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• After Summer

  We ’ll not weep for summer over,—
  No, not we:
  Strew above his head the clover,— …

  Philip Bourke Marston

• Lament for Heliodore

  From the Greek by Andrew Lang
  TEARS for my lady dead—
  Heliodore! …

  Meleager of Gadara

• On the Death of Her Brother, Francis I.

  From the French by Louisa Stuart Costello
  ’T IS done! a father, mother, gone,
  A sister, brother, torn away, …

  Marguerite de Valois

• To Mary in Heaven

  [Written in September, 1789, on the anniversary of the day on which he heard of the death of his early love, Mary Campbell.]
  THOU lingering star, with lessening ray,
  That lov’st to greet the early morn, …

  Robert Burns

• Minstrel’s Song

  O Sing unto my roundelay!
  O, drop the briny tear with me!
  Dance no more at holiday; …

  Thomas Chatterton

• The Passage

  From the German by Sarah Taylor Austin
  MANY a year is in its grave
  Since I crossed this restless wave: …

  Ludwig Uhland

• “Home they brought her warrior dead”

  From “The Princess”
  HOME they brought her warrior dead:
  She nor swooned, nor uttered cry; …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• The King of Denmark’s Ride

  Word was brought to the Danish king
  (Hurry!)
  That the love of his heart lay suffering, …

  Caroline Elizabeth Sarah

• Selections from “In Memoriam”

  [Arthur Henry Hallam, Ob. 1833]
  Grief Unspeakable
  V. …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• “The fairest thing in mortal eyes”

  From the French by Henry Francis Cary
  Addressed to his deceased wife, who died in childbed at the age of twenty-two
  TO make my lady’s obsequies …

  Charles, Duke of Orléans

• “Break, break, break”

  Break, break, break,
  On thy cold gray stones, O sea!
  And I would that my tongue could utter …

  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

• Lavender

  How prone we are to hide and hoard
  Each little treasure time has stored,
  To tell of happy hours! …

  Anonymous

• What of the Darkness?

  To the Happy Dead People
  WHAT of the darkness? Is it very fair?
  Are there great calms? and find we silence there? …

  Richard Le Gallienne

• Van Elsen

  God spake three times and saved Van Elsen’s soul;
  He spake by sickness first and made him whole;
  Van Elsen heard him not, …

  Frederick George Scott

• “When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed”

  [The Death of Lincoln.]
  1.
  WHEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed, …

  Walt Whitman

• “If I should die to-night”

  IF I should die to-night,
  My friends would look upon my quiet face
  Before they laid it in its resting-place, …

  Belle E. Smith

• “Beyond the smiling and the weeping”

  Beyond the smiling and the weeping
  I shall be soon;
  Beyond the waking and the sleeping, …

  Horatius Bonar

• Antony and Cleopatra

  “I am dying, Egypt, dying.”
  —SHAKESPEARE’S Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Sc. 13.
  I AM dying, Egypt, dying, …

  William Haines Lytle

• “Farewell, Life”

  Written During Sickness, April, 1845
  FAREWELL, life! my senses swim,
  And the world is growing dim; …

  Thomas Hood

• The Sleep

  “He giveth his belovèd sleep.”
  —PSALM cxxvii. 2.
  OF all the thoughts of God that are …

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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