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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A DAY DREAM, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On a sunny brae alone I lay
Last Line: Her fond creation true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Immortality


A DIALOGUE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death is a dialogue between
Last Line: An overcoat of clay.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


A DREAM, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Well may sleep present us fictions
Last Line: "guardian spirit, steer me on!"
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares


A DREAM, by MINA MERRITT-SAEGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath the singing boughs and sacred stars
Last Line: The perfume of love's immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Love - Nature Of


A GRAVE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: A grave seems only six feet deep
Last Line: Its depths, how deep?
Subject(s): Graves; Immortality; Tombs; Tombstones


A HUMBLE SINGER, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A modest singer, with meek soul
Last Line: "sing on immortally."
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Immortality; Singing & Singers; Voices


A MAN MUST LIVE, by CHARLOTTE PERKINS STETSON GILMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man must live!' we justify
Last Line: Win life forever more.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stetson, Charlotte Perkins
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


A MORNING THOUGHT, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: What if some morning, when the stars were paling
Last Line: "and take my hand and say, ""my name is death""?"
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


A SPIDER SEWED AT NIGHT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Did wrestle long and hard —
Subject(s): Spiders; Immortality


A SPIRITUAL LEGEND, by PHILIP JAMES BAILEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There were who spiritual legends feigned
Last Line: Thus he, the legend spiritual who feigned.
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Paradise; Holy Spirit


AARON LEVY GREEN, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now dimly thro' our tears we see his face
Last Line: Us worthy of joining him on high
Subject(s): Honor;immortality;jews;memory;rest; Judaism


AD ASTRA: 11, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ah, lightning interchange of soul and sense!
Last Line: And reach at joys that are beyond our sphere.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Immortality


AD ASTRA: 80, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE    Poem Text                    
First Line: And, if their hope and teaching were in vain
Last Line: Thro' darkling dawns to their immortal dead.
Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed


AFTER, by FLORENCE WEINBERGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I began to grab %specks, the way proust
Last Line: Who will care so much for place?
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Widows And Widowers


AFTERMATH, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I lay dying on my bed
Subject(s): Immortality


ALASTOR; OR, THE SPIRIT OF SOLITUDE, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood!
Last Line: Birth and the grave, that are not as they were.
Variant Title(s): Invocation To Nature
Subject(s): Immortality; Solitude; Loneliness


ALIEN TO THE EARTH, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: My soul is ever alien to the earth
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Immortality


ALL SOULS', by DANA GIOIA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose there is no heaven and no hell
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


ALL SOULS', by DANA GIOIA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Suppose there is no heaven and no hell
Last Line: They watch the shadows lengthen on the grass. %the pallor of the rose is their despair
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion


AMBITION CANNOT FIND HIM, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For our mutual hone, immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality; Ambition


AMBUSCADE, by FLORENCE CECILIA ROBERTS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Send down your shining men!' we cried
Subject(s): Immortality


AMID THE SHADOWS, by ANTHERO (ANTERO) TARQUINIO DE QUENTAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: There comes at times to take a seat near mine
Subject(s): Immortality


AMORETTI: 69, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The famous warriors of the antique world
Last Line: Gotten at last with labour and long toyle.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Subject(s): War; Immortality


AMORETTI: 75, by EDMUND SPENSER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: One day I wrote her name upon the strand
Last Line: Our love shall live, and later life renew.
Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin
Variant Title(s): "her Name;our Love Shall Live;to Immortalise His Love;one Day I Wrote Her Name;eternizing Her;""one Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand,"";
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Immortality; Love; Names; Seashore; Thought; Beach; Coast; Shore; Thinking


AN EASTERN LEGEND, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In cloisters dim and haunted
Last Line: The world and men and fate.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Immortality; Legends; Love


AN IMMORTAL, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Child of no mortal birth, that yet doth live
Last Line: Twin torches flashing into fire.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Children; Desire; Immortality; Love; Mortality; Childhood


ANOTHER DAY, by BETSY WINTER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Not death today, while rain is flung
Last Line: But not today!
Subject(s): Immortality


ARDUIN, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rhasis %young master ion, what is this
Last Line: Men should not toil too much; there's madness in it
Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Egypt; Immortality; Life; Love; Plays And Playwrights


ASOLANDO: EPILOGUE, by ROBERT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the midnight in the silence of the sleep-time
Last Line: "there as here!"
Subject(s): Immortality


ASPIRATION, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though my frail soul should never touch again
Last Line: Imbued with hopes of immortality.
Subject(s): Ambition; God; Immortality


AT NIGHT THE PAINTED MIMICRIES, by WINIFRED ADAMS BURR    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality


AT THE BANK OF THE TISZA, by SANDOR CSOORI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This summer is my chosen country
Last Line: Is a bear-god shedding its fur?
Subject(s): Immortality


AT THE GOAL, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who would wish back the saints upon our rough
Last Line: Of rest, and good the sleep I took'?
Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina
Subject(s): Immortality


ATHANASY, by ROSE SCORGIE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Singer of avon in your matchless verse
Last Line: Which he terms -- immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality


AUF WIEDERSEHEN, SELECTION, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It were a double grief, if the true-hearted
Last Line: Until we meet again!
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


AZRAEL, by ROBERT GILBERT WALSH    Poem Text                    
First Line: The angels in high places
Last Line: And find them lined with gold.
Subject(s): Immortality


BARONESS DE ROTHSCHILD, by EMILY MARION HARRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though life may fade, love never dies
Last Line: Who loved her god; whose god is love.
Subject(s): Death; Honor; Immortality; Jews; Love; Dead, The; Judaism


BE STILL AND WAIT, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Be still, o soul!
Last Line: The shining robe of immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Patience; Waiting


BEARING WITHNESS, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Weep with the star of gold
Last Line: The leaf that never grows old
Subject(s): Gold; Immortality; Language


BEAUTIFUL DEATH, by JOHN LANCASTER SPALDING    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O painter, paint me autumn woods when now
Last Line: And all the flowers close wrapped and hidden lay.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Paintings And Painters; Dead, The


BEYOND, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Source                    
First Line: Dark house, whose door denies
Subject(s): Immortality


BEYOND THE FINAL BREATH, THE FIRST FAINT GLEAM, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Immortality


BOOK OF HOURS, SELS., by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I live my life in circles that grow wide
Subject(s): Immortality


BRAHMA'S ANSWER, by RICHARD HENRY STODDARD    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Once, when the days were ages
Subject(s): Immortality


BURIAL, by MAXWELL STRUTHERS BURT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As when we wake from some enchanted sleep
Alternate Author Name(s): Burt, Struthers
Subject(s): Immortality


CAPTAIN'S DREAM, by ANNE BRONTE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw him, but I now him not
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Acton
Subject(s): Immortality


CHAPEL IN THE WOODS, by MARY NEWTON BALDWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three steps up form earthiness
Subject(s): Immortality


CHIAROSCURO, by JOHN BEAUCHAMP THOMPSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beauty growing on a thorn
Last Line: Prove life's immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality


CHRIST AND THE MOURNERS, by KATHERINE ELEANOR CONWAY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Down on the shadowed stream of time and tears
Last Line: O thou, the resurrection and the life!
Subject(s): Immortality; Jesus Christ


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


CLOCKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Still comes no answer to my greatest question
Last Line: One clock or two, there'll be no further winding.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Immortality


COMPANY, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: I love the company of prophets,' she said
Last Line: Then why has daddy %forgotten my name?'
Subject(s): Immortality; Prophets And Prophecy; Writing And Writers


CONSOLATION, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sad at night were thought of the dear things vanished
Subject(s): Immortality


CONSPIRACY, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I had a dream of some great house of stone
Subject(s): Immortality


CONTINUITY, by HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There is in certain ancient things a trace
Subject(s): Immortality


CREED OF MY HEART, by EDMOND GORE ALEXANDER HOLMES    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The flame in my heart is kindled by the might of the morn's ...
Subject(s): Immortality


CROSSING THE BAR, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sunset and evening star
Last Line: When I have crossed the bar.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Evening; Immortality; Religion; Sea; Dead, The; Sunset; Twilight; Theology; Ocean


CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish


CUCHULAIN COMFORTED, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A man that had six mortal wounds, a man
Last Line: They had changed their throats and had the throats of birds
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Cuchulain; Immortality; Legends, Irish


DARK INANIMATE, by ERIC WILSON BARKER    Poem Source                    
First Line: From the dead and lichened tree
Subject(s): Immortality


DEATH, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Look not so fierce; thy hands are ty'd, I know
Last Line: Borne in a surer birth of immortalitie.
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Death; Devil; Immortality; Spiritual Life; Eve; Dead, The; Satan; Mephistopheles; Lucifer; Beelzebub


DEATH, by FLORENCE EARLE COATES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the key that parts the gates of fame
Last Line: The waking from a dream that man calls—life.
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


DEATH OF THE BELOVED, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He knew death only from what all men say
Subject(s): Immortality


DEATHLESS ONES, by ELEANOR GLENN WALLIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have vanished, the immortal horses of achilles
Last Line: As great tears fell from the eyes of these immortals %for the dead
Subject(s): Immortality


DEFENSE AGAINST THE DARK, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Our two small sons and one I love
Subject(s): Immortality


DISCOVERY, by MARY D. SPENCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Crowded city streets I trod
Last Line: Breathes of immortality.
Subject(s): Cities; God; Immortality; Streets; Urban Life; Avenues


DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DOING, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And blind me forever from this wasting life
Subject(s): Immortality


DOOR BETWEEN, by MARY FERGUSON LEGLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: I almost thought the silent door
Subject(s): Immortality


