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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: MOURNING Matches Found: 810 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "NOW DIE AWAY, MY TUNEFUL SONG", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: In recent shrouds Subject(s): Jews;mourning; Judaism;bereavement A BALLADE OF THE NIGHT, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far from the earth the deep-descended day Last Line: Sigh in the silence of the midnight hour. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Mourning; Night; Prayer; Silence; Bereavement; Bedtime A BALLADE TO END WITH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is poor villon's final word Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A BLINDED POILU TO HIS NURSE, by AGNES LEE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I know you only by your tears Last Line: I know you only by your tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Freer, Otto, Mrs. Subject(s): Hospitals; Mourning; Nurses; Soldiers; Tears; War; World War I; Bereavement; First World War A BOOK OF AIRS: WHEN THOU MUST HOME, by SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When thou must home to shades of underground Last Line: Then tell, oh tell, how thou didst murther me. Variant Title(s): A Book Of Airs: Song;among The Shades;conjuration;to Shades Of Underground;vobiscum Est Iope;carmina Ii. 28 (imitated From);elegies 2, 28 Subject(s): Helen Of Troy; Love; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement A DEAD MOLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strong-shouldered mole Subject(s): Animals; Moles; Mourning; Bereavement A DIRGE (2), by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Weep for the early lost! Last Line: "such hope as she hath left -- ""the pure in heart." Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A FOREST GRAVEYARD, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: The birds brood silent in the underbrush Last Line: Be I thy mourner, child, and thou my care! Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Humanity; Mourning; Nature; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A FUNERAL POEM UPON THE DEATH OF MY EVER ENDEARED AND TENDER WIFE, by EDWARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My gracious lord, I licence of thee crave Last Line: Much in her thoughts, and yet she fear'd not death. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Marriage; Mourning; Puritans In Literature; Dead, The; Burials; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A GOOD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A good man never dies Last Line: A good man never dies. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A LAMENT, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The circle is broken, one seat is forsaken Last Line: She hath passed to the world of the holy from this. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A LAMENT FOR HIS DEAD MISTRESS, by OTOMO NO YAKAMOCHI Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: In my courtyard Last Line: And all effort is in vain Alternate Author Name(s): Chunagon Yakamochi; Otomo Yakamochi; Yakamochi Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning A LOST PEARL, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I do not know where I lost it Last Line: To my heart the lost heart of my friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Hearts; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MONODY ON THE DEATH OF A YOUNG LADY, SELECTION, by CUTHBERT SHAW Poem Text First Line: I, who, with more than manly strength, have bore Last Line: And in my cup of grief infuse one drop of joy? Variant Title(s): Monody To The Memory Of A Young Lady, Selection Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement A MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why fear to die Last Line: Of nature's child the common fate. Subject(s): Graves; Marriage; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A MOURNING LOVER (IPSE LOQUITUR), by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sittest at thy lyre, o lady sweet! Last Line: Powerless to save, though hating to condemn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A NOCTURNAL UPON ST. LUCY'S DAY, BEING THE SHORTEST DAY, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis the year's midnight, and it is the day's Last Line: Both the year's, and the day's deep midnight is. Variant Title(s): A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day, Being The Shortest Day Subject(s): December; Holidays; Light; Mourning; New Year; Winter; Bereavement A PRAYER, by DMITRY SERGEYEVICH MEREZHKOVSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cast prostrate, in mourning Last Line: Wings of thy spirit. Alternate Author Name(s): Merezhovski, Dmitri Subject(s): God; Mourning; Prayer; Religion; Bereavement; Theology A QUIET SOUL, by JOHN OLDHAM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy soul within such silent pomp did keep Last Line: It hardly now enjoys a greater rest. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A RAMAGE FOR THE STAR MAN, MOURNING, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The star man, mourning, floats above the stars Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War A SECRET GRATITUDE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She cleaned house, and then lay down long Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Boissevain, Eugen (1881-1949); Millay, Edna St. Vincent (1892-1950); Man-woman Relationships; Death; Mourning; Male-female Relations; Dead, The; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 32, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From far, from eve and morning Last Line: I take my endless way. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): In Haste Subject(s): Friendship; Mourning; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 40, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Into my heart an air that kills Last Line: And cannot come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Variant Title(s): Yon Far Country Subject(s): Loss; Mourning; Time; Bereavement A SHROPSHIRE LAD: 54, by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With rue my heart is laden Last Line: In fields where roses fade. Alternate Author Name(s): Housman, A. E. Subject(s): Death; Despair; Graves; Mortality; Mourning; Remorse; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement A SONG OF HOME-COMING, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dark and cold on the far battle-field Last Line: O let the laurel grow there! Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Battleships; Homecoming; Memory; Mourning; Peace; Soldiers; War; War Injuries; Bereavement A SOUTHERN NIGHT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sandy spits, the shore-lock'd lakes Last Line: They were allied. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A TIME TO MOURN, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks if sorrow's shadow fell Last Line: For weariness must sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement A VALEDICTION: FORBIDDING MOURNING, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As virtuous men pass mildly away Last Line: And makes me end, where I begun. Subject(s): Death - Children; Love; Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning; Death - Babies; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement A ZEMERLY FOR RABBI NACHMAN: 3. EQUITY, by DAVID RYTMAN SLAVITT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Knowing how bad he feels, how much he grieves Last Line: For god, who must also grieve cut off from him. Alternate Author Name(s): Sutton, Henry Benjamin; Slavitt, David R. Subject(s): Absence; Mourning; Religion; Separation; Isolation; Bereavement; Theology A.M.D., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Methinks I see thee, lying straight and low Last Line: Than when we lay together in one bed. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Bereavement AD ASTRA: 165, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we dread the silence of the tomb? Last Line: The soul soars toward the glory whence it came. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AD CINERARIUM, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who in this small urn reposes Last Line: If but soundly he reposes! Subject(s): Cremation; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ADDRESS TO MRS. WM. ANDERSON, ON THE DEATH OF HER ONLY SON, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We weep with those who weep:' I sympathize Last Line: Shall blossom in the paradise of god. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; God; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Sons; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Bereavement ADVENTURES APLENTY LAY BEFORE YOU, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot know what an innocent I am Last Line: Too cold to resist Subject(s): Absence; Death; Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement AELLA: THE MINSTREL'S SONG, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sing unto my roundelay Last Line: Thus the damsel spake and died. Variant Title(s): The Minstrel's Roundelay Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER D.H. LAWRENCE, by DEBORAH KEENAN Poem Source First Line: Died, it took a long time Last Line: Breath on our skin Subject(s): Death; Lawrence, David Herbert (1885-1930); Mourning AFTER DEATH, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The passionate sobs of the dear friends that came Last Line: Till silence ruled, with nothingness and night! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the front door close Last Line: Was a kind of steady weeping. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Death - Children; Family Life; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Relatives; Bereavement AFTER DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curtains were half drawn, the floor was swept Last Line: To know he still is warm tho' I am cold. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTER SUMMER, by PHILIP BOURKE MARSTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We'll not weep for summer over Last Line: Steals no dream. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Summer; Dead, The; Bereavement AFTERMATH, by LOLLY WILLIAMS Poem Text First Line: People thought that you were dead Last Line: That I had died instead of you. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement AIRING POWERFUL MEMORIES, by YUAN CHEN Poem Source First Line: Lord hsieh's youngest, his favorite child Last Line: Today my pay comes to more a hundred thousand - %and all I can offer are fasts and services for your Alternate Author Name(s): Wei-chih Subject(s): Mourning ALCESTIS: BEREAVEMENT, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a kinsman; he Last Line: Death robs their brides. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ALCESTIS: SCENE 1, by EURIPIDES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Natheless before these gates mine eyes do mark Last Line: Down to the lord of hell. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Family Life; Household Employees; Marriage; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Relatives; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ALICE MEYNELL, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Without surcease of breath Last Line: Of some most heavenly-sweet wind instrument. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ALL BUT DEATH, CAN BE ADJUSTED, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Is exempt from change Variant Title(s): Poem: 749; Poem: 78 Subject(s): Death; Mourning AN ARUNDEL TOMB, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, their faces blurred Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Bereavement AN ELEGY OF HENRY, PRINCE OF WALES, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What time the world, clad in a mourning robe Last Line: Cut off our thread and left us all in mourning. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN ELEGY ON AN INFANT, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come, shepherds, on this grave your flourets Last Line: In safety listens to the distant shrieks. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Innocence; Lament; Mourning; Nature; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement AN ELEGY UPON THE UNTIMELY DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Read, you that have some tears left yet unspent Last Line: Which best sort with the sorrows we sustain. Subject(s): Henry, Prince Of Wales (1584-1612); Mourning; Bereavement AN EPITAPH, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "painter, this likeness is too strong" Last Line: And we shall mourn the dead too long Subject(s): Mourning;paintings & Painters; Bereavement AN EPITAPH, by SAMUEL WESLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lie I, once a witty fair Last Line: My noon was penitent. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Guilt; Mourning; Repentance; Shame; Bereavement; Penitence AN EPITAPH ON M.H., by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this cold monument lies one Last Line: To seek new lechery in death. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning; Bereavement AN EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: And in the little garden die again? Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement AN IZBA SONG, by NIKOLAY KLUYEV Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The stove is orphaned now; the old housewife has died Last Line: The lonely window stares out at the thaw and darkness. Variant Title(s): A Cottage Song Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness AN ODE (2), by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At mary's tomb, (sad sacred place! Last Line: And thou sustain'st the orb below. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Heaven; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement AN UNWANTED BOY, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: Poor little lad! Last Line: A mother's true love. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Loss; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ANAPHORA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Each day with so much ceremony Last Line: Mortal fatigue Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ANAPHORA, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each day with so much ceremony Subject(s): Mourning ANTHEM FOR DOOMED YOUTH, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? Last Line: And each slow dusk a drawing-down of blinds. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Youth; Bereavement; First World War AQUA MORTIS, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death's elixirs have their own golden gleam Last Line: My study is your skull. I'll burn my books Subject(s): Mourning ARIEL'S SONG (1) [OR, DIRGE] [OR, A SEA DIRGE]. FR. THE TEMPEST, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Full fathom five thy father lies Last Line: Hark! Now I hear them - ding, dong, bell! Subject(s): Disasters; Drowning; Fairies; Mourning; Shipwrecks; Elves; Bereavement ARTHUR, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: It was a day of anguish, rimmed with hate Last Line: In the wide land but will respond, amen. Subject(s): Mourning; Prayer; Bereavement ARTIST'S JOURNEY TO THE GRAVE, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: He defends himself despairingly in the open grave Last Line: For lack of response %he can't grasp what he almost senses Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning ARUNDEL TOMB, by PHILIP LARKIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Side by side, their faces blurred Last Line: Our almost-instinct almost true: %what will survive of us is love Subject(s): Cemeteries; Love; Mourning AT A DOG'S GRAVE, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Good night, we say, when comes the time to win Last Line: Frsh fruits of love, but leave, as love might pray, %white violets there Subject(s): Mourning AT A GRAVE, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: For never yet, with ritual pomp and splendour Last Line: Then render all the praise to her. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Praise; Dead, The; Bereavement AT GAUTIER'S GRAVE, by STEPHANE MALLARME Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To you, gone emblem of man's happiness Last Line: Miserly silence and the massive night Subject(s): Gautier, Theophile (1811-1872); Mourning AT HER GRAVE, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have stay'd too long from your grave Last Line: Where a weed will never grow. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement AT HU-K'OU, MOURNING FOR KAO PO-TZU, by CHING AN Poem Source First Line: Though he was young, kao Last Line: This evening sun %this loneliness Subject(s): Mourning; Zen Buddhism AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea; Bereavement; Ocean AT MELVILLE'S TOMB, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge Last Line: Monody shall not wake the mariner. %this fabulous shadow only the sea keeps Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Melville, Herman (1819-1891); Mourning; Sea AT THIRTEEN, by CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG Poem Source First Line: My brother died just as I was touching Last Line: I miss my brother. %I want him back Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Memory; Mourning AUTUMN LEAVES, by CHARLES DICKENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Autumn leaves, autumn leaves Last Line: Forgotten, changed, or dead. Subject(s): Autumn; Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Dead, The; Bereavement BALLADE, by CHRISTINE DE PISAN Poem Source First Line: Lone am I, and would be Alternate Author Name(s): Christine De Pisan Subject(s): Mourning; Women BALLADE OF THE LADIES OF TIME PAST, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: O tell me where, in lands or seas Last Line: Ah, where shall last year's snow be found? Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning; Past; Women BALLADE TO END WITH, by FRANCOIS VILLON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Here is poor villon's final word Last Line: As he made ready to depart Alternate Author Name(s): Montcorbier, Francois De Subject(s): Mourning BALLADE: 37, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In mourning wise since daily I increase Last Line: Pray for the souls of those be dead and gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Capital Punishment; Mourning; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Bereavement BEAUTIFUL SAD DAY, by KATHE HEIN Poem Text First Line: You had been dead two nights, and I was wild, desparing Last Line: That lies upon a sharp grave, or one grown dull with years. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BECAUSE THAT YOU ARE GOING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Our confiscated gods Variant Title(s): Poem: 1260; Poem: 131 Subject(s): Life; Mourning BENJAMIN ARTOM, by RE HENRY Poem Text First Line: With mournful pomp they bore him to the grave Last Line: He loved them—let them comfort her who mourns him most! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Honor; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement BEREAVED, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let me come in where you sit weeping Last Line: Who have no child to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When some beloveds, 'neath whose eyelids lay Last Line: Discerns in speechless tears both prayer and praise. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How stern are the woes of the desolate mourner Last Line: When woe fades away like the mist of the heath. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BEREAVEMENT FAIR, by KATHERINE SONIAT Poem Source First Line: Drinking red wine into sunset Last Line: Pine scent and damp string mops, %the mattresses of mourning Subject(s): Mourning BEREFT, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I liked listening to you today at lunch Last Line: The sound of the newcomers weeping Subject(s): Death; Mourning BION: A PASTORAL IN IMITATION, BEWAILING DEATH OF EARL OF ROCHESTER, by MOSCHUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: With thee, sweet bion, all the grace of song Last Line: And his soft lays did venus ever please Subject(s): Mourning; Wilmot, John (1647-1680) BLACK SPRING, by INNOKENTI FYODOROVICH ANNENSKY Poet's Biography First Line: A half-holiday for the burial. Of course, they punish Alternate Author Name(s): Annenski, Innokenti Fyodorovich Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement BLACK SPRING, by INNOKENTI FYODOROVICH ANNENSKY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A half-holiday for the burial. Of course, they punish Last Line: Sorrier than the marriage of two deaths Alternate Author Name(s): Annenski, Innokenti Fyodorovich Subject(s): Mourning BROKEN LINE, by ANDRE BRETON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We the dry bread and water in the prisons of the sky Last Line: The belly of our words is golden tonight and naught any longer is in vain. Subject(s): Boats; Mourning; Prisons & Prisoners; Water; Bereavement; Convicts BROTHER, by KATE FARRELL Poem Source First Line: I've broken our bowls on the floor Last Line: I could remember him Subject(s): Mourning; Tableware BY MEMORY INSPIRED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "by memory inspired, and love of country fired" Last Line: Here's the memory of the heroes that are gone! Subject(s): Ireland - Rebellions;mourning; Bereavement BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING (1 - 36), by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The invitation read: not to mourn Last Line: And yet, even as he read, %he began to cry Subject(s): Mourning BY THE WELL OF LIVING AND SEEING: 36, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The invitation read: not to mourn Last Line: He began to cry Subject(s): Mourning CAREER CASHIER, by TENAYA DARLINGTON Poem Source First Line: I used to live next to this run-down grocery where the motto was: 'cleaner Last Line: Drawer was open, filled with mums Subject(s): Grocers; Mourning; Murder; Retail Trade CARMEN: 3, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Cupids and graces, mourn with me Last Line: All red, and big with tears, her eyes Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Mourning CARRIE MONRO, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a lady fair Last Line: Loved carrie monro. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement CASHING IN, by HARRY HIBBARD KEMP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I caught a glimpse of his frightened face Last Line: I know that the one who pardoned the thief will be merciful to him! