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First Line: My father moved through dooms of love
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Consolation; Fathers


50 POEMS: 34, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My father moved through dooms of love
Last Line: Love is the whole and more than all
Alternate Author Name(s): Cummings, E. E.
Subject(s): Consolation; Fathers


A LIFE'S PARALLELS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never on this side of the grave again
Last Line: Ever.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Consolation


A SONG [OF DIVINE LOVE], by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace
Last Line: Dead to my selfe, I live in thee.
Subject(s): Consolation


ACLUIN; HIS EPITAPH, by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay
Subject(s): Consolation


AD ASTRA: 10, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Needs must we suffer first to find her fair!
Last Line: She lures us to her own most gentle knees.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Consolation; Pain; Suffering; Misery


AFAR IN THE DESERT, by THOMAS PRINGLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Afar in the desert I love to ride
Last Line: Saying, -- man is distant, but god is near!
Subject(s): Adversity; Africa; Consolation


AN ELEGY FOR D.H. LAWRENCE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green points of the shrub / and poor lawrence dead
Subject(s): Consolation; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930)


AN EPITAPH ON THE MARCHIONESS OF WINCHESTER, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This rich marble doth inter / the honored wife of winchester
Last Line: No marchioness, but now a queen.
Subject(s): Consolation; Paulet, Jane Savage (1608-1623); Winchester, Marchioness Of


AN INVITE TO ETERNITY, by JOHN CLARE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say, wilt thou go with me sweet maid
Last Line: We are wed to one eternity.
Subject(s): Consolation; Courtship; Future Life; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


AT THE LAST, by RICHARD DODDRIDGE BLACKMORE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the hour of death, after this life's whim
Last Line: But the glory of the lord is all in all.
Variant Title(s): Dominus Illuminatio Mea;faith Of Closed Doors
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Faith; Dead, The; Belief; Creed


AUNT PHILLIS'S GUEST; ST HELENA ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, 1863, by WILLIAM CHANNING GANNETT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I was young and 'harry' was strong
Last Line: Outshines the best that we think we see.
Subject(s): Consolation


BAVARIAN GENTIANS, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house
Last Line: Among the splendour of torches of darkness, shedding darkness on the lost bride and her groom.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Autumn; Consolation; Flowers; Gentians; Seasons; Fall; Fringed Gentians


BAVARIAN GENTIANS (1932 MS. 'A'), by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Not every man has gentians in his house
Last Line: At the marriage of the living dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Gentians


BIRTHDAY SONNET, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take home thy prodigal child, o lord of hosts!
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Consolation


BIRTHDAY SONNET, by ELINOR WYLIE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Take home thy prodigal child, o lord of hosts!
Last Line: So that no drop of the pure spirit fall %into the dust: defend thy prodigal
Alternate Author Name(s): Benet, William Rose, Mrs.
Subject(s): Consolation


BLESSED ARE THEY, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: To us across the ages borne
Last Line: We faint in thine embrace.
Subject(s): Consolation


BLIND, by ISRAEL ZANGWILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Laughing, the blind boys
Last Line: Of an apocalypse?
Subject(s): Blindness; Consolation; Visually Handicapped


BOETHIUS, by SAMUEL JOHNSON (1709-1784)    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O thou whose power over moving worlds presides
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson, Dr.
Subject(s): Consolation


BOETHIUS; SI VIS CELSI IURA TONANTIS, by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If the high counsels of the lord of thunder
Subject(s): Consolation


BRANCH, by JONES VERY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou bid'st me change with every changing hour
Subject(s): Consolation


CARMINA: IF ANYTHING TO THE SILENT GRAVE, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As tree shapes from mist
Last Line: Her young death %loose %in you
Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius
Subject(s): Consolation


CHAMBER MUSIC: 18, by JAMES JOYCE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O sweetheart, hear you
Last Line: Shall have rest.
Subject(s): Friendship; Disappointment; Consolation; Desire


CHRISTUS CONSOLATOR, by ROSSITER WORTHINGTON RAYMOND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beside the dead I knelt for prayer
Last Line: "he smiled: ""abide in me."
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


CHURCH MONUMENTS, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While that my soul repairs to her devotion
Last Line: That thou mayst fit thyself against thy fall.
Subject(s): Consolation; Monuments


COMFORT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak low to me, my saviour, low and sweet
Last Line: He sleeps the faster that he wept before.
Subject(s): Consolation; Religion; Theology


COMFORT, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Boatman, boatman! My brain is wild
Last Line: Or light up the hills with may.
Subject(s): Death – Children; Drowning; God; Consolation


COMPENSATION, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Tears wash away the atoms in the eye
Last Line: Where love and wisdom dwell.
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Mist clogs the sunshine
Last Line: Some undimm'd hours.
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by STANLEY KILNER BOOTH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Consolation. How vibrant the word
Last Line: Nor the melody unheard.
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All are not taken; there are left behind
Last Line: Can I suffice for heaven and not for earth?'
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O friends, we are drawing nearer home
Last Line: And bruise us into dust.
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by HAZEL REESE COLLINS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I traced your name in sand beside the sea
Last Line: "his name is traced so deeply on your heart."
Subject(s): Consolation; Sympathy; Empathy