DORICHA, by POSEIDIPPUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So now the very bones of you are gone
Last Line: Again to naucratis and to the nile.
Alternate Author Name(s): Posidippus; Poseidippos
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Sappho (610-580 B.c.); Dead, The


DOWN CHANNEL, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In that miraculous sunset, wonder-spent
Last Line: Was that lone caravel that stood to sea.
Subject(s): Immortality; Wales; Welshmen; Welshwomen


DREAM OF BEAUTY, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that each most lovely, perfect thing
Subject(s): Immortality


DREAM: SEA, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Ay, once I dreamed of an age-wide sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Immortality


DREAMS OF FLYING, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I have often dreamed
Subject(s): Immortality


DREAMS OF HEAVEN, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Dream'st thou of heaven? What dreams are thine?
Last Line: "farewell, beloved! -- farewell!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Heaven; Immortality; Paradise


DUNCTON HILL, by HILAIRE BELLOC    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He does not die that can bequeath
Last Line: A boy that sings on duncton hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Belloc, Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene
Subject(s): Immortality


DUNKIRK, by SUSAN D'ARCY CLARK    Poem Text                    
First Line: They looked at death
Last Line: "immortals these,"" and laid his scythe away."
Subject(s): Death; Dunkirk, France; Immortality; World War Ii; Dead, The; Second World War


DUSTY ANSWER, SELS., by FLORENCE WILSON ROPER                       
Subject(s): Immortality


EASTER, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The stars wailed when the reed was born
Last Line: Time bowed before eternity.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Easter; Good Friday; Grief; Holidays; Holy Week; Immortality; Nature; Time; The Resurrection; Sorrow; Sadness


EASTER BELLS, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Chime, solemn bells of easter!
Last Line: And soothe earth's sad unrest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs.
Subject(s): Catholic Church - Clergy; Easter; Holidays; Immortality; Catholic Priests; The Resurrection


ECHOES: 35. MARGARITAE SORORI, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A late lark twitters from the quiet skies
Last Line: The sundown splendid and serene, death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Variant Title(s): The Happy Passing;i. M. Margaritae Sororis;so Be My Passing;some Late Lark Singing;in Memoriam Margaritae Sororis;margaritae Sorori
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


ECHOES: 5, by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I am a reaper
Last Line: The now and the ever,
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


EDWIN AND PAULINUS: THE CONVERSION OF NORTHUMBRIA, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: The black-haired gaunt paulinus
Last Line: "when our brief days are ovber, / that we shall live again"
Subject(s): Death;immortality; "dead, The;


ELYSIUM, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the valley of death am I come
Last Line: These are the valleys elysian!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Immortality


ENCHANTMENT, by BERNICE LESBIA KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who made me an immortal in the night!
Last Line: When the mad sun's clear face is dimmed with rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Gilkyson, Walter, Mrs.
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Tears; Sorrow; Sadness


ENDURANCE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: He bent above: so still her breath
Last Line: To be immortal and alone.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement


ENVOI, by JOHN GNEISENAU NEIHARDT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, seek me not within a tomb
Last Line: Is prayer!
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


EPISODE IN STASIS, by NICHOLAS SAMARAS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I remember a visitor's garden, lavender magnolias walled-in by red
Last Line: Immortality is the exact length of memory
Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Memory


ETERNAL, by MARY HOGE BRUCE    Poem Text                    
First Line: When I have told the world goodbye
Last Line: I know I shall remember you.
Subject(s): Immortality


ETERNAL LIFE, by HENRY MORE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Those souls that of his own good life partake
Last Line: They live, they live in blest eternity
Variant Title(s): Euthanasi
Subject(s): Immortality


ETERNITY, by GRACE GRISWOLD BISBY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Enough for me to realize
Last Line: Through deathless time's eternal range.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Reincarnation; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Transmigration; Pretas


EVEN TO THE DEAD, by WHITNEY MONTGOMERY    Poem Source                    
First Line: When in the mazes of a dream
Subject(s): Immortality


EVENING, by ROYALL TYLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now sunk in western cadence low
Last Line: Soar to an immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Old Simon; S.
Subject(s): Immortality


EX ORE INFANTIS, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her husband died before her babe was born
Last Line: Your husband with his boy. The child was right.
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Immortality


FAME'S BOYS AND GIRLS, WHO NEVER DIE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: And are too seldom born
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1066; Poem: 89
Subject(s): Immortality


FAUST BOOK: MEPHISTOPHELES ASSURES ... IMMORTALITY, by DENNIS JOSEPH ENRIGHT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: Why did I not give up the ghost
Last Line: Most lost souls don't rate an epitaph
Subject(s): Devil; Faust; Immortality


FIGURES IN A NIGHTMARE, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Is this the way to the town?' I said?'
Subject(s): Immortality


FINIAS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In the torch-lit city of finias that flames on
Last Line: Here!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Cities; Fire; Immortality; Laughter; Secrets; Urban Life


FIRST TIME, by ELEMER (GEORGE) HORVATH    Poem Source                    
First Line: It was glorious to stay inside you
Last Line: You smile you bleed
Subject(s): Immortality


FOR A BEAUTIFUL YOUTH, by THALIA BELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I always loved the splendour of your youth
Last Line: So long as beats one visionary heart.
Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality; Youth


FOREKNOWN, by DORIS KENYON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I dreamed and I awoke, the morning light
Subject(s): Immortality


FORETASTE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How do I know that after this
Last Line: And sun me in thine immortality.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


FOUR MEN, OUR FACES DRIED WITH DUST, by JENNETTE YEATMAN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality


FRAGMENT, by CLARK ASHTON SMITH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This I remember clearly: form stone to stepping-stone
Subject(s): Immortality


FREEMASONRY, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As through the dreary wilderness
Last Line: Which will unite them there.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death; Freemasons; Heaven; Immortality; Memory; Presence; Dead, The; Masonic Societies; Paradise


FRIENDS BEYOND, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot think of them as dead
Last Line: For god hath given to love to keep %its own eternally
Variant Title(s): My Dead; Their Silent Ministr
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion


FROM A HIGH PLACE I SAW THE CITY, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality


FROST ELVES, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I fell into a sleep at midnight, while the frost
Subject(s): Immortality


FULFILLMENT, by CATHLEEN KEEGAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Aye, I was one with moon-touched, whispering leaves
Subject(s): Immortality


GHOST, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: She came to him without eyes, yet her faceheld a smile
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Immortality


GHOSTS, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the columned cliffs far out have planted
Last Line: As the castle over the northern sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural


GIVEN IN MARRIAGE UNTO THEE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Conquer mortality
Subject(s): God; Faith; Immortality


GOOD-NIGHT, by NANCY BYRD TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Good-night, sleep well!' we say to those we love
Last Line: Sleep well, good-night!
Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Bedtime


GOOD-NIGHT, by CLARENCE AUGUSTUS VINCENT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Good-night! Good-night!
Last Line: Till tomorrow!
Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Bedtime


GRASS, by BYOK NAMKUNG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Grass, summer grass
Last Line: And you can tread gently on me %as I now tread on you
Subject(s): Grass; Immortality; Love


GREAT SPIRITS SUPERVIVE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Our mortall parts may wrapt in seare-cloths lye
Last Line: Great spirits never with their bodies dye.
Subject(s): Immortality


GUARDIAN, by PEPITA CROUNSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Within this valley of eternal sleep
Last Line: Where spirit enters immortality.
Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Grief; Immortality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


GUARDIAN ANGEL, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Sometimes a waking dream my lfie will be
Subject(s): Immortality


HAUNTED HOUSES, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All houses wherein men have lived and died
Last Line: Wander our thoughts above the dark abyss.
Subject(s): Immortality


HAVE YOU NOT OFT, IN THE STILL WIND, by GEORGE DARLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Immortality


HER IMMORTALITY, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady, had I but the heaven-sent grace
Last Line: And outsoar death itself on wings of rhyme!
Subject(s): Death; Fame; France; Immortality; Time; Dead, The; Reputation


HEREAFTER, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is so much of sorrow for us here
Last Line: But have no memories nor future goals.
Subject(s): Immortality; Life


HETERODOXY, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed one night I came
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


HIS IMMORTALITY, by THOMAS HARDY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a dead man's finer part
Last Line: Dying amid the dark.
Subject(s): Immortality


HOLY SONNET: 10, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Last Line: And death shall be no more; death, thou shalt die.
Variant Title(s): "sonnet On Death;elegie;death Rebuked;""death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee"";
Subject(s): Catholics; Death; Freedom; Immortality; Religion; Social Protest; Victory; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Dead, The; Liberty; Theology


HOLY SONNET: 7, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: At the round earth's imagined corners, blow
Last Line: As if thou hadst sealed my pardon, with thy blood.
Variant Title(s): "blow Your Trumpets, Angels;'teach Me How To Repent';holy Sonnet: 165;holy Sonnets: 4;""at The Round Earth's Imagined Corners, Blow"";
Subject(s): Angels; Bible; Christianity; Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Religion; Repentance; Salvation; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Theology; Penitence


HOME-SICKNESS, by JUSTINUS KERNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: There calleth me ever a marvelous horn
Last Line: I go to my rest!
Subject(s): Death; Grief; Immortality; Rest; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness


HOPE AND TEARS, by JOHN VANCE CHENEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not in the time of pleasure
Last Line: Had the eyes no tears.
Variant Title(s): Tears;the Rainbow
Subject(s): Immortality


I CLOSE MY EYES, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I close my etes like a good little boy at night in bed
Last Line: Why can't I live forever?
Subject(s): Immortality


I CLOSE MY EYES, by DAVID IGNATOW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I close my etes like a good little boy at night in bed
Last Line: Why can't I live forever?
Subject(s): Immortality