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Wandering & Wanderers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes CEREMONY, by JARED CARTER Poem Source First Line: Finally a time would come somewhere out Last Line: You been, can't you show a little respect? Subject(s): Children; Mourning CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves / the grievers Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii; Burials; Bereavement; Second World War CEREMONY AFTER A FIRE RAID, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Myselves %the grievers Last Line: The sundering ultimate kingdom of genesis' thunder Subject(s): Air Raids; Air Warfare; Funerals; Mourning; World War Ii CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, %I pack your stars into my purse Last Line: I did not know death was so strange Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii CID: PART 11, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: That when dead Last Line: Great was there Subject(s): Cid, El (1043-1099); Courts And Courtiers; Death; Mourning COLD DAY IN SUMMER, by FRED YAGER Poem Source First Line: From a hut in vietnam Last Line: Just gonna be another, %cold day in summer Subject(s): Death; Mourning CONCORD HYMN; SUNG AT COMPLETION OF CONCORD MONUMENT, 1836, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By the rude bridge that arched the flood Last Line: The shaft we raise to them and thee. Variant Title(s): The Concord Fight;hymn: Sung At The Completion Of The Concord Mounument Subject(s): American Revolution; Americans; Concord, Massachusetts; Fourth Of July; Freedom; Massachusetts; Monuments; Mourning; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Patriotism; Soldiers; United States; War; Independence Day; Liberty; Bereavement; America CONSOLATION, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes, while the mourner stands beside the bier Last Line: And faith lies slumbering on the breast of love! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Sympathy; Dead, The; Bereavement; Empathy CONSOLATIONS IN BEREAVEMENT, by JOHN HENRY NEWMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Death was full urgent with thee, sister dear Last Line: Freshen this weary life, while weary life shall be. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement CONSOLING WU TE-CHENG ON THE DEATH OF HIS SON, by SHEN CHOU Poem Source First Line: In mourning for your second son Last Line: And bear blossoms %in time Subject(s): Mourning CONSTANCY, by BELLE RICHARDSON HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My heart's bereaved, I'm sorely grieved Last Line: The force of lethe's wave. Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement COOTCHIE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cootchie, miss lula's servant, lies in marl Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement COOTCHIE, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Cootchie, miss lula's servant, lies in marl Subject(s): Mourning COPLAS ON THE DEATH OF HIS FATHER, THE GRAND-MASTER OF SANTIAGO, by JORGE MANRIQUE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Let from its dream the soul awaken Last Line: His deathless story Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Mourning COTTAGE AND HALL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With eyes to her sewing-work dropped down Last Line: And may be thinks of alexis. Subject(s): Domestics; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death – Children CRYING, by DONNA TURNER Poem Source First Line: The first time no one taught me Last Line: Slower, as if through %the murmuring waters ofthe womb Subject(s): Death; Mourning CUPIDS AND LOVES, AND MEN OF GENTLER MIEN, by GAIUS VALERIUS CATULLUS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Catullus, Caius Valerius Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning DADDY, DON'T DIE, by JAN YAGER Poem Source Last Line: As you give meaning to our days Subject(s): Death; Mourning DAVID, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He is young. The father is dead Last Line: The father is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Funerals; Mourning; Dead, The; Burials; Bereavement DAVID'S EPITAPH ON JONATHAN, by FRANCIS QUARLES Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lyes the fairest flowre, that stood Last Line: Here lyes a flow'r, a friend, a brother Subject(s): David (d. 962 B.c.); Mourning DAVIDS ELEGIE UPON JONATHAN, by JOSEPH BEAUMONT Poem Text First Line: What name of comfort can returne Last Line: Thy love, as thou, was masculine. Subject(s): Love; Masculinity (psychology); Mourning; Bereavement DE GELLIA, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gellia nere mourns her fathers losse Last Line: He grieves most truly that does grieve alone Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Subject(s): Mourning DEAD AMY, by AUGUSTA DAVIES WEBSTER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Do I weep because she is dead? Last Line: And so I do not weep Alternate Author Name(s): Home, Cecil; Webster, Mrs. Julia Augusta Subject(s): Death; Mourning DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like seas breeding into themselves Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement DEAD GALLOP, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like ashes, like oceans swarming Last Line: Of what's full, dark with heavy drops Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Absence; Death; Grief; Mourning DEAD LOVE (HEARD SUNG BY AN OLD WOMAN OF THE ISLAND OF TIREE), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: It is the grey rock I am Last Line: As canna in wind Subject(s): Aging;gray (color);mourning;women; Grey (color);bereavement DEAD MOLE, by ANDREW YOUNG (1885-1971) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Strong-shouldered mole Last Line: Buried within the blue vault of the air? Subject(s): Animals; Moles; Mourning DEAR TO ME IS SLEEP, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dear to me is sleep: still more, being made of stone Last Line: Then do not wake me, keep your voices low Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Mourning DEAREST M -, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In november when the days are short and dim Last Line: Is hazy as he looks out at the apple tree Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement DEATH, by AMADO NERVO Poem Source First Line: Death, thou art mother of philosophy! Last Line: He raised his eyes on high and there found god! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Serenity DEATH OF ART O'LEARY, SELS., by EIBHLIN DHUBH NI CONAILL Poem Source First Line: My own darling, %your grave disfigures me Last Line: But to wear the weight of clay %and stone Subject(s): Mourning DEATH; SONG, by THOMAS FLATMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O the sad day Last Line: Persuade the world to trouble me no more! Variant Title(s): Song Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement DEATHWATCH, by BARTON SUTTER Poem Source First Line: This woman is nobody's woman Last Line: Checkmark in the dark Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mourning DEEP IN EARTH, by EDGAR ALLAN POE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Deep in earth my love is lying Last Line: And I must weep alone. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DEIRDRE'S GREAT LAMENTATION FOR THE SONS OF USNACH, by JOHN TODHUNTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ochone for the land left lonely Last Line: Let the clods cover me! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DEZIR, by FERRANT SANCHEZ CALAVERA Poem Source First Line: For love of god, let's put aside the veil Last Line: To life eternal where he never dies! Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry And Poets DIED OF WOUNDS, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His wet white face and miserable eyes Last Line: And some slight wound lay smiling on the bed. Subject(s): Mourning; Soldiers; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Bereavement; First World War DIRGE, by PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Place this bunch of mignonette Last Line: For my love. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement DISTANCE OVER TIME, by DENNIS NURKSE Poem Source First Line: After death you drive at night Last Line: Between the wheat and the white line Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning DISTANT RAINFALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Like mourning women veiled to the feet Last Line: Bearing her tender magnificent sorrow at her heart, the lost battle’s beauty Subject(s): Rain; Mourning; Bereavement DIVINE AND MORAL SONGS: 21. LAMENT FOR PRINCE HENRY, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: All looks be pale, hearts cold as stone Last Line: Since more him none shall see. Variant Title(s): A Lamentation Subject(s): Consolation; Henry Frederick, Prince (1729-1751); Mourning; Worship; Henry Frederick, Prince Of Wales; Bereavement DO NOT GO GENTLE INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Rage, rage against the dying of the light Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Hate; Mourning; Old Age; Social Protest; Time DOREEN, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her curled and rosy beauty Last Line: That it must pass. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement DREAMING OF A DEAD LADY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I heard at night your long sighs Last Line: How the tears fell surging over my breast Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.);mourning; Bereavement DURING WIND AND RAIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They sing their dearest songs Last Line: Down their carved names the rain-drop ploughs. Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Rain; Time; Wind; Dead, The; Bereavement DYING, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard a fly buzz when I died Last Line: I could not see to see. Subject(s): Death; Flies; Labor & Laborers; Mourning; Pain; Dead, The; Work; Workers; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery E. D. M., by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is a heart I knew in other days Last Line: And that was all beneath this earthly sun. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement EARTH AS DESDEMONA, by GAIL WRONSKY Poem Source First Line: Unerringly, %let us talk of graves Last Line: A zone of no %destruction Subject(s): Chicanos; Death; Graves; Los Angeles; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Pacific Ocean; Prejudice; Sin; Women ECCLESIASTES CHAPTER XII, by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: He hath a few more days to live, and we Last Line: Of whom we know not, and who gave it birth. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Paradise; Bereavement EDWARD GRAY, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet emma moreland of yonder town Last Line: And there the heart of edward gray!' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mourning EIN FICHTENBAUM STEHT EINSAM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A pine-tree standeth lonely Last Line: On its ridge of burning stone. Subject(s): Mourning; Pine Trees; Solitude; Trees; Bereavement; Loneliness ELECTRA: ELECTRA MOURNS HER BROTHER, by SOPHOCLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: All that is left me Last Line: Death endeth pain Subject(s): Mourning ELECTRA: NEWS OF ORESTES' DEATH, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Do not you mark how passionate, how wild Last Line: To live in pain, the light I hate to spinne. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ELEGIAC STANZAS TO THE MEMORY OF D.M.M., by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Brightly the sun illumes the skies Last Line: And glory dawns beyond the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Babies; Children - Lost; Death; Farewell; Memory; Mourning; Infants; Dead, The; Parting; Bereavement ELEGY, by NIBI Poem Text First Line: The gulls that twitter on the rush-grown shore Last Line: Far from her fond embrace. Subject(s): Death; Mourning;nib ELEGY, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her face like a rain-beaten stone on the day she rolled Last Line: Bearing down, with two steady eyes, %on the quaking butcher Subject(s): Mourning ELEGY, by LEO YANKEVICH Poem Source First Line: After the tears, heartfelt tears and crocodile tears Last Line: And nothing is more eloquent than its goodbye Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Tears ELEGY FOR A TRAPPER, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eighteen below in plains, montana Last Line: Frozen upright on a stump. Subject(s): Animals; Dogs; Montana; Mourning; Trapping & Trappers; Bereavement; Traps; Snares; Trappers ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whom I murdered every night but one Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement ELEGY FOR MY FATHER, by HOWARD MOSS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Father, whom I murdered every night but one Last Line: Now, if I could, its whirling vacuum Subject(s): Mourning ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 5. MOURNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They mourn for you / when you rise at midnight Subject(s): Fathers; Mourning; Bereavement ELEGY FOR MY FATHER: 5. MOURNING, by MARK STRAND Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They mourn for you %when you rise at midnight Last Line: They mourn for you the way they can Subject(s): Fathers; Mourning ELEGY ON A YOUNG LADY, by ANNE BATTEN CRISTALL Poem Text First Line: Transcendent beauty moulders 'midst the earth! Last Line: For pierced by guilt the breathless culprit lies. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ELEGY ON JENNINGS HILL, by MARSHALL SULLAVAN Poem Text First Line: The snow lies deep on jennings hill Last Line: Upon her crest discounts their hours. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The curfew tolls the knell of parting day Last Line: The bosom of his father and his god. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Courage; Death; England; Faith; Graves; Love; Mourning; Graveyards; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; English; Belief; Creed; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ELEGY, ON GORDON BARBER, LAMENTABLY DROWNED IN HIS 18TH YEAR, by GENE DERWOOD Poem Source First Line: When in the mirror of a permanent tear Last Line: That you, by grace, went gayly to the wave %and all our mourning should be to rejoice Variant Title(s): It's The Other Boys Who Live Afrai Subject(s): Drowning; Fear; Mourning ELLEN BRINE OV ALLENBURN, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Noo soul did hear her lips complain Last Line: Would never mwore return. Subject(s): Children; Death - Mothers; Mourning; Sickness; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness ELLIE REMEMBERS, by R. Q. LEIBOWITZ Poem Source First Line: Mourning does not move in stages Last Line: On the day on the moment their daughter was born Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning ENDING ALL, by RICHARD SOLOMON GEDNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou art gone from me, psyche, far away Last Line: United by our god! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement 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 EPHEMERA, by MANUEL GUTIERREZ NAJERA Poem Source First Line: Whither do the sweet sounds fly Last Line: Lives my love, o lady fair? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Rest EPIGRAM: 45. ON MY FIRST SON, by BEN JONSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, thou child of my right hand, and joy Last Line: As what he loves may never like too much. Variant Title(s): On His First Sonne;on My First Sonne;epitaph: On My Son Subject(s): Death - Children; Fathers; Grief; Men; Mourning; Parents; Prayer; Sons; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood EPITAPH, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh you, passing by this hill - one Last Line: Walking to new pain these bones long turned to stone Subject(s): Mourning EPITAPH FOR A GODLY MAN'S TOMB, by ROBERT WILDE Poem Source First Line: Here lies a piece of christ, a star in dust Last Line: Be us'd in heav'n, when god shall feast the just Subject(s): Mourning EPITAPH ON A DORMOUSE, REALLY WRITTEN BY A LITTLE BOY, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: In paper case, %hard by this place Last Line: Repent of yours in time Subject(s): Mourning EPITAPH ON A HARE, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies, whom hound did ne'er pursue, / nor swifter greyhound follow Last Line: Must soon partake his grave. Subject(s): Animals; Mourning; Rabbits; Bereavement; Hares EPITAPH ON A TOMB NEAR ROME, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Squander for me no scent of myrrh Last Line: Dead men conspicuously have no taste Subject(s): Epitaphs; Mourning EPITAPH ON JOHN KNIGHT, by ALEXANDER POPE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fairest pattern to a failing age Last Line: In death, by friendship, honour, virtue; mourn'd. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement EPITAPH ON THE DUKE OF GRAFTON, by FLEETWOOD SHEPHERD Poem Source First Line: Here %lyes a peer Last Line: But here lyes henry duke of grafton Subject(s): Mourning EPITAPH ON THE MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM DYER, by KATHERINE DYER Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: My dearest dust, could not thy hasty day Last Line: My dear, my dearest dust; I come, I come Alternate Author Name(s): Dyer, Catherine Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love; Bereavement EPITAPH UPON A CHILD THAT DIED, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here she lies, a pretty bud Last Line: The earth that lightly covers her. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement EXCHANGE, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY Poem Source First Line: After the burning of the lilac after travels Last Line: After you are gone when the strangers take your shirts off hangers %and wear them Subject(s): Change; Mourning EXCHANGE OF FEELINGS, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the old park, deserted in the frost Last Line: So they walk on in the self-seeding grass %with only night to hear them as they pass Subject(s): Love; Mourning EXULTATE JUBILATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire in that square floodlit by crimson Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement EXULTATE JUBILATE, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fire in that square floodlit by crimson Last Line: Become a form that those who live must bear Subject(s): Death; Mourning FADING AWAY, by JOAN+(1) MURRAY Poem Source First Line: It takes a lot of time Last Line: And when the world has wept enough, %the pale girl can get up Subject(s): Mourning FALL, by HARRIET ZINNES Poem Source First Line: It came suddenly. You had created it. It had not been there before. This Last Line: Not created that. But who had planted the fig tree in that northern %garden? Subject(s): Autumn; Creation; Fig Trees; Mourning; Seasons FALSE MOURNING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He who wears blacks, and mournes not for the dead Last Line: Do's but deride the party buried. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's bright paradise has come to this Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FAREWELL WITHOUT A GUITAR, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Spring's bright paradise has come to this Last Line: And of that other and her desire Subject(s): Mourning FAREWELL, JOHN, JOHN BRAVE LITTLE BOY, MAN-HERO TO MILLIONS, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: We'll always remember your brave salute Last Line: That you deserve Subject(s): Death; Mourning FATE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudwrack o'er the heaven flies Last Line: We wither 'neath the vampire wing. Subject(s): Fate; Mourning; Destiny; Bereavement FATE, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Bound by the fantasy of fusing Last Line: Cut down by man's %first fate Subject(s): Mourning FEELING SORRY FOR MYSELF, by LU YU (1125-1210) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Morning rain, evening rain, little plums turned yellow Last Line: A thousand years, bones rotted, I'll still have the fragrance of a good name Alternate Author Name(s): Wu-kuan; Lu You Subject(s): Mourning FELDMESTEN OR MEASURING THE GRAVES, by ALTER ABELSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On hill and glade, the flowers fade Last Line: "when will we weave it threads of song?" Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jews; Mourning; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Bereavement FELIX RANDAL, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Felix randal the farrier, o is he dead then? My duty all ended Last Line: Didst fettle for the great grey drayhorse his bright and battering sandal! Subject(s): Blacksmiths; Clergy; Death; Mourning; Sickness; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness FIELD DAY, by WILLIAM ROBERT RODGERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The old farmer, nearing death, asked Last Line: I think I know what the shape of the field was %that made the old man weep Alternate Author Name(s): Rodgers, W. R. Subject(s): Environment; Fields; Mourning FIFTH DAY, by EEVA KILPI Poem Source First Line: A heavy feeling Subject(s): Mourning FIRST ARTICULATION OF GRIEF IS SPELLED 'O', by VICTORIA MCCABE Poem Source First Line: It comes up through slime Last Line: The bulging o, the exact articulation %of the hole Subject(s): Death; Mourning FIRST NIGHT, by HILDA BRUCE Poem Text First Line: Dear god, he's such a little fellow Last Line: Please, god -- it's his first night. Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement FLETCHER'S LAMENT FOR HIS FRIEND, by JOHN FLETCHER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Come, sorrow, come! Bring all thy cries Last Line: And press his body lightly, gentle earth Subject(s): Mourning FLOOD, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His home address was inked inside his cap Last Line: But somewhere that kept moving, cold, dark, deep Subject(s): Mourning FLORENCE VANE, by PHILIP PENDLETON COOKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved thee long and dearly Last Line: Florence vane! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FOOTSTEPS OF ANGELS, by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the hours of day are numbered Last Line: Such as these have lived and died! Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement FOR A DEAD LADY, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more with overflowing light Last Line: Makes time so vicious in his reaping. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Bereavement FOR A FRIEND, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have my dead, and I would let them go Last Line: As the most distant sometimes helps: in me Variant Title(s): Requie Subject(s): Mourning FOR ONE LATELY BEREFT, by MARGARET E. BRUNER Poem Text First Line: Though now you are bereft and ways seem black Last Line: And happiness will come to you again. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement FOR STEVE, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The morning after your midnight death Last Line: Which runs full tilt into absence Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Music & Musicians FOR THE NEW YEAR 1761, by WILLIAM WHITEHEAD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still must the muse, indignant, hear Last Line: And albion's dreaded strength secure the world's repose. Subject(s): Blood; George Iii, King Of England (1738-1820); Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Great Britain - Wars With France; Mourning; Navy - Great Britain; Ruins; British Empire; England - Empire; Bereavement; English Navy FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Aircrews have had it and the war goes on Last Line: To cram a lifetime into seven days Subject(s): Mourning; War FORT HILL CEMETERY, 1991, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Our plot's a bargain: six feet of earth with ocean view Last Line: With steady beats above the illimitable sea Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships FOUR SONNETS: 3, by FRANK DAVIS ASHBURN Poem Text First Line: Poor lucy never laughed much after that Last Line: And then continue knitting, rather badly. Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement FRAGMENTS INTENDED FOR DEATH'S JEST-BOOK: MOURNER'S CONSOLED, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dead, is he? What's that further than a word Last Line: This then is all your death. Subject(s): Bodies; Consolation; Death; Mourning; Soul; Dead, The; Bereavement FRENCH PROVINCIAL DRAWING ROOM, by JORDAN MILLER Poem Source First Line: She sits among the ornaments of grief Last Line: His mourners read with with suckings of their breath. Subject(s): Death; Mourning FRIEDRICH'S VOW, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dusked and gathered the folds of the night Last Line: By a lone far valley of fair lorraine. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Battleships; Blood; Death; Fights; Franco-prussian War (1870-1871); Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement FUTILITY, by WILFRED OWEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Move him into the sun Last Line: To break earth's sleep at all? Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War GETTING USED TO LIFE WITHOUT DAD, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: It's been just three weeks %since dad went away Last Line: Bye, for now, sweet father Subject(s): Death; Mourning GLASS, by CHARLES KENNETH WILLIAMS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'd have thought by now it would have stopped Last Line: Not it's still no there, but something like come in, be still Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, C. K. Subject(s): Fathers; Memory; Mirrors; Mourning GOODBYE, DR. LEEDS, MY PYSCHOLOGICAL GURU, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: I can't believe I'm writing this poem Last Line: Are forever more peaceful %because of you Subject(s): Death; Mourning GRADY MOURNS, by ROGER CARL PFINGSTON Poem Source First Line: Not old really, grady wakes to a child's rapture of snow drifted deep as Last Line: Steps back as the wind returns, his face tingling with crystals of snow Subject(s): Death; Mourning GRAVEDIGGERS' APRIL, by ERIC ORMSBY Poem Source First Line: In winter we comfort our dead with talk Last Line: Into the flowring cemetery, %then we can mourn Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Mourning GRAY WAVES, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: It rains above the sea in gentle murmurs Last Line: The rain would never stop Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Rain; Tears GRIEF, by PRISCILLA ORR Poem Source First Line: In winter, the chinook winds lifted snow Last Line: Fills the room as your cheek begins to cool Subject(s): Death; Mourning GRIEF FOR THE DEAD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: O hearts that never cease to yearn! Last Line: "we look behind us for the past, / but lo! 'tis all before!" Variant Title(s): All Before Subject(s): Consolation;death;mourning; "dead, The;bereavement; GUITAR, by FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis First Line: The crying of the guitar Last Line: Heart wounded, gravely %by five swords Subject(s): Death; Grief; Guitars; Mourning HEAVENLY HOME, by LUIS DE LEON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Region of light eterne Last Line: Nor wander far from thee as one forlorn Alternate Author Name(s): Fray Luis Subject(s): Heaven; Mourning; Peace; Soul HECUBA MOURNS, by MARILYN NELSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, my daughter Alternate Author Name(s): Waniek, Marilyn Nelson Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HEIMWEH, by R. G. RUSTE Poem Text First Line: Just look,' said she, 'how blue the sky' Last Line: The other wept for paha sapa) Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Nature; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement HELEN OF KIRKCONNELL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I wish I were where helen lies Last Line: "and I am weary of the skies, / for her sake that died for me [or, since my love died for me]" Variant Title(s): Fair Helen Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HELIODORE [DEAD], by MELEAGER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tears for my lady dead Last Line: Gently to rest! Alternate Author Name(s): Meleagros Variant Title(s): Lament For Heliodore Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HIDDEN, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Three nuns at owlet-call Last Line: Die by the virgin's knees. Subject(s): Convents; Death; Mourning; Nuns; Dead, The; Bereavement HIS LACHRIMAE OR MIRTH, TURNED TO MOURNING, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Call me no more Last Line: Of those that sit and weep. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HIS SECOND WIFE SPEAKS: 4. ALONE IN DEATH, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone in death I think my heart will be Last Line: Yet face my immortality of pain. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement HOBO'S ELEGY, by SANDOR CSOORI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I should have done more than just walk along Last Line: And in the scent of leaves Subject(s): Mourning HOLDING OPEN THE DOORS, by ROBIN S. CHAPMAN Poem Source First Line: How could it be %you cut short your own life, any Last Line: That we may know to hold onto you Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Suicide HOLIDAYS ARE HARD, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: Each time we celebrate Last Line: While I still have the chance Subject(s): Death; Mourning HUNGERFIELD, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If time is only another dimension, then all that dies Last Line: Float on the dawn. - I shall be with you presently Subject(s): Love - Erotic; Mourning; Bereavement I GOT SO I COULD TAKE HIS NAME, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Itself, too vast, for interrupting – more – Subject(s): Love – Loss Of; Mourning I HAVE WALKED A LONG TIME, by SONIA SANCHEZ Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: You, man, will you remember and cry? Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Mortality; Mourning I SAVED A MOTH TODAY, by JAN YAGER Poem Source Last Line: It certainly was no time for a moth to die Subject(s): Death; Mourning I TRAVELLED AMONG UNKNOWN MEN, by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That lucy's eyes surveyed Subject(s): Mourning IDYLL 1, by THEOCRITUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I dare not, faith I dare not pipe at noon Last Line: And surely mind the favour of thy song Alternate Author Name(s): Theckritos Subject(s): Mourning; Shepherds And Shepherdesses IDYLL 3. A PASTORAL ON THE DEATH OF BION, by MOSCHUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye vales, and doric floods, or fount, or rill Last Line: And from dun night redeem thy sacred shade. Subject(s): Bion (2nd Century B.c.); Death; Flutes; Grief; Lament; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Mythology - Classical; Nature; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is what recurs that we believe Last Line: Solemn my love to you, frank Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IF I COULD MOURN LIKE A MOURNING DOVE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is what recurs that we believe Last Line: Solemn my love to you, frank Subject(s): Love; Mourning IF I HAD KNOWN, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: If I had known this morning Last Line: To change the words of Subject(s): Lament; Love; Mourning; Bereavement IMMORTAL, by MARY F. COCHRANE Poem Text First Line: I miss the dear, loved face so Last Line: "'tis on the breast of god!" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement IMPERIAL DELHI, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Imperial city! Dowered with sovereign grace Last Line: Before whose shrine the spells of death are vain. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Memory; Mourning; Rest; Dead, The; Bereavement IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement IN A DISUSED GRAVEYARD, by ROBERT FROST Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The living come with grassy tread Last Line: I think they would believe the lie Subject(s): Mourning; Time IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove's call woke me Last Line: The call woke me in the still night Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY, by ROBERT BLY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mourning dove's call woke me Last Line: And you'll be with your mother again Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning IN JOHN UPDIKE'S ROOM, by CHRISTOPHER WISEMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm in your room – I ask them at reception Last Line: That thing you knew here, and darkness is coming fast Subject(s): Scotland; Motion Pictures; Mourning; Memory IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 10, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I hear the noise about thy keel Last Line: Should toss with tangle and with shells. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 100, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I climb the hill: from end to end Last Line: I think once more he seems to die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Memory Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 102, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We leave the well-beloved place Last Line: To one pure image of regret. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 103, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: On that last night before we went Last Line: That landlike slept along the deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 105, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight ungather'd let us leave Last Line: The closing cycle rich in good. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 107, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is the day when he was born Last Line: And sing the songs he loved to hear. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 108, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will not shut me from my kind Last Line: Whatever wisdom sleep with thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 109, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heart-affluence in discursive talk Last Line: Nor let thy wisdom make me wise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 11, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Calm is the morn without a sound Last Line: Which heaves but with the heaving deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Lincolnshire Wolds And Lincolnshire Sea;autumn;the Awakening Of Spring;the Peace Of Sorrow;in Memoriam (3) Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 110, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy converse drew us with delight Last Line: That spurs an imitative will. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 111, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The churl in spirit, up or down Last Line: And soil'd with all ignoble use. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 112, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: High wisdom holds my wisdom less Last Line: In vassal tides that follow'd thought. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 113, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis held that sorrow makes us wise Last Line: And undulations to and fro. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 114, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who loves not knowledge? Who shall rail Last Line: In reverence and in charity. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 116, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it, then, regret for buried time Last Line: Than some strong bond which is to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): New Year's Eve Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 117, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O days and hours, your work is this Last Line: And all the courses of the suns. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Separation Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 118, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Contemplate all this work of time Last Line: And let the ape and tiger die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 12, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, as a dove when up she springs Last Line: That I have been an hour away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 120, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I trust I have not wasted breath Last Line: But I was born to other things. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 121, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sad hesper o'er the buried sun Last Line: Thy place is changed; thou art the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 122, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O, wast thou with me, dearest, then Last Line: And every thought breaks out a rose. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 123, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There rolls the deep where grew the tree Last Line: I cannot think the thing farewell. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (7) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 125, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whatever I have said or sung Last Line: A thousand pulses dancing, fail. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 126, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love is and was my lord and king Last Line: In the deep night, that all is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): My Lord And King;in Memoriam (8) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 127, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And all is well, tho' faith and form Last Line: And smilest, knowing all is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 128, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The love that rose on stronger wings Last Line: Is toil cooperant to an end. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 131, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O living will that shalt endure Last Line: And all we flow from, soul in soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 15, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight the winds begin to rise Last Line: A looming bastion fringed with fire. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam (4) Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 16, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What words are these have fallen from me? Last Line: And mingles all without a plan? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 17, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou comest, much wept for; such a breeze Last Line: Till all my widow'd race be run. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 18, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis well, 'tis something; we may stand Last Line: The words that are not heard again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 19, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The danube to the severn gave Last Line: And I can speak a little then. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Hushing Of The Wye Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 2, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old yew, which graspest at the stones Last Line: And grow incorporate into thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Dead Friend;in Memoriam;in Memoriam (1);in Memoriam: 2 Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Trees; Yew Trees; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 20, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lesser griefs that may be said Last Line: How good! Now kind! And he is gone.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 21, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I sing to him that rests below Last Line: Because her brood is stolen away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 24, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was the day of my delight Last Line: We saw not when we moved therein? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 26, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Still onward winds the weary way Last Line: To shroud me from my proper scorn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 29, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With such compelling cause to grieve Last Line: Before their time? They too will die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 3, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old sorrow, cruel fellowship Last Line: Upon the threshold of the mind? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 31, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lazarus left his charnel-cave Last Line: The lips of that evangelist. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 32, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes are homes of silent prayer Last Line: Or is there blessedness like theirs? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Mary Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 33, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O thou that after toil and storm Last Line: And even for want of such a type. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 34, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My own dim life should teach me this Last Line: Of vacant darkness and to cease. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Life Shall Live For Evermore Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 35, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet if some voice that man could trust Last Line: And bask'd and batten'd in the woods. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 36, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' truths in manhood darkly join Last Line: In roarings round the coral reef. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Word;the Word Incarnate Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 37, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Urania speaks with darkened brow Last Line: And darken'd sanctities with song.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 38, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: With weary steps I loiter on Last Line: Not all ungrateful to thine ear. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 39, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Old warder of these buried bones Last Line: And passes into gloom again. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 4, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep I give my powers away Last Line: Thou shalt not be the fool of loss.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 40, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could we forget the widow'd hour Last Line: And thine in undiscover'd lands. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 41, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy spirit ere our fatal loss Last Line: But evermore a life behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 42, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I vex my heart with fancies dim Last Line: A truth from one that loves and knows? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 43, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If sleep and death be truly one Last Line: Rewaken with the dawning soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Time And Eternity Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 44, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How fares it with the happy dead? Last Line: In that high place, and tell thee all. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 45, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The baby new to earth and sky Last Line: Beyond the second birth of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 46, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We ranging down this lower track Last Line: A rosy warmth from marge to marge. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 47, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That each, who seems a separate whole Last Line: Farewell! We lose ourselves in light.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Personal Resurrection Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 48, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If these brief lays, of sorrow born Last Line: Their wings in tears, and skim away. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 49, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From art, from nature, from the schools Last Line: The bases of my life in tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 50, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Be near me when my light is low Last Line: The twilight of eternal day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 52, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot love thee as I ought Last Line: When time hath sunder'd shell from pearl.