CONSOLATION, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: See phoebus breaking from the willing skies
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Apollo; Consolation; Mythology - Classical


CONSOLATION, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, while the mourner stands beside the bier
Last Line: And faith lies slumbering on the breast of love!
Subject(s): Children - Lost; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Sympathy; Dead, The; Bereavement; Empathy


CONSOLATION, by WILLIAM LARMINIE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yes, let us speak, with lips confirming
Last Line: Beloved, art thou too awake?'
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by ALFRED DE MUSSET    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor restless mortal, creature of a day!
Last Line: Twill live forever with thy soul on high!
Subject(s): Consolation; Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)


CONSOLATION, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When I sink down in gloom or fear
Last Line: "'tis christ; he comes to save."
Subject(s): Consolation


CONSOLATION, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: It binds my spirit like a spell
Last Line: Is not withheld from me.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Sympathy; Dead, The; Empathy


CONSOLATION, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: I watch at eve thy bright inquisitive eyes
Last Line: But with honour, truth, and destiny not slain.
Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Nature Of


CONSOLATION TO M. DU PERRIER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Du perrier, must thy grief eternal be
Last Line: This only gives us rest.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies


CONSOLATION; TO M. DUPERRIER, ON THE DEATH OF HIS DAUGHTER, by FRANCOIS DE MALHERBE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Will then, duperrier, thy sorrow be eternal?
Last Line: That gives us any rest.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies


CONSOLATIONS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The delights of old age
Last Line: Saying I'm young again
Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age


CONSOLING BILLY, by EVA STEEL    Poem Text                    
First Line: There now, billy, stop your crying
Last Line: You'll forget him after a while.
Subject(s): Boys; Children; Consolation; Grief; Pain; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Suffering; Misery


COWPER'S CONSOLATION, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He knew what mortals know when tried
Last Line: God took his own!
Subject(s): Consolation; Cowper, William (1731-1800); Death; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


DAS EWIG-WEIBLICHE (THE ETERNAL FEMININE), by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How was I worthy so divine a loss
Last Line: And not a shadow stain heaven's crystal floor.
Subject(s): Consolation


DE PROFUNDIS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The face which, duly as the sun
Last Line: Smiling -- so I! Thy days go on!
Subject(s): Barrett, Edward (d. 1840); Consolation; Death; Drowning; Dead, The


DEATH OF ROBERT, EARL OF HUNTINGDON, SELS., by ANTHONY MUNDAY            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Shepherd Tony; Shepherd Tonie
Subject(s): Consolation


DEATH OF THE DAY, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My pictures blacken in their frames
Last Line: Away he bore.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


DIES IRAE, by THOMAS OF CELANO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Day of vengeance, without morrow!
Last Line: Save him, god! From condemnation!
Variant Title(s): The Day Of Judgment
Subject(s): Consolation; Judgment Day; Religion; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology


DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone
Last Line: Since more him none shall see.
Variant Title(s): A Lamentation
Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement


DULLNESS, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why do I languish thus, drooping and dull
Last Line: What angel fit?
Subject(s): Consolation


EARLY DEATH AND FAME, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For him who must see many years
Last Line: Triple his pulses with fame!
Subject(s): Consolation


EASTER HYMN, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death and darkness, get you packing
Last Line: From this, unto the last of days.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Consolation; Easter; Holidays; Religion; The Resurrection; Theology


ECHOES: 4. INVICTUS, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Out of the night that covers me
Last Line: I am the captain of my soul.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): R. T. Hamilton Bruce;to R. T. H. B. ...;unconquered;urbs Fortitudinis;invictus;in Memoriam: R.t. Hamilton Bruce
Subject(s): Bruce, R. T. Hamilton (1846-1899); Consolation; Courage; Hope; Independence; Life Change Events; Pain; Self-control; Self-reliance; Soldiers; Strength; Valor; Bravery; Optimism; Suffering; Misery


EDITH, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Time, that doth take what none would give
Last Line: I shall be satisfied.
Subject(s): Absence; Consolation; Death; Grief; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


EINSTEIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I have come upon this place
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Consolation; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)


EINSTEIN, by ARCHIBALD MACLEISH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And I have come upon this place
Last Line: Which seems to keep %something inviolate. A living something
Alternate Author Name(s): Fleming, Archibald
Subject(s): Consolation; Einstein, Albert (1879-1955)


ELEGIAC STANZAS, by JOHN DUFFRESNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Its heart giving out
Last Line: In enquiring drifts %and back, shored over %the lip of some wave or other
Subject(s): Consolation; Poetry And Poets


ELEGY FOR D.H. LAWRENCE, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Green points of the shrub %and poor lawrence dead
Last Line: And in the woods %now the crinkled spice-bush %in flower
Subject(s): Consolation; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930)


ELEGY ON JEFFERSON DAVIS, by JOHN ORLEY ALLEN TATE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No more the white refulgent streets
Last Line: Orestes fled in night and day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tate, Allen
Subject(s): American Civil War; Confederate States Of America; Consolation; Davis, Jefferson (1808-1889); U.s. - History; Confederacy


ENDURE HARDNESS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A cold wind stirs the blackthorn
Last Line: That I am thine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Consolation


