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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: TOMBS Matches Found: 647 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A CHANGELING, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little changeling spirit Last Line: That I shall find her there. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Children; Graves; Tears; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones A CHILD'S GRAVE, by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A little mound with chipped headstone Last Line: With one white lily keeping watch and ward. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A CHILD'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: I linger by this grass-grown mound Last Line: And love this plot shall keep. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A CHILD'S GRAVE MARKER, by TED KOOSER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A small block of granite Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A COUNTRY BURIAL, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ample make this bed Last Line: Interrupt this ground. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A DOG'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: My dog lies dead and buried here Last Line: That links such lives with my dog's death! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness A DYING SPEECH, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this unhappily divided state Last Line: Author of life, and vanquisher of death! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A FALL-CRICK VIEW OF THE EARTHQUAKE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I kin hump my back and take the rain Last Line: It 'ud husk you out o' yer gravel Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Disasters; Earthquakes; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A FLOWER-GIRL SINGS, by MARGARET COMBS PINNEY Poem Text First Line: Wreaths for your grave, crocus and hyacinth Last Line: All hail, korallion! Subject(s): Graves; Wellesley College; Tombs; Tombstones 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 FRIEND'S GRAVE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cruel disease, to grudge the soul of man Last Line: You spoiled timarchus of his happy life. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A GOLD STAR MOTHER SPEAKS, by VIRGINIA ARMISTEAD NELSON Poem Text First Line: My little lad of other days sleeps there Last Line: They'll guard his grave, and bloom about his cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Lilies; Sons; Tears; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A GRACE, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: For all the beryl, pearl and chrysoprase Last Line: Gloria tibi domine! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Stones; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, by CHARLES SAMUEL GREENE Poem Text First Line: What moved me most, dear friend, that happy day Last Line: The brooding presence of the paraclete. Subject(s): Graves; San Fernando, California; Tombs; Tombstones A GRAVE, by WINIFRED LUCAS Poem Text First Line: Through every hour man lives on earth, his grave Last Line: Time to his courses held your childish feet. Alternate Author Name(s): Le Bailly, Mrs. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones A GRAVE, by MARIANNE MOORE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Man looking into the sea Last Line: In which if they turn and twist, it is neither with volition nor consciousness. Variant Title(s): A Graveyard Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sea; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean A GRAVE, by JOHN RICHARD MORELAND Poem Text First Line: A grave seems only six feet deep Last Line: Its depths, how deep? Subject(s): Graves; Immortality; Tombs; Tombstones A GRAVE IN WINTER, by CHARD POWERS SMITH Poem Text First Line: Like tremulous spirits the snow flutters down through the Last Line: Melt in the stream. Subject(s): Graves; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones A GRAVE NEAR PETERSBURG, VIRGINIA, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Head-board and foot-board duly placed Last Line: The -- buried gun. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Guns; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones A GRAVE ON OSSA, by AESCHYLUS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here too were steadfast men and brave Last Line: On ossa's mountain way. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A HARROW GRAVE IN FLANDERS, by ROBERT OFFLEY ASHBURTON CREWE-MILNES Poem Text First Line: Here in the marshland, past the battered bridge Last Line: We ask; and wait. Alternate Author Name(s): Crewe, 1st Marquess Of; Houghton, Baron Variant Title(s): Harrow And Flanders Subject(s): Flanders, Belgium; Graves; World War I - Casualties; Tombs; Tombstones A HOUND, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Although beneath this grave-mound thy white bones now are lying Last Line: And the looming peak of ossa, and cithaeron's lonely hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Graves; Hunting; Tombs; Tombstones; Hunters A HYMN OF SLEEP, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Another day is dying Last Line: And are asleep on jesu's breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Religion; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology A LAST WISH, by CHRISTOPH CHRISTIAN STURM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When my heart has ceased for ever beating out / the dirge of time Last Line: For the weary sleeper chooses but the evergreen and cross. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Wishes; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A LEPER'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here where untainted flesh Last Line: From her embraces free. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Leprosy; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers A MITHER'S CRY (WRITTEN ON A SISTER'S GRAVE), by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We played together, she and I Last Line: And her two bairns upon her breast. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Sisters; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness 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 POE-'EM OF PASSION, by CHARLES FLETCHER LUMMIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It was many and many a year ago Last Line: In her solemn sepulcher, me. Variant Title(s): Cannibalee Subject(s): Cannibals; Graves; Love; Passion; Tombs; Tombstones A SEA-SHORE GRAVE, by SIDNEY LANIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O wish that's vainer than the plash Last Line: Montgomery, alabama, 1866. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A SEMBLANCE, by DAVID IGNATOW Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Over your mother's grave Subject(s): Graves; Mothers; Prayer; Tombs; Tombstones A SETTLER'S GRAVE, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: Far on the outflung headland thou dost lie Last Line: And in the boughs above the redbirds nest? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Nature; Pioneers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by JOHN ALBEE Poem Text First Line: Break not his sweet repose Last Line: Break not his sweet repose. Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones A TOMB BY THE SEA, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Eight fathoms from me stay, unquiet seas Last Line: No treasure -- just a heap of dust and bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A TOMB BY THE SEA, by AULUS LICINIUS ARCHIAS Poem Text First Line: I'm dead, and yet must thole the sleepless surge Last Line: Alone of ghosts I cannot lie at ease. Alternate Author Name(s): Archias Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A TOMB IN GHENT, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A smiling look she had, a figure slight Last Line: To kneel and pray by an old tomb in ghent. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Ghent, Belgium; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A VOLUNTEER'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM ALEXANDER PERCY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not long ago it was a bird Last Line: Than this dead boy! Subject(s): Death; Eyes; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WALTZ THOUGHT, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When a man's prime passion, for years on years Last Line: Subtly shaping his witching waltz! Subject(s): Dreams; Earth; Graves; Life; Love; Music & Musicians; Nature; Straw; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones A WAY-SIDE GRAVE, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our upland journey wound its way Last Line: Was golden glimmering with may. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Crosses; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WAYSIDE GRAVE, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who art thou? Whose relics, I wonder Last Line: Afford thee so much as a tear. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A WIFE'S GRAVE, by DAMAGETUS Poem Text First Line: These words, phocaea, were theano's last Last Line: Might put my hand in your hand as I die!' Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones A WOMAN WRONGED, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am dead and in my grave Last Line: Let me alone. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones A WOODLAND GRAVE, by JOHN BYRNE LEICESTER WARREN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Bring no jarring lute this way Last Line: Doz'd with woodland lullabies. Alternate Author Name(s): Lancaster, William P.; Preston, George F.; De Tabley, 3d Baron; De Tabley, Lord Subject(s): Forests; Graves; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones A YEAR AFTERWARDS, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Things are so changed since last we met Last Line: And the same stars and silent sky. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise ABERCROMBIE'S GRAVE, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: No drooping willow weeps Last Line: Would dare to lay a desecrating hand. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Abercrombie, Sir Ralph (1734-1801); Death; Graves; Malta; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AD ASTRA: 144, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: O let no momentary joy enslave Last Line: Can love and lust in such commingling meet? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Graves; Spirituality; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AD ASTRA: 162, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: His life and teaching cannot be in vain Last Line: What hand like his to lead us thro' the gloom? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Graves; Jesus Christ; Religious Education; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday Schools; Yeshivas; Parochial Schools AD ASTRA: 163, by CHARLES WHITWORTH WYNNE Poem Text First Line: What man would flinch or find it hard to die Last Line: That all we cherish blooms beyond the grave? Alternate Author Name(s): Cayzer, Charles Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 FINEM, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The years they come and go Last Line: "lady, I love but thee!" Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AFTER DEATH, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! This delights me more than Last Line: How I do pity them that pity me. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones AFTER FORTY YEARS, by MAMIE A. MELOY Poem Text First Line: The shining, friendly cottonwoods Last Line: Beneath their changeless prairie sky. Subject(s): Canadian River; Cottonwood Trees; Graves; Pioneers; Time; Tombs; Tombstones AGED NINETY YEARS, by WILBERT SNOW Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The loneliness of her old age flashed clear Last Line: Would sink, like her, in chilly arms of earth. Alternate Author Name(s): Snow, Charles Wilber Subject(s): Graves; Old Age; Solitude; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness AIDEEN'S GRAVE, by SAMUEL FERGUSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: They heaved the stone; they heap'd the cairn Last Line: Ben edar to the dead. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALBERTINE ASKS FOR A POEM, by JAMES MONAHAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dig good graves. No other spade Last Line: Graves I may dig, but not this one. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALEXANDER J. FRASER, ESQ., by HUMBERT WOLFE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, sad was the lot of the child we loved dearly Last Line: The morrow that springs from the sleep of the tomb. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Life; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ALL SOULS DAY, by FERDINAND VON SAAR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wild and wan, and chill Last Line: Anticipates his own. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Soul; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ALONE WITH GOD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beside the bier I watched his rest divine Last Line: Each, in the stillness, was alone with god. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness AMARANTHUS, by CONDE BENOIST PALLEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet quiet of death, made quieter by the sound Last Line: Robed by his hand in immortality. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mortality; Sleep; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AN ADDRESS TO THE PLEBIANS, SELECTION, by JOHN LEARMONT Poem Text First Line: Poor crawlin' bodies, sair neglectit Last Line: An' safest shield. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Death; Freedom; Graves; War; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones AN EPITAPH UPON A WOMAN, AND HER CHILD, BURIED TOGETHER, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath this marble stone doth lye Last Line: For, tree, and fruit, shall spring againe. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Mothers; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones AN IMAGINING, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Two sisters that I never saw Last Line: Two little baby girls with wings. Subject(s): Children; Death - Children; Graves; Imagination; Mothers; Childhood; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy 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 OLD TOMB OPENED, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ivory and gold and jewels fashioned fine Last Line: "behold, bright news of our long yesterday!" Subject(s): Beauty; Courts & Courtiers; Death; Graves; Time; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 ANDREE REXROTH: MT. TAMALPAIS, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The years have gone. It is spring Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Mountains; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Hills; Downs (great Britain) ANECDOTE SYMPHONIOUS, by GEORGE JAMES MICHALOPOULOS Poem Text First Line: I gaze at the too beautiful body of you laid down Last Line: Laid down, so rest ... Rest.... Subject(s): Death; Graves; Worms; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ANIMAL GRAVES, by CHASE TWICHELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The mower flipped it belly up Subject(s): Graves; Death - Animals; Tombs; Tombstones ANNA BULLEN, ACT 1: SHORT CURSE, by JOHN BANKS (17TH CENTURY-) Poem Text First Line: Be curst the time of bullen's fatal birth Last Line: And bury them in pits as deep as graves. Subject(s): Curses; Disease; Graves; Leprosy; Small Pox; Tombs; Tombstones; Lepers APPENDIX TO 'LAZARUS': 4, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once saw I many a blooming flower Last Line: To steep in lethe's blissful night. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones APRIL, by LOUIS GINSBERG Poem Text First Line: Even when all my body sleeps Last Line: My dust will dream of you! Subject(s): April; Graves; Love - Nature Of; Tombs; Tombstones ARCHEANASSA, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Archeanassa lieth here Last Line: Through what a fire you passed! Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Courtesans; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ARCHEDIKE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The child of hippias, foremost captain once / in hellas' land, lies here Last Line: She lifted not her heart to vanity. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones ARGUMENT OF A DISSENTER, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never to the church will give Last Line: That there is one dissenter less. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Dissenters; Graves; Religion; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology AT A FUNERAL, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I loved her too, this woman who is dead Last Line: Who do not weep. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Love - Loss Of; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT A POET'S GRAVE, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I leave down this pipe my friend Last Line: And summer-bells are rung. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones AT A TOMB, by RHYS CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sleep-ah, ah, who dares to waken me Last Line: In the grey twilight falling. Subject(s): Daughters; Death; Graves; Grief; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness AT BEETHOVEN'S GRAVE, by IGNAZ FRANZ CASTELLI Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From the high rock I marked a fountain breaking Last Line: That thou may'st live, o deathless one, thou diest. Alternate Author Name(s): Castelli, J. F. Subject(s): Beethoven, Ludwig Van (1770-1827); Composers; Graves; Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones AT EUROMA, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They built his mound of the rough, red ground Last Line: And unvexed by the lordship of dreams. Subject(s): Graves; New South Wales, Australia; Tombs; Tombstones AT FORT PILLOW, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You shudder as you think upon Last Line: And one lone sister's desperate cry! Subject(s): Graves; Southern States; War; Tombs; Tombstones; South (u.s.) AT GOLDSMITH'S GRAVE, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: To where he sleeps,-not near the honored dead Last Line: Within the warm affections of mankind. Subject(s): Goldsmith, Oliver (1730-1774); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones 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 HIS GRAVE, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Leave me a little while alone Last Line: Unchidden, on his grave! Subject(s): Disraeli, Benjamin (1804-1881); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones AT KEAT'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I feel the flowers growing over me Last Line: They weave around thee one perpetual spring. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones AT LANIER'S GRAVE, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stand beside a comrade tree Last Line: That bears thy sacred name. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Lanier, Sidney (1842-1881); Tombs; Tombstones AT LAST, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let me at last be laid Last Line: Where'er I lie, I shall not scorn my grave. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones AT ROMEO'S TOMB, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Ay, gentle stranger, here lies romeo Last Line: Peace to thee, my son. Subject(s): Graves; Romeo & Juliet; Tombs; Tombstones AT SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by IRVING BROWNE Poem Text First Line: Dismiss your apprehension, pseudo bard Last Line: Have quite reduced your dust to baconpowder. Subject(s): Graves; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones AT THE BEAUTIFUL GATE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: She stood at the beautiful gate of heaven Last Line: But never to be divided more. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AT THE GRAVE OF DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI, by H. T. MACKENZIE BELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here of a truth the world's extremes are Last Line: Fond love's regret that ne'er they saw his face. Alternate Author Name(s): Bell, Mackenzie Subject(s): Graves; Rossetti, Dante Gabriel (1828-1882); Tombs; Tombstones AT THE GRAVE OF HEINE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: South-heart of song / in winter drest Last Line: Through whose high morn the bird sings on. Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Long, long ago, in the sweet roman spring Last Line: Whose perfume lives to-day. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE GRAVE OF ONE FORGOTTEN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a churchyard old and still Last Line: Life is worth. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones AT THE TOMB OF SENANCOUR, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In sevres before a tomb I stood and read Last Line: We know he made us not to live in vain. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise AT THE TOMBS OF THE HOUSE OF SAVOY, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Turin beneath, on the green banks of the po Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians AT THERMOPYLAE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tell them in lakedaimon, passer-by Last Line: That here obedient to their word we lie. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Variant Title(s): The Three Hundred;on The Army Of Spartans Who Died Subject(s): Graves; Thermopylae, Battle Of; Tombs; Tombstones AU TOMBEAU DU MARECHAL PET-DE-NAIN, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Travelers, pause - and lift your caps Subject(s): Graves; Petain, Phillipe (1859-1951); Tombs; Tombstones AUTUMN, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A stand of people Subject(s): Graves; Leaves; Tombs; Tombstones BALLADE DE MARGUERITE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I am weary of lying within the chase Last Line: "o mother, hath one grave room for two?" Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; BALLDE DES PENDUS, by THEODORE FAULLAIN DE BANVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where wide the forest bows are spread Last Line: This is king louis' orchard close! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BEACH BURIAL, by KENNETH SLESSOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Softly and humbly to the gulf of arabs Subject(s): Graves; War; Tombs; Tombstones BEFORE THE DOORS, by FRIEDRICH RUCKERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I went to knock at riches' door Last Line: But stillin the gravethere's room for more. Alternate Author Name(s): Raimar, Freidmund Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BENEATH THE PINE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Beneath the shadows of this tree Last Line: The treasure is the heart is there. Subject(s): Angels; Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Hearts; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise BENEATH THE WATTLE BOUGHS, by FRANCES TYRRELL GILL Poem Text First Line: The wattles were sweet with september's rain Last Line: "'neath the blossoming wattles you'll find a grave!" Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BERKLEY CHURCHYARD, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How still are all the dead Last Line: Our gift of love for men. Subject(s): Churchyards; Death; Graves; Marble; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BESIDE A BIER, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I had never kissed her her whole life long Last Line: "it is cold, down here below." Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Graves; Love; Tombs; Tombstones BEYOND THE SUNSET, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Beside the cripple's casement Last Line: Beyond the sunset veil. Subject(s): Death - Children; Flowers; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones BRAVADO, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am put to bed by death Last Line: Senselessness to any thrust. Subject(s): Death; Dirt; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BUNK JOHNSON'S GRAVE AT NEW IBERIA, by JONATHAN WILLIAMS Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Mr. Weeks, please don't bury me among them Subject(s): Graves; Jazz; Johnson, Bunk (1889-1949); Music & Musicians; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Carrying tapers in soft white hands Last Line: On the antichrist's last bed. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Churches; Funerals; Graves; Life; Sea; Estrangement; Outcasts; Cathedrals; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean BURIAL DETAIL, by ANDREW HUDGINS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Between each layer of tattered, broken flesh Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL HILL, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Gone with their beautiful faith Last Line: If the dream of their worship came true? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Memory; Praise; Worship; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones BURIAL RITES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Did anyone ever believe that the dead woman Last Line: Without expectation. They did them in despair. Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Death; Despair; Graves; Tradition; Heritage; Heredity; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones BUTTERCUPS AND DAISIES, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I never see a young hand hold Last Line: With buttercups and daisies. Subject(s): Buttercups; Daisies; Flowers; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BY A PATRIOT'S GRAVE, by CARLYLE FERREN MACINTYRE Poem Text First Line: Here lies a great heart seeping in the soil Last Line: Red hecatombs before the whirlwind strewn. Alternate Author Name(s): Macintyre, C. F. Subject(s): Graves; Patriotism; Tombs; Tombstones BY THE CLIFFS OF THE SEA (IN MEMORY OF SAMUEL BENNETT), by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In a far-away glen of the hills Last Line: On this grave by the cliffs of the sea. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones BY THE GREY GULF WATER, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far to the northward there lies a land Last Line: And I wish I were back by the grey gulf-water. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Graves; Life; Nature; Singing & Singers; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones CALVIN COOLIDGE, 1872-1933: 3. HIS GRAVE, by MARGARETTE BALL DICKSON Poem Text First Line: Back to the rock-ribbed mountains of vermont Last Line: His manhood, wearied, found its loved retreat. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coolidge, Calvin (1872-1933); Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CEMETERY NEAR THE SEA, by FRANK STANFORD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The word has no luck Subject(s): Sea; Graves; Ocean; Tombs; Tombstones CHANT DU MARIN, by JEAN REBOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea! Unfathom'd in its depth, unbounded in its flow Last Line: Restore them not till doomsday shall awake and claim the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Reboul De Nimes, Jean Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CHARLOTTE TEMPLE'S GRAVE (TRINITY CHURCHYARD), by BLANCHE A. SAWYER Poem Text First Line: This slab was set to keep Last Line: May serve as cup for birds! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones CHURCHILL'S GRAVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood beside the grave of him who blazed Last Line: The glory and the nothing of a name. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones COME BACK!, by ANNA BUNSTON DE BARY Poem Text First Line: Oh why did you heed, eugene Last Line: Come back for me, eugene, eugene! Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Kisses; Love - Loss Of; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones COMPENSATION, by JOHN LANGDON JONES Poem Text First Line: No winter has there been whose raging cold Last Line: I can not hear the music that is thine. Subject(s): Children; Graves; Winter; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones COMPLAINT OF FORGETTING THE DEAD, by JULES LAFORGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ladies and gentlemen / whose mothers are dead Last Line: They go. ... Subject(s): Death; Forgetfulness; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CONSUMMATION, by JAMES TERRY WHITE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not poppies - plant not poppies on my grave Last Line: That hints the scent of rosesas they pass. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Roses; Tombs; Tombstones COOL TOMBS, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: When abraham lincoln was shoveled into the tombs, he forgot the copperheads Last Line: The dust ... In the cool tombs. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones CORN, by RUTH LECHLITNER Poem Text First Line: Here at our side Last Line: Let us walk softly . . . Softly. Subject(s): Corn; Fields; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones COWPER'S GRAVE, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is a place where poets crowned / may feel the heart's decaying Last Line: And I, on cowper's grave, should see his rapture in a vision. Subject(s): Cowper, William (1731-1800); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones CREWBRAWN, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White clouds that change and pass Last Line: That hollows out the graves. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones DANCING ON THE GRAVE OF A SON OF A BITCH, by DIANE WAKOSKI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: God damn it, / at last I am going to dance on your grave, Subject(s): Man-woman Relationship; Divorce; Farewell; Money; Dancing & Dancers; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones DE PROFUNDIS, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: My soul! / can this as truth abide Last Line: We only die. Subject(s): Bethlehem, Palestine; Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEAD OUT-OF-DOORS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High from the ground, and blown upon by air Last Line: "to cry, ""o grave, where is thy victory!" Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH - ETERNITY'S REALM, by LOUISE L. PANNULLO Poem Text First Line: Peacefully yonder a million souls did sleep Last Line: "do I exempt from my fieldwhere eternity I do sow." Subject(s): Death; Graves; Peace; Rest; Skulls; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH COMES TO ME AGAIN, A GIRL, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Death comes to me again, a girl in a cotton slip Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death - Children; Graves; Silence; Women; Graveyards; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones DEATH'S JEST-BOOK, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Am I a man of gingerbread that you should mould me to your liking? Last Line: The curtain falls. Subject(s): Depression, Mental; Graves; Love; Physicians; Sleep; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Doctors DEATH; MATER NOSTRA, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mine is the kiss of motherhood. Why fear Last Line: Come, gather godhead from my nearer eyes. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DEBORARH YORK, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: All along this fair 'foreside' Last Line: Deborah york, a queen art thou. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Saints; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise DECORATION DAY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Scatter flowers o'er the graves Last Line: Scatter them, scatter them o'er. Subject(s): Graves; Heroism; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones; Heroes; Heroines DECORATION DAY, by AMELIA WOODWARD TRUESDELL Poem Text First Line: There are graves on many hill-sides Last Line: Their censers swing in air. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Holidays; Honor; Memorial Day; Prayer; Spanish-american War (1898); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day DECORATION DAY ON THE PLACE, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It's lonesome - sorto' lonesome, - it's Last Line: On ev'ry soldier's grave I'd love to lay a lily thare. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Flowers; Fourth Of July; Graves; Patriotism; Roses; Soldiers; Independence Day; Tombs; Tombstones DEDICATION OF A POEM, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "sweet, on the daisies of your english grave" Last Line: "that he who brings them lays his heart, too, here" Subject(s): Graves;india; Tombs;tombstones DEFIANCE TO CUPID, by WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not in this grave Subject(s): Graves; Death; Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The DERELICT, by JOHN DRINKWATER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The cloudy peril of the seas Last Line: Shall time entomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ignorance; Sex; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Dullness; Stupdity DESIDERIUM: IN MEMORIAM, S.F.A., by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The call of homing rooks, the shrill Last Line: Hadst pleasure still, I might not grieve. Subject(s): Death; Death - Children; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness DESOLATED GARDENS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trampling armies leave discomforted Last Line: O desolated gardens, with your graves! Subject(s): Birds; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones DESOLATION, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: In the forest bleak and lonely Last Line: Come and sing above my tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Birds; Death; Desolation; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DESPAIR, by DENISE LEVERTOV Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: While we were visiting david's grave Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones DION OF TARSUS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dion of tarsus, here I lie, who sixty years have seen" Last Line: "I was not ever wed, and would my father had not been!" Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; DIRGE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where shall we make her grave Last Line: There -- lay her there! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones DIRGE FOR A SAILOR, by CLINTON SCOLLARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the bourns of time and sleep Last Line: This sailor's requiem! Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean DISCOURAGEMENT, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Forward, comrades, ever forward! Last Line: We are nothing but the spray. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Mankind; Mercy; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race DISTICHS, by ROBERT REDFIELD JR. Poem Text First Line: Behind the hills the moon has sheathed his Last Line: And ride the horses of delight across the buried years. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DOMESTICITY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it knowledge, is it knowledge only and fear Last Line: Having no house to inhabit but this of our dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones DUST TO DUST, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dust to dust!' cries out an ancient church Last Line: And lo! From every tomb the stone is rolled. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Dust; Funerals; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones DUTCH GRAVES IN BUCKS COUNTY, by WALLACE STEVENS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Angry men and furious machines Subject(s): Bucks County, Pennsylvania; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EARTH TO EARTH, by KATHERINE HARRIS BRADLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood to hear that bold Last Line: Oh, poor lips left behind! Alternate Author Name(s): Field, Michael (with Edith Emma Cooper) Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ELEGY, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The chinese tombs / some, sqaures of shrubby trees, some, peaks and mounds Last Line: Ends those graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ELEGY ON MR. WILLIAM SMITH: MR. SMITH IS DEAD, by THOMAS CHATTERTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ascend, my muse, on sorrow's sable plume Last Line: The blood-stained tomb where smith and comfort lie. Subject(s): Blood; Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness 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 ELIZABETH, by LUCY LARCOM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white stone glimmers through the firs Last Line: And there thou art, elizabeth! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ENDING WITH A LINE FROM LEAR, by MARVIN BELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I will try to remember. It was light Last Line: Never. Never. Never. Never. Never. Subject(s): Children; Dramatists; Fathers & Sons; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Lear, King; Parents; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Childhood; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Parenthood; Dramatists ENSIGN WORTH BAGLEY, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas not in the way he'd hoped for Last Line: She mourns his loss with tears. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Nations; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through life the poor dolt who lies buried below Last Line: The inscription upon it will trouble his rest. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Of old, when the church-building coffer was full Last Line: Congregational chapels require a queen's pig! Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stone ox! If we were hungry you would satisfy but little us Last Line: You never were a calf; though carv'd, you were not carv'd to victual us. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Epigram (as Literary Form); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPIGRAM ON A MEDIEVAL TOMB, by R. T. KERLIN Poem Text First Line: Long buried, like some inca's horde, behold! Last Line: Amid this dust-heap gleam bright bars of gold. Subject(s): Graves; Yale University; Tombs; Tombstones EPILOGUE, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Graves they say are warm'd by glory Last Line: Such as homer sang is zero. Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Graves; Mythology; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The form's divinity, the heart's best grace Last Line: Of one best union of that deathless twain. Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I loved, was loved. The puff of smoke called life Last Line: I lie where I may dream, nor dream in vain. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Epitaphs; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OF CONSTANTINE KANARIS, by KARL WILHELM MULLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am constantine kanaris Last Line: Till I rise from earth again! Alternate Author Name(s): Muller, Wilhelm Subject(s): Epitaphs; God; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON A YOUNG LADY, by DAVID MALLET Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This humble grave though no proud structure graces Last Line: And holy friendship stands a mourner here. Alternate Author Name(s): Malloch, David Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON EROTION, by MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIALIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Underneath this greedy stone Last Line: The only melancholy stone. Alternate Author Name(s): Martial Variant Title(s): Erotion Subject(s): Death - Children; Epitaphs; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON LEVI LINCOLN THAXTER; INSCRIBED ON A ROCK ABOVE THE GRAVE, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, whom these eyes saw never! Say friends true Last Line: Help me with knowledge -- for life's old -- death's new! Subject(s): Epitaphs; Graves; Thaxter, Levi Lincoln (1824-1884); Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON THE TOMB OF SIR EDWARD GILES AND HIS WIFE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trust to metals nor to marbles, when Last Line: And so to bed: pray wish us all good rest. Variant Title(s): Epitaph For Sir Edward Giles And His Wife Subject(s): Devonshire, England; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH ON THE TOMBSTONE OF A CHILD, LAST OF SEVEN THAT DIED BEFORE, by APHRA BEHN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This little, silent, gloomy monument Last Line: Spread their gay wings before the throne, and smile. Alternate Author Name(s): Astraea; Behn, Afara; Behn, Apharra; Amis, Ayfara Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH OVER THE GRAVE OF TWO BROTHERS, A CHILD AND A YOUTH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou, that canst gaze upon thine own fair boy Last Line: Where god hath sealed the fount of hope he gave. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Brothers; Death - Children; Graves; Half-brothers; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 22, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I had a name, a place, who now have none Last Line: On a grey slab is all I've had of fame! Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fame; Graves; Dead, The; Reputation; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 25, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The scent of faded roses once a-bloom Last Line: I wakedthen slept with summer and her flowers. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPH: 3, by MARGARET SACKVILLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My burial place Last Line: Through the long dark. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Graves; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gods of the nile, should this stout fellow here Last Line: Get out -- get out! He knows not shame nor fear. Subject(s): Graves; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War EPITAPHS OF THE WAR, 1914-18: SALONIKAN GRAVE, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have watched a thousand days Subject(s): Graves; Greece; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; Greeks; First World War EPITHALAMIUM, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This body of my mother, pierced by me Last Line: My sister, heralded by no moan, no sound. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Marriage; Parents; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives; Parenthood ERIC'S DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shon'st thou but to pass away Last Line: Flowers we strew above thee! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Soldiers; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones ETRUSCAN TOMB, by JOHN FREDERICK NIMS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tarchna dreams by the distant ocean Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ETRUSCAN TOMBS, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: To think the face we love shall ever die Last Line: The golden promise in their fleshless hands. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Etruscan Civilization; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones EUMARES, by ASCLEPIADES OF SAMOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tumultuous sea, whose wrath and foam are spent Last Line: For nothing shalt thou find but bones and dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Asklepiades Of Samos Subject(s): Bones; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monuments; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones FAMELESS GRAVES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I walked the ancient graveyard's ample round Last Line: To bless our earth with peace. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FATHER SON AND HOLY GHOST, by AUDRE LORDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have not ever seen my father's grave Alternate Author Name(s): Adisa-warrior, Gamba Subject(s): Fathers & Daughters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FEE SIMPLE, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have brought me a bed in earth Last Line: That I who am sleeping am I. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones 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 FICHTE'S GRAVE; DOROTHEENSTADT CEMEMTERY, BERLIN, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here rests a pilgrim at his journey's end Last Line: The power to cleanse, illumine, and inspire. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Fichte, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814); Graves; Heaven; Rest; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FIELD BURIAL, by CARROLL CARSTAIRS Poem Text First Line: Dying so young, may I retain of youth' Last Line: "shall blossom into clover, gorse and flower." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones FOR MY OWN MONUMENT, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As doctors give physic by way of prevention Last Line: He cares not--yet, prithee, be kind to his fame. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FOR ONE WHO WAS LOVELY, by BERTYE YOUNG WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lilacs of springtime Last Line: She who was lovely has fallen asleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Williams, B. Y. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones FOR THE DUE IMPROVEMENT OF A FUNERAL SOLEMNITY, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Around the grave of a departed friend Last Line: In grace, and love, and fellowship divine. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Friends, Religious Society Of; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Dead, The; Quakers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise FRAGMENTS OF ANCIENT POETRY, COLLECTED IN HIGHLANDS OF SCOTLAND, SELECTION, by JAMES MACPHERSON Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: I sit by the mossy fountain; on top of the hill of winds Last Line: Passest, when mid-day is silent around. Alternate Author Name(s): Ossian Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Poetry & Poets; Solitude; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Loneliness FROM A FELUCCA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A white tomb in the desert Last Line: And on the sky his calm. Subject(s): Arabia; Deserts; Food & Eating; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones GENTLEMAN JIM, by DANIEL O'CONNELL (1849-1899) Poem Text First Line: In the diamond shaft worked gentleman jim Last Line: In the glory that hallows the martyr's grave. Subject(s): Death; Diamonds; Graves; Martyrs; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones GERSUIND, by GEORGE SYLVESTER VIERECK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some amorous demon wrought your limbs Last Line: And pray until the doom of dawn. Subject(s): Graves; Kisses; Love; Voices; Women; Tombs; Tombstones GHELUVELT; EPITAPH ON THE WORCESTERS, by ROBERT SEYMOUR BRIDGES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Askest thou of these graves? They'll tell thee Last Line: Battle. Alternate Author Name(s): Bridges, Robert+(2) Subject(s): Graves; Worcestershire, England; World War I; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GOOFER-DUST, by THOMAS LUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Subject(s): Babies; Graves; Infants; Tombs; Tombstones GRAVE, by BILLY COLLINS Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography Subject(s): Graves; Parents; Tombs; Tombstones; Parenthood GRAVE IN THE HILLS, by CAROLINE MCCARTY Poem Text First Line: Tucked in by hills, sheltering, mild Last Line: And softly shuts the door. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones GRAVES, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Both of us had been close Last Line: All the time. ... Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; God; Graves; Jesus Christ - Suffering & Sacrifice; Religion; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Theology GRAVES, by FRANCIS SALTUS SALTUS Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The sad night wind, sighing o'er sea and strand Last Line: And lull the long grass over baudelaire. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Night; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Bedtime GRAVES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed one man stood against a thousand Last Line: I love you and your great way of forgetting. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones GRAY; FOR A PICTURE, by FORD MADOX FORD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The firelight gilds the patterns on the walls Last Line: And wonder who shall do the like again. Alternate Author Name(s): Hueffer, Ford Hermann; Hueffer, Ford Madox Subject(s): Death; Farm Life; Graves; Dead, The; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones GREAT DAYS, by CHARLES WILLIAM BRODRIBB Poem Text First Line: Vanish, every idle thought! Last Line: Giant hearts shall rule these days. Subject(s): Death; Graves; World War I; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; First World War GUALTERUS DANISTONUS AD AMICOS, by MATTHEW PRIOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Studious the busy moments to deceive Last Line: Be now cut off, betwixt the grave and thee. Subject(s): Death; Future; Graves; Happiness; Life; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight GUSTAV GOTTHEIL, by GEORGE ALEXANDER KOHUT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: God healed him while he slept Last Line: Chant kaddish at the tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Spiritual Healing; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Faith-cure HELENA, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast call'd me forth from out of the grave Last Line: The dead are never contented. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones HIGH NOON AT MIDSUMMER ON THE CAMPAGNA, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: High noon Last Line: Of noon. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Graves; Night; Rome, Italy; Time; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HILL MAN'S BURIAL, by LILLIAN M. (PETTES) AINSWORTH Poem Text First Line: Over the wind-blown snow, drifting drearily Last Line: The long black box to the grave in the hollow. Subject(s): Animals; Death; Graves; Horses; Snow; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HIS LADY'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As in the gardens, all through may, the rose Last Line: That dead, as living, she may be with roses. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones HIS OWN EPITAPH, by PAUL SCARRON Poem Text First Line: He who underground doth slumber Last Line: Felt sound slumber overtake him. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones HOME, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'm back again in glenties and the autumn wind / is blowing Last Line: By the grave that holds my colleen in a glen of donegal. Subject(s): Absence; Donegal, Ireland; Graves; Home; Love; Old Age; Separation; Isolation; Tombs; Tombstones HOMES AND GRAVES, by THOMAS KIBBLE HERVEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How beautiful a world were ours Last Line: Like childhood's -- it hath not a grave! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones HOPING AGAINST HOPE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If he would come today, today, today Last Line: But sleep on all the same. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Variant Title(s): If Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism HOW GILBERT DIED, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's never a stone at the sleeper's head Last Line: Can tell you how gilbert died. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime HOW IT WILL HAPPEN, WHEN, by DORIANNE LAUX Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: There you are, exhausted from another night of crying Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise I DREAM, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, I have dreams. I sometimes dream of life Last Line: This is my dream of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Life; Love; Soul; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones I'D GIVE YOU MY SEAT IF I WERE HERE, by RON PADGETT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows these flowers are making on each other Last Line: And you know and you know. Subject(s): Dreams; Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Nightmares; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones IF I SHOULD WAKE, by EMILY HUNTINGTON MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I should wake, on some soft, silent night Last Line: Bereft anew of love's dear, changeless thought. Subject(s): Death; Dusk; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IF SO TOMORROW SAVES, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Heaven overarches earth and sea Last Line: If so tomorrow saves? Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Heaven; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Ocean IMMORTALITY, by M. EDWARD ROSENZWEIG Poem Text First Line: Soft falls the snow, -like a silent veil Last Line: And my footprints are lost, as soft falls the snow. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise IMPLEMENTS FROM THE 'TOMB OF THE POET'; PIRAEUS ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM, by ALICE E. STALLINGS Poem Text First Line: On the journey to the mundane afterlife Alternate Author Name(s): Stallings, A. E. Subject(s): Graves; Museums; Tombs; Tombstones; Art Gallerys IN A GRAVEYARD, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here rests in god' 'tis all we read Last Line: Step softly here -- 'he rests in god' Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; IN FUTURO, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: E'en now, from mountain or from plain Last Line: My heart shall mingle with the clod. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Future; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN KERRY, by JOHN MILLINGTON SYNGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We heard the thrushes by the shore and sea Last Line: Had built this stack of thigh-bones, jaws and shins. Alternate Author Name(s): Synge, J. M. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IN PARIS, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I stood in paris at the tomb Last Line: A caesar, from the caesars' home. Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones IN PHARAOH'S TOMB, by HAYDEN CARRUTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In pharaoh's tomb the darkness reigns Last Line: "vision's not what you wanted." Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Crime & Criminals; Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE CREVICE OF TIME, by JOSEPHINE JACOBSEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The bison, or tiger, or whatever beast Last Line: For all, a celebration and a burial Subject(s): Hunting And Bunters; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE GRAVEYARD AT FORT MONCKTON, N.B. (GRAVES MARKED 1755 AND 1756), by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: This lonely garden more than half-way round Last Line: From out these graves in this old garden's heart! Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones IN THE STRAND, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the midst of the busy and roaring strand Last Line: It preaches its mystical promise of life. Subject(s): Graves; Hope; Strand, London; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism IN TUSCANY: MINOR NOTES; TWELVE RISPETTI: 9, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI Poem Text First Line: I saw a grave beneath a cypress-tree Last Line: I would that grave were mine, and I were there. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones INDIAN MOUND, by IDA LITTLE HALE Poem Text First Line: Beside the road a crumbling old shell mound Last Line: The mound serenely dreams while years go by. Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America INDIFFERENCE, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bird, a wild-flower and a tree Last Line: I cherish them; they suffer me! Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INOCULATION FOR THE SMALL POX, by JOHN BYROM Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I heard two neighbours talk the other night Last Line: As when in health to drive it there by art? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Health; Sickness; Small Pox; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Illness INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVE, by ELMER GUSTAFSON Poem Text First Line: All is enclosed here: the winds of time Last Line: Place of healing for sore bruises, surgery for ancient scars. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A GRAVESTONE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am not dead, I have only become inhuman Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT GODSTOW NUNNERY, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, stranger, rest thee! From the neighbouring towers Last Line: Young man, and learn to reverence womankind! Subject(s): Graves; Honor; Nuns; Oxford, England; Rest; Strangers; Women; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET AT SILBURY-HILL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This mound in some remote and dateless day Last Line: Lives in the eternal register of heaven. Subject(s): Advice; Future Life; God; Graves; Morality; Strangers; Travel; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Ethics; Journeys; Trips INSCRIPTION FOR A TABLET ON THE BANKS OF A STREAM, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger! Awhile upon this mossy bank Last Line: Of innocence, and thou shalt find her there. Subject(s): Comfort; Graves; Happiness; Innocence; Rivers; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight INSCRIPTION FOR THE GRAVES AT PEA RIDGE, ARKANSAS, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let none misgive we died amiss Last Line: But marched, and fell -- victorious! Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones INSCRIPTIONS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The epitaph of night Last Line: Above each grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Day; Graves; Night; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime 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 IONA: THE GRAVES OF THE KINGS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I wish not to lie here Subject(s): Graves; Iona, Scotland; Tombs; Tombstones IT CAN NOT BE, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It can not be that this poor life shall end us! Last Line: Because god lives! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones IT IS WELL, by LUCY H. HOOPER Poem Text First Line: Twas a low grave they led me to, o'ergrown Last Line: "above that quiet refuge -- ""it is well." Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones JACK DEMPSEY'S GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Far out in the wilds of oregon Last Line: "unmarked, leave dempsey's grave" Subject(s): "boxing & Boxers;cowboys;dempsey, Jack (1895-1983);graves;oregon;ranch Life;west (u.s.);" Tombs;tombstones;southwest;pacific States JOE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: My darling's silent pet Last Line: She never envies him. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Love; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise JOHN OF TOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: John of tours is back with peace Last Line: "aye, and still you have room to spare, / for you must shut the baby there" Subject(s): Death;graves;love - Marital;peace; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;wedded Love;marriage - Love; JOSIE MORRIS, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the petroglyph, / a child's greasy handprint on rock Last Line: In the sun. Subject(s): Graves; Imagination; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Fancy KEATS, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beyond the wall that belts the town Last Line: It heaves its billows over earth! Subject(s): Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones KEATS' GRAVE IN ROME, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though thou liest prone and mute Last Line: Draw our hearts unto thy grave! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Summer; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones KORNER AND HIS SISTER, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Green wave the oak for ever o'er thy rest Last Line: Lyre, sword, and flower, farewell! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Variant Title(s): The Grave Of Korner Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Korner, Karl Theodor (1791-1813); Sisters; Women; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LA PAMPA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The dead truck sits in the shimmering wheat Last Line: In white pajamas and turquoise slippers. Subject(s): Brothers; Fathers; Graves; Librarians & Libraries; Half-brothers; Tombs; Tombstones; Library; Librarians LAIRD BROOKS OF HODDAM'S GRAVE, by EDITH M. GILL Poem Text First Line: There's many a grave where in scotland I'd sleep Last Line: If I could get up now and then for a peep. Subject(s): Graves; Scotland; Sleep; Tombs; Tombstones LARABELLE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Harp of the west! That long hath silent hung Last Line: The muse may add a laurel to the brave. Subject(s): Graves; Muses; Singing & Singers; War; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs LARABELLE; CANTO FOURTH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The search without success, tho' wide and far Last Line: Of johny green and worthy larabelle. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Nations; Tombs; Tombstones LAST GIFT, by FREDRICA KAY Poem Text First Line: They have laid me here on this windy hill Last Line: Thru the long grass overhead. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LEGEND OF A TOMB IN FLORENCE, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here he is, in marble, waiting by a tomb Last Line: And the knight and lady heavenward will go. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Florence, Italy; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LIFE OUT OF DEATH, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now I've said all I would, mother Last Line: "heaven." Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Love; Mothers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LILIES: 4. BLOSSOMS ABOVE A TOMB, by GEORGE BARLOW (1847-1913) Poem Text First Line: For beatrice a red rose, and a white Last Line: He sowed, behold the interminable corn! Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LINES COMPOSED AT THE REQUEST OF A DEAR FRIEND SUFFERING FROM GRIEF, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O earth! Abode of grief and sin Last Line: The grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Depression, Mental; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Peace; Dead, The; Mentally Depressed; Mental Distress; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness LINES, WRITTEN AFTER A VISIT TO GRAVE OF WILLIAM MOTHERWELL, by WILLIAM KENNEDY Poem Text First Line: Place we a stone at his head and his feet Last Line: Feelings akin to the lost poet's own. Subject(s): Graves; Motherwell, William (1797-1835); Tombs; Tombstones LITTLE JOHNNY, by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: Sing not, o blessed angels! Last Line: "and helpers of their joy." Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Love; Sympathy; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Empathy LOIS HOUSE, by JULIA A. MOORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Come all ye young people of every degree, Last Line: And gently laid her down to rest in her tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Sweet Singer Of Michigan Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones LOVE, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love will live while the pale stars glow, while the / world shall last Last Line: The soul will seek in the great afar the endless love. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 34, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When in the tomb, my mistress fair Last Line: Still clasp'd in embraces enthralling. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Kisses; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 60, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In vision I lately was weeping Last Line: Continued to flow as before. Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Love; Tears; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 69, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Night lay upon mine eyelids Last Line: And lo! -- from sleep I woke. Subject(s): Dreams; Eyes; Graves; Hair; Night; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime MAGIC, by PUBLIUS OVIDIUS NASO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves Last Line: By my so potent art. Alternate Author Name(s): Ovid Subject(s): Death; Graves; Mythology - Classical; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MAPLE SYRUP, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: August, goldenrod blowing. We walk Subject(s): Farm Life; Graves; Agriculture; Farmers; Tombs; Tombstones MARSHAL SCHWERIN'S GRAVE, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou didst fall in the field with thy silver hair Last Line: To win thee but this at last? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Prague, Czech Republic; Tombs; Tombstones MARY, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The house is changed where mary lived Last Line: But dwells with us to-day. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Mortality; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MARY AND AGNES BERRY; IN MEMORIAM, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Two friends within one grave we place Last Line: That gilds this open grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones MAUREEN, by AGNES ITA HANRAHAN Poem Text First Line: Ay, yonder the thrushes is pipin' now Last Line: Maureenmaureen! Subject(s): Absence; Death - Children; Flowers; Girls; Graves; Heaven; Roses; Separation; Isolation; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise MEDITATIONS ON THE SEPULCHRE IN THE GARDEN, by PHILIP DODDRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sepulchres, how thick they stand Last Line: A paradise reserved for me. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones MEEK CANDIDATES FOR GRAVE SPACE, by LEO KENNEDY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In shrouds distinct, on palls apart Last Line: To bid corruption start. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MEETING (2), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I said goodbye in hope Last Line: But it is past. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hope; Life; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Optimism MONUMENTAL INSCRIPTION, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Earth! Guard what here we lay in holy trust Last Line: They were of thee, and thou hast claimed thine own! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones MOODS, by AMICUS [PSEUD.] Poem Text First Line: O pensive passenger! Do not deny Last Line: This narrow spot the vernal maiden's doom Alternate Author Name(s): Amicus Subject(s): Cold;death;graves;grief; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones;sorrow;sadness; MOSES, by N. N. Poem Text First Line: Thrones that stood and realms that flourished Last Line: As his birthright's sacred fountain? Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Heaven; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Judaism MOSES ON MOUNT NEBO, by I. SOLOMON Poem Text First Line: He stood on nebo's lofty crest Last Line: He sleeps, his sepulchre unknown. Subject(s): Bible; Death; Graves; Jews; Moses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism MOTHER AND CHILD AT THE CAPITOL; JUNE, 1921, by GRACE GUILLE PURSE Poem Text First Line: Where is the soldier? The unknown Last Line: Brings not its gift in vain! Subject(s): Capitol, Washington, D.c.; Death; Graves; Mothers; Mothers & Sons; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MY GIRL, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: A little corner with its crib Last Line: A little kiss -- my girl is gone Subject(s): Courage;death;girls;graves; "valor;bravery;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; MY GRAVE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet is the ocean grave, under the azure wave Last Line: There be the sleeping-place chosen by me. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean MY GRAVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Shall they bury me in the deep Last Line: If one were sure to be buried so. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones MY GRAVE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: If, when I die, I must be buried, let Last Line: And too deep silence would distress me, dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones MY LOST FRIENDS, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One by one they have slipped from earth Last Line: Whose shores I cannot trace. Subject(s): Death; Earth; Friendship; Graves; Love; Soul; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones MY RUTHERS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I tell you what I'd ruther do Last Line: Ef I only had my ruthers. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Politics & Government; Tombs; Tombstones MY SONG, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: To understand the song I sing Last Line: You'll understand my song. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness MY UPPER SHELVES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Close at my feet in stolid rows they sit Last Line: So long as love is love and blooms a sole red rose! Subject(s): Books; Emerson, Ralph Waldo (1803-1882); Graves; Love; Poetry & Poets; Reading; Tombs; Tombstones NAPLES; INSCRIBED TO ROBERT C. WATERSON, OF BOSTON, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I give thee joy! - I know to thee Last Line: "writing the grave with flowers: ""arisen again!" Subject(s): Graves; Naples, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones NIGHT THOUGHTS; THE CONSOLATION: 9, by EDWARD YOUNG (1683-1765) Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when a traveller, a long day past Last Line: And midnight, universal midnight! Reigns. Subject(s): Death; Future Life; God; Graves; Life; Mankind; Night; Time; Travel; Dead, The; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones; Human Race; Bedtime; Journeys; Trips NO ROOM, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There never was room for her anywhere Last Line: Lena? Louise? Lisette? Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Names; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones NOT THE HUSHED GRAVE, by VILDA SAUVAGE OWENS Poem Text First Line: Hill-folk, who long have lived among the Last Line: Will find some dear, remembered english lane. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones NOT TO BE DWELLED ON, by HEATHER MCHUGH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Self-interest cropped up even there, Subject(s): Graves; Death; Tombs; Tombstones; Dead, The 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 NOVEMBER GRAVEYARD, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The scene stands stubborn: skinflint trees Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Imagination;graves; Fancy; Tombs; Tombstones O NOBLE DEAD, by CHARLES LOUIS HENRY WAGNER Poem Text First Line: O noble dead who rest beneath the sod Last Line: And honor thee. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones O WIND! GOD'S WIND!, by ALICE HANSCHE SORENSON Poem Text First Line: O wind! God's wind! You swept across Last Line: Where he may reign supreme. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ODE ON A LYCIAN TOMB, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What gracious nunnery of grief is here! Last Line: The instrument o'er which his fateful fingers range. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Les Pleureuses (monument); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness OEDIPUS AT COLONUS: THE GRAVE OF COLUNUS, by SOPHOCLES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, where thy feet now rest Last Line: Leaps to the foam of a hundred feet. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones OLD WYLIE'S STONE, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You want to see wylie's stone - look here Last Line: Growing round it. We planted them there last year. Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Accidents; Death; Graves; Railroads; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains OMAR KHAYYAM, THE ASTRONOMER-POET OF PERSIA, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Friend, is it well with thee? Over thy grave Last Line: His love the fire that will consume and save? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Omar Khayyam (1048-1122); Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OMEN, by V. MERRILL Poem Text First Line: Dark man walking on my grave! Last Line: Quivers through my hair. Subject(s): Graves; Omens; Tombs; Tombstones OMENS BY THE WAY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear god! Our pilgrimage Last Line: To meet this fluting run! Subject(s): Graves; Happiness; Omens; Sleep; Voices; Tombs; Tombstones; Joy; Delight ON A FORGOTTEN BY-WAY, by ANDREW EDWARD WATROUS Poem Text First Line: The shabby street-cars jingling go Last Line: To their sweet manes this light rhyme. Subject(s): Death; Graves; New York City - 19th Century; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A GRAVE AT GRINDELWALD, by FREDERICK WILLIAM HENRY MYERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let us leave him; for his shroud the Last Line: Translated unaware. Alternate Author Name(s): Myers, Frederic Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grindelwald, Switzerland; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A GRAVE IN CHRIST-CHURCH, HANTS, by OSCAR FAY ADAMS Poem Text First Line: Turning from shelley's sculptured face aside Last Line: Of sorrow kills as oft as frost the leaf. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ON A GRAVE IN THE FOREST, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hush, gentle stranger. Here lies one asleep Last Line: The gentlest kindliest creature made by god. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON A LEAF FROM THE TOMB OF VIRGIL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And was thy home, pale withered thing Last Line: Like his whose dust hath made that spot a shrine? Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Virgil (70-19 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones; Vergil ON A MILITARY GRAVEYARD, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stranger, when you come to washington Subject(s): Arlington National Cemetery; Death; Graves; Military; Soldiers; Washington, D.c.; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON A POET IN A WELSH CHURCHYARD, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Kind souls! Who strive what pious hand shall bring Last Line: One sprig of each to trim a poet's grave. Variant Title(s): Epitaph On A Poet In A Welsh Courtyard Subject(s): Churchyards; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones ON AN OPEN GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "laborious passenger, look down" Last Line: Whose end is everywhere Subject(s): Death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; ON HEARING A.W.P.G. PLAY ONE OF RACHMANINOFF'S PRELUDES, by ARTHUR GLYN PRYS-JONES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Frenzied hands at the coffin-lid Last Line: That he died in his grave instead of his bed?) Subject(s): Death; Graves; Wales; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Welshmen; Welshwomen ON LAURA'S GRAVE, by JOHN VIVIAN Poem Text First Line: Beneath yon flow'ry turf, the fairest head Last Line: Oft turns the wistful look, and drops a tear. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON MEMORIAL DAY, by EMMA BERGSTROM Poem Text First Line: I have no graves to decorate on this day Last Line: Beneath the wavesthe graves where I can place no flower. Subject(s): Funerals - At Sea; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Waves; Burials At Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day ON RICHARD THE THIRD SUPPOSED TO BE BURIED UNDER BRIDGE AT LEICESTER, by JOHN SUCKLING Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: What means this wat'ry canopy 'bout thy bed Last Line: A heaven to thee midst hellish misery. Subject(s): Graves; Richard Iii, King Of England (1452-1485); Tombs; Tombstones ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE: 6, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: No trump tells thy virtues - the grave where they rest Last Line: Shall pass like a mist from the light of thy name. Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON ROBERT EMMET'S GRAVE: 7, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the daybeam is gone Last Line: She will smile through the tears of revival on thine. Subject(s): Emmet, Robert (1778-1803); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON SIR PALMES FAIRBORNE'S TOMB, IN WESTERMINSTER ABBEY, by JOHN DRYDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye sacred relics, which your marble keep Last Line: His pious widow consecrates this tomb. Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Fairborne, Sir Palmes (1634-1680); Graves; Westminster Abbey; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DEATH AND WORKS OF MASTER GREENHAM, by JOSEPH HALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Some skilfull caruer helpe me to endorse Last Line: But emulate thy works eternitie. Subject(s): Beauty; Death; Graves; Time; Trees; Writing & Writers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE DEATH OF IDA, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis midnight deep; the full, round moon Last Line: The bliss that once was ours! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Absence; Death; Farewell; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Solitude; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness 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 knowwhoe'er thou artthe 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 SIR JAMES HUNTER BLAIR, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare Last Line: She said, and vanish'd with the sweeping blast. Subject(s): Clouds; Death; Graves; Grief; Patriotism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness ON THE GRAVE OF BISHOP KEN, AT FROME, IN SOMERSETSHIRE, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Let other thoughts, where'er I roam Last Line: To conquer unresisting! Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Graves; Ken, Thomas (1637-1711); Tombs; Tombstones ON THE GRAVE OF MICHAEL GORDON, by SHIMEON FRUG Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One more gravestone-one more heart Last Line: Spoke in blessing o'er the dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Frug, Simeon Grigoryevich Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism ON THE GRAVE, OF A YOUNG CAVALRY OFFICER, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Beauty and youth, with manners sweet, and friends Last Line: His happier fortune in this mound you see. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE MOON-LIGHT SHINING UPON A FRIEND'S GRAVE, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Show not, o moon! With pure and liquid beam Last Line: And after bury'd friends are doom'd to live. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE OCCASION OF A POET'S DEATH, by ANSELM HOLLO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The dedication and intensity of the dead Last Line: The disembodied glories of hades await us. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ON THE REMOVAL OF THE REMAINS OF CALDERON; 1840, by FREDERIC ROWLAND MARVIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unto a tomb more splendid than was thine Last Line: For lo, thy tomb is portugal and spain! Subject(s): Bones; Calderon De La Barca, Pedro (1600-1681); Dust; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones ONE AT PLAY IN THE FIELDS OF, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: One came home from forced labor to Last Line: The fields of where we all are one. Subject(s): Cambodia; Death; Graves; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE LAST DRAW OF THE PIPE, by PAUL MULDOON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Even though it happened as long ago as the late fifties, I could still draw Subject(s): Native Americans; Graves; Smoking; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America; Tombs; Tombstones; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes ONE OF MANY, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: Some sing among the trumpets in the fray Last Line: A laurel -- or a rose. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ONE SEA-SIDE GRAVE, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Unmindful of the roses Last Line: But one remembers yet. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones ONLY JOE, by JAMES ROANN REED Poem Text First Line: This grave were ye meanin,' stranger? Last Line: That a body could never do that, as were simple and dazed, like joe! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Legends; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ORGAN SONGS: RONDEL, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I follow, tottering, in the funeral train Last Line: Outworn necessities to the welcoming grave! Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Grief; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness OSSIAN'S GRAVE; PREHISTORIC MONUMENT NEAR CUSHENDALL, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Steep up in lubitavish townland stands Subject(s): Antrim, Ireland; Graves; Ossian (3d Century Gaelic Poet); Tombs; Tombstones OUR CONFEDERATE DEAD, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Unknown to me, brave boy, but still I wreathe Last Line: As the libretto of a maiden's heart. Subject(s): Confederate States Of America; Death; Graves; Patriotism; Soldiers; Confederacy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones OUR OWN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They walk here with us, hand in Last Line: Good-by! Good-by! Good-by! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Farewell; Gossip; Graves; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones OUTLINES FOR A TOMB (G.P., BURIED 1870), by WALT WHITMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What may we chant, o thou within this tomb? Last Line: But to the high seas launch, my thought, his memory. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones OVERHEAD, by SCUDDER MIDDLETON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When you and I are laid away Last Line: To stop that chatter overhead. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones PANDOSTO, THE TRIUMPH OF TIME: BELLARIA'S EPITAPH, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here lies entomb'd bellaria fair Last Line: Curse him that caus'd this queen to die. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jealousy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PATIENCE, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: With drooping head sweet patience sighs and sees Last Line: And peace return to earth on shining wing. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Graves; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones PEACE (2), by FRANCES RIDLEY HAVERGAL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A shout of gladness is heard afar Last Line: In the glorious reign of the prince of peace. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Peace; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones PEACE-YEARNING, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O let thy wounds bleed on, and let Last Line: Our loving mothers never bore us. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Peace; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness PENREB'S TOMB, by BABETTE DEUTSCH Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Upon these stones time broke his teeth,' you said Last Line: Gnaws at our hearts, careless of penreb's bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Yarmolinsky, Avrahm, Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones PIETY, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh liquid moon that silvers the rims Last Line: I come! I come! Subject(s): Charm; Flowers; Graves; Love; Moon; Piety; Roses; Virtue; Tombs; Tombstones PILGRIMAGE, by ELIZABETH WILCOX BEASLEY Poem Text First Line: A score of years had passed since they had laid Last Line: And scarlet poppies, swaying with each breeze.) Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones POET'S CORNER, by ALFRED AUSTIN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stand within the abbey walls Last Line: That never will be dumb. Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Westminster Abbey; Tombs; Tombstones POETIC EPIGRAMS: 19. BY THE SEA, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: White on each mounded wave Last Line: As on a nameless grave. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean POETIC EPIGRAMS: 7. IN A CEMETERY AT NIGHT, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is it ghost-dreams that rise Last Line: Or only the fire-flies? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Dreams; Graves; Night; Graveyards; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime POLAND OF DEATH: 1, by ALLEN GROSSMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I hear my father underground scratching with a nail. And I say Last Line: "and mother says, ""this is the forest primeval."" poland of death!" Subject(s): Graves; Jews; Parents; Poland; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism; Parenthood PRELUDE; FOR GEOFFREY GORER, by EDITH SITWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When our long sun into the dark had set Last Line: Remakes all things and men in holiness. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heroism; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Heroes; Heroines PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A new grave meets the hastiest passer's eye Last Line: What a low hillock by your path may mean. Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): England; Graves; Landscape; Villages; English; Tombs; Tombstones PULVIS ET UMBRA, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: When thou art lying under ground Last Line: The shadow of oblivion. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Stones; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Granite; Rocks 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 RED JACKET'S GRAVE, by JAMES WRIGHT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have a deep identity Alternate Author Name(s): Wright, James A. Subject(s): Graves; Red Jacket. Seneca Chief (1756-1830); Tombs; Tombstones REFLECTIONS, WRITTEN ON VISITING THE GRAVE OF A FRIEND, by ANN PLATO Poem Text First Line: Deep in this grave her bones remain Last Line: We turn to dust, to sleep, to repose. Subject(s): African Americans - Women; Friendship; Graves; Mortality; Tombs; Tombstones REMEMBRANCE, by ALFRED DE MUSSET Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: O sacred ground, in wandering back to thee Last Line: "while life and thought remain." Subject(s): Forests; France; Graves; Sand, George (1804-1876); Time; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Dupin, Amanda. Baronne Dudevant REMEMBRANCE, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No more: let there be no more said Last Line: Farewell, dead love: no more the same road we fare. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Death; Farewell; Graves; Grief; Love; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness REQUIEM, by MARY DUNCAN UPHAM Poem Text First Line: Oh, cedars, guard him well, ye sentinels, for near ye Last Line: As after sunset, earth, her lord's warm rays. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Love - Loss Of; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones REQUIESCAT, by FRANCES FLETCHER Poem Text First Line: The daughter of ira Last Line: Lies gently here. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones REQUIESCAT, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poem Explanation Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Tread lightly, she is near Last Line: Heap earth upon it. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Love; Tombs; Tombstones REST IN THE GRAVE! BUT REST IS FOR THE WEARY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Rest in the grave! But rest is for the weary Last Line: Have slain the unborn flower and new-fledged bird Subject(s): Birds;death;graves; "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; RETRIBUTION, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We shape our deeds and then are shapen by them Last Line: And rend us in our graves. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Hearts; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones REVERSION, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Yes it is surely true Last Line: Wish that the holidays came sooner! Subject(s): Caesar, Julius (100-44 B.c.); Flowers; Geraniums; Graves; Love; Sin; Tombs; Tombstones ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: AN OLD SONG, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou now art dead, and thou knowest it not Last Line: While in the distance the bells were tolling. Subject(s): Death; Forests; Graves; Singing & Singers; Dead, The; Woods; Tombs; Tombstones; Songs ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 12. THE ANNIVERSARY, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not one mass will e'er be chanted Last Line: A fiacre all ready for thee. Subject(s): Anniversaries; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 2. RETROSPECT, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I've snuff'd at every smell that has birth Last Line: Once more we may hope to meet with each other. Subject(s): Earth; Farewell; Fortune; Graves; World; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones ROMANCERO: BOOK 2. LAMENTATIONS: LAZARUS. 3. RESURRECTION, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The trumpet's wild echo fills the skies Last Line: And hell for the goats is selected. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jesus Christ; Judgment Day; Resurrection, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man RONSARD'S GRAVE, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ye wells, ye founts that fall Last Line: There sappho sings. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Prayer; Ronsard, Pierre De (1524-1585); Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise RONSARD'S TOMB, by PIERRE DE RONSARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O caves, and you, o springs Last Line: Of whoso hears. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Flowers; Graves; Heaven; Mythology - Classical; Pan (mythology); Time; Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise ROOMS, by JOHN GOULD FLETCHER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There is nothing on earth more lonely than a room Last Line: And knows that room is life, will pass unmoved through death. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Solitude; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Loneliness RUN DOWN, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the grim dead end he lies, with passionless filmy / eyes Last Line: To a shift beyond the skies. Subject(s): Accidents; Cemeteries; Death; Fire; Graves; Tragedy; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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-PICTURES; NIGHT NOISES, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No voice of crickets wearing through the night Last Line: And gossip on lost ships of long ago. Subject(s): Graves; Night; Sound; Summer; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime SECOND EPITAPH, by PIERRE LOUIS Poem Text First Line: On the gloomy banks of the melas, at tomasson in pamphylia Last Line: Seen my tomb. Alternate Author Name(s): Louys, Pierre Subject(s): Death; Epitaphs; Farewell; Graves; Dead, The; Parting; Tombs; Tombstones SEE THAT MY GRAVE IS SWEPT CLEAN, by ERIC PANKEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Words are but an entrance, a door cut deep into cold clay Subject(s): Graves; Language; Tombs; Tombstones; Words; Vocabulary SHAKESPEARE'S GRAVE, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Doggerel,' he thought, 'will do for churchwardens Subject(s): Consolation; Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights ; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones; Dramatists SHAKESPEARE'S MOURNERS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I saw the grave of shakespeare in a dream Last Line: Kept vigil o'er the sacred spoils of death. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Dramatists; Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Poetry & Poets; Shakespeare, William (1564-1616); Tombs; Tombstones SHUHUR, JEYPORE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A lonely grave, far from all kindred ties Last Line: And pine and perish 'neath a foreign sky. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; India; Tombs; Tombstones SILVER STREET, by EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here, if you will, your fancy may destroy Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SIR EUSTACE GREY (SEE CRABBE), by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When I die, oh lay me low Last Line: Death is immortality. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Crabbe, George (1754-1832); Death; Fear; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SIR WALTER SCOTT AT THE TOMB OF THE STUARTS IN ST. PETER'S, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Eve's tinted shadows slowly fill the fane Last Line: Ever should pass those holy walls beyond. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Graves; Saint Peter's Church, Rome; Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Journeys; Trips 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 SOISSONS: 1918, by GERALD V. STAMM Poem Text First Line: Now dreadful night unrolls, and dawn in gray Last Line: May come from poppies in the wheat. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Harvest; Soldiers; War; Wheat; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 (12), by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when the grave shall open for me Last Line: The bending and dark blue violet. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Violets; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF RENEWAL: 1, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I walked near sunset through wet fields Last Line: "the bones that you would bury there will never turn to dust." Subject(s): Death; Fields; Graves; Dead, The; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones SONG OF RENEWAL: 3, by JOHN FREEMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Following his look, I saw the vale shaking Last Line: Faint marks renewed where love burned through, how many centuries ago! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET, by AUGUSTE ANGELLIER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thus shall we live our separate lives unknit Last Line: Than any nest wherein the birds are kind. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Passion; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET TO MAN-MADE GRANDEUR, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The pyramids rooted in a rubble of beggars and bored camels Subject(s): Churches; Graves; Monuments; Pantheon, Rome; Parthenon; Pyramids; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones SONNET: 4, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What though no sculptured monument proclaim Last Line: Sad sounding as the cold breeze rustles by. Subject(s): Death; Fate; Graves; Grief; Longing; Love - Loss Of; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Dead, The; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness SONNET: 5, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the road, where on that little mound Last Line: Whilst the proud levite scowls and passes by. Subject(s): Children; Death; Graves; Pain; Roads; Sonnet (as Literary Form); Childhood; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery; Paths; Trails SONNET: OF THE GRAVE OF SELVAGGIA, ON MONTE DELLA SAMBUCA, by CINO DA PISTOIA Poem Text First Line: I was upon the high and blessed mound Last Line: So with my moan I left the mountain-side. Alternate Author Name(s): Sinibaldi, Guittoncino Dei Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones SONNETS ON THE DISCOVERY OF BOTANY BAY BY CAPTAIN COOK: 4, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis holy ground! The silent silver lights Last Line: Shall gather round it deep eternal bloom! Subject(s): Cook, James (1728-1779); Graves; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770); Tombs; Tombstones SONNETS: 4. SIR ALAN M'LEAN'S EFFIGY, ON INCH KENNETH, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hard by the ruined kirk above the sound Last Line: Tis better with his body than his soul. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOPHOCLES' TOMB, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Wind gently, ivy, o'er the tomb Last Line: With graces and the muses nine. Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones SORROW'S MADNESS, by YAKOV POLONSKY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When, clinging to your lidded coffin Last Line: To death's void galley chained like sullen slaves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Coffins; Death; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUND SEED, by HORTENSE KING FLEXNER Poem Text First Line: We hear of death Last Line: And for this fact no hands can dig a grave. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones SOUTHERN PACIFIC, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Huntington sleeps in a house six feet long Last Line: Blithery, sleep in houses six feet long. Subject(s): Graves; Huntington, Collis Potter (1821-1900); Railroads; Tombs; Tombstones; Railways; Trains SPRING, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Pain and spilt blood and an appalling cry Last Line: Bursts, as of old, the blackbird's shameless song. Subject(s): Earth; Flowers; Graves; Laughter; Pain; Spring; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Suffering; Misery SPRING (1), by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love as the resurrection angel, goes Last Line: Will never staunch the tears of mortal eyes. Subject(s): Angels; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Immortality; Jesus Christ; Love; Resurrection, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To sleep in peace when life is fled Last Line: And stars behold our bones again. Subject(s): Corpses; Death; Fort George, Battle Of (1813); Graves; New York City; Skeletons; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple STANZAS - THE TOMB, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Few years ago I shunned the tomb Last Line: To lead me to the loved again. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS WRITTEN AFTER THE FUNERAL OF ADMIRAL SIR DAVID MILNE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Another, yet another! Year by year Last Line: The name of milne shall be an honour'd name. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Milne, Admiral Sir David (1763-1845); Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, COMPOSED WHILE WALKING ON WARREN HILL, EARLY SUMMER'S MORNING, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lonely and low is thy dwelling-place now Last Line: And a beautiful twilight enchants us. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, OCCASIONED BY THE DEATH OF A RELATIVE ABROAD, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou sleep'st far from the land of thy birth Last Line: Peace be with its memory here! Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones STANZAS, ON PLANTING A BAY-TREE AT THE GRAVE OF CHURCHILL, by JOHN CHALK CLARIS Poem Text First Line: Above the bard's neglected grave Last Line: "which tells ""here churchill lies!" Alternate Author Name(s): Brooke, Arthur Subject(s): Churchill, Charles (1731-1764); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Praise; Tombs; Tombstones SUBJECTED EARTH, by ROBINSON JEFFERS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking in the flat oxfordshire fields Last Line: And all its music to make, beats on the grave-mound Subject(s): Earth; Graves; England; World; Tombs; Tombstones; English SUNSET AT SEA, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo, where he sinks from sight Last Line: Above his grave. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean SUPERNATURAL SONGS: 1. RIBB AT THE TOMB OF BAILE AND AILLINN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Because you have found me in the pitch-dark night Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Subject(s): Old Age; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones SUTHERLAND'S GRAVE, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All night long the sea out yonder - all night long the wailful sea Last Line: In the leaves above the sailor buried ninety years ago. Subject(s): Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Sutherland, Forby (d. 1770); Tombs; Tombstones; Seamen; Sails SYMPATHY (1), by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tis in the silent isthmus-hour of time Last Line: A grave with deathless sympathy is wet. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Morning; Tombs; Tombstones TALENT AND GENIUS, by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: On the high road travelling steady Last Line: Only is known when the grave closes o'er him. Subject(s): Genius; Graves; Wealth; Tombs; Tombstones; Riches; Fortunes TEGEA: A GRAVE, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here let them lie, remembered well Last Line: Her garland in the dust. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones TEN YEARS HAVE PASSED; ON VIEWING WAR GRAVES AT VERDUN, 1928, by DON MAITLAND BUSHBY Poem Text First Line: Ten years; but what are years to the dead Last Line: But glory and bemedaled scars! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honor; Soldiers; Veterans Day; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TENNIS BALL, by DONALD HALL Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: I parked by the grave in september, under oaks and birvhes Subject(s): Graves; Love - Erotic; Tombs; Tombstones THANATOPSIS FOR HETTY, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hartman's seamstress, hetty Last Line: To the no-more-needy dead. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE AUL' KIRKYARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The aul' kirkyard! - the aul' kirkyard! Last Line: The grave aneath the brier sae green. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE BANDIT'S GRAVE, by CHARLES PITT Poem Text First Line: Mid lava rock and glaring sand Last Line: O'er the border bandit's tomb. Subject(s): Bandits; Cowboys; Crime & Criminals; Graves; Ranch Life; West (u.s.); Tombs; Tombstones; Southwest; Pacific States THE BED-MAN, OR GRAVE-MAKER, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Thou hast made many houses for the dead Last Line: I'th' church-yard, made, one tenement for me. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE BISHOP ORDERS HIS TOMB AT SAINT PRAXED'S CHURCH, by ROBERT BROWNING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Vanity, saith [or said] the pracher, vanity! Last Line: As still he envied me, so fair she was! Subject(s): Clergy; Death; Graves; Vanity; Priests; Rabbis; Ministers; Bishops; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE BLUE AND THE GRAY, by FRANCIS MILES FINCH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: By the flow of the inland river Last Line: Tears and love for the gray. Variant Title(s): Decoration Day;memorial Day Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Holidays; Memorial Day; Patriotism; Peace; Soldiers; United States - History; Tombs; Tombstones; Declaration Day THE BOOK OF THE DEAD MAN (#58), by MARVIN BELL Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: They came to the door because he was small or went to some Last Line: This time the dead man will see them in hell. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Death; Dissenters; Exiles; Funerals; Graves; Marginality, Social; Estrangement; Outcasts; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUBBLE, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out springs the bubble, dazzling bright Last Line: The bubble bursts, -- and this is life! Subject(s): Beauty; Children; Graves; Life; Nations; Childhood; Tombs; Tombstones THE BUILDERS; A NOCTURNE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY, by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On what dost thou dream, solitary all the night long Last Line: Drawing to thee, and the slow feet of fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Buildings & Builders; Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Monasteries; Rest; Spirituality; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Abbeys THE BURDEN OF A SIGH, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When we on earth have run our race Last Line: Be felt beyond the grave! Subject(s): Death; Earth; Graves; Life; Dead, The; World; Tombs; Tombstones THE BURIAL-PLACE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Erewhile, on england's pleasant shores, our sires Last Line: Her ruddy, pouting fruit. -- -- -- -- -- - Subject(s): England; Graves; Pilgrim Fathers; English; Tombs; Tombstones THE CALL OF DEATH, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Last of myself-I thought how hard to die Last Line: Once and no moreah! Make no cry! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CATHEDRAL TOMBS, by DINAH MARIA MULOCK CRAIK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They lie with upraised hands, and feet Last Line: "and give us good rest, o good lord!" Alternate Author Name(s): Mulock, Dinah Maria Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHARIOTEER'S GRAVE, by THOMAS WALSH Poem Text First Line: In tarragona where the waves Last Line: "would I had died within the circus cheer." Alternate Author Name(s): Gill, Roderick; Strange, Garrett Subject(s): Chariot Racing; Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHILD'S GRAVE, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I came to the churchyard where pretty joy lies Last Line: Her sweet dawning smile and her violet eye! Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE CHURCH OF BROU, by MATTHEW ARNOLD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Down the savoy valleys sounding Last Line: The rustle of the eternal rain of love. Subject(s): Hunting; Death; Churches; Youth; Graves; Hunters; Dead, The; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE CID AND THE JEW, by THEOPHILE GAUTIER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: The cid, stern victor in each fight Last Line: Entered a convent's gloom. Amen. Alternate Author Name(s): Theo, Le Bon Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hero-worship; Jews; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE CITY CLERK (WHEN HIS CHILD LAY DYING), by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I think of her when sunshine falls Last Line: Would pass her by. Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Love - Loss Of; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE CONQUEROR'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Within this lowly grave a conqueror lies Last Line: That ministered to thee, is open still. Subject(s): Consolation; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE COQUETTE, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alone she sat with her accusing heart Last Line: To loathe her beauty and to curse her fate. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Truth; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones THE CROSS IN THE WILDERNESS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silent and mournful sat an indian chief Last Line: Deep thoughts and sad, yet full of holiness. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE CROWNING OF THE KING, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now within its narrow hall Last Line: By that chrism of tears. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Rest; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE DEAD, by KATHERYN KOHBERGER Poem Text First Line: We rest in illimitable slumber Last Line: And is eternal night. Subject(s): April; Death; Graves; Light; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF A FRIEND, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Again the enemy hath bent his bow Last Line: The grave? Just god! Thy no is written there! Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Life; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE DEATH OF THE REV. DR. WILSON, by WILLIAM MCGONAGALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the year of 1888 and on the 17th of january Last Line: Then along with the people assembled there they left the burying-ground. Subject(s): Coffins; Death; Funerals; Graves; Obituaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DESECRATION OF THE HAN TOMB, by CHANG TSAI Poem Text First Line: At pei-mang how they rise to heaven Last Line: "and am sorely grieved at the thought of ""then"" and ""now." Alternate Author Name(s): Meng-yang Subject(s): China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE DESERT DEPORTATION OF 1915, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Our dead fathers came down to us in the river Last Line: From the dead. Subject(s): Armenian Genocide, 1909-1918; Death; Funerals; Girls; Graves; Salvation; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE DIGGER'S GRAVE, by SARAH WELCH Poem Text First Line: He sought australia's far-famed isle Last Line: And wattle-bloom bestrews the digger's grave. Subject(s): Graves; Murder; Tombs; Tombstones THE DISINTERRED WARRIOR, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gather him to his grave again Last Line: Ah, let us spare, at least, their graves! Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE DREAM, by ELIZABETH OAKES PRINCE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dreamed last night, that I myself did lay Last Line: And we bow down in dread, o'ershadowed by death's wing! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Seba (e. Oakes), Mrs.; Oakes-smith, Elizabeth Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Earth; Graves; Grief; Dead, The; Nightmares; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE END, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: The long search ended! Last Line: Let not this double price be paid in vain! Subject(s): Children - Lost; Death; Disappeared Persons; Graves; Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping (1932); Dead, The; Missing Persons; Tombs; Tombstones THE FEAST OF THE DEAD, by CHARLOTTE BECKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down old ways the monks pass ringing Last Line: Miserere, domine. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Silence; Sleep; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE FIRST BUD O' THE YEAR, by CHARLES GRANGER BLANDEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There whispered in my ear Last Line: That shall the old loss mend. Subject(s): Graves; Grief; Wind; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE FIRST GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A single grave! - the only one Last Line: Which sanctify the grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE FOOTSTEPS, by PAUL VALERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Your steps, born of my silence here Subject(s): Love; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean THE FORGOTTEN GRAVE; A SKETCH IN A CEMETERY, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Out from the city's dust and roar Last Line: Tho' lost to sight, to mem'ry dear.' Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE FOUNTAIN AT THE TOMB, by NICIAS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay weary traveler, stay! Last Line: His buried child to mourn. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE GHAISTS: A KIRK-YARD ECLOGUE, by ROBERT FERGUSSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Whare the braid planes in dowie murmurs wave Last Line: May fleg the schemers o' the mortmain bill. Alternate Author Name(s): Ferguson, Robert Subject(s): Ghosts; Graves; Supernatural; Tombs; Tombstones THE GIFT OF INDIA, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is there aught you need that my hands withhold Last Line: Remember the blood of thy martyred sons! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GILMAN HOUSE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: The meeting-house is but a dream Last Line: The door that led to heaven. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Heaven; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE GRAVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: For thee was a house built Last Line: For soon thou art loathsome / and hateful to see Subject(s): Graves; Tombs;tombstones THE GRAVE, by CAROLINE CLIVE Poem Text First Line: I stood within the grave's o'ershadowing vault Last Line: Its actors, sufferers, schools, kings, armies -- sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): V; Meysey-wigley, Caroline Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE, by LUCRETIA MARIA DAVIDSON Poem Text First Line: There is a spot so still and dreary Last Line: And there the wanderer's journey close. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I slept by your grave last night Last Line: I had dreamed that I slept with you dead. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE, by JAMES MONTGOMERY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a calm for those who weep Last Line: "shall never die!" Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now grave to rose complaineth Last Line: "I fledge with angel's wing." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE AND THE ROSE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said: 'rose, so bright of hue Last Line: "god's paradise to fill." Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Grief; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE GRAVE DIGGER, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A grim old man with a weazened visage Last Line: Chuckles the sexton, digging graves. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Labor & Laborers; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Work; Workers THE GRAVE OF ALARIC, by AUGUST PLATEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On busento's grassy banks a muffled chorus echoes nightly Last Line: Onward roll, busento's waves, and bear them to the farthest ocean! Alternate Author Name(s): Maximilian, Karl August Georg; Platten Hallermund, Graf Von Subject(s): Alaric, King (370-410); Graves; Visigoths; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF BONAPARTE, by LEONARD HEATH Poem Text First Line: On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Last Line: No sound can awake thee to glory again! Subject(s): Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF CHAMPERNOWNE, by JOHN ELWYN Poem Text First Line: Thomas de cambernon for hastings' field Last Line: To tell us where are champernowne's poor bones. Subject(s): Graves; Newcastle, New Hampshire; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF COLUMBUS, by JOANNA BAILLIE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silence, solemn, awful, deep Last Line: "though his cered corpse lies here, with god his spirit dwells!" Subject(s): Columbus, Christopher (1451-1506); Explorers; Graves; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF KEATS, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Rid of the world's injustice, and his pain Last Line: As isabella did her basil-tree. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF KEATS; THE PROTESTANT CEMETERY AT ROME, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Fair little city Last Line: Strong wine of fruit mature, whose flowers alone we know. Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Keats, John (1795-1821); Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians THE GRAVE OF KING ARTHUR, by THOMAS WARTON THE YOUNGER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Stately the feast, and high the cheer Last Line: The daily dirge, and rites divine. Subject(s): Arthurian Legend; Graves; Arthur, King; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF LINCOLN, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now must the storied potomac Last Line: Freedom's jerusalem thou! Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Variant Title(s): Lincoln Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Lincoln, Abraham (1809-1865); Presidents, United States; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF LOVE, by THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I dug, beneath the cypress shade Last Line: Immutable as my regret. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF MACCAURA, by MARY DOWNING Poem Text First Line: And this is thy grave, maccaura Last Line: "twill never be heard again!" Subject(s): Graves; Maccarthy, Daniel (13th Century); Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF MRS. HEMANS, by CECIL FRANCES ALEXANDER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This her grave! Ah me! She should be sleeping Alternate Author Name(s): Humprheys, Cecil Frances; Alexander, C. F., Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; Hemans, Felicia (1793-1835); Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY, by OSCAR WILDE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Like burnt-out torches by a sick man's bed Last Line: Against the rocks of some wave-shattered steep. Alternate Author Name(s): Finga, O'flahertie Wills Subject(s): Graves; Italy; Poetry & Poets; Shelley, Percy Bysshe (1792-1822); Travel; Tombs; Tombstones; Italians; Journeys; Trips THE GRAVE OF SOPHOCLES, by SIMIAS OF THEBES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tenderly, ivy, on sopholces' grave - right, tenderly - twine Last Line: Priest of the gay and profound, sweetest of singers terrene. Alternate Author Name(s): Simmias Of Thebes Subject(s): Death; Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE OF STEPHEN CRANE, by JOSEPH FULFORD FOLSOM Poem Text First Line: What does it matter now? November's sere Last Line: Still keep the field before the twilight fade. Subject(s): Crane, Stephen (1871-1900); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVE-YARD AT SIPPICAN, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Come to this spot among the rocks and pines Last Line: To call her crying children to her breast. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Corpses; Death; Graves; Poetry & Poets; Graveyards; Cadavers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVEDIGGER, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here underneath the sod Last Line: Anon 'twill come again. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVES OF MARTYRS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The kings of old have shrine and tomb Last Line: Unknown to man, is marked of god! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Martyrs; Tombs; Tombstones THE GRAVES OF THE DEAD; A DIRGE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, when should we visit the graves of the dead Last Line: Like the clouds from heaven, away we pass! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Grief; Memory; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE HARTLEY CALAMITY, by JOSEPH SKIPSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The hartley men are noble, and Last Line: And the last dread trumpet rung. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hartley Colliery Disaster (1862); Mines And Miners; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE HILL-SIDE MEN, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O were my heart a little dog Last Line: That holds the hill-side men. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE HOPIA TREE; PLANTED OVER THE GRAVE OF MRS. ANN H. JUDSON, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Rest! Rest! - the hopia tree is green Last Line: Beneath the hopia tree. Subject(s): Graves; Judson, Ann Hasseltine (1789-1826); Missions & Missionaries; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones THE HUSBAND'S AND THE WIFE'S GRAVE, by RICHARD HENRY DANA (1787-1879) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Husband and wife! No converse now ye hold Last Line: In sorrow, thou art leading me in joy. Subject(s): Graves; Immortality; Tombs; Tombstones THE 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'S GRAVE, by GEORGE J. MOUNTAIN Poem Text First Line: Bright are the heavens, the narrow bay serene Last Line: By whom the heathen unregarded dies? Subject(s): Graves; Native Americans; Tombs; Tombstones; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America THE INVISIBLE SPECTRUM, by KATHLEEN JESSIE RAINE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Learn, if I dare, the order of the wind Last Line: Dreams not ours. Subject(s): Graves; Love; Silence; Tombs; Tombstones THE IVORY GATE OF DREAMS, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A continent of silver-gray and rose Last Line: Where deathless roses gleam like fragrant flames. Subject(s): Death; Dreams; Graves; Mystery; Poetry & Poets; Sleep; Dead, The; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones THE JEW (DEDICATED TO BENJAMIN F. PEIXOTTO), by GEORGE ALFRED TOWNSEND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: His dark face kindled in the east Last Line: Art, toil, and hope shall purify. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Jews; Memory; Peixotto, Benjamin Franklin (1834-1890); Poetry & Poets; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Judaism THE KNIGHT'S TOMB, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where is the grave of sir arthur o'kellyn Last Line: His soul is with the saints, I trust. Subject(s): Graves; Peace; Tombs; Tombstones THE LION OVER THE TOMB OF LEONIDAS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "of beast am I, of men was he most brave" Last Line: "whose bones I guard, bestriding this his grave" Subject(s): "death;graves;leonidas, King Of Sparta (d. 480 B.c.);" "dead, The;tombs;tombstones; THE LITTLE TREE, by OLIVE TILFORD DARGAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It pushed a guided way between Last Line: "is wakened from above!" Alternate Author Name(s): Burke, Fielding Subject(s): Graves; Trees; Tombs; Tombstones THE LONE GRAVE ON THE MOUNTAIN, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Upon a dreary mountain top Last Line: These tokens of our love! Subject(s): Bull Mountain, Kentucky; Confederate States Of America; Graves; Confederacy; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAGIC OF SPRING, by SAROJINI NAIDU Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I buried my heart so deep, so deep Last Line: "is it the spring, the spring?" Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Rebirth; Spring; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MAUSOLEUM, by WILLIAM EDMONSTOUNE AYTOUN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A monument of love! More glorious love Last Line: Twas artemisia by her husband's tomb! Alternate Author Name(s): Bon Gaultier (with Theodore Martin) Subject(s): Graves; Love; Marriage; Monuments; Tombs; Tombstones; Weddings; Husbands; Wives THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE WALNUT-TREE OF BOARSTELL: CANTO 1, by WILLIAM BASSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who has not heard, how many ages since Last Line: To weary, then deceiue, the hearing sence. Subject(s): Chestnut Trees; Death; Gifts & Giving; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MIND SPEAKS, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Poor body, sitting there so calm Last Line: To act beyond its power. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Mind, The; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOOR GRAVE, by JOHN GALSWORTHY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I lie out here under a heather sod Last Line: "to glory shall she rise!"" -- but deathless peace have I!" Alternate Author Name(s): Sinjohn, John Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUND BY THE LAKE, by HERMAN MELVILLE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grass shall never forget this grave Last Line: Who like a mother comforted. Subject(s): American Civil War; Graves; Mothers; U.s. - History; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUND IN THE MEADS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the mound that holds the slain Last Line: This is the mound that holds the slain. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUNTAIN ECHO, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At sad slow pace across the vale Last Line: "the grave is best!" Subject(s): Echoes; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE MOUNTAIN GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: She sate beside the rock from which arose Last Line: Where agatha was sleeping. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NAMELESS GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A nameless grave - there is no stone Last Line: And such a nameless grave! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE NAVVY CHORUS, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas in the beginning of ages Last Line: Between a shift and a shift. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Prisons & Prisoners; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE NETTLES, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This, then, is the grave of my son Last Line: Who spurned me for seeing what he could not see. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE OBLITERATE TOMB, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: More than half my life long Last Line: Told in their day.' Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD CHURCH, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It lifteth its gray old spire from the heart of the busy town Last Line: Of the hallelujahs rising in that temple of the lord. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Churches; God; Graves; Prayer; Sabbath; Temples; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones; Sunday; Mosques THE OLD CHURCH ON THE HILL, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Palid and cold as the morning star Last Line: And taming its raging waves. Subject(s): Churches; Churchyards; Graves; Nature - Religious Aspects; Prayer Meetings; Worship; Cathedrals; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD CHURCHYARD, by JANET HAMILTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lone field of graves! Our churchyard old and hoar! Last Line: Till time and death shall die, with thee remain. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Janet Thompson Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD HOME BY THE MILL, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is 'the old home by the mill' - fer we still call it so Last Line: I'd jest crawl in my grave and pull the green grass over me! Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Graves; Home; Mills And Millers; Spring; Tombs; Tombstones THE OLD MEETING HOUSE, by ALFRED NOYES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Its quiet graves were made for peace till gabriel blows his horn Last Line: While the old cracked bell to southward shook the ancient meeting house. Subject(s): Bells; Gabriel; Graves; Judgment Day; Names; Peace; Public Meetings; Tombs; Tombstones; End Of The World; Doomsday; Fall Of Man THE ONE GRAVE, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Though other friends have died in other days Last Line: One grave there is where memory sinks and stays. Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Tombs; Tombstones THE PASSING BELL: IN MEMORIAM, GEORGII GRANVILLE BRADLEY, S.T.P., by MARGARET LOUISA WOODS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Silent, the bell hung in the tower and waited Last Line: Slowly the bell ceased on the listening midnight. Alternate Author Name(s): Woods, Mrs. Margaret Louisa Bradley Subject(s): Bradley, George Granville (1821-1903),; Death; Graves; Memory; Silence; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE PAUPER'S FUNERAL, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What! And not one to heave the pious sigh? Last Line: I pauseand ponder on the days to come. Subject(s): Alienation (social Psychology); Graves; Grief; Honor; Poverty; Self; Tears; Estrangement; Outcasts; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PICK, by PATRICK MACGILL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the depths of the pluvial season it gallantly stayed Last Line: To the pick that was ever trusted, tried on the dead-line and true. Subject(s): Brotherhood; Death; Funerals; Graves; Heaven; Missions & Missionaries; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE PINE TREE, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The somber pine is a norseman grave Last Line: And what remembering roots has he! Subject(s): Cold; Graves; Pine Trees; Soul; Trees; Winter; Tombs; Tombstones THE POET'S FRIEND, by SIMONIDES OF CEOS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the grave of famed megistias, whom Last Line: Of sparta's leaders, though that doom he knew. Alternate Author Name(s): Simonides Of Keos Variant Title(s): Epigram On Thermopylae Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE POET'S JOURNAL: EXORCISM, by BAYARD TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O tongues of the past, be still! Last Line: With the phantom of the old! Alternate Author Name(s): Taylor, James Bayard Subject(s): Death; Exorcism; Graves; Grief; Past; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE PUNISHED, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Not they who know the awful gibbet's anguish Last Line: And make a nightmare of the solitude. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Corpses; Graves; Punishment; Sin; Cadavers; Tombs; Tombstones THE QUEEN OF PRUSSIA'S TOMB, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It stands where northern willows weep Last Line: Still blends with victory's! -- she was gone. Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Prussia; Women; Tombs; Tombstones THE RABBIT TRAP, by JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Down in de sage fiel', settin' in de sno' Last Line: An' little phil sleeps in de sleet an' de rain. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Death - Children; Graves; Graveyards; Dead, The; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones THE RAVEN'S TOMB, by WALTER JOHN DE LA MARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Build me my tomb,' the raven said Last Line: In his tomb is laid away.' Alternate Author Name(s): Ramal, Walter; De La Mare, Walter Subject(s): Graves; Ravens; Tombs; Tombstones THE RELIC, by JOHN DONNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: When my grave is broke up again Last Line: Should I tell what a miracle she was. Variant Title(s): The Relique Subject(s): Graves; Love; Saints; Tombs; Tombstones THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE REVENGE; FROM A FACT, ATTESTED BY THE SPANISH HISTORIANS, by HELEN LEIGH Poem Text First Line: Twas night -- and darkness all around Last Line: To end her wretched days. Subject(s): Ghosts; Graves; Murder; Supernatural; Tombs; Tombstones THE RIDER, by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On the horses of desire Last Line: Shall find my tomb. Subject(s): Despair; Graves; Moon; Tears; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROMAN GRAVEMOUNDS, by THOMAS HARDY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: By rome's dim relics there walks a man Last Line: Yet its mourner's mood has a charm for me. Subject(s): Graves; Rome, Italy; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROMAN ROAD, by RACHEL ANNAND TAYLOR Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Bury me close to the roman road Last Line: And still is the riding sweet. Subject(s): Graves; Roads; Tombs; Tombstones; Paths; Trails THE ROSE AND MAPLE LEAF, by HENRY CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Came a loud knocking at the empire's gate Last Line: An empire knit in one vast brotherhood. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE AND THE GRAVE, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The grave said to the rose Last Line: The grave said to the rose. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE ROSE-COVERED GRAVE, SELECTION, by CORNELIUS WHUR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The morning arose, and its beauties were beaming Last Line: To sweeten the scene of the rose-covered grave! Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Mothers & Daughters; Physical Disabilities; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Handicapped; Handicaps; Physically Challenged; Cripples THE SCARAB, by PATRICK REGINALD CHALMERS Poem Text First Line: Spoil of the tomb of kings Last Line: Since you are vowed to my lilian's ring! Subject(s): Egypt; Graves; Pyramids; Tombs; Tombstones THE SCYTHIAN GRAVE, by JOHN RUSKIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They laid the lord Last Line: To keep their name, or guard their grave. Subject(s): Funerals; Graves; Scythians; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE SEA-GRAVE, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We buried her out in the open sea Last Line: For any storm to stir. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean THE SEAGULL; CHEKHOV AT YALTA, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A winter evening at the cottage by the bay Last Line: "I will write that we have departed for france, for italy." Subject(s): Chekhov, Anton (1860-1904); Family Life; Funerals; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Tuberculosis; Relatives; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Consumption (pathology) THE SHIP OF DEATH, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now it is autumn and the falling fruit Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Ships & Shipping; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SHRINE, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I will build for thee with reverent hands Last Line: Far from the envious eyes of time. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Shrines; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SKELETON OF THE FUTURE; AT LENIN'S TOMB, by CHRISTOPHER MURRAY GRIEVE Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Red granite and black diorite, with the blue Last Line: The eternal lightning of lenin's bones. Alternate Author Name(s): Macdiarmid, Hugh Subject(s): Graves; Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich (1870-1924); Russia; Tombs; Tombstones; Soviet Union; Russians THE SNOW, by ANNIE MATHESON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When freezing winter smites the whirling globe Last Line: In all the universe of star and sun? Subject(s): Cold; Death; Graves; Homeless; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by ADA CAMBRIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas long ago, in the summer time Last Line: To the chair in the old house-place! Alternate Author Name(s): Cross, George, Mrs. Subject(s): Graves; War; Tombs; Tombstones THE SOLDIER'S GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There's a white stone placed upon yonder tomb Last Line: But who died on his own home-pillow! Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Soldiers; Tombs; Tombstones THE SOLITARY TOMB, by BERNARD BARTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not a leaf of the tree which stood near me was stirr'd Last Line: Though at distance, in fancy dwells near it. Alternate Author Name(s): Quaker Poet Subject(s): Graves; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones; Tombs; Tombstones THE SONG OF WERNER, by JOSEPH VICTOR VON SCHEFFEL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O roman maid! Why do you try Last Line: My lady sleeping in the tomb. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE SORROW OF FINDEBAR, by FRANCIS LEDWIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Why do you sorrow, child? There is loud cheer Last Line: "and that is why it pines and will not break." Subject(s): Banshees; Graves; Grief; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness THE SPAN OF LIFE, by LEVI BISHOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The rays that first salute the morn Last Line: Shall spring to life beyond the tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Life; Sun; Tombs; Tombstones THE SPIRIT-CHILD, BY 'JENNIE', by ELIZABETH DOTEN Poem Text First Line: O, thou holy heaven above us! Last Line: Rise victorious in the strife. Alternate Author Name(s): Doten, Lizzie Subject(s): Angels; Death - Children; Graves; Heaven; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise THE STONE, by WILFRID WILSON GIBSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And will you cut a stone for him Last Line: To cut her name upon the stone. Subject(s): Graves; Stone-cutting; Tombs; Tombstones THE SUICIDE'S GRAVE, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: This is the scene of a man's despair, and a soul's release Last Line: And, unhappy spirit, god grant you eternity's peace! Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Graves; Suicide; Tombs; Tombstones THE SURVIVOR AMONG GRAVES, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are fields beyond. The world there obeys Last Line: That we are waiting; that we are waiting Subject(s): Survival; War; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE SWAGMAN'S REST, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We buried old bob where the bloodwoods wave Last Line: Is known as 'the swagman's rest'. Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo' Subject(s): Crosses; Death; Graves; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE THREE GRAVES: PART 3, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The grapes upon the vicar's wall Last Line: She saw some frightful thing. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE THREE GRAVES: PART 4, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To see a man tread over graves Last Line: And never she smiled after. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE THUD OF THE CLODS, by JULIA E. BRUMFIELD Poem Text First Line: It was a most solemn occasion Last Line: For, today, mother was put away. Subject(s): Clouds; Funerals; Graves; Mothers; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When, cruel fair one, I am slain Last Line: Since by thine eye slain, buried in thy breast. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB AT AKR CAAR, by EZRA POUND Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am thy soul, nikoptis. I have watched Last Line: "I do not go." Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF A PHAROAH, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Disturb not - thou wilt find him unforgiving Last Line: But not the vengeance of the implacable dead. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF BURNS, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What woos the world to yonder shrine? Last Line: The immortal tide. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Burns, Robert (1759-1796); Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF CRETHON, by LEONIDAS OF TARENTUM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I am the tomb of crethon; here you read Last Line: With lands, how narrow now, how ample then! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF DE BRUCE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And liest thou, great monarch, this pavement below? Last Line: By the chisel of fame on the tablet of time. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Freedom; Graves; Honor; Robert I. King Of Scotland (1274-1329); Liberty; Tombs; Tombstones; Bruce, Robert; The Bruce THE TOMB OF DIOGENES, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "'tell me, good dog, whose tomb you guard so well'" Last Line: Yes: but the stars are now his dwelling-place' Subject(s): Cemeteries;death;diogenes;graves; "graveyards;dead, The;tombs;tombstones; THE TOMB OF EMMELINE, by CHARLES SPRAGUE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Spirit of sadness! Gently breathe Last Line: Friends meet to part no more. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF ETERNAL LIFE, by KATHRYN WHITE RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: From a port-hole his boy-face gazed back Last Line: Crowds heave eternal life on him. Subject(s): Future Life; Graves; Soldiers; War; Youth; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF GAUGIN, by PIERRE CAMO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Women of tahiti, when time's pace Last Line: And the infinite love of the archipelago! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Rest; Women; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF LAIUS, by RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where delphi's consecrated pass Last Line: To good the dross of evil deeds. Alternate Author Name(s): Houghton, 1st Baron; Houghton, Lord Subject(s): Delphi; Graves; Castri; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF MADAME LANGHANS, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How many hopes were borne upon thy bier Last Line: "here am I, with the child whom thou hast given!" Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Stillbirth; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth THE TOMB OF SOPHOCLES, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bounding satyr, golden in the beard Last Line: Nor sees the sun wheel round in the white dome. Subject(s): Graves; Sophocles (496-406 B.c.); Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF THE CONQUEROR, by EDWARD ROBESON TAYLOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No shadowy vault where pale catalpas bloom Last Line: The father of the waters guards de soto. Subject(s): De Soto, Hernando (1500-1542); Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMB OF THE PATRIOTS, by PHILIP FRENEAU Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Britain! We cite you to our bar, once more Last Line: These, once so wretched near manhattan's shore. Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Graves; New York City - Revolutionary Period; Patriotism; Prison Ships; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE TOMBS OF THE KINGS, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Where the mummied kings of egypt, wrapped in linen fold on fold Last Line: To fulfil thought's yearning tension upward through eternity. Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Courts & Courtiers; Egypt; Graves; Royal Court Life; Royalty; Kings; Queens; Tombs; Tombstones 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 TWO GRAVES, by WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a bleak wild hill, but green and bright Last Line: Till the day when their bodies shall leave the ground. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE TWO GRAVES; A GERMAN LEGEND, by JOHN GODFREY SAXE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A man who long had tried in vain Last Line: With not a word upon the stone. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE ULTIMATE (1), by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When the head of a man lies under the sod Last Line: Like mice have scuttled back into the air. Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Napoleon I (1769-1821); Rome, Italy; Trees; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is a little lonely grave Last Line: The nameless poet hath a shrine. Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who sleeps below? Who sleeps below? Last Line: And trust in him whose arm can save. Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN GRAVE, by ADELAIDE ANNE PROCTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: No name to bid us know Last Line: Fades into endless peace. Alternate Author Name(s): Berwick, Mary Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Peace; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by GERTRUDE HAHN Poem Text First Line: How many men of state and high degree Last Line: And moonlight, and a pretty girl to kiss. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; Summer; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by MARGARET STINEBACK Poem Text First Line: His dreams have all grown lovely with the years Last Line: Along the path of peacegod's pathinstead! Subject(s): Courage; Graves; Peace; Social Protest; Soldiers; Unknown Soldier; War; Valor; Bravery; Tombs; Tombstones 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 UNSPOKEN, by ANNE MILLAY BREMER Poem Text First Line: Buried deep it lies Last Line: See the smiling mask that each one wears. Subject(s): Death; Funerals; Graves; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE VIKING GRAVE AT LADBY, by KAREN SWENSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: An old whale hump of earth Last Line: They have grown their wheat out of his grave. Subject(s): Christianity; Graves; Vikings; Tombs; Tombstones THE VOICE FROM THE TOMB, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Two days we held our festival Last Line: And wander'd on the mountains side when the moon was shining bright Subject(s): Graves;voices; Tombs;tombstones THE WALL-FLOWER, by DAVID MACBETH MOIR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wall-flower - the wall-flower Last Line: Thou art the flower for me! Alternate Author Name(s): Delta Subject(s): Fields; Flowers; Gardens & Gardening; Graves; Pastures; Meadows; Leas; Tombs; Tombstones THE WANDERER, by ZOE AKINS Poem Text First Line: The ships are lying in the bay Last Line: In one small grave to lie. Subject(s): Graves; Wandering & Wanderers; Tombs; Tombstones; Wanderlust; Vagabonds; Tramps; Hoboes THE WILD HONEYSUCKLE, by JANET B. MONTGOMERY MCGOVERN Poem Text First Line: It has grown across his grave Last Line: In soul or body. And the world may catch the fragrance. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Honeysuckle; Rest; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones THE WILLOW TREE, by ELIZA COOK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tree of the gloom, o'erhanging the tomb Last Line: "oh, bury me under the willow tree!" Subject(s): Graves; Willow Trees; Tombs; Tombstones THE WITCH OF ERKMURDEN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Who cantereth forth in the night Last Line: "away with my babe and bride." Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Night; Witchcraft & Witches; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Bedtime THE WREATH, by DORA SIGERSON SHORTER Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Here on my path by some hard fate struck down Last Line: Placed on my heart the grief of yester-year. Alternate Author Name(s): Sigerson, Dora; Shorter, Mrs. Clement Subject(s): Death; Easter; Graves; Holidays; Dead, The; The Resurrection; Tombs; Tombstones THE WREATHS, by JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Our german klopstock, if he had his will Last Line: That were at once their glory and their pang! Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Tombs; Tombstones 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 THERE REMAINETH THEREFORE A REST, by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In the grave will be no space Last Line: Struggling, panting up to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Alleyne, Ellen; Rossetti, Christina Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THOSE GRAVES IN ROME, by LARRY LEVIS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There are places where the eye can starve, Subject(s): Rome, Italy; Friendship; Graves; Tombs; Tombstones THREE DEAD FRIENDS, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Always suddenly they are gone Last Line: Half inaudibly shrieks to god. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Death; Friendship; Graves; Grief; Widows & Widowers; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness TO A BOASTER, by CALE YOUNG RICE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The sea shall not cover you Last Line: And be forgotten. Subject(s): Earth; Graves; Pride; Sea; World; Tombs; Tombstones; Self-esteem; Self-respect; Ocean TO A PRESSED FLOWER (FOUND IN AN OLD LATIN DICTIONARY), by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: Forgotten bloom that years ago was buried Last Line: I to a busy world of joy and tears. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Funerals; Graves; Grief; Tears; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness TO AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER, by KARL E. MUNDT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When from your silent sleep in france you came Last Line: the classmate Subject(s): Death; Graves; Soldiers; United States; Unknown Soldier; War; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; America TO CLIO. FROM ROME, by JOHN DYER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, dear clio, every day / some sweet idea dies away Last Line: No more the trifles of my care. Subject(s): Absence; Death; Graves; Separation; Isolation; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO L, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hope, child, is a reed Last Line: Laves a soul. Subject(s): Children - Lost; Graves; Heaven; Hope; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Optimism TO M.A., by JOHN COWPER POWYS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah! Had I landor's power and pen Last Line: But kiss you on the lips. Subject(s): Aging; Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TO MARGARET, by CLYDE MCGEE Poem Text First Line: These hands, worn thin by many years of toil Last Line: Where you with him will hear my prayer. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Heaven; Sisters; Sympathy; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise; Empathy TO MY FATHER, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: I kneel, my father, here beside thy grave Last Line: Where thou my father with the angels art. Subject(s): Angels; Death; Fathers; Graves; Heaven; Veterans Day; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Paradise TO THE EXCELLENT MRS. ANNE OWEN, by KATHERINE PHILIPS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We are complete, and fate hath now Last Line: Be kept with us perpetuall holy day! Alternate Author Name(s): Orinda Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Nations; Owen, Anne (lewis) (1633-1692); Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones TO THE MEN OF 'WARRIORS' WARD', by VICTOR GUSTAVE PLARR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Nightly, amid my books, I stand and view Last Line: Will mend them when 'tis time. Subject(s): Death; Disasters; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Shipwrecks; Stillbirth; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Death - Childbirth TO W. W., by GEORGE CABOT LODGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I toss upon thy grave Last Line: I toss upon thy grave! Variant Title(s): To W.w. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones TO WHOM?, by MAX ENDICOFF Poem Text First Line: Trivial-? Last Line: To whom? To whom? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Memory; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TOMB POND; FOR DAVE SMITH, by NORMAN DUBIE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Farmer drags two lashed poles through a storm Last Line: As an old pond once built to solemnize a tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Introspection; Knowledge; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TONE'S GRAVE, by THOMAS OSBORNE DAVIS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In bodenstown churchyard there is a green grave Last Line: Tili irelani, a nation, can euild him a tomb. Subject(s): Graves; Ireland - Rebellions; Nationalism - Ireland; Tone, Theobald Wolfe (1763-1798); Tombs; Tombstones TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. THE TRYSTING, by EDWARD CARPENTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Far over the hills, ten miles, in the cloudless summer morning Last Line: And gains her presence at the feet of god. Subject(s): Absence; Cemeteries; Death; Flowers; Graves; Love; Mothers; Separation; Isolation; Graveyards; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRAGEDIES: 8, by THEOPHILE JULIUS HENRY MARZIALS Poem Text First Line: I dream'd I was in sicily Last Line: I'd tied at the headstone long ago. Alternate Author Name(s): Marzials, Theo; Marzials, Theophile Jules Henri Subject(s): Dreams; Graves; Sicily; Trees; Nightmares; Tombs; Tombstones TRANSITION, by MIRIAM BARRANGER Poem Text First Line: White sleeping tombs Last Line: In a million shafts of light. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones 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 TRIOLETS AFTER MOSCHUS, by ANDREW LANG Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Alas, for us no second spring Last Line: That boast themselves the sons of men! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones TRIPOLI, by JOHN LAWSON STODDARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hear the singing on the boats Last Line: Tripoli! Subject(s): Death; Graves; Life; Sea; Soul; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean TRISTRAM OF LYONESSE: 9. THE SAILING OF THE SWAN, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Fate, that was born ere spirit and flesh were made Last Line: The light and sound and darkness of the sea. Subject(s): Fate; Graves; Sailing & Sailors; Tristram And Isolde; Destiny; Tombs; Tombstones TRYING TO FORGET, by EMILY DICKINSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bereaved of all, I went abroad Last Line: Remained in memory. Variant Title(s): Poem: 784;poem: 886 Subject(s): Graves; Memory; Tombs; Tombstones TWO BARDS, by RICHARD EUGENE BURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A bard who wrote in staves Last Line: The bitter north. Subject(s): Graves; Sea; Singing & Singers; Tombs; Tombstones; Ocean; Songs TWO CHILDREN, DYING OF ONE DISEASE, AND BURIED IN ONE GRAVE, by HENRY KING (1592-1669) Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Brought forth, in sorrow, and bred up in care Last Line: By taking this inheritance of dust. Subject(s): Death - Children; Graves; Death - Babies; Tombs; Tombstones TWO GRAVES, by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It glooms forlornly 'mid wan ocean dunes Last Line: The unborn soul of resurrection day? Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones TWO LIVES. PART 3: 4, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What flower has been planted on her grave Last Line: Has writ them down, whom none will answer then. Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones UNDER MR. HALES PICTURE, by ANNE KING Poem Text First Line: Though by a sodaine and unfeard surprise Last Line: Which less resemblance of the persons have. Subject(s): Art & Artists; Graves; Hales, John (1585-1656); Memory; Portraits; Tombs; Tombstones 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 UNDER THE SNOWS, by MIRIAM DEL BANCO Poem Text First Line: Thousands of things do the soft snows cover Last Line: Will there ever a spring-tide be for the heart? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Snow; Winter; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNDERWOODS: BOOK 1: 21. REQUIEM, by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under the wide and starry sky Last Line: And the hunter home from the hill. Alternate Author Name(s): Stevenson, Robert Lewis Balfour Variant Title(s): Underwoods: Book One: 21. Requiem Subject(s): Death; Graves; Immortality; Samoa; Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850-1894); Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNFINISHED, by GRACE BROWN PUTNAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It seems to me I cannot die Last Line: With shining haste to reach my tomb. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Hearts; Love; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones UNITED, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Here buried side by side Last Line: We slumber, son. Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Graves; Togetherness; Tombs; Tombstones 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 UNTOLD, by MARGARET ELIZABETH MUNSON SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A face may be woeful-white to cover a heart that's / aching Last Line: Alas! For the weary feet that may not rest to-morrow. Alternate Author Name(s): Van Deth, Gerrit, Mrs. Subject(s): Death; Graves; Grief; Heaven; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones; Sorrow; Sadness; Paradise VARIATION ON BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: ASPATIA'S SONG, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lay a garland on my grave Last Line: Lightly, gentle earth! Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge Subject(s): Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616); Dramatists; Fletcher, John (1579-1625); Graves; Plays & Playwrights; Tombs; Tombstones WARUM SIND DENN DIE ROSEN SO BLASS, by HEINRICH HEINE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O dearest, canst thou tell me why Last Line: That thou forsakest me? Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Hearts; Love - Loss Of; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WASHINTON'S TOMB, by LYDIA HUNTLEY SIGOURNEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tomb of the mighty dead! Last Line: Washington! Subject(s): Graves; Presidents, United States; Washington, George (1732-1799); Tombs; Tombstones WHAT IS DEATH?, by ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Looking on a page where stood Last Line: Asking -- what is death? Subject(s): Death; Graves; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHAT SHE SAID IN HER TOMB, by LOUISE CHANDLER MOULTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now, at last, I lie asleep Last Line: For my deaf ears' sake. Alternate Author Name(s): Chandler, Ellen Louise Subject(s): Graves; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN I AM DEAD, by CLAUDE HOUGHTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I would not have you mourn when I am dead Last Line: Murmur my name and smile, remembering me. Subject(s): Death; Flowers; Graves; Memory; Roses; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHEN I AM DEAD, by EDNA DEAN PROCTOR Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I am dead, o let it be Last Line: Wilt watch beside that grave of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Dean Subject(s): Death; God; Graves; Rest; Dead, The; Tombs; Tombstones WHERE YOU MAY REST, by VICTOR MARIE HUGO Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet's Biography First Line: Tis a pleasant mead Last Line: Where thy heart may rest. Subject(s): Flowers; Graves; Rest; Sleep; Soul; Tombs; Tombstones WHY?, by BENJAMIN SIMMONS Poem Text First Line: Why does the flower bloom? Last Line: And I still plead! Subject(s): Cemeteries; Flowers; Graves; Tulips; Graveyards; Tombs; Tombstones WORDSWORTH'S GRAVE, by WILLIAM WATSON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The old rude church, with bare, bald tower, is here Last Line: In rest, in peace, his labour nobly done. Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William Subject(s): Graves; Poetry & Poets; Wordsworth, William (1770-1850); Tombs; Tombstones WRITTEN AFTER VISITING A TOMB NEAR WOODSTOCK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I stood where the lip of song lay low Last Line: Round the dark chamber where genius lies! Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea Subject(s): Graves; Woodstock, Ireland; Tombs; Tombstones |
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