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 53, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many a father have I seen Last Line: Procuress to the lords of hell. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 56, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So careful of the type?' but no Last Line: Behind the veil, behind the veil. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 57, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Peace; come away: the song of woe Last Line: Adieu, adieu,' for evermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 58, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In those sad words I took farewell Last Line: And thou shalt take a nobler leave.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 59, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O sorrow, wilt thou live with me Last Line: Could hardly tell what name were thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 6, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One writes, that 'other friends remain' Last Line: And unto me no second friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 60, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He past; a soul of nobler tone Last Line: How should he love a thing so low?' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 61, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, in thy second state sublime Last Line: The soul of shakespeare love thee more. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 62, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tho' if an eye that's downward cast Last Line: Is matter for a flying smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 63, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yet pity for a horse o'er driven Last Line: A higher height, a deeper deep. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 64, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dost thou look back on what hath been Last Line: Does my old friend remember me?' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 65, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet soul, do with me as thou wilt Last Line: And move thee on to noble ends. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 66, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You thought my heart too far diseased Last Line: His night of loss is always there. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 67, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When on my bed the moonlight falls Last Line: Thy tablet glimmers in the dawn. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 68, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When in the down I sink my head Last Line: That foolish sleep transfers to thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 69, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dream'd there would be spring no more Last Line: The words were hard to understand. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 7, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dark house, by which once more I stand Last Line: On the bald street breaks the blank day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): In Memoriam;in Memoriam (2) Subject(s): Gays & Lesbians; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 70, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I cannot see the features right Last Line: Looks thy fair face and makes it still. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 71, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep, kinsman thou to death and trance Last Line: The breaker breaking on the beach. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 72, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn, again Last Line: And hide thy shame beneath the ground. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 73, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So many worlds, so much to do Last Line: Of force that would have forged a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Death In Life's Prime Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 75, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I leave thy praises unexpress'd Last Line: Is wrought with tumult of acclaim. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 76, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Take wings of fancy, and ascend Last Line: The ruin'd shells of hollow towers? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 77, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What hope is here for modern rhyme Last Line: To utter love more sweet than praise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): The Poet's Tribute Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 79, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than my brother are to me Last Line: As his unlikeness fitted mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 8, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A happy lover who has come Last Line: Or, dying, there at least may die. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 80, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any vague desire should arise Last Line: Reach out dead hands to comfort me. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 81, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Could I have said while he was here Last Line: It might have drawn from after-heat.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 84, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I contemplate all alone Last Line: The low beginnings of content? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 85, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This truth came borne with bier and pall Last Line: As not unlike to that of spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 86, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet after showers, ambrosial air Last Line: A hundred spirits whisper 'peace.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Evening Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 87, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I past [or, passed] beside the reverend walls Last Line: The bar of michael angelo? Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): He Revisits Cambridge;trinity College, Cambridge Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 88, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wild bird, whose warble, liquid sweet Last Line: Will flash along the chords and go. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 89, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Witch-elms that counterchange the floor Last Line: And buzzings of the honeyed hours. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 90, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He tasted love with half his mind Last Line: That cries against my wish for thee. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 91, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When rosy plumelets tuft the larch Last Line: And like a finer light in light. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 92, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If any vision should reveal Last Line: As often rises ere they rise. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 93, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I shall not see thee, dare I say Last Line: My ghost may feel that thine is near. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 94, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How pure at heart and sound in head Last Line: And hear the household jar within. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Variant Title(s): Spiritual Communions;spiritual Companionship Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship; Dead, The IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 95, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By night we linger'd on the lawn Last Line: To broaden into boundless day. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 97, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My love has talk'd with rocks and trees Last Line: I cannot understand; I love.' Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 98, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You leave us: you will see the rhine Last Line: Of crimson or in emerald rain. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM A.H.H.: 99, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Risest thou thus, dim dawn again Last Line: They know me not, but mourn with me Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Hallam, Arthur Henry (1811-1833); Death; Mourning; Friendship IN MEMORIAM LADY CAROLINE CHARTERIS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mountain-stream may humbly boast Last Line: And we are all in god. Subject(s): Death; God; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement IN MEMORY OF ERNST TOLLER, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shining neutral summer has no voice Last Line: And all we wish for our friends: but existence is believing %we know for whom we mourn, and who is g Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Mourning; Toller, Ernst (1893-1939) IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of evening, lissadell Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning; Bereavement IN MEMORY OF EVA GORE-BOOTH AND CON MARKIEWICZ, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The light of evening, lissadell Last Line: Bid me strike a match and blow Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Consolation; Gore-booth, Eva (1872-1926); Markiewicz, Constance Georgine, Countess; Mourning IN MEMORY OF SOPHIE REDMOND, by LODEWIJK (LOU) A. M. LICHTVELD Poem Source First Line: There's not many like you anymore Last Line: No sranan will ever forget you, sister %sophie Subject(s): Memory; Mourning IN PATRIS MEI MEMORIAM, by JOHN MYERS O'HARA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the fond name that was his own and mine Last Line: He passed and left me hope beyond surcease. Subject(s): Mourning IN THE GARDEN AT SWAINSTON (IN MEMORIAM - SIR JOHN SIMEON), by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nightingales warbled without, / within was weeping for thee Last Line: Three dead men have I loved, and thou art last of the three. Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Catholics; Isle Of Wight; Mourning; Simeon, Sir John; Roman Catholics; Catholicism; Bereavement IN TIME OF MOURNING, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Return,' we dare not as we fain Last Line: May, 1885. Subject(s): Death; Love - Nature Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement INSCRIPTIONS: 3, by MARK AKENSIDE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whoe'er thou art whose path in summer lies Last Line: That riches cannot pay for truth or love. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Mourning; Travel; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Journeys; Trips ISLAND CEMETERY, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This graveyard with its umbrella pines Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Mourning ISRAEL'S LAMENT, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: And art thou dead? And has thy spirit gone Last Line: Would humbly place my modest wayside flower. Subject(s): Israel; Lament; Mourning; Bereavement IT IS NOT THE TEAR AT THIS MOMENT SHED, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is not the tear at this moment shed Last Line: From the image he left there in dying! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning; Desertion; Bereavement JOHN KINSELLA'S LAMENT FOR MRS. MARY MOORE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A bloody and a sudden end Last Line: What shall I do for pretty girls %now my old bawd is dead? Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Abandonment; Mourning JUANA, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The night wind shook the tapestry around an ancient palace room Last Line: But a woman's broken heart was left in its lone despair behind. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Philip I, King Of Spain (1478-1506); Women; Bereavement JULIE-JANE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sing; how 'a would sing! Last Line: From her fancy-men. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement JUST WHEN, by KYESOM Poem Source First Line: Just when did my green age go Last Line: Knowing the way would have led me to mourn Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Mourning; Old Age KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex; Bereavement KADDISH, by ALLEN GINSBERG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strange now to think of you, gone without corsets & eyes, while I walk Last Line: Last chance of mine and naomi - to god's perfect darkness - %death, stay thy phantoms! Subject(s): Desire; Mourning; Sex KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mother of my birth, for how long were we together Last Line: I have found my mother %and I am safe and always have been Subject(s): Men; Mothers; Mourning KADDISH, by HANNAH KAHN Poem Source First Line: As long %as I speak %your name %you are %not dead Last Line: As long as I %you %are not dead Subject(s): Mourning KADDISH, by JOSEPH LEFTWICH Poem Source First Line: Yisgadal, ve-yiskadash, %praise god for peace--and hush Last Line: Under the ground my mother lies--hush. %but god lives! Yisgadal, ve-yiskadash! Subject(s): Mourning KADDISH, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: In her last sickness, my mother took my hand in hers Last Line: Prayers with words and lights Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement KADDISH, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In her last sickness, my mother took my hand in hers Last Line: Prayers and words and lights Subject(s): Mourning KADDISH, by TED WIND Poem Source First Line: Abide the dead Last Line: Are we at peace %we who are free %the tolls still %are alarming amens %even from passersby Subject(s): Mourning KADDISH FOR MY FATHER, by MIRIAM HERSHENSON Poem Source First Line: My father, who gave me the curl of my hair Last Line: My life absolves your dying! Subject(s): Mourning LA VITA NUOVA: 3, by DANTE ALIGHIERI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Death, always cruel, pity's foe in chief Last Line: May never hope to have her company. Alternate Author Name(s): Dante; Alighieri, Dante Subject(s): Death; Grief; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise; Bereavement LAMENT, by ADRIANA SZYMANSKA Poem Source First Line: What do the dead do? Last Line: That one redeeming handful of illusion %cannot squeeze through Subject(s): Mourning LAMENT FOR FLODDEN [FIELD], by JEAN ELLIOT (1727-1805) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I've heard them lilting at our ewe-milking Last Line: The flowers of the forest are a' wede away. Alternate Author Name(s): Elliot, Jane Variant Title(s): The Flowers Of The Forest Subject(s): Flodden Field, England; Flowers; Love; Mourning; Bereavement LAMENT FOR LU YIN, by MENG CHIAO Poem Source First Line: Poets are usually pure, rugged Last Line: As the day lengthens, murmuring waters mourn Subject(s): Mourning LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement LAMENT FOR TADHG CRONIN'S CHILDREN, by AOGAN O RATHAILLE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: That day the sails of the ship were torn Last Line: My heart cries - %for the three dead children Alternate Author Name(s): O Rathaille, Aodhagan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning LAMENT FOR THE DEATH OF GUILLEN PERAZA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Grieve, ladies, so god may keep you Last Line: By ill fortune all is ended Subject(s): Mourning LAMENT FOR THE MAKARIS [WHEN HE WAS SEIK], by WILLIAM DUNBAR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I that in heill [or, heal] was and glaidness [or, gladness]. Last Line: Timor mortis conturbat me. Variant Title(s): Dunbar's Lament When He Was Sick;the Fear Of Death Confounds Me;timor Mortis Conturbat Me Subject(s): Death; Holidays; Mourning; New Year; Dead, The; Bereavement LAMENT OF THE IRISH EMIGRANT, by HELEN SELINA SHERIDAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting on the stile, mary Last Line: When first you were my bride. Alternate Author Name(s): Gifford, Lady; Dufferin, Lady Variant Title(s): The Irish Immigrant Subject(s): Death; Ireland; Mourning; Dead, The; Irish; Bereavement LAMENT OF THE UNPAID MOURNER, by KATHY COFFEY Poem Source First Line: It takes skill to pump the crowd, get a good Last Line: Away, driven by the pulse in a child's wrist Subject(s): Mourning LAMENTACION OF A GENTILWOMAN UPON DEATH OF .. WILLIAM GRUFFITH GENT, by ISABELLA WHITNEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A doubtfull, dying, dolefull dame Last Line: For (as I am) a lover will I dye. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LAST LOVE, by FEODOR (FYODOR) IVANOVICH TYUTCHEV Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Love at the closing of our days Last Line: A blend of joy and of hopeless surrender Subject(s): Mourning LAST OF MY CHINESE UNCLES ENTERS THE GATES OF HEAVEN, by CATHY SONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: And my mother, unable to weep, grieves for the dead Last Line: Weep, my hands shout. %weep and live Subject(s): Death; Family Life; Mothers; Mourning; Uncles LEAVING HOME, by ALAN C. FOX Poem Source First Line: In the morning %I wake again Last Line: It is difficult for me %to leave my home Subject(s): Grief; Mourning LET US LOVE ONE ANOTHER, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: As long as we stay Subject(s): Mourning; Love; Forgiveness LETTER IN AUTUMN, by DONALD HALL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: This first october of your death Subject(s): Death; Marital Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LETTER TO HUMPHREY BOGART, ALREADY FAR AWAY, by ROLF-DIETER BRINKMANN Poem Source First Line: The windows %are all Last Line: Closed forever after the single %shot Subject(s): Bogart, Humphrey (1899-1957); Mourning LIFE LOOKS ON DEATH, by ESTHER RUSSELL Poem Text First Line: Tonight I sit alone with my dead love Last Line: In fright that wondrous life should lose itself. Subject(s): Death; Life; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LIFE'S TWO INTERPRETERS: 1, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: As tales oft told we bring to end our years Last Line: "death wins! Fate holds us in captivity!" Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement LINES SPOKEN BY MRS. BARTLEY AT DRURY LANE THEATRE ON THE FIRST OPENING OF THE HOUSE AFTER THE DEATH, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britons! Although our task is but to show Last Line: To paint -- ye feel it, britons, in your hearts! Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Mourning; Bereavement LINES TO THE MEMORY OF ANNIE WHO DIED AT MILAN, JUNE 6, 1860, by HARRIET BEECHER STOWE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fair gardens of celestial peace Last Line: Full blossomed in his fields of cloudless day. Subject(s): Consolation; Mourning; Bereavement LINES, WRITTEN AT MIDNIGHT, IN THE PROSPECT OF A BEREAVEMENT, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though to the passing world my heart Last Line: Its healing to the self-same god! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LITTLE LIBBIE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more little spirit to heaven has flown Last Line: To welcome home friends once more. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LONG DISTANCE, by TONY HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your bed's got two wrong sides. Your life's all grouse Last Line: And the disconnected number I still call Subject(s): Mourning LOSS, by MARGERY DOUD Poem Text First Line: Not with a dull and constant ache Last Line: Suddenly I see only cosmos flowers, blurring waves of color! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOST CHILD, by SUZANNE POPE Poem Text First Line: In the secret garden of my heart Last Line: Until my yearning prayer shall take me to the grave. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOST LOVE, by ROBERT RANKE GRAVES Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His eyes are quickened so with grief Last Line: Without relief seeking lost love. Subject(s): Grief; Love; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LOVE AND MADNESS; AN ELEGY, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hark! From the battlements of yonder tower Last Line: "where, lulled to slumber, grief forgets to mourn!" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry & Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul; Bereavement; Theology LOVE CALLS US TO THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The eyes open to a cry of pulleys Last Line: Of dark habits, %keeping their difficult balance Subject(s): Christianity; Laundry And Laundering; Love; Mourning; Religion; Soul LUCASTA PAYING HER OBSEQUIES TO THE CHASTE MEMORY OF BOWES BARNE, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: See! What an undisturbed tear Last Line: To dress my sorrow by. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement LUCY (2), by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She dwelt among the untrodden ways Last Line: The difference to me! Variant Title(s): "the Lost Love;when Lucy Ceased To Be;song;""she Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways""; Subject(s): Death; Grief; Loss; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement LYCIDAS, by JOHN MILTON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Yet once more, o ye laurels, and once more Last Line: Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. Subject(s): Consolation; Death; Drowning; Freedom; Grief; Hate; King, Edward (1612-1637); Mourning; Religion; Dead, The; Liberty; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Theology MAGNIFICAT, by ELEANOR WILNER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When he had suckled there, he began Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand Subject(s): Food & Eating; Murder; Mourning; Bereavement MAMMALS, by LINDA MCCARRISTON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Whales are mourning Last Line: In his pen of air - from whom %the wind whips such noises Subject(s): Environment; Mourning; Sea Monsters; Whales MAN WAS MADE TO MOURN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When chill november's surly blast Last Line: "that weary-laden mourn!" Subject(s): Mankind; Mourning; Religion; Human Race; Bereavement; Theology MAN WHO LOST HIS WIFE, by PHILIP BOOTH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words get to him now. They leap out of Last Line: Everything means something else Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning MARIA WENTWORTH, by THOMAS CAREW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And here the precious dust is laid Last Line: Fraile as our flesh, crumble to dust. Variant Title(s): The Inscription On The Tomb;epitaph For Maria Wentworth;the Inscription On The Tomb Of The Lady Mary Wentworth Subject(s): Bedfordshire, England; Mourning; Wentworth, Maria (d. 1632); Bereavement MARLBOROUGH FAIR, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I warr'nt our street be near so wide Last Line: And the long down is whispering low 'goodnight.' Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Abandonment; Amusement Parks; Animals; Children; Churchyards; Circus; Country Dances; Country Life; Entertainers; Festivals; Fiddles; Games; Guns; Lions; Marlborough, England; Merry-go-grounds; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Night; Pleasure; Desertion; C MARY, THE MAID OF THE TAY, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye banks and braes o' bonnie tay Last Line: For my lovely mary, the maid o' the tay. Subject(s): Death; Household Employees; Mourning; Dead, The; Servants; Domestics; Maids; Bereavement MATER DOLOROSA, by JAMES LEO DUFF Poem Text First Line: Last night I heard the keenin' at patrick connell's wake Last Line: "and pray to god her heart will break, that she may die tonight!" Subject(s): Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement MEARY WEDDED, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The zun can zink, the stars mid rise Last Line: That wer a-woo'd an' wedded. Subject(s): Brides; Marriage; Mourning; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement MEDITATION, by JOHN NORRIS Poem Source First Line: It must be done (my soul) but 'tis a strange Last Line: With horrour they resign'd to the untry'd abyss Subject(s): Mourning MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 1, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The seagull, spreadeagled, splayed on the wind Last Line: Saw I was standing in the stance of vague %horror; paralysed with mere pity's peace? Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 2, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From thorax of storms the voices of storms Last Line: Eternity in our cabins, pitches our pod %to the mouth of the death for which no one is ready Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL SONNET (FOR TWO YOUNG SEAMEN LOST ...): 3, by GEORGE BARKER Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: At midday they looked up and saw their death Last Line: The funeral contribution and memorial, %the perfect and non-existent obsequies Variant Title(s): Pacific Sonnets: Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; World War Ii MEMORIAL TABLET (GREAT WAR, 1918), by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Squire nagged and bullied till I went to fight Last Line: What greater glory could a man desire? Subject(s): Mourning; World War I; Bereavement; First World War MEMORIES, by HORIGUCHI DAIGAKU Poem Source First Line: Hordes of women wept for me Last Line: Who was which I really don't recall Subject(s): Mourning MESSAGE, by LEOPOLDO LUGONES Poem Source First Line: O dove that flyest towards my love Last Line: The mournful cypress tree! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning MILENA JESENSKA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for attending this tribute to love Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement MILENA JESENSKA, by EDWARD HIRSCH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thank you for attending this tribute to love Last Line: And now we must live without his help Subject(s): Death; Mourning MINYAN, by JACK ELLIOTT MYERS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I took one small breath to lift her %body into death Last Line: Sleeping on half a bed, hoping the other half %isn't just earth Subject(s): Mourning MISSING YOU, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: Last night mom babysat Last Line: Bye for now Subject(s): Death; Mourning MOODS ON THE MOSELLE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet! Sweet! Sweet! Sings the bird upon the bough Last Line: That our songs sing now. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Change; Mourning; Bereavement MOTHER NIGHTINGALE, by ESTEBAN MANUEL DE VILLEGAS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a nightingale Last Line: Answer, - 'that I never will' Subject(s): Mourning; Prayer MOURN FOR THE BRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mourn for the brave Last Line: Upon the battle-plain! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courage; Death; Heroism; Mourning; Soldiers; Valor; Bravery; Dead, The; Heroes; Heroines; Bereavement MOURN NOT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O mourner, mourn not vanished light Last Line: Our friend, our father, and our god. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURN NOT THE DEAD, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn not the dead - shed not a tear Last Line: And traced upon the sable pall! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURNER, by THOMAS AUGUSTINE DALY Poem Source First Line: Out o' bed of a mornin' was mary mccroal Alternate Author Name(s): Daly, T. A. Subject(s): Mourning MOURNER'S COMFORT, by JOHN PEPPER CLARK Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Night falls Last Line: For day to break Alternate Author Name(s): Clark-bekederemo, J. P.; Clark, J. P. Subject(s): Mourning MOURNER'S LINE, by DAVE SMITH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Have mercy!' you cry in the mourner's line Last Line: Everyone's coming, I sigh, except of course him Subject(s): Funerals; Mourning MOURNERS, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If you are sure I'm down in hell Last Line: A poet cannot die. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOURNING A FOAL, by LASZLO NAGY Poem Source First Line: Your mother was white and you're black Last Line: You with your velvet hide Subject(s): Babies; Death; Mourning; Orphans MOURNING AFTER, by BEN PASSIKOFF Poem Source First Line: No one in the summing Last Line: A ballet on a broken toe Subject(s): Mourning MOURNING IN ANDALUSIA, by ABU-L-HASAN AL-HUSRI Poem Source First Line: If white is the color Last Line: In mourning for youth Subject(s): Mourning MOURNING PABLO NERUDA, by ROBERT BLY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Water is practical / especially in august Last Line: Gone. Subject(s): Death; Legacies; Mourning; Nature; Neruda, Pablo (1904-1973); Usefullness; Water; Dead, The; Bereavement MOURNING POEM FOR THE QUEEN OF SUNDAY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord's lost him his mockingbird Subject(s): African Americans; Mourning; Negroes; American Blacks; Bereavement MOURNING POEM FOR THE QUEEN OF SUNDAY, by ROBERT EARL HAYDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Lord's lost him his mockingbird Last Line: Who would have thought, %who would have thought she'd end that way? Subject(s): African Americans; Mourning MOURNING PRINCESS ASUKA, by KAKINOMOTO HITOMARO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: At asuka, the river of birds in flight Last Line: Will be a keepsake preserving the memory of our beloved princess Alternate Author Name(s): Workman; Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaro; Kakinomoto No Hitomaru Subject(s): Mourning MOURNING SONG: 1, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I beg you, beg you, mother Last Line: My lips were bitter gall Subject(s): Mourning MOURNING SONG: 2, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Close by the shore, the shore Last Line: And all my other beauties %are eaten by the fish Subject(s): Mourning MOURNING SONG: 3, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: My little ship, three-masted Last Line: And I shall anchor there, - %before the village graves Subject(s): Mourning; Ships And Shipping MOURNING THE DEAD: IN MEMORY OF MY HUSBAND, by SHANG JINGLAN Poem Source First Line: Your name will be known forever Last Line: My chastity complements your integrity Subject(s): Love - Marital; Mourning MOURNING WOMEN, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All veiled in black, with faces hid from sight Last Line: But souls ye have none fit for paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Egypt; Mourning; Women; Bereavement MOURNING WOMEN, by WILSON C. DIBBLE Poem Text First Line: All you who mourn come here quite silently Last Line: Your conquest young, your aid we still implore! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MOVED TO DEEP DISTRESS, by GU RUOPU Poem Source First Line: Now is the season of splendor Last Line: Destroy my heart Subject(s): Death; Marriage; Mourning MUNDUS MOROSUS (THE WORLD MOROSE), by FREDERICK WILLIAM FABER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I heard the wild beasts in the woods complain Last Line: None love us, trust us, welcome us, but thou. Subject(s): Grief; Labor Unions; Mourning; Strikes; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Labor Disputes; Lockouts MY DADDY DIED TODAY, by JAN YAGER Poem Source Last Line: And one-of-a-kind daddy, %rest in peace Subject(s): Death; Mourning MY LATE BROTHER'S SON TURNS 30 TODAY, by JAN YAGER Poem Source Last Line: They were wrong %dead wrong Subject(s): Death; Mourning MY MOURNER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I lie here very still; and he draws nigh Last Line: Intrusive vigil round my silent home? Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement MY MOURNING, by JOSE CRAVEIRINHA Poem Source First Line: They say I do not wear mourning Last Line: Who says I do not wear mourning Subject(s): Mourning MYTH OF TIME, by HORST BIENEK Poem Source First Line: The myth of time disintegrates Last Line: The birds mourn softly in the wind %the myth of time disintegrates Subject(s): Human Rights; Mourning; Prisons And Prisoners NEEDLES HAVE STITCHED A DEATH SHROUD, by ABU AL-'ALA AHMAD IBN 'ABD ALLAH AL-MA'ARRI Poem Source First Line: Needles have stitched a death shroud with our life Last Line: And fear to eat. They wait chewing their bridles Subject(s): Mourning NEVER, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not many years, but long enough to see Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement NEW GRADUATE'S POEM MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE: 1, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Those enrolled among the immortals don't linger in the human world Last Line: Pan yue is so filled with grief that his hair is turning white Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mourning NEW GRADUATE'S POEM MOURNING THE DEATH OF HIS WIFE: 2, by YU XUANJI Poem Source First Line: Blending with the mist, a single branch of moon cassia is graceful Last Line: For, since olden times, sorrow and joy have been the same as today Subject(s): China - Tang Dynasty (618-905); Mourning NOCTURNE OF THE STATUE, by XAVIER VILLAURRUTIA Poem Source First Line: Dreaming, dreaming the night, the street, the stairway Last Line: Till hearing it say, I am sick to death of dreaming. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Loss Of; Mourning NOT DEAD, BUT GONE BEFORE, by ANTIPHANES Poem Text First Line: Mourning your dearest friends, be wise in grief Last Line: To lodge together for the rest of time. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement NOVEMBER, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: Each sapless leaf that lingers here Last Line: These make amends! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; November; Wind; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement NOW THAT WE ARE NEVER FINISHED MOURNING, by WILLIAM REICHARD Poem Source First Line: Don't even start. It would be a long, ugly list Last Line: This poem is dedicated to the memory of ... Subject(s): Memory; Mourning O MOTHER I AM NOT REGRETTING, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Mothers; Bereavement OCCASIONAL, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Our mightiest in our midst is slain Last Line: And through her justice, free. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; God ODD ELEGY FOR MY MOM, by PRISCILLA ORR Poem Source First Line: After an all night rain the sand clings to everything Last Line: Here's to this salt water gulf that gets us all Subject(s): Death; Mourning ODE ON THE DEATH OF A FAVOURITE CAT, DROWNED IN A TUB, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a lofty vase's side Last Line: Nor all, that glisters, gold. Variant Title(s): Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat, Drowned In A Tub Of Gold Fishes;gray's Elegy On Horace Walpole's Cat;on The Death Of A Favourite Cat;on A Favorite Cat Drowned In A Tub Of Goldfishes Subject(s): Animals; Cats; Death; Death - Animals; Goldfish; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, by JOSEPH WARTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No more of mirth and rural joys Last Line: "well-pleas'd I listen to thy lays of love." Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Praise; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODE ON THE DEATH OF THE AUTHOR, BY A LADY, by J. W. Poem Text First Line: Accept, o sacred shade, this artless verse Last Line: Save me from slavish vice, from folly, and from ill. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Warton, Thomas (1688-1745); Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ODE TO MY UNBORN CHILD, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: I try not to think of you Last Line: With others, to love and be loved Subject(s): Death; Mourning ODE TO SALT, by NEFTALI RICARDO REYES BASUALTO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This salt %in the saltcellar %I once saw in the salt mines Last Line: Reveals to us %more than domestic whiteness; %in it, we taste infinitude Alternate Author Name(s): Neruda, Pablo Subject(s): Mourning; Sailors And Sailing; Salt; Sea ODES I, 1, SELS., by ALBIUS TIBULLUS Poem Source First Line: May my eyes fall on thee when the last hour shall have come for me Last Line: Do no violence to yoiur loosened hair nor to your soft cheek Subject(s): Mourning ODES II, 14. HIS AGE, DEDICATED TO HIS PECULIAR FRIEND, JOHN WICKES, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah posthumus! Our yeares hence flye Last Line: Farre more then night bewearied. Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Variant Title(s): His Age, Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend, M. John Wickes Subject(s): Mourning; Time; Bereavement ODES III, 30: EXIGI MONUMENTUM, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No hands have wrought my monument; no weeds Last Line: And do not contradict the fool Alternate Author Name(s): Horace Subject(s): Mourning ODYSSEY: BOOK 17, by HOMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Such speech they changed: when in the yard there lay Last Line: That once is sun-burnt with the servile day.' Subject(s): Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Ulysses OF MY DEAR SON [GERVASE BEAUMONT], by JOHN BEAUMONT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Can I, who have for others oft compiled Last Line: How to this port at every step I go. Subject(s): Death - Children; Grief; Mourning; Death - Babies; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement OLD POSTCARD, by MARY KINZIE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Give me the words to write to you Last Line: Accept your sister, daughter, lover, heloise Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON A MOURNER, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Nature, so far as in her lies Last Line: The falsehood of extremes! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Freedom; Mourning; Liberty; Bereavement ON A PORTRAIT; A WIDOWER MUSES OVER THE LIKENESS OF HIS DEAD WIFE, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The face, the beautiful face Last Line: These passed from the world with her. Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement ON COWEE RIDGE, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: John gordon boyd / died on the birthday Subject(s): Death; Writing & Writers; Mourning; God; Dead, The; Bereavement ON HERING A WOMAN MOURN HER HUSBAND, by HO XUAN HUONG Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: A woman somewhere cries -- she mourns her man Last Line: If it disturbs your blood, then swear off meat Subject(s): Mourning ON PARTING WITH MY WIFE, JANINA, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Women mourners were giving their sister to fire Last Line: Beyond the earthly fire compose yourselves anew! Subject(s): Mourning ON REVISITING CINTRA AFTER THE DEATH OF CATARINA, by LUIS DE CAMOENS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Apparel of green woods and meadows gay Last Line: Sere with herb that suits the %broken heart Alternate Author Name(s): Camoes, Luis De; Camoens, Luiz Vaz De Subject(s): Grief; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Mourning ON SEEING THE QUEEN'S TRAIN PASS THROUGH COATBRIDGE, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My queen! Beloved, bereaved - no festal car Last Line: To thee and thine be husband, father, friend. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Women; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF A MONKEY, by THOMAS HEYRICK Poem Source First Line: Here busy and yet innocent lyes dead Subject(s): Animals; Mourning ON THE DEATH OF A SISTER, by SAMUEL ROGERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Man is born to suffer Last Line: And now I write -- what thou shalt never see! Subject(s): Mourning; Sisters; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF AMYNTAS; A PASTORAL ELEGY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on a joyless and a gloomy morn Last Line: For like amyntas none is left below. Subject(s): Death; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF AN AGED AND HONORED RELATIVE: A POLYGOT IN PARADISE, by ISAAC WATTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Recount the years, my song (a mournful round!) Last Line: Employs the european and the eastern tongues. Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF MR. GARRICK, by JANE BOWDLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The last sad rites were done - the sacred ground Last Line: "and know—whoe'er thou art—the prize is thine." Subject(s): Death; Future Life; Garrick, David (1717-1779); Graves; Mourning; Silence; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM HERVEY, by ABRAHAM COWLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a dismal and a fearful night Last Line: Where grief and misery can be joyn'd with verse. Subject(s): Grief; Hervey, William; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST, by THOMAS GRAY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In vain to me the smiling mornings shine Last Line: And weep the more, because I weep in vain. Variant Title(s): Sonnet On The Death Of Richard West;on The Death Of Mr.richard West Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; West, Richard (1716-1742); Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF THE PRINCESS CHARLOTTE, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes britain mourns, as with electric shock Last Line: For him who does not weep. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Charlotte Augusta, Princess (d. 1817); Mourning; Bereavement ON THE DEATH OF THE TWO DAUGHTERS OF MR. JAMES MUIR, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair garden of my life, my children's home Last Line: "where blossoms never die—"" to heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Daughters; Death - Children; Fathers; Fathers & Daughters; Heaven; Mourning; Death - Babies; Paradise; Bereavement ON THE LATIN GERUNDS, by RICHARD PORSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When dido found aeneas would not come Last Line: She mourn'd in silence, and was di-do-dum(b). Variant Title(s): Dido Subject(s): Mnemonics; Mourning; Mythology - Classical; Bereavement ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement ONE ART, by ELIZABETH BISHOP Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The art of losing isn't hard to master Last Line: Though it may look like (write it!) like disaster Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning ONE OF THE DEAD, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Paler, not quite so fair as in her life Last Line: Friends, she but slumbers, wherefore do ye weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Grief; Life; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement ORAN-BHROIN (A CRYING IN THE WILDERNESS), by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When all the west is blowing wild Last Line: Is blowing wild. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Children; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Childhood; Bereavement OVERTONE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some listening were certain they could hear Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Mourning; Music & Musicians; Bereavement PANTOUM: AT MOUNT HEBRON, by KIM THERESA ADDONIZIO Poem Source First Line: This cemetery is no haven Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fathers And Sons; Grief; Jews; Mourning PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Last Line: But whether this was false or honest dreaming %I beg death's pardon now. And mourn the dead Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning PARTRIDGE, by AGATHIAS SCHOLASTICUS Poem Source First Line: Never, my partridge, o patient heart Last Line: May the dust be light on your grave Alternate Author Name(s): Agathias Scholasticos Subject(s): Mourning PENANCE, by VERA BEATTY Poem Source First Line: We are sixteen hours into my father's death Last Line: Shallow, repent, he will return Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Mourning PERSEVERING BOW STRING WHO NEVER FAILS TO RETURN WITH GAME, by MOSES IGO OWULOH Poem Source Last Line: Leopard was thrown into incessant cry of lamentation! Subject(s): Death - Children; Igede (african People); Mourning PHILANDER, AN IMITATION OF SPENCER: ON THE DEATH OF MR. WILLIAM LEVINZ, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Give me, ye weeping nine Last Line: And you in stella see philanders yet unborn! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Piety; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Spencer, William Robert (1769-1834); Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement PIED PIPER (1926-1997), by SYLVIA K. POLIKOFF Poem Source First Line: Allen ginsberg is dead Last Line: Innovator, respected, %avant-garde. %mourned Subject(s): Death; Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997); Mourning PINING FOR HIS SON FURULI, by YAMANOUE NO OKURA Poem Source First Line: The seven treasures Last Line: Teach him the way to heaven Alternate Author Name(s): Yamamoue Okura; Okura Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning PLORATA VERIS LACHRYMIS, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O now, my true and dearest bride Last Line: My life may now be waning. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness POEM FOR MARVIN NAIRIN, by BARRY SPACKS Poem Source First Line: Marvin nairin died at twelve, no one would say from what Last Line: Always back to you back then, %marvin nairin Subject(s): Death - Children; Memory; Mourning POEMS ON THE DEATH OF PRINCE HENRY: VPON THE UNSEASONABLE TIMES, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fond vulgar, canst thou thinke it strange to finde Last Line: Men's sighes and teares are slight, and quickly done. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Mourning; Tears; Wind; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement POET'S DEATH, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He lay. His high-propped face could only peer Last Line: Than broken fruit corrupting in the air Subject(s): Mourning POET'S DUST AND A STAR, by HALA JEAN HAMMOND Poem Text First Line: Stript to ash in a white urn Last Line: At the breast of a mother-sky. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Poetry & Poets; Prayer; Sky; Stars; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement POST-GRIEF (AND ANGRY) SECOND GOODBYE, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: When I first learned my psychological guru Last Line: To forgive him, and to forgive her, %is to forgive myself Subject(s): Death; Mourning POST-MORTEM, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bustle in a house Last Line: Until eternity. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement POSTCARD BLUES FROM ROBERT GRAVES (1895-1985), by BERNHARD FRANK Poem Source First Line: We have breakfast Last Line: E phemeral singer -- ternal %s ong Subject(s): Graves, Robert Ranke (1895-1985); Mourning PRAISE OF A COLLIE, by NORMAN MACCAIG Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She was a small dog, neat and fluid Last Line: I grieved for pollochan when he took her a stroll %and put his gun to the back of her head Subject(s): Animals; Collies; Dogs; Mourning PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S BURIAL HYMN, by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When lilacs last in the door-yard bloom'd Last Line: There in the fragrant pines and the cedars dusk and dim. Variant Title(s): When Lilacs Last In The Dooryard Bloomed Subject(s): American Civil War; Death; Flowers; Grief; Lilacs; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Loss; Mourning; Patriotism; Presidents, United States; United States - History; United States; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; America PRIMORDIAL SPRINGS, by JOACHIM GASQUET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where are you sleeping, springtime of the world? Last Line: Springs I have never known. Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Melancholy; Mourning; Spring; Dejection; Bereavement PRISMATIC LIGHTS, by AGUSTIN F. CUENCA Poem Source First Line: Below the west, that glows all ruddily Last Line: A crystal glass through which to read the skies Subject(s): Love; Man-woman Relationships; Mourning PROGRAM, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The glass in her hand flares Last Line: And someone is talking weather Subject(s): Drinks And Drinking; Mourning QINGYU'AN: MOURNING ANTIQUITY, by XU CAN Poem Source First Line: Heartbroken, by mistake I took the road to desolate city Last Line: Don't blame them on women's lotus steps! Subject(s): Mourning R.M.R., by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rose, oh the pure contradiction Last Line: Under so many lids Subject(s): Mourning RAIN, by NICHOLAS VACHEL LINDSAY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Each storm-soaked flower has a beautiful eye Last Line: Alone with lost years Alternate Author Name(s): Lindsay, Vachel Subject(s): Men; Mourning RAIN ON A GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Clouds spout upon her / their waters amain Last Line: All her life's round. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Rain; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement RAINY NIGHT, by E. FLEMING HOTT Poem Text First Line: Black of night; soft-dripping rain Last Line: Alone, in darkness, my heart grieves. Subject(s): Melancholy; Mourning; Rain; Tears; Water; Dejection; Bereavement READING THE CANTERBURY TALES, I MOURN LOST WORDS, by CHARLES HARPER WEBB Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Where have you gone, cocky prikasour? Last Line: And manages to hold on for leve life Subject(s): Mourning RECEPTION AT THE MONGOLIAN EMBASSY, by NICHOLAS KOLUMBAN Poem Source First Line: I read the paper on a bench near the danube Last Line: You left me behind Subject(s): Death; Mourning REDFIELD FARM, MICHIGAN, by HERBERT BUCKLEN BRADY Poem Text First Line: At dawn the ragged sun - glints splash the morning - glories' lips Last Line: "oh god, our country, our land for always!" Subject(s): Beauty; Farm Life; Love; Mourning; Agriculture; Farmers; Bereavement REFUSAL TO MOURN THE DEATH, BY FIRE, OF A CHILD IN LONDON, by DYLAN THOMAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never until the mankind making Last Line: After the first death, there is no other Subject(s): Air Warfare; Death - Children; Fire; Innocence; Mourning; World War Ii REMEMBER, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am gone away Last Line: Than that you should remember and be sad. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dead Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement REMEMBER ME, by KEITH CASTELLAINE DOUGLAS Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Remember me when I am dead Last Line: And simplify me when I'm dead Variant Title(s): Simplify Me When I'm Dea Subject(s): Death; Life Change Events; Mourning REMEMBER WITH A SONG, by STEWART ATKINS Poem Text First Line: When I am gone, stop not the dance, nor cause Last Line: Mourning is more sincere when eyes are dry. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement REMEMBERING MY LATE HUSBAND, by WANG FENGXIAN Poem Source First Line: The icy orb gas just set, the night watch is almost over Last Line: Who would have thought that meeting you would be so difficult Subject(s): Mourning REMEMBRANCE, by BEULAH WINDLE SCALLIN Poem Text First Line: I keep no days for fast and mourning-lay Last Line: Deep hid within the tear-sealed casket of my heart. Subject(s): Death; Hearts; Holidays; Love - Loss Of; Memorial Day; Mourning; Dead, The; Declaration Day; Bereavement REQUIESCAT, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Strew on her roses, roses Last Line: The vasty hall of death. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement RETURN, by WINIFRED K. MARICLE Poem Text First Line: An april dusk she may return Last Line: Of one who grieves. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement RHENISH AUTUMN; TO TOUSSAINT LUCA, by GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The children of the dead are going to play / in the graveyard Last Line: Was the color of the autumn chestnuts Alternate Author Name(s): Kostrowitzky, Wilhelm Apollina Subject(s): Autumn; Children; Death; Mourning; Seasons; Fall; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement ROMAN SARCOPHAGI, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why should we too, though, not anticipate Last Line: That mirrors now and moves and sparkles %through them Subject(s): Mourning ROSE AYLMER, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah what avails the sceptered race Last Line: I consecrate to thee. Subject(s): Aylmer, Rose Whitworth (1779-1800); Love; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement SAD REMEMBRANCE, by MEI YAO-CH'EN Poem Source First Line: From the time you came into my house Last Line: At the last will join you in dust Subject(s): Mourning SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 14. OVER THE COFFIN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They stand confronting, the coffin between Last Line: Had lived like the wives in the patriarchs' days.' Variant Title(s): Over The Coffin Subject(s): Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement SATIRES OF CIRCUMSTANCE: 3. BY HER AUNT'S GRAVE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sixpence a week,' says the girl to her lover Last Line: She passively nods. And they go that way. Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Selfishness; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SEA IN MOURNING, by EDUARDO URIOS-APARISI Poem Source First Line: There outside your window, adela, the Last Line: And you can't watch it from sorrow Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Tears SEA WIFE, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There must be so many souls washing Last Line: Mourning for the souls, the souls, that are lost there Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Death; Love - Marital; Mourning; Widows And Widowers SECOND SPRING, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: Chinaberry blossoms Last Line: For a tiny grave. Subject(s): Irony; Mourning; Bereavement SELVA OSCURA, by FREDERICK LOUIS MACNEICE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A house can be haunted by those who were never there Last Line: Beckons to all the life my days allow Alternate Author Name(s): Macneice, Louis Subject(s): Mourning SEQUOIA, by CATHY SMITH Poem Source First Line: Later, arm-in-arm Last Line: I could breath. Get on %with my life Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning SHE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss? Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SHE, by THEODORE ROETHKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I think the dead are tender. Shall we kiss? Last Line: Stayed by what was, and pulled by what would be Subject(s): Mourning SHED NO TEARS O'ER THAT TOMB, by EMILY JANE BRONTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Ellis Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SILENCED BY A BOMB, by FRED YAGER Poem Source First Line: When one man misuses the power Last Line: They were silenced by a bomb Subject(s): Death; Mourning SILENT ONE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two Last Line: Again retreated - and a second time faced the screen Subject(s): Mourning; War 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 SILVER, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: I cannot watch the moonlight Last Line: Silver in mine. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SLEEP, OH MY SOUL, SLEEP, by MIGUEL DE UNAMUNO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Morn, will it come, %sleep? Alternate Author Name(s): Unamuno Y Jugo, Miguel De Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Peace SNOW, by BEULA CHAMBERLAIN Poem Text First Line: There has been snow on fresh-turned graves Last Line: The long night through. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Mourning; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement SNOW, by GREGOR STRNISA Poem Source First Line: They're not eternal, these heavens Last Line: Will she, will you know? Subject(s): Memory; Mourning SONG, by RICHARD HARRIS BARHAM Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis sweet to think the pure ethereal being Alternate Author Name(s): Ingoldsby, Thomas Subject(s): Ghosts; Afterlife; Mourning; Bereavement SONG, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When napoleon was flying Last Line: Wept when all their tears were dried. Subject(s): Battle Of Waterloo; Death; Mourning; Fall SONG (10), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, my dearest, / sing no sad songs for me Last Line: And haply may forget. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Life Change Events; Love - Loss Of; Melancholy; Mourning; Time; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement SONG FROM THE CANCIONEROS, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The little brown maid wailing sore Last Line: Out in the olive grove %and the branches tremble above Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning SONG OF THE LITTLE HYPERTROPHIC CHILD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It is from a heart sickness / she is dead, the doctor says Last Line: Is it, mother, you I hear? Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Bereavement; Songs SONG. MONTROSS, by CHARLES COTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ask not, why sorrow shades my brow Last Line: I'll mourn, I'll mourn away my breath. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONG: 80, by THOMAS WYATT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourning my heart doth sore oppress Last Line: Alas, and cannot be loved again. Alternate Author Name(s): Wyat, Thomas Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONG: EARLY DEATH OF THE MOTHER, by GREGORY ORR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The last tear turns Last Line: Kingdom is born. Subject(s): Children; Death; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Childhood; Dead, The; Bereavement SONGS I HAD, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The songs I had are withered Last Line: Think well, o singer, %soon comes night Subject(s): Mourning SONGS, SET TO MUSIC BY THE MOST EMINENT MASTERS: 27, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some kind angel, gently flying Last Line: E'er shall shake my constant mind. Subject(s): Angels; Faces; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery SONNET, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What weather loves my soul the best? What / day Last Line: Such weather bred my viking forbears bold. Subject(s): April; Mourning; Bereavement SONNET, by MARY TIGHE Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis past the cruel anguish of suspense Alternate Author Name(s): Blachford, Mary Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And I have seen again the marvellous child - it seemed Last Line: Beautiful little hands, hands that will close our eyes Subject(s): Mourning SONNET ON CATHERINE WORDSWORTH, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Surprised by joy - impatient as the wind Last Line: Could to my sight that heavenly face restore. Variant Title(s): "desideria;transient Joy;""surprised By Joy-impatient As The Wind""; Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Wordsworth, Catherine (1808-1812); Death - Babies; Bereavement SONNET TO A LADY ON THE DEATH OF MRS. --., by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, if you have a tear to spare Last Line: Rose into uncreated light. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement SONNET: 1, by MARIE SKIPPER Poem Text First Line: The new bereaved alone can share this state Last Line: Against a lot unaltered by my curse. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement 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: 71, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Last Line: And mock you with me after I am gone. Variant Title(s): "no Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead"";the Triumph Of Death; Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SONNET: IN ANNIVERSATIO MORTIS. 2, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These flowers shall be my offering, living flowers Subject(s): Flowers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement SONNETS: THE PROMISE, by CHARLES HANSON TOWNE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: She said to him, Last Line: A passion-flower trembled thro' the snow! Subject(s): Love; Death; Mourning SORROW FOR THE DEAD, by LEONIDUS S. HUFFMAN Poem Text First Line: Other sorrows we try to conceal Last Line: With never a lingering sorrow? Subject(s): Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement SOUL DRIVEN FROM THE BODY, by ABU AL-'ALA AHMAD IBN 'ABD ALLAH AL-MA'ARRI Poem Source Last Line: Its neck and sees its nest destroyed Subject(s): Mourning SOUP, by ELISABETH STEVENS Poem Source First Line: The night of the day Last Line: Forming and breaking %forming and breaking Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Mourning; Soup SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 102, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: I see myself as a crow Last Line: Clad in black mourning I go Subject(s): Mourning SPRING AND FALL: TO A YOUNG CHILD, by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Margaret, are you grieving Last Line: It is margaret you mourn for. Variant Title(s): Spring And Fall Subject(s): Autumn; Children; God; Grief; Holidays; Labor & Laborers; Mnemonics; Mourning; New Year; Seasons; Social Protest; Spring; Fall; Childhood; Sorrow; Sadness; Work; Workers; Bereavement STANZAS TO AN AFFECTIONATE AND PIOUS PARENT, ON THE DEATH OF HER CHILD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When good old jacob mourn'd his child Last Line: Its hopes and fears, and fly to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Parents; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Parenthood STATIONED, by ALBERT GOLDBARTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's the other ones, who soon enough return Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement STRANGE MUSIC, by TIMOTHY LIU Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Men have seen their own graves at the edge Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men SUFI WHO THOUGHT HE HAD LEFT THE WORLD, by FARID OD-DIN MOHAMMAD EBN EBRAHIM ATTAR Poem Source First Line: A sufi once, with nothing on his mind Last Line: Oblivion, the nothingness of love Alternate Author Name(s): Attar, Ferideddin; Attar, Farid-uddin Subject(s): Mourning SULLIVAN POEM, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: March 5: first day without a fire Last Line: Moves through our bodies as if we were gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Memory; Mourning; Bereavement SUMMER HAS DIED, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas a lingering death that the summer died Last Line: And the mourner will mourn nevermore. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Winter; Dead, The; Bereavement SUMMER'S LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT: A LITANY IN TIME OF PLAGUE, by THOMAS NASHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Adieu, farewell earth's bliss! / this world uncertain is Last Line: Lord, have mercy on us. Alternate Author Name(s): Nash, Thomas+(1) Variant Title(s): A Lament;in Time Of Pestilence;in Plague Time;a Lament In Times Of Pestilence;lord, Have Mercy On Us;a Litany In Time Of Plague;death's Summons;song Of Ver And His Train Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Plague; Sickness; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Illness; Impermanence SUPPLICATION, by MARGARET H. BRANDON Poem Text First Line: Persephone, persephone Last Line: She is through remembering. Subject(s): Mourning; Persephone; Bereavement; Proserpine; Proserpina SURELY SOMEONE WILL HELP, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: But who, but who? Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Doves; Mourning; Nature SURVIVOR, by PRIMO LEVI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Once more he sees his companions' faces Last Line: Eat, drink, sleep and put on clothes Subject(s): Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945); Jews; Mourning TELLING THE BEES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Here is the place; right over the hill Last Line: "mistress mary is dead and gone!" Subject(s): Bees; Insects; Mourning; Beekeeping; Bugs; Bereavement THAT IT WILL NEVER COME AGAIN, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: This instigates an appetite %precisely opposite Variant Title(s): Poem: 1741; Poem: 176 Subject(s): Life; Mourning THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning; Cars; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THAT'S THE SUM OF IT, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I don't know which to mourn. Both have died on me, my wife and my car Last Line: Without a car, I cannot find another woman. That's the sum of it Subject(s): Automobiles; Marriage; Mourning THE ACTOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night after night a mimic death he died Last Line: No teardrop fell from any mourner's eye. Subject(s): Actors & Actresses; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE ANGEL OF PATIENCE, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To weary hearts, to mourning homes Last Line: "the dear lord ordereth all things well!" Subject(s): Consolation; Grief; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE AXE FORBIDDEN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That belt of pines is dearer to his heart Last Line: And bids the little gate stand forth and mourn! Subject(s): Lumber And Lumbering; Mourning; Bereavement THE BALLAD OF KING HJORWARD'S DEATH, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The norns decreed in their high home Last Line: Gather the twilight of the gods. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE BRIDGE OF SIGHS, by THOMAS HOOD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: One more unfortunate, / weary of breath Last Line: Her sins to her savior! Subject(s): Adversity; Drowning; Mourning; Suicide; Bereavement THE BURIED FLOWER, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the silence of my chamber Last Line: Breaks o'er deathless paradise. Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Love; Mourning; Night; Bereavement; Bedtime THE CARRYING OF A GHOST, by NELSON ANTRIM CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Let the ghost of the brave be carried away Last Line: The ghost goes on the long ghost-road. Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Native Americans - Religion; Rites & Ceremonies; Supernatural; Bereavement 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 CHILD DYING, by EDWIN MUIR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unfriendly friendly universe, / I pack your stars into my purse Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; World War Ii; Death - Babies; Bereavement; Second World War THE CHOIRMASTER'S BURIAL, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He often would ask us Last Line: When he had grown old. Subject(s): Choirs; Funerals; Mourning; Burials; Bereavement THE COMFORTERS, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They came to mourn with me, to comfort me Last Line: To hear your name! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE CREATION, by MONA VAN DUYN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now that I know you are gone Subject(s): Mourning; Death; Bereavement; Dead, The THE DEAD ASTRONOMER, by CHARLES W. E. CHAPIN JR. Poem Text First Line: Dead beneath the stars he lay Last Line: In life, in death, may see thy face. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE DEAD SINGER, by ALLEN EASTMAN CROSS Poem Text First Line: Once more a singing soul's most airy Last Line: Like a rare urn with flowers. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE DEAD SON, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The boy was in the clay Last Line: God comfort them that mourn! Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement THE DEATH AGONY, by RENE FRANCOIS ARMAND PRUDHOMME Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye who are watching when my end draws near Last Line: And pass away. Alternate Author Name(s): Sully-prudhomme Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE DEATH OF THE DUKE OF CLARENCE AND AVONDALE, by ALFRED TENNYSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bridal garland falls upon the bier Last Line: Until the great hereafter. Mourn in hope! Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE DEFEAT OF WINTER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: But yester morn the frozen snow Last Line: Upon it all shall melt in bliss. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Frost; Memory; Mourning; Snow; Winter; Bereavement THE DESERTED HOUSE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gloom is upon thy lonely hearth Last Line: And reach my father's house on high! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Heaven; Houses, Deserted; Mourning; Paradise; Bereavement THE DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, mizraim, mourn! The weltering wave Last Line: For jacob's weary tribes are free! Subject(s): Egypt; God; Jacob (bible); Jews; Mourning; Judaism; Bereavement THE DIRGE [FOR FIDELE], FR. CYMBELINE, by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fear no more the heat o' the sun Last Line: And renowned be thy grave! Variant Title(s): Dirge Of Imogen Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Time; Transience; Dead, The; Bereavement; Impermanence THE END, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gaunt clouds are piled athwart the sky Last Line: Is mourning for the mighty race. Subject(s): Death; Mortality; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE EXEQUIES, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Draw near / you lovers that complain Last Line: To love and fate an equal sacrifice. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE FATAL DREAM; OR, THE UNHAPPY FAVOURITE; AN ELEGY, by EMANUEL COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Weeping melpomene assist my lays Last Line: Forgotten by his fond penelope.' Subject(s): Courtship; Dreams; Grief; Melancholy; Mourning; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Dejection; Bereavement THE FEMALE'S LAMENTATIONS; OR THE VILLAGE IN MOURNING, by HANNAH WALLIS Poem Text First Line: Once more I visited the place / where first I drew my breath Last Line: And endless praises sing. Subject(s): Death; Home; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FIDDLER OF BERLIN, by HERMANN HAGEDORN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night, and a black pall over the city Last Line: And broken women, and ghosts. Subject(s): Death; Fiddles; Loss; Military; Mourning; Musical Instruments; Soldiers; Truth; War; Dead, The; Bereavement THE FLOWER, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the other day, to spend my hour Last Line: Thus all the year I mourn. Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Variant Title(s): Happy Are The Dead;the Hidden Flower;i Walked The Other Day Subject(s): Consolation; Flowers; Mourning; Bereavement THE GATE OF FAME, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Open the portal, let me in Last Line: The key to the gate of fame. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE GENTLE LIFE; IN MEMORIAM, REV. J.V. CLANCY, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: This privilege was mine,--I knew the man Last Line: Have felt the warmth of his. God loved this man. Subject(s): Gentility; Mourning; Praise; Bereavement THE GIRL'S LAMENTATION, by WILLIAM ALLINGHAM Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: With grief and mourning I sit to spin Last Line: For my innocent days will come back no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Pollex, D.; Walker, Patricius Subject(s): Courtship; Grief; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE GLIMPSE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sped through the door Last Line: But she still keeps away! Subject(s): Ghosts; Mourning; Supernatural; Bereavement THE GOLDEN RINGLET, by AMELIA B. WELBY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here is a little golden tress Last Line: A solitary ray. Alternate Author Name(s): Coppuck, Amelia B. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HEART OF A SONG, by DHAN GOPAL MUKERJI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sun glints the waves with silver Last Line: That we have seen mirrored in the heart of song. Subject(s): Death; Love; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE HEART OF OCEAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The grove's endearments are not thine Last Line: Heart of the moaning sea! Subject(s): Battleships; Death; Mortality; Mourning; Sea Gulls; Dead, The; Bereavement THE IMAM BARA: 1, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Out of the sombre shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Shadows; Dead, The; Bereavement THE IMAM BARA: 2, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Come from this tomb of shadows Last Line: Ali! Hassan! Hussain! Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Mourning; Silence; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG Poem Text First Line: Low as the moon on her course through the heavens, so is Last Line: Here came my lover to woo me, manito sent him to woo me. Subject(s): Hearts; Lament; Love - Loss Of; Love Affairs; Mourning; Bereavement THE IRISH MOTHER AT HER CHILD'S GRAVE, by ELLEN FORRESTER Poem Text First Line: My very heart-strings, sure, will burst asunder Last Line: Ochone, ochone! Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE KING OF ARRAGON'S LAMENT FOR HIS BROTHER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There were lights and sounds of revelling Last Line: "my brother! Oh, my brother! Best and bravest! Thou art gone!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers & Sisters; Ferdinand `the Catholic,' King Of Spain; Mourning; Bereavement THE KISS OF GOD, by JOHN WHITE CHADWICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the great leader's task was done Last Line: It is not hard to die. Subject(s): Death; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Judaism; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF DARTHOOL, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O woods of oona, I can hear the singing Last Line: The cuckoos calling by the murmuring stream. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Goddesses & Gods; Home; Lament; Mourning; Mythology; Mythology - Celtic; Bereavement THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER WIDOW, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My love he built me a bonny bower Last Line: I'll chain my heart for evermair Variant Title(s): The Border Widow's Lament;the Bonnie Bower Subject(s): Fidelity;love;mourning;widows & Widowers; Faithfulness;constancy;bereavement THE LIFE OF TOWNS: HOLDERLIN TOWN, by ANNE CARSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You are mad to mourn alone Last Line: Props hurtle past you Subject(s): City & Town Life; Mourning THE LITTLE DEAD MAN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was a little dead man Last Line: And a pencil in the right. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Hands; Hearses; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THE MONODY OF ISLA THE SINGER, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it time to let the hour rise and go forth as Last Line: And hear her voice like mournful bells crying on the wind. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Aging; Dreams; Mourning; Time; Youth; Nightmares; Bereavement THE MOTHER MOURNS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When mid-autumn's moan shook the night-time Last Line: Is heard not again!' Subject(s): Mothers; Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by LOUISE MOREY BOWMAN Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: The night that wee francesca died Subject(s): Mourning; Death - Children; Bereavement; Death - Babies THE MOURNER, by GEORGE CRABBE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes! There are real mourners, - I have seen Last Line: While visions please her, and while woes destroy. Subject(s): Farewell; Mourning; Parting; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: When all your bitter grief is gone Last Line: You follow her, and stand reproved. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE MOURNER, by MARY ANN H. DODD Poem Text First Line: Thou weepest for a sister! In the bloom Last Line: "and he will send ""the comforter"" to thee." Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER A LA MODE, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw her last night at a party Last Line: That works in a similar way! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNER FOR THE BARMECIDES, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fallen was the house of giafar; and its name Last Line: "speak of thy lords -- they were a princely band!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Women; Bereavement THE MOURNERS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: When they had made the cradle Last Line: On the wide green earth Subject(s): Cradles;death;memory;mourning;nostalgia; "dead, The;bereavement; THE MOURNERS, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: King death sped forth in his dreaded power Last Line: Laid the mourning child in the parent's grave. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNERS, by CAROLINE ELIZABETH SARAH SHERIDAN NORTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Low she lies, who blest our eyes Last Line: Ah! Wherefore do we weep? Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Pearce; Stirling-maxwell, Lady; Norton, The Honourable Mrs. Caroline Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE MOURNFUL ONE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Every heart with pain is smitten Last Line: Nears the forest mournfully. Subject(s): Hearts; Mourning; Pain; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE MOURNING DAUGHTER, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wheels o'er the pavement roll'd, and a slight form Last Line: The chasten'd wisdom of attemper'd bliss. Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Mourning; Bereavement THE MUSIC O' THE DEAD, by WILLIAM BARNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When music, in a heart that's true Last Line: The music o' the dead, john. Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Dead, The; Bereavement THE NINTH OF AB, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, vain for hand of mine to strike this harp of / golden strings Last Line: A testimony to mankind that god shall keep his word. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Christianity; Disasters; Earthquakes; God; Israel; Jews; Memory; Mourning; Pain; Pity; Tragedy; Youth; Judaism; Bereavement; Suffering; Misery THE NITHSDALE WIDOW AND HER SON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1746, on a fine summer afternoon Last Line: And as for killing the ruffian dragoon he never did repent. Subject(s): Cruelty; Desolation; Despair; Mourning; Widows & Widowers; Bereavement THE NOBLEST SERVICE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If all his mourning friends Last Line: He leads us, answering glory's highest call. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD FAMILIAR FACES, by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have had playmates, I have had companions Last Line: All, all are gone, the old familiar faces. Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Subject(s): Absence; Aging; Grief; Mourning; Nostalgia; Separation; Isolation; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE OLD GOWN, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen her in gowns the brightest Last Line: "shall I see his face again?" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE PARDON, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My dog lay dead five days without a grave Subject(s): Animals; Death - Animals; Dogs; Mourning; Bereavement THE PAST, by PERCY STICKNEY GRANT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O for the songs that maids sang in times past Last Line: God, what have you done with their love! Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Past; Bereavement THE PATH OF TEARS: 8. THE SECRET, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They come, sweet maids and men with shining tribute Last Line: O love, that I am dead! Subject(s): Hearts; Love; Mourning; Bereavement THE PINK FROCK, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O my pretty pink frock Last Line: And not so cheated!' Subject(s): Clothing & Dress; Mourning; Bereavement THE POSTILION, by NIKOLAUS FRANZ NIEMBSCH VON STREGLENAU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Passing lovely was the night Last Line: In my ear kept tingling. Alternate Author Name(s): Lenau, Nikolaus Subject(s): Cemeteries; Memory; Mourning; Postal Service; Graveyards; Bereavement; Postmen; Post Office; Mail; Mailmen THE PROCESSION OF THE DUMB, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: In deep thought-watches with the night, a host Last Line: "and burn anew as lit from god's own light.' " Subject(s): Mourning; Worship; Bereavement THE REGAL DREAM, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas on the day that bosworth field was won Last Line: Eternally to mourn a matchless queen. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Dreams; Grief; Mourning; Prophecy & Prophets; Story-telling; War; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement THE SECRET MOURNER, by ROSELLE MERCIER MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With all the others to the church I come Last Line: And they all know—who grieve in secret so! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SHATTERED DREAM, by EVA L. CRAWFORD Poem Text First Line: Not often do I come to kneel Last Line: And you alone will understand. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SHEPHEARDES CALENDER: NOVEMBER, by EDMUND SPENSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Colin, my deare, when shall it please thee sing Last Line: Now gynnes to mizzle, hye we homeward fast. Alternate Author Name(s): Clout, Colin Subject(s): Mourning; November; Bereavement THE SHOSHANAH, by GEORGE E. CHODOWSKY Poem Text First Line: A lily lies broken and bare on a highway Last Line: "in zion to flourish again." Subject(s): Jews; Jews - Women; Mourning; Zionism; Judaism; Bereavement THE SILENT ONE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who died on the wires, and hung there, one of two Subject(s): Mourning; War; Bereavement THE SKAITH OF GUILLARDUN: 2, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Why should we break the chancel of the dead? Last Line: Of loves and passions that long time have set. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Passion; Dead, The; Bereavement THE SONG OF PASSING, by FENTON JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am weary of this loving and this grieving Last Line: O my mourners. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE SONG OF THE MERMAIDS, by GEORGE DARLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Troop home to silent grots and caves Last Line: But we have none! But we have none! Variant Title(s): Chorus Of Sirens;siren Chorus;the Mermaidens' Versper-hymn Subject(s): Mourning; Seals (animals); Silence; Solitude; Bereavement; Loneliness THE SOW OF FEELING, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Malignant planets! Do ye still combine Last Line: Life, to be numbered 'mongst the feeling swine. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Grief; Marriage; Mourning; Sorrow; Sadness; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Bereavement THE STRANGER, by FREDERICK GODDARD TUCKERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ere the first red-orange glimmer Last Line: And wilds to mourn him, with the sighing stream. Subject(s): Massachusetts; Strangers; Nature; Mourning THE TEARS OF SCOTLAND, by TOBIAS GEORGE SMOLLETT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mourn, hapless caledonia, mourn / thy banished peace, thy laurels torn! Last Line: Thy banished peace, thy laurels torn.' Subject(s): Mourning; Scotland; Soldiers; Tears; War; Bereavement THE THORN OF PRESTON, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reviving with the genial airs Last Line: Sad relics of the fight! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Blood; Mourning; Soldiers; Solitude; War; Bereavement; Loneliness THE TOMBSTONE-MAKER, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He primmed his loose red mouth and leaned his head Last Line: O sir, that christian souls should come to that!' Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement; First World War THE TREE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Think of her when she shall be dead Last Line: Who lost a resting-place. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Seasons; Trees; Dead, The; Bereavement THE TWAIN, by HERMAN AUGUSTUS HEYDT Poem Text First Line: A mournful dirge, the northwinds sigh Last Line: Two loving, kind and worthy men! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE TWO MONUMENTS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Banners hung drooping from on high Last Line: Like him to live and die! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Monuments; Mourning; Bereavement THE UNQUIET GRAVE (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Poem Explanation First Line: "the wind doth blow to-day, my love" Last Line: Till god calls you away Subject(s): Fidelity;graves;love;mourning; Faithfulness;constancy;tombs;tombstones;bereavement THE UNVEILING, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind stirs the gauze from the stone Last Line: The thing you find so precious is all over town Subject(s): Family Life; Funerals; Mourning; Relatives; Burials; Bereavement THE VOICE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Woman much missed, how you call to me, call to me Last Line: And the woman calling. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Longing; Love; Memory; Mourning; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Bereavement THE WAITING ANGEL, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We are leaning through the roses Last Line: Surely I shall rise and go. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement THE WISH, by DONALD HALL Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE WOMAN IN THE RYE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you stand in the dripping rye Last Line: Wrapt in a peace withheld from me!' Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THE YOKE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Homoeroticism; Lesbians; Gay Women; Gay Men; Bereavement THEIR LAST GIFTS; FOR MY FATHER, JOSEPH LAPIDUS (1899-1990), by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: Her last gift to him Last Line: Such a short time to hurt %such a long time to be immortal Subject(s): Death; Fathers; Jewish Families; Mourning; Psychoanalysis; Relationships THEKLA AT HER LOVER'S GRAVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thy voice was in my soul! It called me on Last Line: Be with the past! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Mourning; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement THEN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then when the ample season Last Line: "till the unreturning leaves Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THEN, by RICHARD WILBUR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Then when the ample season Last Line: Till the unreturning leaves %imperishably fell Subject(s): Mourning THERE IS NO GOD BUT, by AGHA SHAHID ALI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the 'name of the merciful' let night begin Last Line: In no one's name but hers I let night begin Subject(s): Death; God; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement THIS EVENING, by CAMILLE MAUCLAIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am sketched this evening Last Line: In the sadness of swans and the dew. Subject(s): Evening; Mourning; October; Silence; Sunset; Twilight; Bereavement THOU THAT KNOW'ST FOR WHOM I MOURN, by HENRY VAUGHAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: Thou hast crown'd him already Alternate Author Name(s): Silurist Subject(s): Mourning THOUGHTS ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF MY WIFE'S DEATH, by NARA SINGDE Poem Source First Line: When will this misery end? Last Line: My tears are gone, %ashes of paper rise Subject(s): China - Qing Dynasty (1644-1912); Marriage; Mourning THRENODY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: My heart is there Last Line: "there is my treasure, and my heart is there" Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement THYRSIS, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How changed is here each spot man makes or fills Last Line: Our scholar travels yet the loved hill-side. Subject(s): Clough, Arthur Hugh (1819-1861); England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TICHBORNE'S ELEGY, WRITTEN IN THE TOWER BEFORE HIS EXECUTION, by CHIDIOCK TICHBORNE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: My prime of youth is but a frost of cares Last Line: And now I live, and now my life is done. Alternate Author Name(s): Tychborn, Chidiock; Ticheborne, Chidiock Variant Title(s): Retrospect;elegy;lines Written By One In The Tower;verses Written In The Tower;poem Written On The Eve Of Execution;elegy For Himself;lines Written In The Tower, The Night Before .. Execution Subject(s): Adversity; Capital Punishment; Death; Mourning; Remorse; Self-pity; Hanging; Executions; Death Penalty; Dead, The; Bereavement TITA'S TEARS; A FANTASY, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A certain man of ischia - it is thus Last Line: Alas, for tita's tears! Subject(s): Tears; Mourning; Bereavement TO - (1), by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Music, when soft voices die Last Line: Love itself shall slumber on. Variant Title(s): Music;memory Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Memory; Mourning; Music & Musicians; Roses; Bereavement TO A BEREAVED FRIEND, by SARA JANE CLARKE LIPPINCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thy mary hath gone from thee; - thou hast folded Last Line: Even to heaven, from such a love as thine. Alternate Author Name(s): Greenwood, Grace Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Mourning; Bereavement TO A BEREAVED MOTHER ON THE DEATH OF HER TWO LITTLE BOYS, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, mother bereaved! From thy desolate hearth Last Line: Tis well with thy children, with thee it is well. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO A DEPARTED SPIRIT, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: From the bright stars, or from the viewless air Last Line: Answer me, answer me! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A FRIEND FAR AWAY, by LUIS G. URBINA Poem Source First Line: The twilight is diaphanous; it seems Last Line: Your mournful eyes, of pallid emerald hue! Subject(s): Friendship; Mourning TO A FRIEND: IN MEMORIAM, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's for you whose name's better omitted - since for Last Line: From the shores = who knows which? Though for now it has no importance Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A FRIEND: IN MEMORIAM, by JOSEPH BRODSKY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's for you whose name's better omitted - since for Last Line: Now it has no importance Subject(s): Mourning TO A LADY WHO HAD LOST A RELATIVE, by JOHN GARDINER CALKINS BRAINARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more to grace the happy hearth Last Line: The comfort, human or divine? Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A MOURNER, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep not - you whose hope is dust Last Line: Live and die, but sleep not. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO A WEALTHY WIDOW, by RICHARD NICKSON Poem Source First Line: Sweet solace in your loss Last Line: Not that he ever lived %but that he died Subject(s): Death; Mourning TO BAPTISTA TURRIANO, ON THE DEATH OF HIS SONS, by GIROLAMO FRACASTORO Poem Text First Line: Since with sweet balm the muse alone can heal Last Line: Together rush'd to form th' emerging world. Alternate Author Name(s): Fracastorius, Hieronnymus Subject(s): Creation; Death; Grief; Mourning; Nature; Parents; Sons; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Parenthood TO DON FRANCISCO GINER DE LOS RIOS, by ANTONIO MACHADO RUIZ Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Now, when the master left us Last Line: Dreamt his sweet dream of spain's new blossoming Alternate Author Name(s): Machado, Antonio; Machado Y Ruiz, Antonio Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Mourning; Spain - History TO ENGLAND IN HER SORROW, by ELIZABETH TOUSEY Poem Text First Line: I wear a quiet garb today Last Line: With love's memorial flower. Subject(s): England; Mourning; English; Bereavement TO G.M.T., by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sun is sinking in the west Last Line: To love as good as thine. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; God; Love; Mourning; Patience; Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1876-1962); Dead, The; Bereavement TO HESTER [SAVORY], by CHARLES LAMB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When maidens such as hester die Last Line: A sweet fore-warning? Alternate Author Name(s): Elia Variant Title(s): Hester Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement TO HIS DEAD BODY, by SIEGFRIED SASSOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When roaring gloom surged inward and you cried Last Line: Dear, red-faced father god who lit your mind. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Soldiers' Writings; World War I; Dead, The; Bereavement; First World War TO HIS DEAR BROTHER COLONEL F.L. MOURNING DEATH AT CARMARTHEN, by RICHARD LOVELACE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If tears could wash the ill away Last Line: Doth starry influence dissolve. Subject(s): Brothers; Carmarthen, Wales; Mourning; Half-brothers; Bereavement TO HIS DYING BROTHER, MASTER WILLIAM HERRICK, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Life of my life, take not so soone thy flight Last Line: Heavy, to hurt those sacred seeds of thee. Subject(s): Brothers; Death; Grief; Mourning; Half-brothers; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement TO HIS LOVE, by IVOR GURNEY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: He's gone, and all our plans Last Line: Thing I must somehow forget Subject(s): Mourning; War TO JEAN, by STANLEY R. REDMAN Poem Source First Line: I put flowers on the grave of one I never knew Last Line: For remembrance Subject(s): Mourning TO LIZBIE BROWNE, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Dear lizbie browne / where are you now? Last Line: Yes, lizbie browne! Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement TO LUIGI DEL RICCIO AFTER THE DEATH OF CECCHINO BRACCI, by MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I scarcely knew him when his eyes were shut Last Line: I'll find his likeness now in you alone Alternate Author Name(s): Michel Angelo Subject(s): Mourning TO MANUEL RODRIGUEZ, by MERCEDES MARIN DE SOLAR Poem Source First Line: Vanished art thou, alas! 'twas passion mad Last Line: Hath reared within her heart a lasting shrine Subject(s): Memory; Mourning TO MARY IN HEAVEN, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou lingering star, with lessening ray Last Line: Hear'st thou the groans that rend his breast? Subject(s): Campbell, Mary; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement TO MRS. J. CLELAND ON THE DEATH OF A BELOVED SON AND ONLY CHILD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My olive plant, so green and fair Last Line: "and thou wilt join him ne'er to sever." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death - Children; Mothers & Sons; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: MAN'S LIFE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Man's life was once a span; now one of those Last Line: Since through a double mean nought right appears. Subject(s): Mortality; Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE CHAMBER, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Entering your door, I started back; sure this Last Line: That all things mask their better qualities? Subject(s): Houses; Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE EXCUSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nor can your sex's easiness excuse Last Line: They're comets in the troubled air appear. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE REASONS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it because he died, or that his years Last Line: To wish him long life, then, had been a curse! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE ROSE, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After the honey drops of pearly showers Last Line: Heaven put his hand forth, and did glean.' Subject(s): Flowers; Mourning; Roses; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THE TEARS, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You modern wits, who call this world a star Last Line: Will, at last, see to recompense her pain. Subject(s): Mourning; Tears; Bereavement TO MY DEAR SISTER, MRS. S.: THURSDAY, by WILLIAM HAMMOND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I'm resolv'd the crazy universe Last Line: And all, as you, become untimely grey. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO ONE BEREFT, by ETHEL KNAPP BEHRMAN Poem Text First Line: War drums shall never summon him, nor cold Last Line: Such love can not be covered in a grave. Subject(s): Death - Children; Mourning; Death - Babies; Bereavement TO PRAISE A DEAD WOMAN, by OSIP EMILYEVICH MANDELSTAM Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Is it possible to praise a dead woman? Last Line: And the postman's horn is frozen Alternate Author Name(s): Mandelshtam, Osip Emilievich Subject(s): Mourning 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 BELOVED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You were a part of the green country Last Line: And wake, alas! To the lonely places. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Grief; Love; Mourning; Solitude; Dead, The; Nightmares; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement; Loneliness TO THE DEPARTED, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I know thou hast gone to the place of thy rest Last Line: "is born, like the rainbow, in tears" Subject(s): Death;mourning;regret;rest;solitude; "dead, The;bereavement;loneliness; TO THE MEMORY OF MR. OLDHAM, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Farewell, too little and too lately known Last Line: But fate and gloomy night encompass thee around. Variant Title(s): Elegy On The Death Of Mr. Oldham Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Oldham, John (1653-1683); Dead, The; Bereavement TO THE MOST DISCONSOLATE GREAT BRITAIN, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When pale famine fed on thee Last Line: Yet could'st thou not in show more amply mourn. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTY PRINCE CHARLES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fortune and glory may be lost and won Last Line: Which to his brother's life men wished, and wished them right. Subject(s): Charles I, King Of England (1600-1649); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST PRINCELY AND VERTUOUS THE LADY ELIZABETH, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: So parted you as if the world for ever Last Line: To change should subject be and suffer earth's infection! Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED KING JAMES, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O grief, how divers are thy shapes wherein men languish Last Line: When we were least aware. Subject(s): James I, King Of England (1566-1625); Mourning; Bereavement TO THE MOST SCARED QUEEN ANNE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis now dead night, and not a light on earth Last Line: Since fate in taking one hath thus disordered all. Subject(s): Anne Of Denmark, Queen Of England; Mourning; Bereavement TO THE SPIRIT OF THE TREE, by ENRIQUE GONZALEZ MARTINEZ Poem Source First Line: O vibrant, calm, o quietude magnanimous, sonorous Last Line: And still to be immovable, majestic as a thought! Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Heaven; Mourning TO THE WORLD, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O poor distracted world partly a slave Last Line: In thine expect the hopes were ripe in thee. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement TO WILLIAM CRAIG, ON THE DEATH OF AN ONLY SON IN A RAILWAY ACCIDENT, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas drear november; by the turbid tide Last Line: "to meet, and dwell with him in ""heaven our home." Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Fathers & Sons; God; Heaven; Mourning; Sons; Tragedy; Dead, The; Paradise; Bereavement TOM BOWLING ['S EPITAPH], by CHARLES DIBDIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here, a sheer hulk, lies poor tom bowling, / the darling of our crew Last Line: His soul has gone aloft. Alternate Author Name(s): Dibdin, Charles Isaac Mungo; Dibdin, Charles, Jr. Variant Title(s): Poor Tom;a Perfect Sailor Subject(s): Mourning; Navy - United States; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Bereavement; American Navy; Seamen; Sails; Ocean TOO LONG DEAD, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I just came on it like a rake in the grass Last Line: In a gust of cherries and cinnamon Subject(s): Death; Memory; Mourning; Dead, The TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 2. THESE WAVES OF YOUR GREAT HEART, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You battling with your own heart, speaking the words of peace in vain Last Line: At your feet now mournfully breaking. Subject(s): Children; Hearts; Mourning; Childhood; Bereavement TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE DEAD COMRADE, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There among the woods, after the battle returning Last Line: And faint in death the lips I love so well. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Love; Mourning; Soldiers; War; Dead, The; Bereavement TRANSFIGURATION OF THE RAIN, by JORGE CARRERA ANDRADE Poem Source First Line: The rain with its hair glided by the sun Last Line: Till you become an eternal eye of stone Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Tears TRIOLET IN MINOR, by MARGARET SLACK FUHRMAN Poem Text First Line: Mournful is the autumn rain Last Line: When the ghost of summer grieves. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement TRISTIA: TO HIS WIFE AT ROME, WHEN HE WAS SICK, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Dearest! If you those fair eyes (wondring) stick Last Line: Which though I want, I wish it thee, fare-well Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Mourning; Sickness TROAS: ACT II. LATTER END OF THE CHORUS, by LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: After death nothing is, and nothing death Last Line: Dreams, whimseys, and no more. Alternate Author Name(s): Seneca Subject(s): Mourning; Nothingness; Bereavement; Nihilism; Voids TRYING TO GET ALONG WITH MOM, by JAN YAGER Poem Source First Line: Why is it every time Last Line: The way my daddy always did Subject(s): Death; Mourning TWAS MY ONE GLORY, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: I was owned of thee Variant Title(s): Poem: 1028; Poem: 104 Subject(s): Mourning TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning; Burials; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement TWELVE SONGS: 9. FUNERAL BLUES, by WYSTAN HUGH AUDEN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone Last Line: For nothing now can ever come to any good Alternate Author Name(s): Auden, W. H. Subject(s): Funerals; Grief; Love; Mourning TWILIGHT, by ALINE NEFF Poem Text First Line: Dusk comes creeping from horizon Last Line: Lets the dusk not linger long. Subject(s): Evening; Melancholy; Mourning; Silence; Solitude; Sunset; Twilight; Dejection; Bereavement; Loneliness UNCLE ANANIAS, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: His words were magic and his heart was true Last Line: Did love him faithfully. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement UNCLE JO, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have in memory a little story Last Line: Above his dust,—poor jo, he had no friends! Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement UNDER PINE TREES, by TIMOTHY HOUGHTON Poem Source First Line: Through layers of needles Last Line: Let no one mourn for me Subject(s): Death; Forests; Mourning; Pine Trees; Trees UNDER THE CLOUD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Under the cloud we pass Last Line: And our sorrow is glorified. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Desolation; Graves; Heaven; Mourning; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Bereavement UNTIL THE DAWN, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: A lonely grave hard by the prison wall Last Line: Of earth and sorrow pale before its light. Subject(s): Cavell, Edith (1865-1915); Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Mourning; Nurses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bereavement UNTITLED, by SETH ALAN BARKAS Poem Source First Line: Some day or other I expect to %wake up, down my breakfast Last Line: It scares me Subject(s): Death; Mourning UPON THE MUST LAMENTED, MR. J. WARR, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What wisdome, learning, wit, or worth Last Line: Not one, but many monuments. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement VALE, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now may deep country beckon and ope and Last Line: And let him walk with thee about thy shepherd's business. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Country Life; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement VERY MOURNFUL BALLAD ON THE SIEGE AND CONQUEST OF ALHAMA, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: The moorish king rides up and down Last Line: Woe is me, alhama! Subject(s): Courts And Courtiers; Mourning VILLAGE NIGHT, by PO CHU-YI Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Gray gray of frosty grasses, insects chirp-chirping Last Line: In the bright moonlight, buckwheat blossoms are like snow Alternate Author Name(s): Bai Juyi; Bo Juyi; Po Chu-i; Lo T'ien; Jyu-yi Subject(s): Mourning WAR IS KIND: 31, by STEPHEN CRANE Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Once I saw thee idly rocking Last Line: And make her mourn with my mourning. Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement WATCHMAN NEAR THE TOWER, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Friend, I'd let this tongue Last Line: May god give men what's rightful Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Heaven; Mourning WE WON'T GO, by FRED YAGER Poem Source First Line: Far from the dead and dying Last Line: And help poverty grow Subject(s): Death; Mourning WEEP, CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Weep, weep for him, the man of god Last Line: Weep, children of israel, weep! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Heaven; Jews; Mourning; Dead, The; Parting; Paradise; Judaism; Bereavement WEEPING FOR HSUEH YZU-SHU, by LIU K'O-CHUANG Poem Source First Line: When the doctor came from chin-t'an Last Line: I gather up the books I borrowed from him %and, hiding my tears, return them to his son Subject(s): Mourning WEEPING FOR THE ZEN MASTER PO-YEN, by TAO-CHI Poem Source First Line: Moss covers his stone bed fresh Last Line: I am not a man who understands the void Subject(s): Mourning WEEPING FOR YING YAO, by WANG WEI (699-761) Poem Source First Line: How many years can a man possess? Last Line: And weep, returning to my thorn gate Alternate Author Name(s): Mo-chieh; Wang Mo-ch'i Subject(s): Mourning WEEPING; FOR DAVE KELLY FROM LONG AGO, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six days of clouds since Last Line: I must die before them. Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Mourning; Bereavement WELCOME, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We will not banish them as they were lost Last Line: Like a sad ghost dreaming that he is dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Comfort; Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?, by PAUL VERLAINE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The sky is up above the roof Last Line: The youth away Subject(s): Aging; Life; Mourning; Youth; Bereavement WHAT SURVIVES, by RAINER MARIA RILKE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who says that all must vanish? Last Line: An angel wears it after you Subject(s): Mourning WHEAT, by WENDY M. MNOOKIN Poem Source First Line: The story of the good girl Last Line: After a strong wind has blown through %and everything is still Subject(s): Children; Fathers; Mourning WHEN DAMON LANGUISH'D, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When damon languish'd at my feet Last Line: Shall waft the spirit there. Subject(s): Love; Mourning; Bereavement WHEN GRANDPA CAME OVER, by SCOTT YAGER Poem Source First Line: When grandpa came over he'd mostly sleep Last Line: Grandpa won't be coming over anymore Subject(s): Death; Mourning WHEN MARY DIED, by KATHARINE TYNAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She only died last week and yet Last Line: That budded when she went away. Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan Subject(s): Death; Grief; Mourning; Dead, The; Sorrow; Sadness; Bereavement WHEN THE EARTH WAS STILL OPEN, by KJELL ESPMARK Poem Source First Line: Blackened corner of the cemetery %already bears its cross: matthias ancker, Last Line: Than those who are trying to mourn him Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Mourning WHEN THE LIGHT DIES AWAY ON A CALM SUMMER'S EVE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: That the joys which first woke it, are long ago crushed! Subject(s): Dreams; Memory; Mourning; Solitude WHITTIER - AT NEWBURYPORT, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hail to thee, with all good cheer! Last Line: Thus my hail: good cheer! Good cheer! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Faith; Mourning; Dead, The; Belief; Creed; Bereavement WIDOWER, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: For a season there must be pain Last Line: Shall draw me safe to the land Subject(s): Love - Marital; Marriage; Mourning WINTER SCENE, by JUAN RAMON JIMENEZ Poem Source First Line: Where have the colors all gone to Last Line: And black, like the black and white day Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Snow; Winter WITH HER, by CZESLAW MILOSZ Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Those poor, arthritically swollen knees Last Line: It all seems now to have been a dream.' Subject(s): Mourning WORLD OF DEW IS, by KOBAYASHI ISSA Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: And yet Alternate Author Name(s): Issa; Issa Subject(s): Mourning WREATHS, by CAROLYN HILLMAN Poem Text First Line: Red wreaths / hang in my neighbor's window Last Line: Red for new pain. Subject(s): Death; Mourning; Dead, The; Bereavement WRITING THE POEMS OF LOSS, by GAVIN EWART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Some poets even seem to enjoy Subject(s): Mourning YAHRZEIT, by DAN JAFFE Poem Source First Line: He lists them %all the dead Last Line: Knowing his tears %will turn to dew Subject(s): Mourning YE WHO MOURN-, by GRACE WILSON EVERETT Poem Text First Line: Ye who mourn Last Line: Weep in anguish ... For the dead living. Subject(s): Lament; Mourning; Soul; Bereavement YOKE, by FRANK BIDART Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Don't worry -- I know you're dead Last Line: Turn your face again Subject(s): Death; Homosexuality; Mourning YOUNG CHARLOTTIE, by WILLIAM LORENZO CARTER Poem Text First Line: Young charlottie lived by a mountain side in a wild and lonely spot Last Line: Till at last he died with the bitter grief -- now they both lie in one tomb. Subject(s): Death; Love – Loss Of; Mourning YOUNG DEAD WOMAN, by JOSE-MARIA DE HEREDIA (1842-1905) Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: No matter who you are, you are alive: pass quickly Last Line: With erebus deaf to prayers, in the embrace of night Subject(s): Love; Mourning |
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