EPIGRAM ON SIR FRANCIS DRAKE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "sir drake, whom well the world's end knew"
Last Line: His fellow traveller
Subject(s): "consolation;drake, Sir Francis (1540-1596);travel;" Journeys;trips


EPITAPH OF THE DEATH OF NICHOLAS GRIMALD, by BARNABY (BARNABE) GOOGE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Behold this fleeting world, how all things fade
Last Line: And take the wise away
Alternate Author Name(s): Goche, Barnaby; Goghe, Barnaby; Gouche, Barnaby
Subject(s): Consolation; Grimald, Nicholas (1519-1562)


EPITAPH ON SIR WILLIAM PEERE WILLIAMS, CAPTAIN IN BURGOGYNE'S DRAGOONS, by THOMAS GRAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, foremost in the dang'rous paths of fame
Last Line: Where melancholy friendship bends and weeps.
Subject(s): Consolation


ESTHER: 49, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I must not speak of it. Even yet my heart
Subject(s): Consolation


EURYDICE TO ORPHEUS, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: But give them me, the mouth, the eyes, the brow!
Last Line: Defied, -- no past is mine, no future: look at me!
Subject(s): Consolation; Eurydice (nymph); Leighton, Frederick (1830-1896); Paintings & Painters


FIRST BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 7, by THOMAS CAMPION    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To music bent is my retired mind
Last Line: Such heat they cast as lifts the spirit high.
Subject(s): Consolation; Music & Musicians


FLUSH OR FAUNUS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You see this dog. It was but yesterday
Last Line: Who by low creatures leads to heights of love.
Subject(s): Animals; Consolation; Dogs; Friendship; Love


FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the hours of day are numbered
Last Line: Such as these have lived and died!
Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement


FOR A GRAVESTONE IN SPAIN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say thou who liest here beneath
Subject(s): Consolation


FOR CHARLIE'S SAKE, by JOHN WILLIAMSON PALMER    Poem Text                    
First Line: The night is late, the house is still
Last Line: And saved us twice, for charlie's sake.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


FORM, by EVA GORE-BOOTH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The buried statue through the marble gleans
Alternate Author Name(s): Selina
Subject(s): Consolation


FOUR SONNETS: 4, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN    Poem Text                    
First Line: So lucy found at last the world was blind
Last Line: A quaint old lady, with old-fashioned curls.
Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of


FRAGMENT, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So here confined, and but to female clay
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Consolation


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: DIRGE, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sorrow, lie still and wear
Last Line: As the great earth and swelling sea—
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead, is he? What's that further than a word
Last Line: This then is all your death.
Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Soul; Dead, The; Bereavement


FREDUGIS; LAMENT FOR ALCUIN, by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: O little house, o dear and sweet my dwelling
Subject(s): Consolation


FROM SHADOW-SUN, by AGNES L. PRATT    Poem Text                    
First Line: I learn, as the years roll onward
Last Line: And out of our loss the gain.
Subject(s): Consolation


GASCOIGNE'S GOOD MORROW, by GEORGE GASCOIGNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You that have spent the silent night
Last Line: Haud ictus sapio
Subject(s): Consolation; Worship


GOD'S SURE HELP IN SORROW, by ANTON ULRICH    Poem Text                    
First Line: Leave all to god
Last Line: If thou love god
Alternate Author Name(s): Brunswick, Duke Of
Subject(s): Consolation; God; Worship


GOING AND COMING, by EDWARD A. JENKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Going - the great round sun
Last Line: Chorus!
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


GRIEF FOR THE DEAD, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: O hearts that never cease to yearn!
Last Line: "we look behind us for the past, / but lo! 'tis all before!"
Variant Title(s): All Before
Subject(s): Consolation;death;mourning; "dead, The;bereavement;


HE SAW MY HEART'S WOE, by CHARLOTTE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He saw my heart's woe, discovered my soul's anguish
Last Line: And feel the peril past of death's immortal birth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Currer
Subject(s): Consolation


HERO'S EPITAPH, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Done to death by slanderous tongues
Subject(s): Consolation


HIS CREED, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I do believe, that die I must
Last Line: Of gift from god: and heres my creed.
Subject(s): Consolation; Faith; Belief; Creed


HOLDERLIN'S JOURNEY, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When holderlin started from bordeaux
Last Line: And giving thanks to god and men
Subject(s): Consolation; Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843)


HOLDERLIN'S JOURNEY, by EDWIN MUIR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When holderlin started from bordeaux
Subject(s): Consolation; Holderlin, Friedrich (1770-1843)


HOPE, by ANNE FINCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The tree of knowledge we in eden prov'd
Alternate Author Name(s): Kingsmill, Anne; Winchilsea, Countess Of
Subject(s): Consolation


HOSPITAL FLOWERS, by MRS. VIRGIL BROWNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In all the silent halls and rooms
Last Line: Your beauty in my heart abides.
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Hospitals


HUMAN LIFE, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad is our youth, for it is ever going
Last Line: Not for their sake, but his who grants them or denies them!
Variant Title(s): Sad And Sweet;all Things Sweet When Prized
Subject(s): Consolation


HYMN TO SOPHIA: THE WISDOM OF GOD, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our broken cries of shame dispute
Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh
Subject(s): Consolation


I AM LOOKING FOR WORDS, by MICHELLE LEIGH    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am looking for words that lack sweetness, dry words that rattle like
Last Line: The dead night
Subject(s): Consolation; Language