I HEARD HER WHISPER, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality


I LIVE WITH HIM, I SEE HIS FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Be judgment — what it may
Subject(s): God; Immortality


I STILL LIVE, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: O thou, whose love is changeless
Last Line: I thank thee that I live.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Angels; God; Heaven; Immortality; Love; Paradise


I WONDER, by HELEN FIELD WATSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Is immortality the consciousness
Last Line: In living, gardens, pitcures, or in rhyme?
Subject(s): Immortality


IDEAL BEAUTY, by FERDINAND DE HERRERA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O light serene! Present in him who
Last Line: The immortal still I seek and follow %on to heaven!
Alternate Author Name(s): Herrera, Fernando De
Subject(s): Angels; Beauty; Heaven; Immortality


IDEAL PASSION, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My lady ne'er hath given herself to me
Last Line: Of my sad verse, after I am dead!
Subject(s): Desire; Immortality; Passion; Praise


IF HEARTS ARE DUST, by JAMES TERRY WHITE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain
Last Line: If hearts are dust.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMITATIONS OF HORACE: EPISTLE 2.1, by ALEXANDER POPE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: While you, great patron of mankind! Sustain
Last Line: Befringe the rails of bedlam and sohoe.
Variant Title(s): To Augustus
Subject(s): Dramatists; Dryden, John (1631-1700); George Ii, King Of England (1683-1760); Great Britain - Foreign Relations; Immortality; Lely, Sir Peter (1618-1680); Paintings And Painters; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Spen


IMMORTAL, by MAUDE PERRY FAETH    Poem Text                    
First Line: They may bury your body, your dear, precious body
Last Line: It is not really you that has died.
Subject(s): Immortality; Soul


IMMORTAL, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the heaven of thy heart, o god
Last Line: This holy one that is thine!
Variant Title(s): The Proof;alive In Thee
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTAL, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: So soon my body will have gone
Last Line: A wave that never finds the shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


IMMORTAL BEAUTY, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beneath october's paling sun how fair
Last Line: Like these winged florets, this october day.
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Autumn; Beauty; Immortality; October; Seasons; Fall


IMMORTAL DREAM, by JESSIE MORRIS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Despite world chaos, certain men will dream
Last Line: And depth of one man's dream that lives and sings.
Subject(s): Immortality; Sonnet (as Literary Form)


IMMORTAL IS AN AMPLE WORD, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: It had been heaven below
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTAL JOY, by MARGARET SACKVILLE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When all our roses huddle out of sight
Last Line: Shall gently fall upon its sleeping face.
Subject(s): Beauty; Flowers; Happiness; Immortality; Roses; Spring; Joy; Delight


IMMORTALITY, by MATTHEW ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Foiled by our fellow-men, depress'd, outworn
Last Line: Mounts, and that hardly, to eternal life.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It is an honorable thought, / and makes one lift one's hat
Last Line: Flit russetly away.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by JOHN DRINKWATER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When other beauty governs other lips
Last Line: Our names, our ghosts, our immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by EFFIE SMITH ELY    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the forest a pleasant tree
Last Line: For the bird, my soul, which is free!
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by WILLIS FLETCHER JOHNSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I live: this much I know; and I defy
Last Line: Through all eternity shall never die.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Strong as the death it masters, is the hope
Last Line: Mine the first welcome heard in paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by ALBERT W. MAYER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Life is not the breath we breathe
Last Line: Death alone was born to die.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: How like a second nature to our souls
Last Line: Exiled to earth, now seeking home again!
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Battles nor songs can from oblivion save
Last Line: Not one drop has been spilled.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: We must pass like smoke or live within the spirit's fire
Last Line: By unnumbered ways of dream to death.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by PAUL ARMAND SILVESTRE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where goes the starry quire?
Last Line: The day that hath no night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silvestre, Armand
Subject(s): Immortality; Time


IMMORTALITY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: E'en now the spirit moves
Last Line: Proclaims the promise true.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: So I have sunk my roots in earth
Last Line: I that make many souls for heaven.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birth; Children; Immortality; Love; Mothers; Child Birth; Midwifery; Childhood


IMMORTALITY, by MARY WINTER WERE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now you are dead, though summer brings
Last Line: To mingle with the living grass.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


IMMORTALITY [OR, VERSE], by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Past ruined ilion helen lives
Last Line: These many summers you and me.
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY: 1, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: So when the old delight is born anew
Last Line: And at full tide forgotten in the sea.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALITY: 2, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet in my hid soul must a voice reply
Last Line: But homeless in the heart of paradise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality


IMMORTALS, by CHARLOTTE LOUISE BERTLESEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The earth was never worthy
Last Line: Through the cycles of the years.
Subject(s): Immortality


IN 'DESIGNING A CLOAK TO CLOAK HIS DESIGNS' YOU WRESTED FROM OBLIVION, by MARIANNE MOORE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Cowed by his uningenious will
Last Line: To serve two masters.
Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Immortality


IN A TROUBLED DREAM, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Lost in a troubled dream, I roamed alone
Subject(s): Immortality


IN IMITATION OF 'THE KING OF HUAI-NAN', by PAO CHAO    Poem Source                    
First Line: The king of huai-nan, %craving long life
Last Line: May it be firm as a builded city, may it be keen as swords; %may I flourish with him, wane with him,
Alternate Author Name(s): Ming-yuan; Bao Zhao
Subject(s): Immortality


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 1, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I held it truth, with him who sings
Last Line: But all he was is overworn.'
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 74, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As sometimes in a dead man's face
Last Line: His darkness beautiful with thee.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


IN MEMORIAM; TO REV. DR. B. FELSENTHAL, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO    Poem Text                    
First Line: Far up the path that leads back nevermore
Last Line: Have writ his name with the undying dead.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Memory; Dead, The


IN MEMORY OF A FRIEND, by GEORGE W. CASE    Poem Text                    
First Line: His life was charmed to all who knew
Last Line: He lives always, he is not dead.
Subject(s): Friendship; Immortality


IN MY FATHER'S HOUSE, by ROBERT FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: No, not cold beneath the grasses
Last Line: Waiting in another room?
Subject(s): Immortality


IN PRAISE OF GREEK, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Come back, o lyric days, and bring
Last Line: That bygone, golden tongue!
Subject(s): Immortality; Love; Night; Praise; Sea; Soul; Bedtime; Ocean


IN THE ARENA, by ANTHERO (ANTERO) TARQUINIO DE QUENTAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far, far from here, I know not when, nor where
Subject(s): Immortality


IN THE DEAD UNHAPPY MIDNIGHT, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis midnight hour, and the dead have power
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Immortality


IN THE HOUR OF DEATH, by ANONYMOUS    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
Subject(s): Death;immortality; "dead, The;


IN THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O wind, why break in idle pain
Last Line: This thing that hath no grave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Pain; Waves; Wind; Suffering; Misery


INFINITE, by JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The infinite always is silent
Subject(s): Immortality


INFINITY, by GIACOMO LEOPARDI    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Always I've loved this lonely hill, whose trees
Variant Title(s): L'infinit
Subject(s): Immortality


INNER VOICE, by ANTHERO (ANTERO) TARQUINIO DE QUENTAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: I lie enveloped in a dream of pain
Subject(s): Immortality


INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT PENSHURST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Are days of old familiar to thy mind
Last Line: Lives and shall live, immortalized in song.
Subject(s): History; Honor; Immortality; Penshurst, England; Presence; Singing & Singers; Historians


INTIMATIONS OF MORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by ALICE MEYNELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It knows but will not tell
Last Line: Those hidden lips are dumb.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meynell, Wilfrid, Mrs.; Thompson, Alice Christina
Subject(s): Children; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Childhood


INTO THE ENDLESS NIGHT, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: They have sailed back into the endless night
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Immortality


IS IMMORTALITY A BANE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That men are so oppressed?
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1728; Poem: 175
Subject(s): Immortality


KEPLER'S VISION, by ELIZABETH DOTEN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Upon the clear, bright, northern sky
Last Line: The truths that yet shall be revealed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie
Subject(s): Immortality; Spirituality


LARK WENT SINGING IN THE MORNING GLOW, by RUTH GUTHRIE HARDING    Poem Source                    
Alternate Author Name(s): Burton, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality


LIFE WITHOUT DEATH, by STEPHEN TEETS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Death doth not wait as most things wait
Last Line: You live, though you do not die!
Subject(s): Immortality


LINES BY CLAUDIA, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I did not sleep; 'twas noon of day
Last Line: For which we fought and bled and died
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Immortality


LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Five years have passed; five summers, with the length
Last Line: More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!
Variant Title(s): Tintern Abbey;on Revisiting The Banks Of The Wye
Subject(s): England; Holidays; Immortality; Nature; Religion; Trees; English; Theology


LINES TO THE AUTHOR OF ECCLESIASTES, by CHARLES MARIE RENE LECONTE DE LISLE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Old lover of the sun, who thus made moan
Subject(s): Immortality


LIVINGSTONE, by FRANCIS BROOKS    Poem Text                    
First Line: On dusky shoulders
Last Line: Death!
Subject(s): Africa; Courage; Immortality; Slavery; Valor; Bravery; Serfs


LONG LIFE, by LOUIS BEVIER JR.    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have long life who do the will of god
Last Line: Reach the far shores of immortality.
Variant Title(s): Summer Night
Subject(s): Immortality


LOST CHURCH, by JOHANN LUDWIG UHLAND    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In yonder dim and pathless wood
Subject(s): Immortality


LOST IN HADES, by ANDREW LANG    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed that somewhere in the shadowy place
Subject(s): Immortality


LOVE AND DEATH, by SAROJINI NAIDU    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I dreamed my love had set thy spirit free
Last Line: Or save thee from the swift decrees of death.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The


