: But are like unto the angels in god's house, which is heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials 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 EVAN TOM, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old evan tom the sexton Last Line: Marching them up the stairs. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Wales; Dead, The; Burials; Welshmen; Welshwomen EVENTIDE, by MARY AGNE Poem Text First Line: Hark! What is this I hear? Last Line: Leaving behind a lump of clay. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise FALLING ASLEEP OVER THE AENEID, by ROBERT LOWELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is blue and scarlet on my page, Subject(s): Reading; Mythology; Dreams; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Nightmares; Burials FATHER DUNMAN'S FUNERAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury me on a sunday' Last Line: "a jolly afternoon." Subject(s): Funerals; Burials FELDMESTEN OR MEASURING THE GRAVES, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hill and glade, the flowers fade Last Line: "when will we weave it threads of song?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jews; Mourning; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Bereavement FILIPPO BALDINUCCI ON THE PRIVILEGE OF BURIAL, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No, boy, we must not'- so began Last Line: "o lord, how long? How long, o lord?" Subject(s): Funerals; Italy; Jews; Burials; Italians; Judaism FOR MY FUNERAL, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that from thy mansion Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials FOR TED, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is 0200 hrs july 8, 1983 Last Line: To make me laugh so hard I almost shit my pants Subject(s): Berrigan, Ted (1934-1983); Death; Drinks & Drinking; Funerals; Berrigan, Edmund Joseph; Dead, The; Wine; Burials FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FOR WCW, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We sat in rows listening to your poems Last Line: Bleating his lines. Subject(s): Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Williams, William Carlos (1883-1963); Burials FORGOTTEN, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the great pine tree we rest Last Line: None other than elizabeth. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL, by ETHEL SKIPTON BARRINGER Poem Text First Line: Night is the smoke Last Line: Dew the tears of sorrow. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials FUNERAL, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Of funerals, the saddest Last Line: And gods: the resurrector. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL ANTHEM, by HENRY HART MILMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou art gone before us Last Line: And the weary are at rest. Variant Title(s): Burial Hymn Subject(s): Funerals; Burials FUNERAL HYMN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When life's gay courage fails at last Last Line: And the great, blue folds of sky! Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL MASS: REQUIEM, by BORIS NIKOLAYEVICH BUGAYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You sit on the bed there Last Line: "as with vestments of silver?" Alternate Author Name(s): Belyi, Andrey; Bely, Andrei Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials FUNERAL OF MAZEEN; THE LAST OF THE ... MOHEGAN NATION, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mid the trodden turf is an open grave Last Line: And plead for your pale-brow'd brother's guilt. Subject(s): Funerals; Hope; Native Americans; Sin; Soul; Burials; Optimism; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America FUNERAL SERVICE, by EVE MERRIAM Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As we poor outnumber the rich, so evil days to good Alternate Author Name(s): Moskovitz, Eva Subject(s): Funerals; Poverty; Burials 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 FUNERALS, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One would think the dead were burying the living Last Line: And quickly and quietly burn it up. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials GEORGE LEVISON OR, THE SCHOOLFELLOWS, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The noisy sparrows in our clematis Last Line: Supernal wisdom only knows how much. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Angels; Classmates; Death; Friendship; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Soul; Schoolmates; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise GHETTO FUNERAL, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Followed by his lodge, shabby men stumbling over the cobblestones, Subject(s): Funerals; Burials GREEK FUNERAL CHANT, OR MYRIOLOGUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A wail was heard around the bed, the deathbed of the young Last Line: "woe! That it smiles, and not for thee! -- my brother and my friend!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Greece; Burials; Greeks HAVE YOU MET MISS JONES?, by CHARLES SIMIC Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have. At the funeral Subject(s): Funerals; Beauty; Burials HINDOO FUNERAL SONG, by EDWIN ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call on rama! Call to rama? Last Line: Ram! Ram!—oh, call to rama. Subject(s): Funerals; Hinduism; Religion; Burials; Theology HIS WIDOW, by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wreaths shrivelled and froze upon his grave Last Line: And slept -- and snored a little... Life isn't so bad. Subject(s): Funerals; Life; Sleep; Widows & Widowers; Burials HYMN: AT A FUNERAL, by REGINALD HEBER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath our feet and o'er our head Last Line: Shall live for hell or heaven! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other Last Line: And you know and you know. Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones IN A FORGOTTEN BURYING-GROUND, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING Poem Text First Line: Eternal in the brooding of the old norwegian spruces Last Line: Will find its way across the years -- to stir a stranger's breast! Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials IN MEMORY OF ANN JONES, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: After the funeral, mule praises, brays Variant Title(s): After The Funeral Subject(s): Aunts; Funerals; Burials INDIAN GIRL'S BURIAL, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A voice upon the prairies Last Line: As here they mourn for thee. Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Tuberculosis; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Consumption (pathology) INTERPOLATION SOUNDS, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over and through the burial chant Last Line: The sound of horses' hoofs departing -- saddles, arms, accoutrements. Subject(s): Funerals; Sheridan, Philip Henry (1831-1888); Burials ISLAND FUNERAL, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mama julinda is let down in a hole Subject(s): Funerals; Burials JASPER, by DONALD (GRADY) DAVIDSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If jasper saw a silver crescent declining Last Line: "let the songs I knew speed warm to your utterance." Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials JOAN OF ARC: BOOK 9, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Far through the shadowy sky the ascending flames Last Line: "the thunder—she shall blast her despot foes." Subject(s): Death; England; Faith; France; Funerals; God; Heroism; Joan Of Arc (1412-1431); Missions & Missionaries; Victory; War; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Burials; Heroes; Heroines JOURNEY'S END, by MADELINE YEAGER Poem Text First Line: When I am dead / see that folks omit Last Line: With beauty I shall walk. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Roses; Dead, The; Burials KINDAR BURIAL SERVICE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: We commend our brother to thee, oh earth! Last Line: For the spirit hath fled from its mouldering shrine. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials LAST RITES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the mighty minster's bell Last Line: Ere life's day grow dim! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Burials LAST RITES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead in the cold, a song-singing thrush Last Line: Raise him a tombstone of snow. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Sing-song; A Nursery Rhyme Book: 10 Subject(s): Cold; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials LEST WE FORGET, by LOIS M. EISH Poem Text First Line: When death shall curtain them about Last Line: There's no forgiveness after death. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Forgiveness; Funerals; Dead, The; Clemency; Burials LINES IN PRAISE OF PROFESSOR BLACKIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people's hearts are now full of sorrow Last Line: Worthy of a monument, and your name written thereon in letters of gold. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Honor; Memory; Praise; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials LONELY BURIAL, by STEPHEN VINCENT BENET Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were not many at that lonely place Last Line: The terrible bareness of the soul's last house. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials LOVE'S BURIAL, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let us clear a little space Last Line: We will walk a separate way. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Funerals; Love; Tears; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials MEMORIAL TO D.C.: 5. ELEGY, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let them bury your big eyes Last Line: Beats the golden bird no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Funerals; Vassar College; Dead, The; Burials MEN AT NY FATHER'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The ones his age who shook my hand Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Funerals; Burials MEXICAN FUNERAL PROCESSION, by BEULAH VICK BICKLEY Poem Text First Line: Four stalwart indians keep rhythmic step Last Line: While birds trill melodies above the deep silence of the sleepers. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials MONICA'S LAST PRAYER, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, could thy grave at home, at carthage be Last Line: Keep by this: life in god, and union there! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials MOTHER AND DAUGHTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silence. Shadows. A little wind in the elms Last Line: To other doors -- and other, and other, and other. Subject(s): Daughters; Funerals; Mothers; Silence; Soul; Burials MOZART'S REQUIEM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A requiem! And for whom? Last Line: Into the notes that o'er my dust shall swell. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Women; Burials MY FATHER'S BODY, by WILLIAM MATTHEWS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: First they take it away, Alternate Author Name(s): Matthews, William Procter Subject(s): Fathers; Corpses; Funerals; Cremation; Cadavers; Burials 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 WISH, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What I would wish for is nor praise nor fame Last Line: Let them think: good was she we've been burying. Subject(s): Funerals; Wishes; Burials NETLEY ABBEY, MIDNIGHT, by WILLIAM S. SOTHEBY Poem Text First Line: Soft on the wave the oars at distance sound Last Line: Shall pour the lenient balm that soothes the soul to peace. Subject(s): Funerals; Melancholy; Night; Burials; Dejection; Bedtime NEW FRIENDS, by MATTHEA HARVEY Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Plant me just below the potatoes Subject(s): Burials NIGHT BURIAL IN THE FOREST, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay him down where the fern is thick and fair Last Line: The wings of the angel who gathers the souls from the wastes of the world. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Night; Woods; Burials; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep! Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 3. NARCISSA, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From dreams, where thought in fancy's maze runs mad Last Line: When shall I die? -- when shall I live for ever? Subject(s): Death; Fortune; Funerals; Life; Love; Mankind; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Human Race; Bedtime NO ROOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was room for her anywhere Last Line: Lena? Louise? Lisette? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Names; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones NONGTONGPAW, by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: John bull for pastime took a prance Last Line: "good night t'ye, mounseer nongtongpaw!" Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Subject(s): Funerals; Wealth; Burials; Riches; Fortunes OBSEQUIES, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The spirits of the twilight go sighing on these slopes Last Line: To a forest funeral. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Forests; Funerals; Woods; Burials ODE FOR THE BURIAL OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, slow to smite and swift to spare Last Line: Who perished in the cause of right. Variant Title(s): Abraham Lincoln;the Death Of Lincoln Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials ON A SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No pipes have skirled Last Line: The footfalls die. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the waves—the graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day 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 FUNERAL OF CHARLES I; AT NIGHT, IN ST. GEORGE'S CHAPEL, WINDSOR, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The castle clock had tolled midnight Last Line: We thought of him with tears. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Funerals; Burials 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 PALS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take a hold now Last Line: A locked-up story. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials PARNELL'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the great comedian's tomb the crowd Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Funerals; Parnell, Charles Stewart (1846-1891); Burials PEACE (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shout of gladness is heard afar Last Line: In the glorious reign of the prince of peace. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Peace; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones 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 POSTHUMOUS COQUETRY, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Let there be laid, when I am dead Last Line: Pater and ave for my peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Funerals; Love; Vanity; Burials PRAYER FOR THE LITTLE'UN, by PHYLLIS LIVINGSTON Poem Text First Line: I have dug a hole and put him in the ground Last Line: I have done my do . . . The rest is up to you. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials PRELIMINARY INSTRUCTIONS FOR A FUNERAL SERVICE; A POEM IN FOUR STANZAS, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Say this poor fool misfeatured all his days Last Line: He lives in your heart, as he lives in mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway Subject(s): Funerals; Burials PRISONERS, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though the road turn at last Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials RADHA TO RAM LILA, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Still in the moonlight gleam himalayan snows Last Line: And till a tongue of ashes speaks again. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Himalayas (mountains); Dead, The; Burials RETTY'S PHASES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Retty used to shake her head Last Line: Was so long ago! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials RETURN FROM DELHI, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Coming from delhi in the rain we met a country funeral Last Line: Our dark, silent athens is there Subject(s): Funerals; Burials SCENES IN LONDON: 4. THE CITY CHURCHYARD, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I pray thee lay me not to rest Last Line: Give loveliness to death. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Churchyards; Funerals; London; Burials SEA BURIAL, by JOHN CIARDI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Through the sea's crust of prisms looking up Last Line: And ran on grass as if it could not die Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; World War Ii; Burials At Sea; Second World War SEA BURIAL, FR. MARDI, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We drop our dead in the sea Last Line: Deeper down in the bottomless sea. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Burials At Sea SHACKLETON, by MADELINE DEFREES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two faces of the same coin: poet and explorer. This Last Line: Destined to go down, a bride of the sea. Alternate Author Name(s): Mary Gilbert, Sister; De Frees, Madeline Subject(s): Explorers; Funerals - At Sea; Sea Voyages; Shackleton, Sir Ernest (1874-1922); Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Burials At Sea SHE; AT HIS FUNERAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They bear him to his resting-place Last Line: Whilst my regret consumes like fire! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials SLED BURIAL, DREAM CEREMONY, by JAMES DICKEY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While the south rains, the north Subject(s): American Civil War; Funerals; United States - History; Burials 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 FOR THE FUNERAL OF A BOY, by HERBERT TRENCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On stems from silver woods Last Line: As dews that on the uplands shine and go! Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another, yet another! Year by year Last Line: The name of milne shall be an honour'd name. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Milne, Admiral Sir David (1763-1845); Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones STEP, by MICHAEL ONDAATJE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The ceremonial funeral structure for a monk Subject(s): Funerals; Monks; Sri Lanka; Burials; Ceylon SYREN SONGS: DIRGE, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Prayer unsaid, and mass unsung Last Line: Mermen lay him in his tomb! Variant Title(s): The Sea-ritual Subject(s): Funerals; Supernatural; Burials TALBRAGAR, by HENRY HERTZBERG LAWSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jack denver died on talbragar when christmas eve began Last Line: Rode in to talbragar. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TEMPORARILY IN OXFORD, by ANNE STEVENSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where they will bury me Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE ALDERMAN'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whom are they ushering from the world, with all Last Line: Dropping upon his urn their marble tears. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Generosity; Sin; Strangers; Towns; Wealth; Burials; Riches; Fortunes THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE BURIAL, by LYNN EMANUEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: After I've goosed up the fire in the stove with 'starter logg' Last Line: Greatest enemy. Which, in a sense, my father was Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE BURIAL IN ENGLAND, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: These then we honour: these in fragrant earth Last Line: Shall gather at the gate of paradise. Subject(s): Funerals; Patriotism; Burials THE BURIAL IN THE DESERT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the shadow of the pyramid Last Line: A field of death surveyed. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Sahara Desert; Burials THE BURIAL OF AN INFANT, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Blest infant bud, whose blossom-life Last Line: To dress them, and unswaddle death. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE BURIAL OF ARNOLD, CHAMPION OF HIS CLASS AT YALE COLLEGE, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye've gathered to your place of prayer Last Line: Is water'd by the tear. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE BURIAL OF BOSTON CORBETT (ONE WARDEN TO ANOTHER), by EDGAR LEE MASTERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So this is what we bury? How his face Last Line: Should he be raised? Subject(s): Booth, John Wilkes (1838-1865); Funerals; Burials THE BURIAL OF MR. GLADSTONE, THE GREAT POLITICAL HERO, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! The people now do sigh and moan Last Line: You were the greatest politician in your day. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gladstone, William Ewart (1809-1898); Heroism; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Heroes; Heroines THE BURIAL OF ROBERT BROWNING, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon st. Michael's isle Last Line: Or trafalgar. Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Browning, Robert (1812-1889); Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Writing & Writers; Burials THE BURIAL OF SIR JOHN MOORE AT [OR AFTER] CORUNNA, by CHARLES WOLFE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note Last Line: But we left him alone with his glory. Variant Title(s): After Corunna;the Burial Of Sir John Moore Subject(s): Corunna, Spain; Courage; Death; Funerals; Great Britain - History; Moore, Sir John (1761-1809); Napoleonic Wars; Pennisular War (1808-1814); Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Burials; English History THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD, by JOHN KEBLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I thought to meet no more, so dreary seem'd Last Line: With thy dear pardoning words. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE BURIAL OF THE REV. GEORGE GILFILLAN, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the gilfillan burial day Last Line: And that ended the gilfillan burial in the hill o' balgay. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Gillfillan, George (1813-1878); Dead, The; Burials THE BURIAL OF WEBSTER, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Low and solemn be the requiem above the nation's / dead Last Line: And future generations shall honor webster's name! Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Heaven; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE BURIAL OF WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lowly upon his bier Last Line: That were but heard in heaven? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; William I, King Of England (1028-1087); Burials; William The Conqueror THE CATTLEMAN'S BURIAL (S.S. MAORI KING, SOUTH SEAS), by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We bore our comrade from his bunk, we / kept him overnight Last Line: And longed for fields, and running brooks, and all my friends, and home. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Ranch Life; Dead, The; Burials THE CHILD'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fair is thy sight, sorrento, green thy shore Last Line: From long deep slumbers at the morning light. Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He often would ask us Last Line: When he had grown old. Subject(s): Choirs; Funerals; Mourning; Burials; Bereavement THE CHURCHMAN'S THREE WISHES IN FAVOUR OF THE BURIAL BILL, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A churchman, three things in this christian land Last Line: Not solemnized in lent. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Christianity; Funerals; Religion; Wishes; Burials; Theology THE CID'S FUNERAL PROCESSION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The moor had beleaguered valencia's towers Last Line: -- so the cid to his grave passed on! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Funerals; Cid Campeador (143-199); Diaz De Vivar, Rodrigo (143-199); Burials THE CROSS ROADS, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was an old man breaking stones Last Line: And a stone is on her face. Subject(s): Funerals; Girls; Labor & Laborers; Lunch; Murder; Rest; Soldiers; Story-telling; Travel; Burials; Work; Workers; Journeys; Trips 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 DEAD HORSEMAN, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who's riding o'er the giel so fast Last Line: How that fearful horseman rode. Subject(s): Funerals; Norway; Burials THE DEAD TEACHER, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE Poem Text First Line: Ah! But yesterday we saw him there in the familiar / place Last Line: Where thou restest from thy labors in the hearing of the pines! Subject(s): Bowdoin College; Death; Funerals; Teaching & Teachers; Dead, The; Burials; Educators; Professors THE DEAR PRESIDENT, by JOHN JAMES PIATT Poem Text First Line: Abraham lincoln, the dear president Last Line: "abraham lincoln, the dear president." Subject(s): Funerals; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Burials THE DEATH OF LORD AND LADY DALHOUSIE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Lord and lady dalhousie are dead, and buried at last Last Line: Then the people retired with sad hearts at a quick pace. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF PRINCE LEOPOLD, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Noble prince leopold, he is dead! Last Line: For the loss of the virtuous prince leopold they loved so dear Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Funerals; Leopold I, King Of The Belgians; Memory; Dead, The; Burials THE DEATH OF SIR LAUNCELOT, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At canterbury seven years a monk Last Line: Like evening's purple with the setting sun. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Death; Funerals; Grief; Heaven; Prayer; Arthur, King; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WILSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of january Last Line: Then along with the people assembled there they left the burying-ground. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF YE LIFE OF LOVE, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: O mighty love, well may thy glorious throne Last Line: Trust not my selfe, but hang on thy sweet care. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Love; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE EMPEROR'S FUNERAL, by GEORGE LUNT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And rolled in light the silver seine Last Line: Nor man, nor fiend had mocked his bier! Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Funerals; Burials THE EXILE'S DIRGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There went a dirge through the forest's gloom Last Line: They had reached the exile's lonely tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Exiles; Funerals; Burials THE FARE, by MOLLY PEACOCK Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bury me in my pink pantsuit, you said--and I did Subject(s): Funerals; Jewelry & Jewelers; Burials; Rings; Bracelets; Necklaces THE FAREWELL TO THE DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come near! Ere yet the dust Last Line: Leave ye the sleeper with his god to rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FOG, by GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lies dim and cold on the face of the mould Last Line: And the words die away in my song. Subject(s): Death; Fog; Funerals; Nature; Weather; Dead, The; Haze; Burials THE FRIEND'S BURIAL, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My thoughts are all in yonder town Last Line: Revealed in holy lives. Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Religion; Burials; Theology THE FUNERAL, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a pang that spurns all soothing cares Last Line: Forever more adored his holy name! Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Memory; Time; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They dressed us up in black Last Line: He was so tired, poor thing. Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUNERAL, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Whoever comes to shroud me, do not harm Last Line: That since you would save none of me, I bury some of you. Variant Title(s): The Funerall Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Love; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: It felt like the zero in brook ice Last Line: The cancer ate her like horse piss eats deep snow. Subject(s): Aunts; Cancer (disease); Farm Life; Funerals; Memory; Agriculture; Farmers; Burials THE FUNERAL, by WALTER J. HEGARTY Poem Text First Line: In the 70's we was workin' far back on a big north run Last Line: And we'll plant them next his mother's in the tomb at dusty town! Subject(s): Death; Deserts; Food & Eating; Funerals; Procrastination; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mark you not yon sad procession Last Line: Wilt thou keep that urn? Love mine! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUNERAL, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Against the wall a lovely picture hung Last Line: Ye weeping ones, she waits to welcome you. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUNERAL, by CAROLINE CROSBY WILSON Poem Text First Line: When I am dead Last Line: And a shroud. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL BELL, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more is gone Last Line: Into sweet rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL DAY OF SIR WALTER SCOTT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A glorious voice hath ceased! Last Line: Thine, only thine! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Burials THE FUNERAL GENIUS; AN ANCIENT STATUE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou shouldst be looked on when the starlight Last Line: When living light hath touched the brow of death? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Statues; Burials THE FUNERAL OF A VILLAGE GIRL, by JULIEN AUGUSTE PELAGE BRIZEUX Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When fair louise, half child, half woman, died Last Line: And every bird was warbling in its nest. Alternate Author Name(s): Brizeux, Auguste Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Girls; Poverty; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL OF ANTONIO GIANNO, by STIRLING BOWEN Poem Text First Line: Above the fruit store down on biddle street Last Line: The devastation of the last descent! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE FUNERAL OF NAPOLEON, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All nature is stiff in the chill of the air Last Line: Mid the people he loved, on the banks of the seine. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Funerals; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Burials THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE EX-PROVOST ROUGH, DUNDEE, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888, and on the 19th of november Last Line: Declaring that the late ex-provost rough couldn't be equalled in great britain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE PRINCE HENRY OF BATTENBERG, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alas! Prince henry of battenberg is dead! Last Line: And each one left with a sad heart and went home. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Heaven; Memory; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Paradise THE FUNERAL SERMON, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Almost droll / in its assault on magisterial Subject(s): Funerals; Fathers; Burials THE FUNERAL TREE OF THE SOKOKIS, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around sebago's lonely lake Last Line: The indian's fitting monument! Subject(s): Funerals; Native Americans; Sebago (lake), Maine; Trees; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE FUNERAL; A TOWN ECLOGUE, by JOHN GAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twice had the moon perform'd her monthly race Last Line: She read, and blushes glow'd beneath the veil.] Subject(s): Funerals; Towns; Burials THE GANGES, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sorry but we can't go to the immersions tonight Last Line: Children watering their charges, the black lulled elephants. Subject(s): Funerals; Ganges River, India; Memory; Spiritual Life; Burials THE GOAL OF THE WORLD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the goal of the world is joy Last Line: The soul to its nobler realms above! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Chopin, Frederic Francois (1810-1849); Death; Funerals; Happiness; Life; Marching & Marches; Dead, The; Burials; Joy; Delight THE HEARSE SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: The old grey hearse goes rolling by Last Line: And you look like hell when they're through with you Subject(s): Corpses;funerals;soldiers; Cadavers;burials THE HERITAGE OF BURIAL, by HELEN FIELD WATSON Poem Text First Line: A butterfly spirit crawled out of its case Last Line: In sweetest of ways? Why the burial rite? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE HURON'S ADDRESS TO THE DEAD, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brother, thou wert strong in youth Last Line: Rest in the bower of delight! Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Funerals; Iroquois Indians; Native Americans; U.s. - History; War; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Burials; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE KNOWN SOLDIER; FOR THE DAY OF PRESIDENT WILSON'S BURIAL, by MARK ANTHONY DE WOLFE HOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now through the stifling air, thick with the murk Last Line: While safe he sleeps among the deathless dead. Subject(s): Funerals; Holidays; Veterans Day; Wilson, Woodrow (1856-1924); Burials THE LAST OF THE FAMILY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What, gregory! You are come, I see, to join us Last Line: God make us ready, gregory, when it comes. Subject(s): Aging; Faith; Family Life; Funerals; God; Belief; Creed; Relatives; Burials THE LOVERS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this glass palace are flowers in golden baskets Last Line: Punctually, at a certain hour, on a certain date Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE MUFFLED DRUM, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The muffled drum was heard Last Line: O'er the soldier's burial-rite. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials THE MUSICMAKER'S CHILD, by MIRIAM ALLEN DEFORD Poem Text First Line: A maiden, waiting for a man to take her Last Line: I, the child of weir the musicmaker. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE OLD MAN'S FUNERAL, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw an aged man with [or, upon] his bier Last Line: Dark with the mists of age, it was his time to die. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE OLD MEN USED TO SING, by ALICE WALKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): African-americans; Funerals; Old Age; Burials THE OLD SEAPORT, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When winds were wailing round me Last Line: The wild seas made reply. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Culross, Perthsire, Scotland; Death; Funerals - At Sea; Sailing & Sailors; Sea Gulls; Seashore; Dead, The; Burials At Sea; Beach; Coast; Shore THE OLD SEXTON, by PARK BENJAMIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nigh to a grave that was newly made Last Line: "I gather them in, I gather them in." Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE OLD STORY, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The waiting-women wait at her feet Last Line: As if all life were a festival hour. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE PARISH REGISTER: 3. BURIALS, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There was, 'tis said, and I believe, a time Last Line: These simple annals of the village poor. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE PERUVIAN'S DIRGE OVER THE BODY OF HIS FATHER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest in peace, my father, rest Last Line: Where the strangers never shall come! Subject(s): Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Future Life; Lament; Peru; Prayer; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life THE PHILANTHROPIST, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There once was a brother and sister Last Line: Had lately carried him off. Subject(s): Death; Food & Eating; Funerals; Life; Dead, The; Burials THE PICK, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the pluvial season it gallantly stayed Last Line: To the pick that was ever trusted, tried on the dead-line and true. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Missions & Missionaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 15, by HAN SHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Chuang-tzu said for his funeral Last Line: For those who live honest death is fine too Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Chuang-tzu (4th Century); Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE RITES FOR COUSIN VIT, by GWENDOLYN BROOKS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Carried her unprotesting out the door Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE SCATTERING OF EVAN JONES'S ASHES, by GALWAY KINNELL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Judith moves like a dancer Last Line: Quickened by evan's ashes Subject(s): Cremation; Funerals; Burials THE SCYTHIAN GRAVE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They laid the lord Last Line: To keep their name, or guard their grave. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Scythians; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE SCYTHIAN GUEST, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The feast is full, the guests are gay Last Line: And wait and watch for thee. Subject(s): Feasts; Funerals; Scythians; Burials THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy." Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology) THE SOLDIER'S FUNERAL, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And the muffled drum rolled on the air Last Line: The father had pray'd o'er his only son! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Soldiers; Burials 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 SURGEON'S WARNING, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The doctor whisper'd to the nurse Last Line: Was never to mortal known. Subject(s): Funerals; Future Life; Guilt; Physicians; Soul; Surgery; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Doctors THE TELEGRAPH CLERK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Sitting here by my desk all day Last Line: With a smile and then a sigh Subject(s): Accidents;death;funerals;telegraph; "dead, The;burials;telegrams; THE THUD OF THE CLODS, by JULIA E. BRUMFIELD Poem Text First Line: It was a most solemn occasion Last Line: For, today, mother was put away. Subject(s): Clouds; Funerals; Graves; Mothers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO MOTHERS, by VIRGINIA BULLOCK-WILLIS Poem Text First Line: They brought him home on his birthday Last Line: While the last bears him to death's long rest. Subject(s): Funerals; Mothers & Sons; Parents; Burials; Parenthood THE UNSPOKEN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Buried deep it lies Last Line: See the smiling mask that each one wears. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNVEILING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind stirs the gauze from the stone Last Line: The thing you find so precious is all over town Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Mourning; Relatives; Burials; Bereavement THE VICTOR'S BURIAL, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wrap him in his banner, the best shroud of the brave Last Line: That he died, in his pride, -- with his foes about him strown! Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THE WAKE OF THE KING OF SPAIN, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Arrayed in robes of regal state Last Line: Leave, leave him to his dread repose. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THEY HAVEN'T HEARD THE WEST IS OVER, by JAMES GALVIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So that no one should forget, and no one be forgotten -- isn't that Last Line: Arms to the north, and the road from here keeps going, as if it were going somewhere Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Disappeared Persons; Funerals; Mountains; Trees; Wyoming; Dead, The; Missing Persons; Burials; Hills; Downs (great Britain) THIS IS WHAT WAS BEQUEATHED US, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Funerals; Burials THIS MAIDEN, by PAUL FORT Poem Text First Line: This maiden is dead, is dead in love's play. Last Line: They have gone to the fields, to the fields like every day. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Household Employees; Dead, The; Burials; Servants; Domestics; Maids 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 ALL FRIENDS, by FRANCIS CHARLES MCDONALD Poem Text First Line: When this corruptible must be Last Line: Ring with it. I shall be there! Subject(s): Friendship; Funerals; Parties; Burials TO CZARTORYSKI, ATTENDING ON FOOT THE FUNERAL OF THE POET MENINCIVICZ, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In czartoryski I commend Last Line: One nation in wide europe free. Subject(s): Czartorski, Prince Adam Jerzy (1770-1861; Funerals; Poetry & Poets; Poland; Burials TO JOHN KEATS, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Severn, I feel the flowers o'er me grow,' Last Line: Greening above you in eternal spring. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Flowers; Funerals; Future Life; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Nightmares; Burials; Retribution; Eternity; After Life TO 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 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 THE YEW AND CYPRESS TO GRACE HIS FUNERAL, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both you two have / relation to the grave Last Line: Thankfull to you, or friends, for me. Subject(s): Cypress Trees; Funerals; Yew Trees; Burials TRACT, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I will teach you my townspeople Last Line: I think you are ready. Subject(s): Funerals; Burials 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 TWO FUNERALS: 1., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a field of shrieking red Last Line: Began to grin. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Dead, The; Burials TWO FUNERALS: 2., by LOUIS UNTERMEYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Facing a cold and sneering sky Last Line: Are laughing still. Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Death; Funerals; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Burials ULTIMA THULE: THE BURIAL OF THE POET; RICHARD HENRY DANA, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old churchyard of his native town Last Line: Mysterious and triumphant signs are these. Subject(s): Dana, Richard Henry (1815-1882); Funerals; Burials 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 VERSES, SUGGESTED BY THE FUNERAL OF AN EPITAPH IN BURY CHURCH-YARD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When siloam's tower in fragments strew'd the ground Last Line: The boon of immortality was given! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Funerals; Death - Babies; Burials WAKE, by PETER JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A casket that couldn't care less Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Relatives; Burials WHEN THE HEARSE COMES BACK, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A thing 'at's 'bout as tryin' as a healthy man kin meet Last Line: "back!" Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Funerals; Hearses; Horses; Dead, The; Burials WHITE LOVER, by JOY HAUSMANN Poem Text First Line: She was afraid of things too gleaming white Last Line: At peace beneath a pall like april blossoms. Subject(s): Fear; Funerals; White (color); Burials WINTER BURIAL, by HENRY BELLAMANN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Earth, will you be kind to her Last Line: Next spring? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Winter; Dead, The; Burials WINTER BURIAL, by LEROY OLIVER MCLEOD Poem Text First Line: Lift - and walk! - they will shut the door for us Last Line: But her cold lover death was more discerning. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Loss; Dead, The; Burials |
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