I HEARD IMMANUEL SINGING, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Alone, set free, rejoicing, %with a green hill for his throne?
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Consolation; Jesus Christ


I HOLD STILL, by JULIUS STURM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Pain's furnace heat within me quivers
Last Line: And hope in him, and suffer still.
Subject(s): Consolation


I TEND MY FLOWERS FOR THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Draped for thee!
Variant Title(s): Poem: 339; Poem: 36
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers


ILKA BLADE O' GRASS KEPS ITS AIN DRAP O' DEW, by JAMES BALLANTYNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Confide ye aye in providence, for providence is kind
Last Line: But ilka blade o' grass keps its ain drap o' dew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ballantine, James
Subject(s): Consolation


IMAGINARY DIALOGUE; ANTIPHILOS OF BYZANTIUM, by DUDLEY FITTS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This cloak of purple, leonidas, xertes gives you
Subject(s): Consolation


IN MEMORIAM: LADY BLESSINGTON, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Again, perhaps and only once again
Last Line: I must not come among you; fare ye well!
Subject(s): Consolation


IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of evening, lissadell
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning; Bereavement


IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The light of evening, lissadell
Last Line: Bid me strike a match and blow
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning


IN MEMORY OF MAJOR ROBERT GREGORY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Now that we're almost settled in our house
Last Line: Of that late death took all my heart for speech.
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Gregory, Lady Isabella (1852-1932); Johnson, Lionel (1867-1902); Dead, The


INSCRIPTION FOR A MIRROR IN A DESERTED DWELLING, by WILLIAM ROSE BENET    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Set silver cone to tulip flame!
Last Line: The words unbreathed, the tale untold, %the past unpiteous to your need!
Subject(s): Consolation; Love; Love - Nature Of


INTIMATIONS, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is hovering about me
Last Line: Shall redeem us from the dust.
Subject(s): Consolation; Desolation


IOLAS' EPITAPH, by WILLIAM DRUMMOND OF HAWTHORNDEN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here deare iolas lies
Last Line: A purple flowre see of this marble borne
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Subject(s): Consolation


JENNIE, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You have sent me from her tomb
Last Line: "and my love exceedeth thine!"
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


JESUS WEPT, by FRANCIS BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: At eve he rested there amidst the grass
Last Line: And was consoled — then to his shelter crept.
Subject(s): Consolation; Courts & Courtiers; Fate; Jesus Christ; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Destiny


JOHN BROWN; MEMORIAL TO BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I've been to palestine
Last Line: Old john brown.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel
Subject(s): Abolitionists; African Americans; Brown, John (1800-1859); Consolation; Slavery; Anti-slavery; Negroes; American Blacks; Serfs


LAMENT FOR OUR LADY'S SHRINE AT WALSINGHAM, by PHILIP HOWARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the weeds of walsingham
Subject(s): Consolation


LAUS DEO, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let praise devote thy work, and skill employ
Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2)
Subject(s): Consolation


LAUSANNE: IN GIBBON'S OLD GARDEN, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A spirit seems to pass
Last Line: "never without ill-fame to him who gives her birth""?'"
Subject(s): Consolation; Gibbon, Edward (1737-1794); History; Lausanne, Switzerland; Historians


LES CONSOLATIONS, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Les tresors de la vieillesse
Last Line: De nouveau je juis jeune
Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age


LIFE OF MAN, by KEIDRYCH RHYS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Man's life, like any weaver's shuttle, flies
Subject(s): Consolation


LIGHT, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While I had mine eyes, I feared
Last Line: With the light of god on her face!
Subject(s): Consolation


LINES ON SEEING A LOCK OF MILTON'S HAIR, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Chief of organic numbers
Last Line: I thought I had beheld it from the flood.
Subject(s): Consolation; Milton, John (1608-1674)


LINES TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the fair gardens of celestial peace
Last Line: Full blossomed in his fields of cloudless day.
Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement


LOVE'S LOSS LAMENTED, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O swift, o proud, o brave, o beautiful
Last Line: What was is not.
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Unrequited


LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more
Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology


MEDITATION, by RUTH L. TEISSEDRE    Poem Text                    
First Line: I hear the chapel bell again
Last Line: Now a walking prayer to an unknown god.
Subject(s): Consolation; Meditation; Remorse; Sin


MELCHIZEDEK, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thrice bless'd are they, who feel their loneliness
Last Line: Born through long woe his rare melchizedek.
Subject(s): Consolation; Solitude; Loneliness


MOONRISE, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And who has seen the moon, who has not seen
Last Line: Sooner than our full consummation here %in this odd life will tarnish or pass away
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Consolation; Moon


MOST BELOVED, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart thou makest void, and full
Last Line: Nothing so much reality.
Subject(s): Consolation


MS. OF ST. MARTIAL OF LIMOGES; FOR ST. MICHAEL, by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Angelic host %phalanx and squadron of the prince-archangels
Subject(s): Consolation


MY CHILD, by JOHN PIERPONT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot make him dead!
Last Line: T will be our heaven to find, that - he is there!
Subject(s): Consolation; Death - Children; Death - Babies


MY DARLINGS (1), by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When steps are hurrying homeward
Last Line: My love would make them so.
Subject(s): Consolation