LOVE'S DENIAL, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Nay, snatch me not from the brands
Last Line: I will come as a god to thee.
Subject(s): Immortality


LULLABY, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lennavan-mo
Last Line: Lennavan-mo.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Angels; Children; Comfort; Immortality; Mortality; Singing & Singers; Spiritual Life; Childhood; Songs


LYING IN BED ON A SUNDAY MORNING, by CARL RAKOSI    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: How pleasant are the green and
Alternate Author Name(s): Rawley, Callmann
Subject(s): Contentment; Immortality


LYRIC FOR THE DUSTER DANCE: A POEM AGAINST IMMORTALITY, by JODI VARON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The rustle of wu beauties startles heaven
Last Line: Depraved scales, obstinate armor, %resplendent ooze
Subject(s): Immortality


MAGYAR, by DANA KNEELAND AKERS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Forget with me this babbling, scented room
Last Line: A hundred decades... And we love once more!
Variant Title(s): Mongol
Subject(s): Hungary; Immortality


MAN WHO DIED TWICE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had not walked aimlessly up town
Last Line: And while I sank his ashes in the sea
Subject(s): Death; Immortality


MANFRED; A DRAMATIC POEM, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The lamp must be replenished, but even then
Last Line: He's gone, his soul hath taken its earthless flight; %whither? I dread to think; but he is gone
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Alps; Coliseum, Rome; Immortality; Mountains


MATER CONSOLATRIX, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Heart's-joy must fade - though it borrow
Last Line: And where the stars are led.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Future Life; Grief; Happiness; Hearts; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Sorrow; Sadness; Joy; Delight


ME! COME! MY DAZZLED FACE, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That they—pronounce my name
Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Heaven


MEDITATION, by SAMUEL WALTER KELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: There cannot yet remain a lenthened span
Subject(s): Immortality; Physicians


MEETING, by JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I shed no outward tears, but my hear wept
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Immortality


MEMORY, by HOWARD PHILLIPS LOVECRAFT    Poem Source                    
First Line: There were great steppes, and rocky table-lands
Subject(s): Immortality


MIST OPENING IN THE HILLS, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: ... A step
Subject(s): Immortality


MORE LIFE, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not weary of thy world
Last Line: O soul, awaiteth thee!
Subject(s): Immortality; Life


MOUNTAIN LIVING: 15, by HAN SHAN TE-CH'ING    Poem Source                    
First Line: Six on the lotus clock?
Last Line: Hold your hand the womb of the flower to be
Subject(s): Immortality; Zen Buddhism


MUSIC, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Before the dawn is yet the day
Last Line: Or but a dream astray.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Immortality; Music & Musicians


MY CHILDREN ARE, by MARJORIE RUSSO    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I look at them and see... %bits of immortality
Subject(s): Children; Flowers; Immortality; Nature


MY DESIRE, by LUCY H. KING SMITH    Poem Text                    
First Line: When earth's door shall close for me
Last Line: And -- deathlessly.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


MY ROSE, by JANICE FORD    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is a lovely rose that never dies
Last Line: The fragrance that has made it mine.
Subject(s): Immortality; Youth


MYSTIC, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Have I not know the sky and sea
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Immortality


MYSTICAL BALLAD, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The sunset scarce had dimmed away
Subject(s): Immortality


NAIAD, by JOHN FREEMAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Couch thy dew'd head, naiad, amid the long
Last Line: Vainly thy silver'd shape among reedy shoals to hide.
Subject(s): Immortality


NEPHREE-TI-TA, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Her yees are two magicians' fires, molten and black and
Subject(s): Immortality


NEVER AGAIN, by HUGH RAYMOND MCCRAE    Poem Source                    
First Line: She looked at me with sadder eyes than death
Subject(s): Immortality


NIGHT AND DAY, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Twas night, and darkness reigned supreme
Last Line: Beyond the power of sin—man's soul shall never die.
Subject(s): Bible; Death; Easter; Healing; Holidays; Holy Ghost; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life; Light; Night; Praise; Religion; Religious Education; Sin; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Cures; Holy Spirit; Bedtime; Theology; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial School


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 1. LIFE, DEATH & IMMORTALITY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tired nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!
Last Line: How had it blest mankind, and rescued me!
Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Grief; Immortality; Life; Mankind; Night; Dead, The; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Human Race; Bedtime


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 6. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (1), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She (for I know not yet her name in heav'n)
Last Line: Stronger than death, and smiling at the tomb.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Future Life; Immortality; Life; Love; Night; Wealth; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bedtime; Riches; Fortunes


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 7. THE INFIDEL RECLAIMED (2), by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Heav'n gives the needful, but neglected, call
Last Line: Let the grave listen; -- and be graver still.
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Hearts; Immortality; Life; Night; Reason; Soul; Virtue; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bedtime; Intellect; Rationalism; Brain; Mind; Intellectuals


NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE COMPLAINT: 8. VIRTUE'S APOLOGY, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And has all nature, then, espoused my part?
Last Line: Satan, thy master, I dare call a dunce.
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Imagination; Immortality; Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527); Night; Pleasure; Soul; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Fancy; Bedtime


NO DEATH, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw in dreams a mighty multitude
Last Line: "but ""death is dead,"" was all the voice replied."
Subject(s): Immortality


NON OMNIS MORIAR, by WILLIAM HUGHES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Lives through two thousand years
Last Line: "not all of me shall die."
Subject(s): Immortality


NOONDAY GHOSTS, by GEOFFREY JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Who is softly calling whom
Subject(s): Immortality


NOT EVEN IN DEATH THOU DIEST; SO STRONG TO SAVE, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is ripening in the garden of the lord
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality


NOT HERE, by D. S. LEONARD    Poem Source                    
First Line: What mockery is this? How many times
Subject(s): Immortality


O WHAT IS THIS MOANING SO FAINT AND LOW?, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas
Subject(s): Immortality


ODE ON ASTRONOMY; WRITTEN FOR THE PRIZE AT CAMBRIDGE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Hail venerable night!
Last Line: A god the gods among.
Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Immortality; Mythology - Classical; Night; Sky; Stars; Bedtime


ODE ON MUSIC, by FRANCIS HOPKINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hark! Hark! The sweet vibrating lyre
Last Line: Hosannahs to their glorious king
Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Immortality; Music And Musicians; Saints


ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE, by JOHN KEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
Last Line: Fled is that music: -- do I wake or sleep?
Subject(s): Adversity; Birds; Immortality; Life; Mortality; Nightingales


ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY FROM RECOLLECTIONS OF EARLY CHILDHOOD, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There was a time when meadow, grove and stream
Last Line: Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.
Variant Title(s): Ode On Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood;immortality;intimations Of Immortality
Subject(s): Death; God; Immortality; Nature; Dead, The


ODES: IV, 9. THE IMMORTALTY OF VERSE, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Lest you should think that verse shall die
Last Line: They had no poet and are dead!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Variant Title(s): The Immortality Of Verse
Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry & Poets


OF PAUL AND SILAS IT IS SAID, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: That an immortal binds silas, saint
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1166; Poem: 120
Subject(s): Immortality; Paul, Saint (1st Century)


OLD STONE GOD, by OLIVIA FREEMAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Brooding for ages in the graven rock
Subject(s): Immortality


ON, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Katherine woodcock died; so did her son
Last Line: Milton never saw either. He lived on
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Milton, John (1608-1674); Mothers And Sons


ON A FRIENDS DEATH, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE    Poem Text                    
First Line: We thought that death was hard and harsh, a doomer of dread power
Last Line: Ah no! His wings wave gently as the petals of a flower.
Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Immortality; Love; Nature; Dead, The


ON A NIGHT OF STARS, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The air revealed a glimmering form
Subject(s): Immortality


ON HIS DEPARTED WIFE, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alone, on gold-red laned of autumn light
Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru
Subject(s): Immortality


ON JESUS, TAKING HIS WORD ON IMMORTALITY, by ROBERT A. FINK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Not a question of belief
Last Line: It is what we pray to find at the end of poems
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion


ON KINGSTON BRIDGE, by ELLEN MACKAY HUTCHINSON CORTISSOZ    Poem Text                    
First Line: On kingston bridge the starlight shone
Last Line: On kingston bridge.
Subject(s): Immortality


ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are my murmur-laden shells that keep
Subject(s): Immortality; Shells; Conchology


ON SOME SHELLS FOUND INLAND, by TRUMBULL STICKNEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: These are my murmur-laden shells that keep
Last Line: Dash them to earth and crunch them with the heel %and make a dust of their seraphic song
Subject(s): Immortality; Shells


ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG GENTLEMAN, by FRANCIS FAWKES    Poem Text                    
First Line: Short and precarious is the life of man
Last Line: And bloomed renewed in everlasting life.
Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Immortality; Youth; Dead, The


ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Text                    
First Line: From far the clocks are ticking
Last Line: You long have found your home.
Subject(s): Immortality


ON THE DEATH OF MY CHILD, by JOSEPH VON EICHENDORFF    Poem Source                    
First Line: Far off the clocks are ticking
Subject(s): Immortality


ONCE & EVER, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sure love is nothing less than love
Last Line: Learn what thy love to love must be.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


ONE GENERATION TO ANOTHER, by CARLA LANYON LANYON    Poem Text                    
First Line: I shall not die entirely from this earth
Last Line: As pleased as he when april skies were blue.
Subject(s): Immortality


ONE HAUNTED NIGHT WHEN DEEP IN WINE, by JOHN IRVINE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality


ONLY A DREAM, SELS., by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around me rose the phantoms of the dark
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Immortality


