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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CONSOLATION Matches Found: 247 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` 50 POEMS: 34, by EDWARD ESTLIN CUMMINGS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography 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 |
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