MY FATHER'S WATCH, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Consolation; Time


MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY, by M. K.    Poem Text                    
First Line: Of all sad words
Last Line: A great deal worse.
Subject(s): Consolation


MY WIFE AND CHILD, by HENRY R. JACKSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The tattoo beats - the lights are gone
Last Line: O god, protect my wife and child!
Subject(s): Consolation; United States - Mexican War (1846-1848)


NAMING OF THINGS, by JAN LEE ANDE    Poem Source                    
First Line: We name the world to console ourselves
Last Line: List the ways of longing, spell out our loneliness %in the nominal world
Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Soul


NANCY'S HAIR, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty's pure native gems, ye quivering hairs!
Last Line: O ye who fear not death!
Subject(s): Consolation


NEVER DESPAIR, by WILLIAM SMITH O'BRIEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Never despair! Let the feeble in spirit
Last Line: Never despair -- boys -- oh! Never despair.
Subject(s): Consolation


NIGHT, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: The spent winds on the mountain slopes at peace
Last Line: And in my heart thou singest evermore!
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Night; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime


O LULL ME, LULL ME, by THEODORE ROETHKE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One sigh stretches heaven
Subject(s): Singing & Singers; Consolation; Songs


ODE TO FRIENDSHIP, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, thou whose power to sooth the heart
Last Line: Give me one friend to mourn me in the grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Consolation; Friendship


OH, WHITHER SHALL I FLY?, by FRANCIS QUARLES    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Consolation


OLNEY HYMNS: 40. THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My soul is sad and much dismay'd
Last Line: That I am foiled, and thou art grieved!
Subject(s): Consolation


ON A BEAUTIFUL VIRGIN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In this marble buried lies
Subject(s): Consolation


ON HIMSELFE (1), by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here down my wearied limbs I'll lay
Last Line: From scaring you or yours this night.
Subject(s): Consolation


ON MAN, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In his own image the creator made
Last Line: The present hour was ever marked with shade!
Variant Title(s): Man
Subject(s): Adversity; Consolation


ON MARGARET RATCLIFFE, by BEN JONSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Marble, weep! For thou dost cover
Last Line: E arth, thou hast not such another.
Subject(s): Consolation


ON THE DEAD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou in this wide cold church art laid
Last Line: Death follows with uplifted dart.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Consolation; Death - Children; Graveyards; Death - Babies


ONLY A YEAR', by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: One year ago - a ringing voice
Last Line: This sad, sad year.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


OPEN GRAVE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The grave is open, soon to close
Subject(s): Consolation


OPEN LETTER FROM A CONSTANT READER, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To all who carve their love on a picnic table
Subject(s): Loneliness; Consolation; Letters


ORPHEUS I AM, COME FROM THE DEEPS BELOW, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Consolation


OUR LADY OF CONSOLATION, by GORDON BOTTOMLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We seek you in the garden to and fro
Last Line: And all our hearts are with you now as then.
Subject(s): Consolation


OVER THE RIVER, by NANCY WOODBURY PRIEST    Poem Text                    
First Line: Over the river they beckon to me
Last Line: The angel of death shall carry me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wafield, Nancy Amelia
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


PAULINUS. VERSES APUD EPIST. XXXII. 17, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The pains of saints and saints' rewards are twins
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Consolation


PAYSAGE MORALISE, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hearing of harvests rotting in the valleys
Last Line: And we rebuild our cities, not dream of islands
Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H.
Subject(s): Consolation


PEACE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is the peace that comes after sorrow
Last Line: "tis not the peace that over eden brooded, / but that which triumphed in gethsemane"
Subject(s): Consolation;peace


PEARL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: "perle, plesaunte to prynces paye"
Last Line: On that precios perle wythouten spot
Subject(s): "consolation;dreams;innocence;redemption;richard Ii, King Of England (1367-1400);" Nightmares


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 60. AL-MU'HID, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He who dies at azan sends
Last Line: This to those that made his grave.
Variant Title(s): Resurrection Of Abdullah;after Death [in Arabia]
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; God; Islam; Dead, The


PERMIT ME VOYAGE, by JAMES AGEE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take these who will as may be
Last Line: Permit me voyage, love, into your hands
Subject(s): Consolation


POEM FROM THE YEAR OF LOSS, by NICHOLAS MOORE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: The elizabethan queen, not dido now
Subject(s): Consolation; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603


PRIDENTIUS (BEFORE SLEEP), by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: The toil of day is ebbing
Subject(s): Consolation


PRODIGAL SON, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not merry, brother. Why not laugh
Last Line: And I, the ghost of one you could not save, %may find you planting lentils on my grave
Subject(s): Consolation


PRUDENTIUS (THE BURIAL OF THE DEAD), by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Take him, earth, for cherishing
Subject(s): Consolation


PSALM 88 (A SONG FOR THE SONS OF KORAH), by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE    Poem Source                    
First Line: O lord god of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee
Subject(s): Consolation


RECOMPENSE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Roses after rain
Last Line: In the heart's twilight!
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Consolation


REFLECTIONS, by GEORGE CRABBE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When all the fiercer passions cease
Last Line: In that renew'd, that endless life!
Subject(s): Consolation