ORDEAL, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love and pity are pleading with me this
Last Line: Where the dark immortal would shepherd our weeping souls?
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Love - Loss Of; Pity; Sorrow; Sadness


ORDER, by CEES NOOTEBOOM    Poem Source                    
First Line: The gods are mortal
Last Line: The end without end
Subject(s): Eyes; Immortality; Life; Light


OUT OF DARKNESS, by HARRY RANDOLPH BLYTHE    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is more in earth and heaven
Last Line: But we scarce have caught the gleam.
Subject(s): Death; God; Heaven; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The; Paradise


PARADOX, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Our death implicit in our birth
Last Line: Nor wonder overmuch
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion


PARTED, by JOHANNA AMBROSIUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Even though vales and mounts may sever
Last Line: Where immortality we know.
Subject(s): Farewell; Immortality; Parting


PARTING, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: My life closed twice before its close
Last Line: And all we need of hell.
Subject(s): Absence; Death; Immortality; Love; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The


PAUL TO PETER AND JOHN, by MARJORIE E. JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: The ageless shadows fall
Subject(s): Immortality


PEACE AND REMEMBRANCE! ALL THE GREAT, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: His life is immortality!
Alternate Author Name(s): Dean
Subject(s): Jews; Immortality


PEACE! BE STILL, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
Last Line: Shepherd mine
Subject(s): Immortality


PEARLS OF THE FAITH: 63. AL-HAIY, by EDWIN ARNOLD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Saith the book: 'count not as dead'
Last Line: Be ours such work and such reward.
Subject(s): God; Immortality; Islam


PHOENIX, by AUDREY ALEXANDRA BROWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The phoenix said to me
Last Line: And that to dare to die, for such as we %is evidence enough of immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality; World War Ii


PILGRIMAGE, by LAURA CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: I will tread on the golden grass of my bright field
Last Line: In the glow of the early day; and the east is red.
Subject(s): Beauty; Faith; Immortality; Nature - Religious Aspects; Pilgrimages & Pilgrims; Travel; Walking; Belief; Creed; Journeys; Trips


PILGRIMAGE, by SYDNEY KING RUSSELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: From where I paused, intent and still
Subject(s): Immortality


PINES, by MIRIAM BARRANGER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Against a blue green sky
Last Line: One with god and infinite.
Subject(s): Immortality


PRAYER IN SORROW, by FREDERICK LUCIAN HOSMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Father, to thee we look in all our sorrow
Last Line: Where now he plougheth, wave with golden grain.
Subject(s): Immortality; Prayer


PRESENCE, by EDITH WILLIS LINN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The door is locked, no foot is on the stair
Subject(s): Immortality


PROCESSIONAL, by STANTON ARTHUR COBLENTZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a vision of a drooping band
Subject(s): Immortality


PROPER CLAY, by MARK VAN DOREN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Their little room grew light with cries
Last Line: And whence the music no one made?
Subject(s): Immortality; Love


PSYCHE, by WILLIAM ALLEN BUTLER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This young woman is psyche, of whom you've
Last Line: Is a restless, dissatisfied, fugitive guest.
Subject(s): Cupid; Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Psyche (mythology); Eros


PULVIS ET UMBRA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Alon the crowded streets I walk and think
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Immortality


QUATRAIN: 1, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who sees apollo feels himself divine
Last Line: And circles where immortal hours shine.
Subject(s): Immortality


REALITY, by HERMAN EUGENE KITTREDGE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I know not why nor whence it came
Subject(s): Immortality


REDISCOVERY, by GEOFFREY JOHNSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I wished to long that I could pass
Subject(s): Immortality


REINCARNATION, by EDWARD WYNDHAM TENNANT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I too remember distant golden days
Last Line: Until perfection reach eternity.
Subject(s): Immortality; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; First World War


RENAISSANCE, by JOHN COWPER POWYS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Still we hear it
Last Line: Of those that worship the sun!
Subject(s): Immortality; Moon; Night; Prayer; Sun; Bedtime


REQUIEM, by DOUGLAS V. KANE    Poem Source                    
First Line: The stroke of time within my breast
Subject(s): Immortality


RESURRECTION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I buried joy; and early to the tomb
Last Line: Who dared to dream that joy, my joy, could die!
Subject(s): Death, Return From; Immortality


RESURRECTION; THE SOUL OF A BURIED BODY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought that I was dead
Last Line: To see the starlight shining on the snows.
Subject(s): Rebirth; Immortality


REVENANT, by ERNEST RHYS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Surely that town's the scansion of my life
Alternate Author Name(s): Rhys, Ernest Percival
Subject(s): Immortality


REVERIE, by EDWARD ROWLAND SILL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whether 'twas in that dome of evening sky
Last Line: And brooded over by the infinite one.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hedbrooke, Andrew
Subject(s): Immortality


ROOM, by LOUIS GINSBERG    Poem Source                    
First Line: Farther and farther ran each wall
Subject(s): Immortality


RUE DES VENTS, SELS., by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Immortality


SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no country for old men. The young
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry & Poets; Vision; Istambul; Byzantium; Dead, The; Fancy


SAILING TO BYZANTIUM, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That is no country for old men. The young
Last Line: To lords and ladies of byzantium %of what is past, or passing, or to come
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Birds; Constantinople; Death; Imagination; Immortality; Istanbul, Turkey; Men; Old Age; Poetry And Poets; Vision


SALVE DEUX REX JUDAEORUM, by AEMILIA (BASSANO) LANYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sith cynthia is ascended to that rest
Last Line: All what I am, I rest at your command.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lanier, Emilia
Subject(s): Adam & Eve; Bible; Elizabeth I, Queen Of England (1533-1603; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Man-woman Relationships; Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Women; Women In The Bible; Eve; Male-female Relations; Virgin Mary


SAND, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sterile sister though I be
Last Line: Breathing immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Immortality; Seashore; Beach; Coast; Shore


SAY NOT 'TIS DARK - THE NIGHT, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline
Subject(s): Immortality


SENSE, IF YOU CAN FIND IT, by DAVID HARTLEY COLERIDGE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Like one pale, flitting, lonely gleam
Alternate Author Name(s): Coleridge, Hartley
Subject(s): Immortality


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


SINCE I HAVE SEEN DEATH'S FACE, by FANIA KRUGER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Death came to me at twilight like a wraith
Subject(s): Immortality


SLEEP, by CHARLES WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now industry is ended; now, kind sleep
Last Line: To ask no more, but only this, of death.
Subject(s): Immortality


SO HIGH, by JOHN RUSSELL MCCARTHY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The mountain is so high - so high
Subject(s): Immortality


SOLDIER'S WIFE, by GERALD MASSEY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Around us the night closes dense as a wood
Alternate Author Name(s): Bandiera
Subject(s): Immortality


SOME - WORK FOR IMMORTALITY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Ones' - money - one's the mine
Variant Title(s): Poem: 406; Poem: 53
Subject(s): Fame; Immortality; Time


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


SOMETHING REMAINS, by MARION KNILL HENDRIX    Poem Text                    
First Line: The unknown dead are living still
Last Line: Though they find peace beneath the snow.
Subject(s): Immortality


SOMEWHERE, by JULIA CAROLINE RIPLEY DORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: How can I cease to pray for thee? Somewhere
Last Line: In god's wide universe thou art today!
Subject(s): Immortality


SONG OF THE SILENT LAND, by JOHANN GAUDENZ VON SALIS-SEEWIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the silent land!
Last Line: Into the silent land!
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


SONNET, by LEONORA SPEYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For I have seen this light. I did not dream
Subject(s): Immortality


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: 18, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Last Line: So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.
Variant Title(s): "shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?"";to His Love;
Subject(s): Admiration; Art & Artists; Beauty; Change; Flowers; Immortality; Love; Roses; Summer; Transience; Impermanence


SONNET: 23. ON HIS DECEASED WIFE, by JOHN MILTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Methought I saw my late espoused saint
Last Line: I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.
Variant Title(s): Katherine Milton;alcestis;sonnet: 19;sonnet 19;a Dream Of A Dead Wife
Subject(s): Dreams; Grief; Immortality; Love - Marital; Mourning; Powell, Mary (d. 1652); Widows & Widowers; Woodcock, Katherine (1628-1658); Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement


SONNET: 23. TO THE TUNE OF WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE, by PHILIP SIDNEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who hath his fancy pleased
Last Line: On nature's sweetest light.
Variant Title(s): Immortality;song
Subject(s): Immortality


SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 11, by PETRARCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sometimes, beneath the trees' green murmurous height
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Immortality


SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 17, by PETRARCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Never a mother spoke advice so wise
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Immortality


SONNETS TO LAURA IN DEATH: 34, by PETRARCH    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In thought I traveled to the high abode
Alternate Author Name(s): Petrarca, Francesco
Subject(s): Immortality


SORROW, by AUBREY THOMAS DE VERE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Count each affliction, whether light or grave
Last Line: Great thoughts, grave thoughts, thoughts lasting to the end.
Variant Title(s): Affliction
Subject(s): Grief; Immortality; Sorrow; Sadness


SOUL, WHEREFORE FRET THEE?, by GERTRUDE BLOEDE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: Immortal pledge of immortality!
Alternate Author Name(s): Sterne, Stuart
Subject(s): Soul; Immortality


SPINOZA, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A lock of hair to good spinoza's manes!
Last Line: Crowned with her laurel his immortal name.
Subject(s): Immortality; Praise


SPIRIT FRIEND, by LYDIA KEEFER HALEY    Poem Text                    
First Line: Now that she no longer walks
Last Line: Companion of my thought.
Subject(s): Immortality


SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes
Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes.
Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones


SPRING WILL COME AGAIN, by NEVA MCFARLAND WADHAMS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Long after we are gone, beloved one
Last Line: Will live again in some far fragrant spring.
Subject(s): Immortality


