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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: IMMORTALITY Matches Found: 482 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 callslife. 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 sinman'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 sandendure. 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: Immortaland 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 frailtywe 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 |
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