REQUIEM, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will they stop
Last Line: And everywhere, on all of it, the brightness of the sun
Subject(s): Consolation


REQUIEM, by KENNETH FEARING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will they stop
Last Line: And everywhere, on all of it, the brightness of the sun
Subject(s): Consolation


RESIGNATION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no flock, however watched and tendered
Last Line: The grief that must have way.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


RHYME, THE CONSOLER, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The injuries of time
Last Line: Rhyme brings with honeyed tones an anodyne to pain.
Subject(s): Consolation; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Time


SAINT TERESA'S BOOK-MARK, by THERESA OF AVILA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Let nothing disturb thee
Last Line: Alone god sufficeth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Teresa Of Avila; Teresa Of Jesus; Teresa De Avila
Variant Title(s): Lines Written In Her Breviary;who God Possesseth;santa Teresa's Book-mark
Subject(s): Consolation; God; Religion; Theology


SAY NOT, by ARTHUR HUGH CLOUGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Say not the struggle nought availeth
Last Line: But westward, look, the land is bright.
Variant Title(s): Courage;despondency Rebuked;the Incoming Tide;keeping On;hope
Subject(s): Consolation; Courage; Freedom; Hope; Perseverance; Religion; Valor; Bravery; Liberty; Optimism; Theology


SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens
Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists


SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens
Last Line: Will hardly leach,' he thought, 'this dust of that fire'
Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays And Playwrights; Poetry And Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)


SICK BIRD, by ELISABETH RYNELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: If I could speak
Last Line: A good wind that will put everything right
Subject(s): Consolation


SILEX SCINTIALLANS: THEY ARE ALL GONE, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They are all gone into the world of light!
Last Line: Where I shall need no glass.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): Ascension Hymn;beyond The Veil;departed Friends;beauteous Death;the World Of Light;friends Gone
Subject(s): Ascension Day; Christianity; Consolation; Death; Heaven; Immortality; Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement; Theology


SING NO SAD SONGS FOR ME, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: When from the world I should be taken
Subject(s): Consolation


SOLITARY LYRE, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wherefore, unlaurell'd boy, %whom the contemptuous muse will not inspire
Last Line: Fated of grief to die, %impart it to my solitary lyre?
Subject(s): Consolation; Poetry And Poets


SOLITUDE, by EDWIN E. DEAL    Poem Text                    
First Line: How rare the solitude-hour!
Last Line: My whisperings sweet and true -- sweet you!
Subject(s): Consolation; Silence; Solitude; Loneliness


SOMETHING BEYOND, by MARY CLEMMER AMES HUDSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Something beyond! Though now, with joy unfound
Last Line: Brightens the now.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clemmer, Mary; Ames, Mary Clemmer
Subject(s): Consolation; Immortality


SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She's somewhere in the sunlight strong
Last Line: And every wistful waiting star.
Subject(s): Consolation


SONG, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My eyes upon your eyes
Last Line: Beloved, in you.
Subject(s): Consolation


SONG FOR ST. CECILIA, by MARYA ALEXANDROVNA ZATURENSKA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the austere november sky
Subject(s): Consolation


SONG OF THE PINES, by FELIX RUBEN GARCIA SARMIENTO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O pines,o brothers of the earth and air
Last Line: From far away, and towards the future goes
Alternate Author Name(s): Dario, Ruben
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of


SONG, FR. THE LOVER'S PROGRESS, by FRANCIS BEAUMONT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Adieu fond love, farewell you wanton powers
Last Line: Fond love declines, this heavenly love grows higher.
Variant Title(s): The Farewell To Love
Subject(s): Consolation; Love - Loss Of


SONNET TO STELLA, SELECTION, by CHARLES JENNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: From every pleasure we forgo
Last Line: "but we escape the thorn!"
Subject(s): Consolation


SONNET: 146, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth
Last Line: And, death once dead, there's no more dying then.
Variant Title(s): "the Outer Man And The Inner Man;immortality;soul And Body;to My Soul;the Death Of Death;""poor Soul, The Center Of My Sinful Earth"";
Subject(s): Consolation; Immortality


SONNET: 22. TO THE SAME [CYRIACK SKINNER], by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cyriack, this three years' day these eyes, though clear
Last Line: Content, though blind, had I no better guide.
Variant Title(s): "sonnet To Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness;to Cyriack Skinner (2);to Mr. Cyriack Skinner Upon His Blindness;""cyriack, This Three Years' Day These Eyes, Though Clear"";
Subject(s): Blindness; Consolation; Skinner, Cyriack (1627-1700); Visually Handicapped


SONNET: DESIDERIUM INDESIDERATUM, by FRANCIS THOMPSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O gain that lurk'st ungained in all gain!
Last Line: Framed the august embraces of the cross.
Subject(s): Consolation; Jesus Christ


SOUL LONGS TO RETURN WHENCE IT CAME, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I drove up to the graveyard, which
Last Line: To whom in wisdom we return, %accept this humble servant evermore
Subject(s): Consolation


SPECTRAL LOVERS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: By night they haunted a thicket of april mist
Subject(s): Consolation; Love


SPECTRAL LOVERS, by JOHN CROWE RANSOM    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: By night they haunted a thicket of april mist
Last Line: Who touch their quick fingers fluttering like a bird %whose songs shall never be heard
Subject(s): Consolation; Love