STALKER OF DREAMS, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great fish devour the smaller ones
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Immortality


STANZAS, by THOMAS WILLIAM PARSONS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We have forgot what we have been
Subject(s): Immortality


STARRY HEAVENS WITHOUT, by PTOLEMAEUS OF ALEXANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mortal though I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment
Last Line: And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ptolemy
Variant Title(s): Immortality
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


STRANGE MEETING, by HARPER POULSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: I walked with you tonight. You did not know
Subject(s): Immortality


STRANGE NIGHT, by MAY WILLIS SHELBURNE    Poem Source                    
First Line: So dark this noght, with neither moon nor stars
Subject(s): Immortality


STRANGE PROMISE, by INEZ BARCLAY KIRBY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Great words like solemn music sweep my heart
Subject(s): Immortality


SUDDEN BEAUTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Go look around the house corner
Last Line: Or, maybe, immortality.
Subject(s): Beauty; Earth; Immortality; Stars; World


SUICIDE, by HUGH WILGUS RAMSAUR    Poem Source                    
First Line: The agony in gone; his pain and care
Subject(s): Immortality


SUMMER BEGINS TO HAVE THE LOOK, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Recalls to immortality
Subject(s): Summer; Autumn; Immortality


SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky
Last Line: It is foul dust, intelligence the sun- %immortal is its light!
Subject(s): Death; Immortality


SUN AND DUST, by RICARDO PALMA    Poem Source                    
First Line: In a swift whirlwind rises to the sky
Last Line: Immortal is its light
Subject(s): Happiness; Heat; Immortality; Light; Sun


SUNSET, by PHOEBE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Away in the dim and distant past
Last Line: That we cannot die at all!
Subject(s): Evening; Faith; Immortality; God


SURETY, by WITTER BYNNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: We have each other's deathless love
Last Line: How dear a thing is dust!
Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Love; Loyalty; Mortality; Dead, The


SWANS, by JOHN IRVINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: I saw the swans fly westward to the hills
Subject(s): Immortality


SYMPATHY, by JAMES BENJAMIN KENYON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I stood at sunset on a gentle hill
Subject(s): Immortality


TAKE ALL AWAY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is left - the immortality
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1365; Poem: 139
Subject(s): Immortality


TAKE ALL AWAY FROM ME, BUT LEAVE ME ECSTASY, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: In abject poverty
Variant Title(s): Poem: 1640; Poem: 167
Subject(s): Immortality


TASSO TO LEONORA: 1, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Reproach me not because the many chide
Last Line: Or the forgetful dead sleeping appear to scorn.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Immortality; Tasso, Torquato (1544-1595)


TELL ME NEWS, by SIPHO SYDNEY SEPAMLA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Tell me of a brother
Last Line: Of a mangled corpse %not begun to sit on your conscience
Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Human Rights; Immortality; Prisons And Prisoners


TERROR BY NIGHT, by LEAH BODINE DRAKE    Poem Source                    
First Line: Deep in the gold forests of that dream
Subject(s): Immortality


TESLA ON IMMORTALITY, by KEVIN MEAUX    Poem Source                    
First Line: This evening as I passed a chapel
Last Line: Over the bare white logic of bones
Subject(s): Immortality; Tesla, Nikola (1856-1943)


THAT SUCH HAVE DIED, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: That such have died enables us
Last Line: For immortality.
Subject(s): Immortality; Life Change Events


THE AGING ACTRESS SEES HERSELF A STARLET ON THE LATE SHOW, by MILLER WILLIAMS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: For centuries only painters, poets, and sculptors
Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Motion Pictures; Time; Immortality; Actresses; Movies; Cinema


THE ALTAR, by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A broken altar, lord, thy servant reares
Last Line: And sanctifie this altar to be thine.
Subject(s): Altars; Doubt; Immortality; Skepticism


THE BUTTERFLY OBTAINS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: For immortality 
Subject(s): Butterflies; Immortality


THE CALL OF ETERNITY, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beloved, thou shalt be with me to-night
Last Line: Shalt be learning thy spirit's grandest consummation.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE CHARIOT, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Because I could not stop for death, / he kindly stopped for me
Last Line: Were toward eternity--
Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Holidays; Immortality; Mortality; Mourning; New Year; Religion; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Bereavement; Theology


THE COMPUTATION, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: For the first twenty years, since yesterday
Last Line: Am, by being dead, immortal. Can ghosts die?
Subject(s): Immortality; Time


THE COURSE OF TIME: A CONTRETEMPS, by ROBERT POLLOCK    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And as the anatomist, with all his band
Last Line: The insult offered to his clay in death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pollok, Robert
Subject(s): Fate; Immortality; Destiny


THE CRIB, by CHRISTOPHER DARLINGTON MORLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I sought immortality
Last Line: Immortality!
Alternate Author Name(s): Hall, Galway
Subject(s): Babies; Immortality; Infants


THE CRIMSON TREE, by ELSIE J. COSLER CAMPBELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beside a tomb I saw a crimson tree
Last Line: The living, crimson tree -- the christ of god!
Subject(s): Immortality; Trees


THE DEAD RETURN, by EDGAR ALBERT GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead return. I know they do
Last Line: Their spirits hover very near.
Alternate Author Name(s): Guest, Eddie
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


THE DEATH OF SCHILLER, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis said, when schiller's death drew nigh
Last Line: Sprang to a fairer, ampler sphere.
Subject(s): Immortality; Schiller, Johann Von (1759-1805); Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich Von


THE DREAMS THAT CAME TRUE, by JEAN INGELOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw in a vision once, our mother-sphere
Last Line: "thy kingdom come."
Subject(s): Dreams; God; Immortality; Night; Vision; Nightmares; Bedtime


THE DYING DECADENT, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: And when the evening came he fell asleep
Last Line: Calling on things that he had long forgot.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Sleep; Nightmares


THE EVERLASTING BATTLE, by GEORGE WILLIAM RUSSELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: When in my shadowy hours I pierce the
Last Line: I am of dana's race divine and know I am immortal still.
Alternate Author Name(s): A. E.
Subject(s): Despair; Hope; Immortality; Mythology - Celtic; Optimism


THE FAIRY'S SPELL, by FREDERICK W. POOLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Hearkene ye and heede me welle
Last Line: And softly whisper low.
Subject(s): Fairies; Immortality; Night; Elves; Bedtime


THE FAR HORIZON, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Swing low, thou silver moon!
Last Line: The future beckons, and we go!
Subject(s): Immortality; Life


THE FUGITIVE, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Fool, fool
Last Line: The tides enfolding thee?
Subject(s): Immortality; Tides


THE GIFT OF WISDOM, by CARROLL RYAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My spirit bids defiance to decay
Last Line: The gift of wisdom ere I left the earth.
Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Wisdom; Dead, The


THE GOD-MAKER, MAN, by DONALD ROBERT PERRY MARQUIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Nevermore / shall the shepherds of arcady follow
Last Line: Humble, but open eyed.
Alternate Author Name(s): Marquis, Don
Subject(s): Future Life; God; Immortality; Mythology; Religion; Truth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Theology


THE GREAT CAROUSAL, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh, do not think me dead when I
Last Line: The rich eternity of death.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Happiness; Immortality; Laughter; Soul; Joy; Delight


THE HALT IN THE GARDEN, by ROBERT SILLIMAN HILLYER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hesperides? Right here! The faithful keeper
Last Line: Yonder's a chian vintage. Fill your cup!
Subject(s): Immortality; Mythology - Classical


THE HOPE OF IMMORTALITY, by DAVID LYNDSAY    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All creature that ever god creat
Last Line: On to that day, I mak it to thee kend.
Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, David; Lyndsay, Sir David Of The Moiunt
Subject(s): Immortality


THE HUSBAND'S AND THE WIFE'S GRAVE, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Husband and wife! No converse now ye hold
Last Line: In sorrow, thou art leading me in joy.
Subject(s): Graves; Immortality; Tombs; Tombstones


THE IDEA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                    
First Line: Beneath this world of stars and flowers
Last Line: And is the play that we rehearse.
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTAL, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Beauty is still immortal in our eyes
Last Line: And hear new stars come singing from god's hand.
Subject(s): Beauty; Immortality


THE IMMORTAL, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, where I went in and out
Last Line: My birds and I shall be together.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Birds; Comfort; Immortality; Loss


THE IMMORTAL GODS, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The gods can't die, poor fellows
Last Line: When we are gone to sleep.
Subject(s): Future Life; Immortality; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


THE IMMORTAL HOUR, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Still as great waters lying in the west
Last Line: Is all the changing dream of thee and me.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTAL MIND, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When coldness wraps this suffering clay
Last Line: Forgetting what it was to die.
Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTAL NOW, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sit not blindfold, soul, and sigh
Last Line: Now is immortality!
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTALS, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Think! The gods have been among us, seen us
Last Line: We may heed them, know them, love them, ere these also rise and go.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTALS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I have read you, and read you, my betters,
Last Line: Well, the mist has sunny flashes.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE IMMORTALS, by GENEVIEVE TAGGARD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: His son is dead,' they say, 'his son is / dead'
Last Line: Dust; still immortal; eternal and unsung.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wolf, Robert Leopold, Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)


THE IMPLICIT PROMISE OF IMMORTALITY, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Friend, and it little matters if with thee
Last Line: A hidden meaning in a nameless lay.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Immortality


THE INN BY THE ROAD, by CLAIRE ELIZABETH WARNER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Ne'er was the sky so deep a hue
Last Line: Tis the inn by the road on our way to god.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE LAMP [LAMPE], by HENRY VAUGHAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Tis dead night round about: horror doth creep
Last Line: And where thou mad'st an end, there I'll begin.
Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist
Subject(s): Bible; Immortality; Religion; Theology


THE LAST DREAM, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910)    Poem Text                    
First Line: In a dismal room in a city garret high
Last Line: What misery when death becomes a hope!
Subject(s): Immortality; Night; Silence; Sleep; Soul; Bedtime


THE LAST INVOCATION, by WALT WHITMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: At the last, tenderly
Last Line: Strong is your hold o love.)
Variant Title(s): The Imprisoned Soul
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


THE LAST MAN, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom
Last Line: Or shake his trust in god!
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed


THE LIVE CONSCIENCE, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead man lay beneath the mold
Last Line: And god folds up the sky!
Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Ghosts; Immortality; Supernatural; Cadavers; Dead, The


THE MAN WHO DIED TWICE, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I had not walked aimlessly up town
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


THE MESSAGE TO THE DEAD, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou'rt passing hence, my brother!
Last Line: Ere long, with them and thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Immortality


THE MINSTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Speak low! The place is holy to the breath
Last Line: Holy to heaven, a spot thus pure, and still, and deep!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Immortality


THE MORNING MIST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Look, william, how the morning mists
Last Line: Shall beam eternal day.
Subject(s): Immortality; Light; Mist; Morality; Morning; Vision; Ethics


THE NEIGHBORS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Against the distant striking of the clock
Last Line: Stayed till the last had gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Neighbors


THE OLD STOIC, by EMILY JANE BRONTE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Riches I hold in light esteem
Last Line: With courage to endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis
Subject(s): Death; Freedom; Immortality; Stoicism; Dead, The; Liberty


THE OMER, by M. M.    Poem Text                    
First Line: So, lord, teach us to number our days
Last Line: Takes new life in god's springtime again.
Subject(s): Immortality; Jews; Judaism


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 80, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If you would increase increase your essence
Last Line: You won't survive the trauma of death
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Change; Chinese Literature; Death; Immortality; Self; Dead, The


THE PROFFERED CUP, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Last night across the meadows of a dream
Last Line: And so . . . Still singing . . . Passed into the night.
Subject(s): Cups; Dreams; Fountain Of Youth; Immortality; Sacrifices; Nightmares


THE PROSPECT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Methinks we do as fretful children do
Last Line: The sunset consummation-lights of death.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


THE QUESTION WHITHER, by GEORGE MEREDITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When we have thrown off this old suit
Last Line: For word with such wayfarers.
Subject(s): Immortality; Life


THE REACH FOR IMMORTALITY, by HENRY SAMUEL HOEFFLIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: Wherever I wander, in mountain or mart
Last Line: Communion with god is the soul's vital need.
Subject(s): Eucharist; Immortality; Communion


THE RENEWAL OF YOUTH, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ah, could the soul, from all earth's loves set free
Last Line: Save the child's heart and trust as of the child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Faith; Grief; Immortality; Music & Musicians; Teneriffe, Canary Islands; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Belief; Creed; Sorrow; Sadness


THE REQUIEM OF GENIUS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: No tears for thee! Though light be from us gone
Last Line: Never to die!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Genius; Immortality


THE RESPECTABLE FOLKS, by HENRY DAVID THOREAU    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The respectable folks,- / where dwell they?
Last Line: For all are their debtors and all their friends.
Subject(s): Immortality; Nature; Oak Trees


THE RETICENT VOLCANO KEEPS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Is immortality
Subject(s): Volcanoes; Immortality


THE ROSE BOWER, by GEORGE EDWARD WOODBERRY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A crimson bower the garden glows
Last Line: Shines with immortal worth.
Subject(s): Calm; Immortality; Life; Nature; Placid; Undisturbed; Tranquility


THE ROSE OF THE NIGHT, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dark rose of thy mouth
Last Line: Kiss me, imperishable fire, dark rose, o rose of my desire!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Desire; Flowers; Immortality; Mortality; Mouths; Reincarnation; Roses; Transmigration; Pretas


THE SECRET (2), by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND    Poem Text                    
First Line: April whispered this to me
Last Line: And I have done with sorrow.
Subject(s): April; Immortality


THE SINGING SAVIORS, by CLEMENT WOOD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dead men tell no tales,' they chuckled
Last Line: Listen.... They are all that you can hear!
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


THE SONG OF THE FIGURE-HEAD, by ROBERT D'HUMIERES    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am young adventure's lover and I vaunt
Last Line: Immortal thirsting for infinity.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE SOUL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The soul is its own destiny
Last Line: Behold the human soul!
Subject(s): Humanity; Immortality; Soul


THE SOUL'S SUPERIOR INSTANTS, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Of immortality
Subject(s): Immortality; Soul


THE SPECTRE BOAT, by THOMAS CAMPBELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Light rued false ferdinand to leave a lovely maid forlorn
Last Line: And round they went, and down they went, as the cock crew from the land.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE STREAM OF LIFE, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The stream of life is going dry
Last Line: Along the immortal years.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE THINGS THAT DIE, by GREGORY ORR    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Immortality; Love – Nature Of


THE THINGS THAT ENDURE, SELECTION, by FLORENCE WILKINSON EVANS    Poem Text                    
First Line: What wish you, immortality?
Last Line: But footsteps in the sand—endure.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilkinson, Florence
Subject(s): Immortality; Permanence


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RE-BUILDING, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Then searching in the long grass at their feet
Last Line: Upon the story of earth's destinies!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse; Nature


THE TRAGEDY OF ASGARD: THE RIDING OF THE GODS, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gladly would I my pen at once concede
Last Line: While that the immortals drew unto their doom!
Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Immortality; Mythology; Mythology - Norse


THE TREE AND THE STAR, by SAMUEL VALENTINE COLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Said the tree upon earth to the star in the sky
Last Line: She is here in this heart of mine.
Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Love


THE TWO ANGELS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two angels, one of life and one of death
Last Line: Against his messengers to shut the door?
Subject(s): Angels; Immortality


THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Could we but know
Last Line: Who would endure?
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Dead, The


THE UNMERCENARIES, by ANONYMOUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Jolly good fellows who die for the death of it
Last Line: Life often jests at what death makes immortal!
Subject(s): Humanity;immortality;labor & Laborers


THE VICTOR, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The live man victorious
Last Line: Came after in the night.
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality


THE VICTORS, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: They have triumphed who have died
Last Line: They have triumphed, having died!
Subject(s): Immortality


THE VISIT OF THE GODS, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Never, believe me, / appear the immortals
Last Line: Forbids me to die!
Subject(s): Immortality


THE VOICE, by MARY SINTON LEITCH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In realms of death shall I be sentient still
Last Line: With rest -- with peace -- in death . . . . And yet . . . And yet . . . . .
Subject(s): Immortality


THE VOICE OF THE GUMBO BLUFF, by THELMA HILL WARD    Poem Text                    
First Line: I am the voice of the gumbo bluff
Last Line: I am much more than earth.
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Nightmares


THE WAYS OF DEATH; I.M., R. G. C. B., by WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene
Last Line: The ways of death are soothing and serene.
Alternate Author Name(s): Henley, W. E.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Dead, The


THE WHITE ISLAND, OR PLACE OF THE BLEST, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In this world (the isle of dreames)
Last Line: Have ending.
Subject(s): Heaven; Immortality; Paradise


THE WHITE THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We, teeming transients of the sun
Last Line: Fixed in a white, immortal thought.
Subject(s): Immortality; Sun; Thought; Thinking


THE WINE, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I cannot die, who drank delight
Last Line: Of immortality?
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Variant Title(s): The Cup
Subject(s): Immortality


THE WISH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Come to me, when my soul
Last Line: And my heart's voice replies -- eternity!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Immortality; Wishes


THE WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Subject(s): Immortality


THERE IS NO DEATH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a plan far greater than the plan you know
Last Line: There is no death -- there's immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


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


THEY EAT OUT, by MARGARET ATWOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In restaurants we argue
Variant Title(s): Nine Untitled Poems: 2
Subject(s): Restaurants; Immortality; Restaurants; Cafes; Diners; Cafes; Diners


THEY SOFTLY WALK, by HUGH ROBERT ORR    Poem Text                    
First Line: They are not gone who pass
Last Line: And stars and god.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Religion; Dead, The; Theology


THEY WILL DIE, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I plucked sweet laughing roses from the spray
Last Line: "these do not die."
Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta
Subject(s): Immortality


THIS FLESH, by KENNETH SLADE ALLING    Poem Text                    
First Line: Inoculate with immortality
Last Line: Our heaven or fantastically near it.
Subject(s): Immortality


THIS MAN WHO SAYS, by JOAN SALVAT-PAPASSEIT    Poem Source                    
Last Line: I in everything
Subject(s): Immortality; Life


THIS WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION (DIFFERENT VERSION), by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Last Line: And crucifixion known.
Subject(s): Immortality


THOSE TO COME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Will those who come after us
Last Line: What I see is a long corridor %of closed doors
Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry And Poets


TITHONUS, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The woods decay, the woods decay and fall
Last Line: And thee returning on thy silver wheels.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Immortality; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mythology; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


TO A CARDIGANSHIRE SHEPHERD-POET (A GREETING), by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like the cistercian, who fled
Last Line: Bringeth his flock to fold.
Subject(s): Dreams; Immortality; Wales; Nightmares; Welshmen; Welshwomen


TO A FRIEND, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Looke in my booke, and herein see
Last Line: While other generations dye.
Subject(s): Immortality


TO A LOST SPIRIT, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: If dogma errs, and if ther is no hell
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