SPIRIT WATCHES, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: She hangs the garland in her hair
Subject(s): Consolation


ST. PATRICK'S HYMN BEFORE TARAH, by JAMES CLARENCE MANGAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: At tarah [or, tara] to-day, in this awful hour
Last Line: Grant us, o lord, thy grace and salvation!
Variant Title(s): Saint Patrick's Hymn Before Tara
Subject(s): Consolation


STANZAS FOR MY DAUGHTER, by HORACE GREGORY    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Tell her I love %she will remember me
Last Line: Making garlands of their own %not of iron and of stone
Variant Title(s): Poems For My Daughte
Subject(s): Consolation


STANZAS ON THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by REGINALD HEBER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou art gone to the grave - but we will not deplore thee
Last Line: Where death hath no sting, since the savior hath died.
Variant Title(s): Hymns: At A Funeral
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Friendship; Dead, The


STANZAS TO AUGUSTA (2), by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When all around grew drear and dark
Last Line: Earth is no desert -- ev'n to me.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Consolation


STARKNESS OF EARTH, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Cold is wintertime, the wind
Subject(s): Consolation


TEARS, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thank god, bless god, all ye who suffer not
Last Line: And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes
Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!"
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


THE BOTTOM DRAWER, by AMELIA EDITH HUDDLESTON BARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the best chamber of the house
Last Line: "for whom I locked that sacred drawer."
Subject(s): Consolation


THE BOTTOM DRAWER, by MARY A. BARR    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the best chamber of the house
Last Line: "for whom I locked that sacred drawer."
Subject(s): Consolation; Memory


THE CHANGED CROSS, by MRS. CHARLES HOBART    Poem Text                    
First Line: It was a time of sadness, and my heart
Last Line: I'll trust it's best, -- because he knows the end.
Subject(s): Consolation


THE CONQUEROR'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Within this lowly grave a conqueror lies
Last Line: That ministered to thee, is open still.
Subject(s): Consolation; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones


THE CONSOLER, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Time comes to grief as sleep to weariness
Last Line: At twilight, or when april boughs are spread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Sorrow; Sadness


THE DEAD HEROES, by ISAAC ROSENBERG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Flame out, you glorious skies
Last Line: And claim god's kiss.
Subject(s): Consolation; Soldiers' Writings


THE FLOWER, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How fresh, o lord, how sweet and clean
Last Line: Forfeit their paradise by their pride.
Variant Title(s): Revival
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers


THE FLOWER, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I walked the other day, to spend my hour
Last Line: Thus all the year I mourn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Variant Title(s): Happy Are The Dead;the Hidden Flower;i Walked The Other Day
Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Mourning; Bereavement


THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears are within us. There is security
Last Line: And the tears weep also, as they flow away.
Subject(s): Children; Consolation; Fountains; Pity; Tears; Childhood


THE GARDEN SEAT, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its former green is blue and thin
Last Line: They are as light as upper air!
Subject(s): Consolation; Ghosts; Supernatural


THE GOOD GREAT MAN, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How seldom, friend! A good great man inherits
Last Line: Himself, his maker, and the angel death.
Variant Title(s): Complaint [and Reproof];the Reward Of The Just
Subject(s): Consolation


THE GREEN GRASS UNDER THE SNOW, by ANNIE A. PRESTON    Poem Text                    
First Line: The work of the sun is slow
Last Line: For the green grass under the snow.
Subject(s): Consolation


THE INVITATION, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come ye hither all, whose taste
Last Line: Where is all, there all should be.
Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology


THE OBSCURE NIGHT OF THE SOUL, by JOHN OF THE CROSS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Upon an obscure night
Last Line: Among the lilies, and forgetting them
Alternate Author Name(s): Juan De La Cruz, San; Juan De Yepes
Subject(s): Consolation


THE OTHER SIDE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed I had a plot of ground / once on a time, as story saith
Last Line: Had bloomed, the other side, I said.
Subject(s): Consolation


THE PASSIONATE MAN'S PILGRIMAGE, by WALTER RALEIGH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Give me my scallop shell of quiet
Last Line: To tread those blest paths which before I writ
Alternate Author Name(s): Ralegh, Walter
Variant Title(s): His Pilgrimage;faith;the Pilgrim;the Pilgrimage;the Soul's Pilgrimage
Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Religion; Theology


THE PRODIGAL SON, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: You are not merry, brother. Why not laugh
Last Line: May find you planting lentils on my grave
Subject(s): Consolation


THE RAINY DAY, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary
Last Line: Some days must be dark and dreary.
Subject(s): Consolation; Rain


THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a reaper, whose name is death
Last Line: And took the flowers away
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


THE RETURNED VOLUNTEER TO HIS RIFLE, by HERMAN MELVILLE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Over this hearth - my father's seat
Last Line: Long rest! With belt, and bayonet, and canteen.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Consolation; U.s. - History; Veterans


THE SAD SONG, FR. THE CAPTAIN, by JOHN FLETCHER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Away, delights! Go seek some other dwelling
Last Line: With thee! Men cannot mock us in the clay.'
Variant Title(s): Farewell, False Love!
Subject(s): Consolation