TO A MOTHER, ON SEEING HER SMILE REPEATED IN HER DAUGHTER'S EYES, by ARTHUR THOMAS QUILLER-COUCH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand songs I might have made
Last Line: Immortal—and forgot!
Alternate Author Name(s): Q; Quiller-couch, A. T.
Subject(s): Immortality; Mothers & Daughters; Smiles


TO A SPIRIT SEEN IN A DREAM, by EDWARD JOHN MORETON DRAX PLUNKETT    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And so, dishonest ghost, you found not heaven
Alternate Author Name(s): Dunsany, Lord; Dunsany, 18th Baron
Subject(s): Immortality


TO AN ANCIENT, by ROBERT FROST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Your claims to immortality were two.
Last Line: Or aren’t the bones enough I live to lime?
Subject(s): Immortality


TO BURNS, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is no death for genius, for it leaps
Last Line: That god still reigns and man is king below.
Subject(s): Immortality; Memory


TO LUCASTA, [ON] GOING BEYOND THE SEAS, by RICHARD LOVELACE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If to be absent were to be
Last Line: In heaven, -- their earthly bodies left behind.
Variant Title(s): Song
Subject(s): Absence; Immortality; Love; Sea; Separation; Isolation; Ocean


TO RICARDO CASTRO, by LUIS G. URBINA    Poem Source                    
First Line: Life of a flower, a bird! Sweet, winged life
Last Line: Like a protecting hand about a flame
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Memory; Mourning; Poetry And Poets


TO THE BOUND CAPTIVE IN THE LOUVRE: 2, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal beauty and immortal pain
Last Line: And how to loose he hath himself forgot.
Subject(s): Brides; Hearts; Immortality; Louvre, Paris; Love; Pain; Passion; Suffering; Misery


TO THE EARTH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Mistress and slave of the sun
Last Line: Out of the fading and weak infinite splendour and strength.
Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley
Subject(s): Hearts; Immortality; Love


TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 3. TO THE END OF TIME, by EDWARD CARPENTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Know that to the end of time and the remotest corner
Last Line: Rain), yourself equal in magnificence and splendor.
Subject(s): Immortality; Soul


TRAGIC IN TIME, by JEAN FOLLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: So strong the prison doors
Last Line: And the resurrection of the body
Subject(s): Immortality; Massacres; Prisons And Prisoners; Tragedy


TRAVELER, by JOSEPH CORSON MILLER    Poem Source                    
First Line: At dusk, alone, among tall trees he stood
Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, J. Corson
Subject(s): Immortality


TRAVELING TO THE SECRET GARDEN, by SHANG JINGLAN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Quietly the peaceful woods are enveloped by green mist
Last Line: Still more do we appreciate the special purity of pear flowers
Subject(s): Immortality


TWO BROTHERS, by THEODOSIA (PICKERING) GARRISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The dead son's mother sat and wept
Alternate Author Name(s): Faulks, Frederick J., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality


TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent in the moonlight, no beginning or end
Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed.
Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors


TWO RAMAGES FOR OLD MASTERS, by ROBERT BLY            Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silent in the moonlight
Last Line: By the torah and the bible inside the naked seed.
Subject(s): Immortality; Man-woman Relationships; Poetry & Poets; Religion; Teaching & Teachers; Time; Whitman, Walt (1819-1891); Male-female Relations; Theology; Educators; Professors


TWO WERE IMMORTAL TWICE, by EMILY DICKINSON            Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: Through their comparative
Variant Title(s): Poem: 800; Poem: 85
Subject(s): Immortality


UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the wide and starry sky
Last Line: And the hunter home from the hill.
Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour
Variant Title(s): Underwoods: Book One: 21. Requiem
Subject(s): Death; Graves; Immortality; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones


UNSUNG, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: As sweet as the breath that goes
Last Line: The song I have never sung.
Subject(s): Immortality


UPON THE WHIRLWIND, by ANTHERO (ANTERO) TARQUINIO DE QUENTAL    Poem Source                    
First Line: As I lie dreaming, vision of the night
Subject(s): Immortality


URIEL, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: To you, the dead and gone, bright-eyed desires
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Immortality; Uriel


VALUTA, by KENNETH REXROTH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Have you ever noticed how, the
Last Line: Illimitable bounties of %deathlessness
Subject(s): Fairies; Fantasy; Immortality; Mortality


VEIL, I THINK, IS THINNER THAN WE KNOW, by ANNE ABBOTT    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality


VERSES ON TEXTS: STILLNESS, ISA. 7, 4, by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Thou layest thine hand on the fluttering heart
Last Line: I fear no ill.
Variant Title(s): Be Quiet: Fear Not';thy Presence
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


VESPERS, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I know the night is near at hand [or drawing near]
Last Line: From light to dark, from dark to light.
Variant Title(s): Evening;from Dark To Light;vesperal
Subject(s): Immortality


VESPERS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL    Poem Text                    
First Line: Though I be old, alone, and dying fast
Last Line: Not long this fading form will hinder thee.
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Soul; Dead, The


VIRTUE [OR, VERTUE], by GEORGE HERBERT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright
Last Line: Then chiefly lives.
Variant Title(s): Memento Mori;sweet Day;virtue [immortal];sweet Life
Subject(s): Death; Immortality; Judgment Day; Mortality; Soul; Transience; Virtue; Dead, The; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man; Impermanence


VISION, by VIRGINIA MORAN EVANS    Poem Source                    
First Line: I had a dream of death: that I returned
Subject(s): Immortality


VISION OF TWILIGHT, by ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By a void and soundless river
Subject(s): Immortality


VISITANT, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A little boy leaned down his head
Last Line: The beauty of the dead
Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter
Subject(s): Immortality


WAKE, by ROBERT AVRETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: At last he sleeps alone, but to his bier
Subject(s): Immortality


WALLACE STEVENS' LETTERS, by ROBERT BLY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wallace stevens comes hurrying down from the mountain
Last Line: Hurries in, stiff and stern and almost like a hero.
Subject(s): Doubt; Freedom; Immortality; Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Skepticism; Liberty


WAS IS THE WIND THAT STIRRED?, by FLORENCE WILSON ROPER    Poem Source                    
First Line: Strange, in a room closed to the wintry air
Subject(s): Immortality


WATERFALL, by ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Brooding beside the waterfall, he saw
Alternate Author Name(s): Knish, Anne
Subject(s): Immortality


WE DEAD, by JAMES OPPENHEIM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When from the brooding home
Last Line: Named, glorying: allah, jehovah, god.
Subject(s): Birth; Death; Farewell; Future Life; Immortality; Soul; Child Birth; Midwifery; Dead, The; Parting; Retribution; Eternity; After Life


WE SHALL ATTAIN, by JAMES BENJAMIN KENYON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: We shall attain - yes, though this dust shall fail
Last Line: Yet in our frailty—we shall conquer death.
Subject(s): Immortality


WEALTH, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Was it not enough to dream the day to death
Last Line: Laden with looks of thine, weigh on my heart!
Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert
Subject(s): Immortality


WHAT IS IT TO DIE?, by PLINY EARLE    Poem Source                    
Subject(s): Immortality; Physicians


WHEN, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: If I were told that I must die to-morrow
Last Line: If thou come late.
Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan
Variant Title(s): Faithful
Subject(s): Death; Faith; Immortality; Dead, The; Belief; Creed


WHEN WE FORGET, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis            
First Line: When we forget that nature gives
Last Line: To turn her joy to pain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H.
Subject(s): Immortality


WHISPERS OF IMMORTALITY, by THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Webster was much possessed by death
Last Line: To keep our metaphysics warm.
Alternate Author Name(s): Eliot, T. S.
Subject(s): Immortality


WHITE CITY, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: May it not be that we at last shall win
Variant Title(s): Urbs Beat
Subject(s): Immortality


WHO ARE THE DEAD?, by LILITH LORRAINE    Poem Source                    
First Line: A tall knight met me in a haunted spot
Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, Mary M.
Subject(s): Immortality


WHO GOETH HENCE, by HELEN FRAZEE-BOWER    Poem Text                    
First Line: When death shall come to summon us at last
Last Line: Like children hasting to a glad surprise.
Alternate Author Name(s): Bower, W. M., Mrs.
Subject(s): Immortality; Religion; Theology


WHY IS THE COLOR OF SNOW?, by BRENDA SHAUGHNESSY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Let's ask a poet with no way of knowing.
Subject(s): Snow; Loneliness; Immortality


WHY LIFE IS SWEET, by LUCY LARCOM    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because it cometh up, a heavenly flower
Last Line: Sweet, sweet is life! He hath abolished death!
Subject(s): Immortality; Jesus Christ; Life


WIND OF NIGHT IS LIKE AN OCEAN'S GHOST, by GEORGE STERLING    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Immortality


WOMAN; WRITTEN IN THE ALBUM OF AN UNKNOWN LADY, by FITZ-GREENE HALLECK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Lady, although we have not met
Last Line: A poet's immortality.
Alternate Author Name(s): Croaker
Subject(s): Immortality; Poetry & Poets; Women


WORLD IS NOT CONCLUSION, by EMILY DICKINSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This world is not conclusion
Last Line: Narcotics cannot still the tooth %that nibbles at the soul
Variant Title(s): Poem: 373; Poem: 50
Subject(s): Immortality


WRITTEN IN AN ALBUM, by BERNARD BARTON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Like one who, fruitlessly perchance
Last Line: And I shall proudly own it mine.
Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet
Subject(s): Immortality


WRITTEN IN AN OLD CEMETERY, by MARY NEWTON BALDWIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: I cannot see the clouds from where I stand
Subject(s): Immortality


YOUTH'S IMMORTALITY, by GEORGE SANTAYANA    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: What, when hearts have met, shall sever
Last Line: Living in the things we love.
Subject(s): Immortality