THE SADDEST FATE, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: To touch a broken lute
Last Line: "what sadder fate could any soul befall? / alas! Dear child, never to hope at all"
Subject(s): Consolation


THE SNOWDROP, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fear no more, thou timid flower
Last Line: A snow-drop mid the snow.
Variant Title(s): The Apotheosis, Or The Snow-drop
Subject(s): Consolation; Snowdrops (plants)


THE SONG OF THE SAVOYARDS, by HENRY AMES BLOOD    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far poured past broadway's lamps alight
Last Line: Courage! Courage, mon camarade!
Subject(s): Consolation


THE SOOTHERER, by JAMES STEPHENS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O little joy, why do you run so fast
Last Line: Tra la la la laddy la....
Subject(s): Consolation; Love


THE SOUL LONGS TO RETURN WHENCE IT CAME, by RICHARD GHORMLEY EBERHART            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I drove up to the graveyard, which
Subject(s): Consolation


THE TWO WAITINGS, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dear hearts, you were waiting a year ago
Last Line: It will more than your hope fulfil.
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


THE WILLOW, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When life is young, without a care
Last Line: Commingled with a tear.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John
Subject(s): Aging; Consolation


THERE IS NO DEATH, by JOHN LUCKEY MCCREERY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                
First Line: There is no death, the stars go down
Last Line: Is life -- there are no dead.
Subject(s): Consolation; Immortality


THRENODY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No sunny ray, no silver night
Last Line: . . . . . .
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Poetry & Poets; Silence; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


THY KINGDOM COME, O GOD!, by LEWIS HENSLEY    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Consolation


TIMES GO BY TURNS, by ROBERT SOUTHWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lopped tree in time may grow again
Last Line: Who least hath some, who most hath never all.
Subject(s): Bible; Consolation; Fortune; Hope; Religion; Optimism; Theology


TO A TRAVELLER, by LIONEL PIGOT JOHNSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The mountains, and the lonely death at last
Last Line: Earth, whom the vast stars crown.
Subject(s): Consolation


TO FAILURE, by MARGUERITE WILKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Since you are what my days have brought
Subject(s): Consolation


TO MY MOTHER, by GREG DELANTY    Poem Source                    
First Line: You took a deep breath. It was by what we weren't told
Last Line: Not turn out a breath for a breath
Subject(s): Consolation; Life


TO MYSELF, by PAUL FLEMING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Let nothing make thee sad or fretful
Last Line: The best.
Subject(s): Consolation


TO ROSE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To his young rose an old man said
Subject(s): Consolation


TO THE HOLY GHOST, by JOHN SKELTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: O fiery fervence, inflamed with all grace
Subject(s): Consolation


TOMBSTONE TOLD WHEN SHE DIED, by DYLAN THOMAS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: A blazing red harsh head tear up %and the dear floods of his hair
Subject(s): Consolation


TRAIN RIDE, by JOHN BROOKS WHEELWRIGHT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: After rain, through afterglow, the unfolding fan
Last Line: The great grove leans to wind, past and to come.
Subject(s): Consolation; Life


UNCHANGING, by FRIEDRICH MARTIN VON BODENSTEDT    Poem Text                    
First Line: In early days methought that all must last
Last Line: Because the old in new I still am meeting.
Subject(s): Consolation


UNDER THE SHADOW, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My sorrowing friend, arise and go
Last Line: "is but a call to come up higher?"
Subject(s): Consolation


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 27. IN MEMORIAM F. A. S., by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet, o stricken heart, remember, o remember
Last Line: And ere the day of sorrow departed as he came.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Dead, The


UPON THE PRIORY GROVE, HIS USUAL RETIREMENT, by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail, sacred shades! Cool, leafy house!
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Consolation


VENANTIUS FORTUNATUS, by HELEN WADDELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Time that is fallen is flying, we are fooled by the passing hours
Subject(s): Consolation


WAITING, by JOHN BURROUGHS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Serene, I fold my hands and wait
Last Line: Can keep my own away from me.
Variant Title(s): My Own Shall Come To Me
Subject(s): Consolation; Patience; Religion; Theology


WARNING AND REPLY, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid
Last Line: That heart was worthy thee! --
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Variant Title(s): "in The Earth, The Earth Thou Shalt Be Laid"";
Subject(s): Consolation


WATCHING FOR PAPA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: She always stood upon the steps
Last Line: "will call with birdie voice, 'papa, / I's looten out for oo!'"
Subject(s): Consolation;fathers & Daughters


WEEP NOT FOR HER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Weep not for her! Her span was like the sky
Last Line: Weep not for her!
Alternate Author Name(s): Delta
Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


WET LITANY, by RUDYARD KIPLING    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the water's countenance
Subject(s): Consolation


WHAT MY BEST FRIEND SAID TO CONSOLE ME, by REETIKA VAZIRANI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Neera says the tall virginian
Last Line: You have two years I have one
Subject(s): Consolation


WHEN MY SHIP COMES IN, by ROBERT JONES BURDETTE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Somewhere, out on the blue seas sailing
Last Line: When my ship comes in.
Subject(s): Consolation


WHO WILL BUY ME AN ORANGE?, by JOSE GOROSTIZA    Poem Source                    
Last Line: To console me know?
Subject(s): Consolation; Hearts; Love - Loss Of